It’s iPhone day! Dan’s iPhone is on a truck. Jason has all of the iPhones, and an iPad Air, too. | Continue reading
For a couple of years in the mid-90s, the Mac market was enthralled by a clonemaker with great deals and riotous marketing. | Continue reading
I used to think that screen shots1, images captured from a computer screen, were only for tech journalist types like me. But is there any clearer example of the public hijacking a compouter feature… | Continue reading
The episode between new phones being announced and new phones shipping. | Continue reading
Google in the government’s antitrust crosshairs, politicians streaming video games, our cloud storage habits, and what the heck is going on with 5G. | Continue reading
The future is here. Yes, this week marks the release of the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPad Air. But it’s also the week we all finally get to meet Apple’s latest processor design for the first t… | Continue reading
Apple is at its best when it’s so confident in its product plans that it repeatedly challenges and one-ups itself. Think of that quintessential moment when Steve Jobs announced that he was di… | Continue reading
The promise of playing Xbox games on my iOS devices has been tempting me for a while; though I’m not a hardcore gamer, there are a number of titles I like to play on my Xbox One, most recentl… | Continue reading
This week we’re picking up the pieces on last week’s October Apple event. What have we learned about the HomePod and iPhone 12? There’s a lot to unpack here. And in other news, Ap… | Continue reading
A recurring theme in this series is that the middle of the 1990s was not Apple’s best era. With Windows 95 on the march and Apple’s market share waning, the company made a series of que… | Continue reading
There was big news out of Cupertino last Tuesday—big news! Apple announced a new, smaller version of one of its products at a cheaper price point, potentially opening it up to a whole new class of … | Continue reading
Six Colors member Mark writes, presumably while pondering a new iPhone 12 rather than a 12 Pro: Any way to tabulate/sort which lens your photos used? After listening to #400 of ATP it’s got m… | Continue reading
Way back in the late ’90s and early 2000s when I was first creating websites on a relatively frequent basis, the view of security on the web was a little bit different than it is today. Sure,… | Continue reading
As rumored, Apple has extended the free subscriptions it handed out to its TV+ streaming service until February. I, and other subscribers, received the following email this morning: We’re giving yo… | Continue reading
Dan orders a new iPhone. Magnets, how do they work? And we solve Apple’s digital home strategy. | Continue reading
When it comes to the size of the iPhone, a lot of us who tend to buy the most mainstream iPhone are a bit like the proverbial frog in the gradually boiling pot of water. In upgrading from the iPhon… | Continue reading
Live, right after Apple’s event about 5G and only 5G. | Continue reading
What Apple didn’t announce this week, whether the smartphone is ready to be our only computer, the portless iPhone of the future, and how we decide which iPhone to buy. | Continue reading
Dieter Bohn of The Verge cautions against getting caught up in 5G hype: If you’re looking to buy a new iPhone this year, even before I see these phones I can provide this simple piece of advice: do… | Continue reading
There’s a new update for BBEdit out today, version 13.5, with the usual bevy of new features. When I’m on my Mac, I do almost all of my writing in BBEdit, and I use its text-processing … | Continue reading
Here’s one of the weirdest aspects of Tuesday’s iPhone launch event: Apple has been less than forthright about the real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini. At the event, Apple r… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke break down Apple’s iPhone 12 and HomePod mini launch event. Having four new iPhones with different pricing structures and camera options is a bit overwhelming, but they do thei… | Continue reading
It was our second Apple event in a month, and as with the previous endeavor, Apple kept it tight and focused, discussing only two product lines: the HomePod and the iPhone. The HomePod gets mini Th… | Continue reading
Apple is about to launch its latest media event, where new iPhones are expected to be announced. There might be other stuff, too, like a new HomePod. And perhaps even a surprise or two? You never k… | Continue reading
What’s better than one fall Apple event? If you answered “two fall Apple events” then you’re in luck, because the Cupertino-based company is revving up the product announcem… | Continue reading
Spotify fancies itself a champion of fairness and breaking down barriers, but it has just screwed over SongShift, an excellent app for migrating playlists and other metadata between different music… | Continue reading
HUGE bonus episode! First, we interview Apple’s Tim Millet and Tom Boger about the new iPad Air and Apple silicon. Then it’s time for us to predict what will happen Tuesday via the Octo… | Continue reading
Doubling down on rumors ruining everything. | Continue reading
Thank goodness there are second chances, because Apple’s first attempt to make a portable Macintosh was as inauspicious at it gets. | Continue reading
According to Ashley Stewart at Business Insider, Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming service would arrive on iOS in 2021, via an entirely predictable twist: Microsoft’s gaming boss Phil S… | Continue reading
In a not particularly surprising move, Apple is extending Apple TV+ subscriptions through February 2021. Here’s Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch: Apple told me today that it will be extending … | Continue reading
Sean Hollister at The Verge reports on other app developers who say they were pressured by Apple to add in-app purchases to their apps, presumably so Apple could reap revenue from the transactions:… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Kate Cox has a really great overview of the recently released Congressional report on anticompetitive behavior in the tech market, including Apple: The committee found internal… | Continue reading
Apple event expectations, paying for cable even when we’re not, early tech adoption, and the home gear we wish were smarter. | Continue reading
Apple Maps has come a long way since its debut. On the only road trip I’ve taken since the whole world situation went to pot1, we ran into a strange issue where Google Maps wanted to take us on a b… | Continue reading
A report this morning from security firm ironPeak alleges that the Apple-made T2 chip found in most recent Macs may have an unpatchable flaw, leaving it vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. The … | Continue reading
Apple sent out invitations this morning to an event next week, at which the company will presumably announce new iPhones. The invitation says, “Hi, Speed,” features a series of overlapp… | Continue reading
Apple’s two smart home products have something in common: they are far too expensive for the markets they compete in. Apple TV 4K The Apple TV 4K. Not that’s easy to tell, as it shares … | Continue reading
This week is all about what’s next, as we discuss the ramifications of A14 benchmarks, ponder the challenges of Apple succession planning, and prep for our interview with Apple execs. | Continue reading
In the 1980s, using a computer was all about sitting at a desk. Mobility in computing meant putting your files on a disk and taking the disk to a different (but compatible) computer. When I was in … | Continue reading
The great joy of technology is in what it can do for us—especially those tasks that we don’t want to spend our own precious time on. Over the last few years, Apple has taken strides to bring … | Continue reading
Hartley Charlton reports at MacRumors that someone’s been uploading A14 processor scores to the GeekBench website: A GeekBench benchmark for an “iPad13,2” with the motherboard num… | Continue reading
I’ve had it on my agenda since iOS 14 was released to write about my favorite widgets, and I somehow haven’t gotten around to it. I imagine that as different apps ship new versions with… | Continue reading
AppleScript, ambient data, productivity and motivation. | Continue reading
In an era where Apple liked to show concepts from its design lab in public, one weird Mac prototype somehow became a real product, and was unveiled at the end of the worst Apple keynote in history. | Continue reading
Amazon’s Ring’s Always Home Cam drone, how the pandemic has affected our social media habits, our thoughts on online services outages, and a technology retrospective. | Continue reading
It’s been a contentious year for Apple. With spats against the likes of Basecamp, Microsoft, and Epic, it seems like every month brings a new battle for the folks in Cupertino. Let’s be… | Continue reading
The people have spoken. Apps like Widgetsmith and Color Widgets sit at the top of the App Store charts. iOS 14 has provided users with the ability to customize the look of their devices like never … | Continue reading