This episode features our regional accents.… | Continue reading
How we decide which companies get our data, how we manage our personal music collections, our thoughts on iPhone and Apple ID security, and the last time we felt like a clueless technophobe.… | Continue reading
When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for the teams behind them, and that income was cut off capriciously, without any warning … | Continue reading
Apple is a notoriously secretive company. A company so secretive that, in the past, when information has leaked out, it has stridently told its employees that it’s doubling down on its already secret secrecy but secretly it’s quadrupled down on its secrecy.… This story is for Six … | Continue reading
Myke is joined by Casey Liss to discuss Mark Gurman’s report on Apple’s ‘Moonshot’ efforts. Also, what is that ‘ComputeModule’, how thick with the Pro Max camera bump be, and how does Casey fair in a brand new segment?… | Continue reading
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong.… | Continue reading
Is the Apple Watch about to become as scarce as woke liberal elites at Elon Musk’s birthday party? Meanwhile rumors about the iPhone 15 and the Apple headset are heating up, hopefully not like the devices themselves.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to … | Continue reading
With Jason off on assignment, Dan recruits his Clockwise co-host Mikah Sargent to talk about reports of Apple’s latest medical device and how the company uses machine learning.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcast … | Continue reading
Man versus machine.… | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple is working on a “moonshot” project for continuous non-invasive blood glucose testing, and that it’s looking promising: Apple is taking a different approach, using a chip technology known as silicon photonics and a measurement process calle … | Continue reading
Look, I’ve been hoping that at some point, the rocky transition from iTunes to the Music app would be over and we’d all look back on it and say, “Wow, I can’t believe that was so brief.”… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive storie … | Continue reading
Susan Wojcicki steps down as YouTube CEO, what will her legacy be? Ant-Man performs well at the box office, but do reviews indicate ‘Marvel Fatigue’? And guest-host Myke Hurley quizzes Julia on why he has to wait for shows to premiere in the UK.… | Continue reading
With Jason on vacation, Myke is joined by David Smith. They discuss a potential delay for Apple’s headset and what that may mean for WWDC. Also, David’s AI-powered podcast transcription website, and the introduction of ‘Ask Underscore’.… | Continue reading
If you’re already using two-factor authentication on your Twitter, account, great! But with the company’s announcement Friday evening1 that it would be discontinuing two-factor authentication via SMS for all but its paying Twitter Blue subscribers, you may suddenly find yourself … | Continue reading
The Air might be getting bigger up here, this Mastodon deal keeps getting better and better, and the Apple headset get kicked down the road (disclaimer: kicking an Apple headset down the road will void your warranty).… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to … | Continue reading
Microsoft Edge for Windows running in Coherence mode on my Mac Studio.Parallels announced on Thursday that Microsoft has officially approved running Windows 11 for ARM processors on M1 and M2 Macs via the Parallels Desktop app for Mac.… | Continue reading
Keith Broni at the Emojipedia blog: New emoji designs have arrived on iOS as part of the first iOS 16.4 beta, including the shaking face, two pushing hands, and the much-requested plain pink heart emoji.… | Continue reading
How we’d add AI technology to our tasks, our non-starter factors for buying an electric car, the device screen sizes we think Apple should consider, and how we’re using climate data to automate our smart homes.… | Continue reading
15 times 100 gives you a new MacBook Air.… | Continue reading
Jason has released the 2022 Apple Report Card, and now it’s time for him and Myke to once again share their grades for Apple for the year gone by. Also, Tim and Eddy go to the Super Bowl, and… | Continue reading
The new, second-generation HomePod is a funny product. So many of us assumed that the original model was discontinued because it was a sales flop, but here it is: reincarnated, and not as some sort of Hollywood-style reboot, but more like a faithful remake of the original, right … | Continue reading
Apple looks to the future as two of its rivals make AI announcements, rumors swirl of an even more expensive iPhone, and the company would like some games for the Mac, please.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts … | Continue reading
I can’t thank Rogue Amoeba, makers of Audio Hijack, enough for sponsoring the site this week. Rogue Amoeba was our first sponsor, I use their software every day, and I’m so happy that they were here to sponsor the release of the 2022 Apple Report Card.… | Continue reading
Disney’s first financial results of the Iger II era make us consider the future of Hulu and ESPN. Discovery+ pulls a fast one, Showtime can’t dodge its fate, Peacock looks surprisingly robust, and Netflix’s password crackdown is stuff you already knew!… | Continue reading
As I did last year, I turned to Six Colors member, Duke University professor, and data visualization expert Kieran Healy that take the initial Report Card scores and slice them in a few interesting ways.… | Continue reading
A little section of Upgrade 444 in David Smith’s original Podsearch engine.A while ago, David Smith created a site called Podsearch, a search engine for a few of his favorite podcasts, including a couple of mine.… | Continue reading
Our experiences with modern day Internet search, what we’re doing with AI tools, actors and AI voice generation, and our favorite black technologists.… | Continue reading
Dan’s inbox has it’s own gravitational field.… | Continue reading
With the Dynamic Island expanded as a song plays, you can select the scrubber with VoiceOver, and flick up or down to move through the track.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.. | Continue reading
How you read Apple’s financial results really depends on what you want to see in them. We break down the numbers, ponder the state of Apple’s deisgn group, and reconsider what Apple may or may not be folding in the near future.… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.… | Continue reading
With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Whether you want to save audio from individual applications like Safari or Skype, hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, and even the entire system audio output, Audio Hijack can handle it.… | Continue reading
Cue up your best Ken Watanabe gif because the kaiju of Apple rumors are going head to head! Samsung announces it’s getting into… some kind of reality, but it doesn’t matter because Apple’s going out of business.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get a … | Continue reading
As always, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spend an hour talking to investment analysts about the company’s just-completed quarter. And as always, we’ve got a transcript! Here i… | Continue reading
Apple on Thursday announced its fiscal first-quarter results, and it was a step backward. The company’s year-over-year revenue fell $6.7 billion, though with total revenue of $117.2 billion it was still the company’s second largest quarter ever.… | Continue reading
Our thoughts on an app aiming to be “the TikTok for text,” whether we’re bothered by AI-generated content when it’s accurate and useful, Apple’s rumored foldable iPad, and our home speaker setups.… | Continue reading
Folding iPads, folding notebooks… wait, notebooks already fold.… | Continue reading
Special guest Dan Moren joins John Gruber to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.… | Continue reading
It wouldn’t be the release of a brand new Apple product without the release of a brand new -gate to go along with it. Unlike power adapters and headphones, the company continues to bundle in controversy with every single purchase.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Becom … | Continue reading
We break our brains processing wild rumors of folding iPads and Siri-driven VR app development. Demonstrating the interactive power of UpgradeFeedback.com, Myke hears from many listeners who love t… | Continue reading
The M2 Mac mini and MacBook Pro reviews are in, Ivory is here, and details of the Apple headset?! Our collective cups runneth over. “You made the car too good.”… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community … | Continue reading
My thanks to Clay for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clay is a thoughtful relationship manager designed specifically for macOS and iOS. Clay makes it easier to connect with people, to be more generous and responsive with our fellow humans who are core to our own personal and pr … | Continue reading
Just the other day, I was lamenting one of my big frustations with Mastodon—that links to posts, unlike tweets, don’t display nicely in Messages. Instead you get a preview that shows the poster’s profile image and their name, rather than the actual text or image of the post itsel … | Continue reading
Whether we spec up our Macs, our philosophy on menu bars, what we use for pointing devices, and our screen sizes of choice.… | Continue reading
New Apple hardware and our not-so-long wait for Ivory is over.… | Continue reading
Netflix shows Disney how CEO transitions happen, as Reed Hastings is elevated to chairmanship and Greg Peters becomes co-CEO. Julia has analysis of Netflix’s earnings report, we discuss streaming Oscar nominees, and we answer your amazing letters!… | Continue reading
Sometimes when the universe force quits a Twitter client, it launches a Mastodon client. Rising from the ashes of the recently departed Tweetbot, developer Tapbots has officially launched its much-anticipated client for the federated social network, Ivory, for iPhones and iPads.… | Continue reading
As a part of Data Privacy Week, on Tuesday Apple announced a privacy-themed session at its retail stores and released a video highlighting privacy features in iOS. The video, which the company post… | Continue reading