Wonder no longer about what the future holds for Apple’s pro apps. On Tuesday, the company announced its Apple Creator Studio subscription bundle, including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Compressor, and MainStage as well as additional features for productivity apps Ke … | Continue reading
Google and Apple join forces to corner the market on smartphone AI models, John Ternus gets a profile in the New York Times, live NBA basketball comes to the Vision Pro, and Apple inconsistently refuses to stop bad App Store behavior.… | Continue reading
I came across two seemingly unrelated pieces of news recently that I am tying together as the theme of this column. First, the heartbreaking garbage information that senior citizens may receive as many as 50 calls a day from salespeople trying to get them to reveal enough persona … | Continue reading
Updated with the full text of Apple’s statement below. According to a statement from Apple to CNBC, the company has officially selected Google as the technology partner for its foundation models.… | Continue reading
Norbert Heger gets to the bottom of a problem I’ve been having lately—my inability to resize macOS Tahoe windows at their corners: It turns out that my initial click in the window corner instinctively happens in an area where the window doesn’t respond to it.… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto in an absolute scorcher in which she minces no words: Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s ap … | Continue reading
One of the immersive views is behind and underneath the basket. I got to watch the first quarter of tonight’s Lakers-Bucks game from the front row by the scorer’s table.… | Continue reading
The Apple executive transition speculation keeps heating up. On Thursday, The New York Times’s Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle weighed in with a profile of John Ternus, reportedly a candidate to replace Tim Cook as CEO: Apple last year began accelerating its planning for Mr.… | Continue reading
As reported by Eric Slivka at MacRumors, both Apple’s Chairman of the Board Arthur Levinson and board member Ronald Sugar are standing for re-election at this year’s shareholder meeting, despite exceeding the company’s stated age limits.… | Continue reading
Jason helps guest Casey Liss figure out what his cord-cutting strategy might be. We also discuss his Callsheet app, touch on the rise of CanCon including “Heated Rivalry,” and offer some very nice TV picks.… | Continue reading
Scharon Harding, writing at Ars Technica: Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home theater devices.… | Continue reading
Robovacs growing limbs, tech for getting the new year started right, tech we covet but can’t justify, and discontinued tech we still use day-to-day.… | Continue reading
AnnaMaria Andriotis and Gina Heeb at the Wall Street Journal reporting (paywalled; News+ link): “JPMorgan will issue Apple credit cards for both new and existing cardholders, the people said.… | Continue reading
Left to right: iPhone Air, Field Notes and pen, iPhone Fold mock-up, iPhone 17 Pro. If many years-long rumors are true, 2026 will be the year when Apple’s long-gestating folding iPhone becomes a reality.… | Continue reading
While Dan is on hold, we talk about gadgets other than the iPhone and then we throw some shade(s).… | Continue reading
Happy New Year! In this episode, we share some of the things we hope we’ll see from Apple in 2026. Also, Jason attacks an emoji.… | Continue reading
Apple added iCloud for Messages several years ago to solve the problem of presence.1 Presence is a loose concept that describes where you are active at a given moment when some kind of alert or information should reach you.… | Continue reading
My thanks to PowerPhotos, from Fat Cat Software, for sponsoring Six Colors this week. PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It works in conjunction with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide.… | Continue reading
AppleVis, a web site and community that follows Apple from the perspective of blind and low-vision users, announced its annual Golden Apple Awards, recognizing apps, games and developers for their contributions to the industry: Since their launch in 2012, the AppleVis Golden A … | Continue reading
In a special year end installment of our Unwound segment for all listeners, Mikah and Dan talk about tech impressions from 2025 and what they’re excited about for 2026.… | Continue reading
We proudly announce that The Rebound has achieved its goal of being 100% solar-powered by the end of 2025.… | Continue reading
Once again the year draws to a close and so we are forced by contractual obligation to tell you, dear readers, about our favorite things from the last arbitrary period of time.… | Continue reading
Here’s a nice overview of what might happen for Apple in 2026 by Mark Spoonauer of Tom’s Guide. I’m happy to be one of the contributors to his story, along with analysts Carolina Milanesi and Avi Greengart.… | Continue reading
The year is at an end, and as is tradition, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite stuff from the year gone by. This is it!… | Continue reading
I enjoyed this thoughtful post from Garrett Murray, itself a link to a post by Louie Mantia about the departure of Alan Dye from Apple: I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury.… | Continue reading
It’s time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories!… | Continue reading
PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It works in conjunction with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide.… | Continue reading
It seems like everyone—hackers, governments, corporations—want to track everything we do online and in the physical world. Apple has a multi-year history of rolling out new methods of deflecting, deterring, or blocking new forms of unwanted tracking.… | Continue reading
This display can only be used by its included Mac. I’ve been thinking about Apple’s relationship with computer displays lately. Maybe it was the report that the iMac Pro might somehow return, combined with John Voorhees of MacStories detailing how he gave up the Studio Display fo … | Continue reading
‘Tis the season to be harried. There’s a work thing, a friend thing, some poor sucker has a birthday in December, shopping for food, shopping for presents, donations, shopping for food again because you forgot something… The list of things to do is endless.… | Continue reading
Lex and Moltz discuss holiday traditions in this special free for everyone holiday bonus episode!… | Continue reading
With the release of iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, and macOS 26.2, Apple has tweaked its AirDrop protocol once again, adding an additional bar to sending items to other people through this wireless service when you are not in their contact list.… | Continue reading
After whipping through a bunch of segments in order to play as many jingles as possible, Myke and Jason celebrate the festive season by aesthetically judging the new icons of macOS Tahoe.… | Continue reading
Matt Haughey wanted just the right Volkswagen ID Buzz, and (despite living in Oregon) he found it in Texas: The dealer quoted me $2,200 to ship it back to Oregon, but it would take a couple weeks and I figured I could drive that distance in just a few days for less money, plus … | Continue reading
I wrote earlier this week about the important security updates Apple just rolled out in its 26.2 operating system updates. Among the security fixes are two zero-day bugs affecting WebKit, the browser engine that drives Safari.… | Continue reading
Juli Clover at MacRumors: Mac users with the Studio Display have been complaining about intermittent flickering since the [macOS Tahoe] update launched in September. There are also complaints from users who have other kinds of displays, so it might be a bug that is affecting m … | Continue reading
Tim Goodman pops down the chimney again to reunite with Jason and discuss the Oscars on YouTube, finding balance in the TV review game, the rise of international content, episode deconstructions, “Pluribus,” and his top shows of the year.… | Continue reading
iPhone rumors — under-glass Face ID and a foldable, the iMac Pro’s possible return and our ideal pro Mac lineup, automations that solve problems, and what we do when the power goes out.… | Continue reading
Harry McCracken of Fast Company has a great, in-depth story about how Apple is working with filmmakers and other creators to help them build more immersive content for the Vision Pro: …much of the progress the Vision Pro has made hasn’t stemmed from the routine tick-tock of so … | Continue reading
Last week Apple released 26.2 updates to its operating systems, and if you’re on the 26 train, you should install .2 because it includes a bunch of security updates including some zero-days.… | Continue reading
The iMac Pro sure was awesome when it first came out. I didn’t have this on my bingo card, but here’s Hartley Charlton at MacRumors with a report about Apple testing a high-end iMac configuration: Apple is developing a high-end iMac featuring the M5 Max chip, according to info … | Continue reading
The Computer History Museum is doing an amazing job trying not just to preserve the history of the computer revolution, but to keep it alive by getting permission to release source code for classic software.… | Continue reading
This is now a home improvement podcast. We do find time to discuss products we wish Apple had shipped before the holidays, what happens when Apple locks you out of your iCloud account, and the Epic court battle.… | Continue reading
We discuss what laptops Apple is expected to release in 2026, Apple’s AI parsing of podcasts, that time Jason didn’t really almost work for Apple, and weird snacks.… | Continue reading
Siri can be frustrating. And we know from the most recent Apple financials call that Tim “This is Tim” Cook thinks so, too, even if he would intentionally not state that.… | Continue reading
Wrapping things up for the calendar year, Apple has released its final OS 26.2 updates for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Perhaps the biggest changes are on the iPad, which has added a bunch of new ways to multitask using the Dock, including to create/change a Slide Over app and dragging … | Continue reading
My thanks to Coherence X5 for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Turning websites into Mac apps isn’t a new idea, but for years it’s come with tradeoffs.… | Continue reading
Bob Iger burnishes his legacy by… making a deal with OpenAI? Also, TV picks and a Listener Letter Challenge! (Downstream+ subscribers also get to hear us talk at length about the potential Netflix purchase of Warner Bros.… | Continue reading