Brett and I begin this week’s episode of the In the News podcast with a quick PSA on a recent security update, and then we discuss Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who recently declared to CBS News that he is the happiest person alive. He certainly d…
Lees meerSteve Jobs gets all of the attention when people talk about the history of Apple, but there were two men in the garage who started the company, and the other founder was Steve Wozniak, who everyone calls Woz. John Gruber of Daring Fireball reports t…
Lees meerFor the reasons I mentioned last week, my guess is that we are about three weeks away from Apple announcing new iPhones and more, such as perhaps a new Apple Watch. Jason Snell of Six Colors looks back at Apple’s history of taking a product that sta…
Lees meerI spend a lot of time thinking about ways to use technology to be more productive as an attorney, and that is the source of inspiration for most of my posts on iPhone J.D. But sometimes, you just want to have some fun. I often enjoy looking at photo…
Lees meerWe start this week’s episode of the In the News podcast taking a look back at the seven people who have served as CEO of Apple since 1977, especially Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. We then look forward to who might replace Tim Cook whenever he retires. Ne…
Lees meerThere is lots to discuss in the world of the iOS and iPadOS operating systems, so that is a big focus of this week’s episode of the In the News podcast. First, we discuss iOS 18.6, the update for the operating system you are probably using right now…
Lees meerThe heck if I know why this has been a thing for so many decades, but for my entire life, when you walk in the French Quarter in New Orleans, someone will sometimes try to hustle you by offering to bet you that they can tell you “where you got them …
Lees meerA tool that can save you time is valuable, especially if you are a lawyer or other professional on a billable hour system and you want to reduce time spent on nonbillable tasks. A tool that can save you from aggravation is even more valuable. Nobody…
Lees meerAccording to Consumer Reports, extended warranties are typically not worth the investment. But as Glenn Fleishman noted in a recent article for Six Colors, “extended warranties are always bad except Apple’s.” If something goes wrong with an Apple pr…
Lees meerThis week’s episode of the In the News podcast opens with an extensive discussion of emojis. Yes, we discuss the latest emojis approved by the Unicode Consortium and Apple’s fun new game for Apple TV+ called Emjoi Game, digging deeper into the two t…
Lees meerYesterday was World Emoji Day. This year, that meant two things for users of the iPhone and iPad. First, the Unicode Consortium announced several new emojis that will be included in the next version of the standard, giving us a sneak peek at upcomin…
Lees meerIn this Fourth of July episode of the In the News podcast, Brett Burney and I start with a red, white, and blue discussion of Apple Watch bands. Next, we discuss some of the interesting new features coming in iOS 26 and watchOS 26. We discuss the ne…
Lees meerAs we observe Independence Day in America—our annual celebration of the hard-fought freedom to not be subject to the unchecked whims of a monarch—the #1 app in the “Social” category of the App Store sits at the intersection of the iPhone and the law…
Lees meerOf all of the updates coming from Apple this Fall, iPadOS 26 is the one that interests me the most because Apple is making it much easier to be more productive with an iPad. While a number of folks have written about this over the last two weeks, I …
Lees meerIf you don’t normally watch the video version of the In the News podcast, you may want to do so this week. To celebrate the 200th episode, Brett Burney flew from Ohio to New Orleans to join me in person, and we recorded in the studio at my law firm,…
Lees meerApple’s WWDC conference was this week, and thus, it was the biggest week of the year for Apple announcements. Apple gave us months and months of topics to discuss: the new Liquid Glass interface, a major upgrade to the iPad, great AI announcements, …
Lees meerToday marks the anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the end of World War II and the liberation of the world from fascism. Eighty-one years later, modern technology offers us new ways to revisit and understand the events of D-Day. Jason Snell of S…
Lees meerOne of the best things to experience on the Apple Vision Pro is an immersive video, such as the impressive collection of videos created by Apple. You sit in a single spot, you look around, and thanks to the 180º video and the spatial sound, you feel…
Lees meerThank you to SaneBox for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. I’ve explained in the past what the service does, so this month, I thought I would talk about a typical day of using the service for one of my inboxes. For the same reason that the service …
Lees meerThis week’s episode of the In the News podcast addresses Apple over the decades. We talk about what it used to be like to purchase Apple products and how that changed substantially for the better 24 years ago when Apple opened the first Apple Store.…
Lees meerTwenty-four years ago this week, on May 19, 2021, Apple opened its first retail store. That original store was at Tysons Corner Center in Virginia. Tim Hardwick of MacRumors relives that day and shares a video of Steve Jobs showing off the store. Jo…
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