In a surprise move, Amazon has jumped into the hosted Mac world, adding Mac minis to its EC2 service. As TechCrunch reports: The target audience here — and the only one AWS is targeting for now — is developers who want cloud-based build and testi…
Lees meerThis week Jason embraces the iPhone 12 mini and then reboots his complaints about Apple’s focus on Mac security leading to bad user-experience issues. Then we consider the future, as we interpret early reports about new Apple Watch, iPad, and MacBoo…
Lees meerImagine a slideshow of images of every portable Mac Apple has made, displayed in chronological order. It starts with the Macintosh Portable and ends with two M1 MacBooks. For a while, the slides are of chunky plastic laptops in light gray, dark gray…
Lees meerOne of my only opportunities for solace these days is taking walks. I try to get outside every day, not just to close the rings on my Apple Watch, but also because I need a break from staring at screens. My AirPods Pro have become my constant compan…
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Lees meerSmart home automations, creativity in the time of pandemic, our Black Friday habits, and the impact of the latest improvements to Shortcuts.…
Lees meerIf there’s a single disappointment in the release of Apple’s first wave of M1 Macs, it’s the lackluster launch of iOS apps running inside of macOS. What should be an amazing unification of Apple’s platforms and a massive expansion of the Mac softwar…
Lees meerI love Rogue Amoeba’s audio apps and rely on them every day. Audio Hijack is the best. Loopback is a vital tool when I’m streaming video live. This year, though, Apple made some major changes to how audio on macOS is handled, and that required major…
Lees meerMyke and Jason have spent a week running Big Sur on M1 Macs and are here to report back on what the future feels like. Also, HBO Max gives up and plans a streaming release of “Wonder Woman 1984” so everyone but Myke can see it, and Apple pulls a PR …
Lees meerArs Technica’s Jon Brodkin: Comcast’s 1.2TB monthly data cap is coming to 12 more states and the District of Columbia starting January 2021. The unpopular policy was already enforced in most of Comcast’s 39-state US territory over the past few ye…
Lees meerThe M1 Macs have arrived. The benchmarks are in. And what we’ve seen is nothing less than mind-blowing performance from Apple’s own silicon, compared to the Intel chips that came before. But this, as we know, is just the beginning. The M1 is only th…
Lees meerSamuel Axon has a really nice interview with three Apple execs about the M1 processor. Here’s Craig Federighi: The M1 is essentially a superset, if you want to think of it relative to A14. Because as we set out to build a Mac chip, there were man…
Lees meerCalling Apple’s history with speaker accessories “mixed” is probably being kind. In 2006, the company made its first foray with the iPod Hi-Fi, a technically impressive but expensive and ultimately doomed speaker dock for the company’s icon music pl…
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Lees meerWhat’s the best Mac of all time? It’s an impossible question to answer. Yet three well-known Mac commentators all have the same answer.…
Lees meerMigration Assistant, and cat.One of my favorite episodes of Upgrade is from early in the show’s run, when we spent time critiquing the experience of buying and setting up a new iPhone. I keep coming back to something we said in that episode: Buying …
Lees meerMy new MacBook Air is proving to be all that I’d hoped, and it’s not just because of the fancy new M1 processors. Since I’m coming from a 2014 MacBook, I’m reaping the benefits of all the other advancements Apple has made to its laptop line in the i…
Lees meerThere’s enough new Apple gear to go around.…
Lees meerApple’s reducing its App Store commission, new gaming consoles are here, the tech that brings us joy, and how we’re coping with celebrations in the year that is 2020.…
Lees meerApple Newsroom: The new App Store Small Business Program will benefit the vast majority of developers who sell digital goods and services on the store, providing them with a reduced commission on paid apps and in-app purchases. Developers can qua…
Lees meerIn this special, extra-packed episode we’ve got an interview with Apple’s Tim Millet and Tom Boger about Apple’s new M1 Macs, followed by Jason’s review of the new Macs after spending nearly a week with all three models. Plus, Myke and Jason review …
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