This week, on the 30-minute tech show that always winds up, Dan is joined by host emeritus Jason Snell, as well as special guests Florence Ion and Scholle McFarland, to discuss the tech we repair (vs. replace), how many cameras is too many for a smartphon... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that’s never met a while it hasn’t been, Dan recounts the odyssey of repairing his Mac mini, we discuss the newest foldable phone announcements from Samsung and Huawei, Lex explains his love of a Twitter ... | Continue reading
Dan Moren’s second novel, “The Bayern Agenda,” is coming soon to bookstores. He joins Jason to discuss how writing a novel is different the second time around, how the book connects (and doesn’t connect) with his previous novel, wh... | Continue reading
Neil Finn is my favorite songwriter, and his 1980s band Crowded House is my favorite band of all time. (And their first album is my favorite album. And that album features my favorite song. You get the idea.) So it’s a pleasure to relay the sto... | Continue reading
Major players Samsung and Huawei have introduced expensive smartphones with foldable screens, but do their different approaches tell us anything about the future of the category? And where goes Apple fit in to the equation? We also take some time to conte... | Continue reading
I found myself curious recently as to whether I was getting enough sleep. There are, of course, a bunch of different ways to track sleep on your devices, including many third-party apps. Apple itself has even added a Bedtime feature that lets you remi... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show where you can hear the gears grinding, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Allison Sheridan and Kevin Clark to talk about improving Apple’s emoji discoverability, getting bogged down in finding the perfec... | Continue reading
Expanding AirDrop support might complicate security, but you can already scan for devices in a crowded café or conference.When I first started using a Mac, there wasn’t built-in file sharing—you copied files onto a floppy disk and walked the... | Continue reading
This week on the most irreverent tech show not yet ripped off by a pale imitation, we recap this past week’s all-Rebound-host Mario Kart tournament, with some surprising revelations. Plus, a rundown of one analyst’s reports on what Apple has i... | Continue reading
Recording Liftoff from the spare bedroom at my mother’s house in Arizona. (The little blue box is a mute switch.)Last week I took a trip during which I needed to record three podcasts (Liftoff, Download, Six Colors Subscriber Podcast) with guest... | Continue reading
A 16-inch MacBook Pro? A 6K Apple external display? Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has dropped the first detailed report of Apple’s 2019 hardware plans, and Myke and Jason take turns dissecting them and wildly speculating about possible features. Also we pond... | Continue reading
This week on the 30 minute tech show that gives 60 Minutes a run for its money, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Aleen Simms and Casey Liss to discuss Apple wanting 50 percent of publisher revenue for its news subscription service, where exactly... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that will always be your Valentine, we discuss Amazon’s purchase of Eero, Kashmir Hill’s attempt to cut the major five tech companies out of her life, Apple’s naming of a new product marketing head ... | Continue reading
As I wrote earlier this month, I ended up finishing my Six Colors Report Card story on the Mac because I ran into several roadblocks when I tried to finish the project on my iPad. The point wasn’t that these tasks were impossible on the iPad, but ... | Continue reading
It’s been reported that the iPad’s home screen will be evolving in 2019, but what form will that evolution take? Myke and Jason make a wish list, and also discuss Angela Ahrendts’s departure from Apple Retail, Spotify’s investment ... | Continue reading
My thanks to Glenn Fleishman for sponsoring Six Colors this week as a way of promoting the new edition of his ebook, Take Control of Slack. Here’s Glenn to explain himself:One morning, we all awoke and found ourselves part of a Slack group. I may ... | Continue reading
This week on Download, Stephen Hackett and Jason discuss Apple’s retail changes and Facebook’s 15th anniversary. Then Natalie Jarvey of The Hollywood Reporter visits to discuss Spotify spending a lot of money on podcasting companies, and Jerem... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that is replete with clock puns, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Matthew Cassinelli and James Thomson to discuss which iOS apps and games stand the test of time on our devices, what Apple could do to improve Sir... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that gets meta, Dan confesses to buying an iPhone SE…but there’s a catch. Plus, Lex shares a Netflix show that he’s enjoy over and over, and John buys a new clicky keyboard (trying saying that five ... | Continue reading
Last week I posted the annual Six Colors Report Card, a story package that includes lots of quotes (about 5,000 words out of the 30,000 words submitted by panelists) and a bunch of charts. It’s a large project and I worked on it across both macOS an... | Continue reading
What Apple’s quarterly results had to say about iPhone sales and prices, Apple reaches a fork in the road when it comes to keyboard design, and just after the official opening of 2019 iPhone Rumor Season comes the official opening of 2020 iPhone Rum... | Continue reading
By Glenn FleishmanOne morning, we all awoke and found ourselves part of a Slack group. I may be exaggerating, but it seems like Slack came out of nowhere to be the group messaging and archiving tool of choice, especially for offices and organizations wi... | Continue reading
This week on the 30-minute tech show that can keep you warm in the worst of times, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Adam Engst and Kelly Guimont to discuss our usage of Group FaceTime before and after this week’s privacy bug, which tech co... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech podcast that’s recording way too late at night, we discuss this week’s Group FaceTime bug, rumors of an Apple game-subscription service, Apple getting screwed (or not) in US manufacturing, and this here very s... | Continue reading
On January 29, Apple’s executives spoke with analysts on a conference call following its release of its quarterly results. This is a complete transcript of those statements.... | Continue reading
Apple on Tuesday announced its latest quarterly results, which featured $84.3 billion in revenue—the company’s second-biggest quarter ever, but down 5 percent from its largest-ever quarter a year ago.iPhone revenue was down. Services revenue... | 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. This is the fourth... | Continue reading
This week on Download, Stephen Hackett and Jason discuss the top stories of the week: robots roll out, smartphones get weird, Apple Pay expands, Netflix gets Oscar nominations and joins the MPAA, NBC Universal gets into streaming, and Tesla puts the squee... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that’s recording after dark, we’ve got a full complement of hosts. First Lex wants help with his home theater setup, then we move on to talk about Apple’s reportedly slowed hiring, the iPhone SE on ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that hopefully sparks joy in you, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Megan Morrone and Ant Pruitt to discuss how we consume text content online, the smartphone and desktop notifications that we can’t live wit... | Continue reading
This year Samsung plans to release a smartphone with a foldable OLED display. Is this technology that Apple would use in future iPhones, and if so, how? We also discuss Apple’s new videos that highlight the iPad Pro, and Jason tries to explain NBC U... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show sometimes called “Two and a Half Co-Hosts,” we run through a veritable laundry list of topics, including the huge number of iPhone battery replacements, Apple’s United business, streaming service ne... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that talks the tech and walks the…walk, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shelly Brisbin and Ish ShaBazz to discuss Apple products we’d like to see revived, our favorite underdog technologies, ... | Continue reading
This podcast feed was created in BBEdit and Excel.When people ask me what features of BBEdit I use, I can mention Markdown tools and syntax support, which I use for writing stories like this one. But the other thing I use BBEdit for is a bit more esot... | Continue reading
Over the past few days, I’ve seen a ton of people on Twitter (including plenty of folks I’d describe as pretty tech savvy) have their mind blown by a tweet explaining how to move the cursor on the iOS keyboard.How come you guys never told me... | Continue reading
You have to judge a product on what it is. In starting the pricing of the 2018 iPad Pro models at $799 and $999, in comparing the power of the A12X chip inside to PC laptops, in replacing the Lightning port of previous iOS devices with the USB-C port fo... | Continue reading
Apple reported the results from its fiscal fourth quarter Thursday, saying it generated $62.9 billion in revenue, with Services revenue reaching an all-time high of $10 billion. iPhone sales were up slightly over the same quarter last year, but iPhone rev... | Continue reading
In the fall of 2014 the big question was: What is the Apple Watch good for? The company’s expansive answer was, essentially: What isn’t it good for? The result was a product that was new and interesting and weird and entirely unfocused.In co... | Continue reading
There we go. I’ll be reporting live from Cupertino on September 12, as Apple unveils… who knows what? The iPhone, for sure. Apple Watch? Sure. iPads? Macs?... | Continue reading
The Apple financial numbers are out, and the company set a new record for its financial third—wait, where are you going? Don’t you want to hear the same old story about how Apple is a company that continues to generate billions in revenues and... | Continue reading
After a week of controversy following the posting of a video that claimed the new 15-inch MacBook Pro could experience massive slowdowns, Apple on Tuesday acknowledged that the slowdowns exist—and that they’re caused by a bug in the therma... | Continue reading
For a few years now, it’s seemed that any forward movement macOS might make was coming in lockstep with Apple’s other platforms, most notably iOS. What was new to the Mac was generally something that was also new to iOS, or was previously avai... | Continue reading
Intel NUC server sitting atop my old Mac mini.Over the past year I’ve written frequently about my love of the Mac mini. There has been a Mac mini running as a server in my house basically since it was first introduced in 2005. The specific uses ... | Continue reading
Here’s a bit of numerology for you. Today marks 17 years, one month, and 29 days since Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001. That’s a strangely odd number—6269 days—but it also happens to be the exactly length of time b... | Continue reading
The original iMac. (Photo courtesy Stephen Hackett.)20 years ago today, Steve Jobs (the interim CEO of Apple) stood on the same stage from which he introduced the original Macintosh, and spent the first half-hour of his presentation trying to convince t... | Continue reading
If there’s one thing I’ve learned writing about tech, is that’s if I mention using any sort of accessory in passing without providing details, people will ask for the details. And so I was already planning on writing this when a reader... | Continue reading
Among the casualties of the impending transition to 64-bit apps is one long-lasting oddity: QuickTime 7 Pro. What makes this app so unusual are a few factors. For one thing, it’s one of Apple’s own apps. For another, it was first release... | Continue reading