This week, with Casey Newton’s announcement that he’s starting his own subscription newsletter, the exodus of journalists from corporate media into independent creations has become a big story. Which reminds me that it’s been nearly five years since…
Lees meerYou know about the Macintosh, but do you know about the sequel? The Macintosh II was huge—literally. But its compact successors might be the pinnacle of late 80s/early 90s Apple design.…
Lees meerImage: 9to5Mac.One of the big features of iOS 14 is the addition of home screen widgets. Combine this with a bunch of new widget apps such as Widgetsmith, designed with lots of options to add decoration or information to an iPhone, and iPhone users …
Lees meerLast Wednesday I updated my Apple Watch Series 5 to watchOS 7. And immediately the device’s battery life dropped precipitously. I’d estimate that in the 11 months since I bought the Series 5, I’d failed to get to the end of the day with battery rema…
Lees meerSix years in, the Apple Watch is at a bit of a crossroads. After a few years of explosive growth in terms of improving the hardware, Apple seems to have hit a bit of a lull. Last year’s Apple Watch Series 5 only added a single major feature, the alw…
Lees meerHas Apple set off an iPhone home screen aesthetics revolution with iOS 14? We talk about our favorite widgets, Widgetsmith’s journey to the top of the App Store charts, home-screen customization, and what this might mean for Apple’s iOS feature prio…
Lees meerWith new Apple software updates come new questions, and reader Martin has one related to an old tip of mine: Thanks for the great tip on fixing tab behavior. However, the directions on how to get the debug menu no longer seem to work with Safar…
Lees meerNew York magazine’s Irin Carmon, co-author of the book Notorious R.B.G., on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Two visionary lawyers, the leftist feminist Dorothy Kenyon and the queer Black theorist Pauli Murray, had long argued that gender discri…
Lees meerThis month Relay FM is raising money for St. Jude, a remarkable organization that is both a hospital that provides free medical care for kids with cancer, and a research institution that’s committed to finding ways to fight that cancer. Right now as…
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Lees meerGood news! Apple just announced a service that might actually save you money. Or you could just ignore it, and that’s fine too. It’s AppleOne, the new bundle of a bunch of existing Apple services that can, depending on how you look at it, either sav…
Lees meerJustine Calma at The Verge: As smoke from wildfires chokes the West Coast, social media has been flooded with crowdsourced maps providing near-real time updates on just how horrendous the air really is. Much of the data are from relatively inexpe…
Lees meerSamuel Axon of Ars Technica: The immediate timing of the releases might seem like a positive for consumers who were clamoring for new features, but it’s been highly disruptive to developers…. But with the timing of these launches, developers had …
Lees meerOn Tuesday Apple unveiled a bunch of new stuff, including two new Apple Watches, two new iPads, a new fitness subscription service, and a bundle of its many services And, oh yeah, the A14 processor. It was almost certainly not the debut that the com…
Lees meerSurprise! Today’s the day. We will have more coverage of all the new OSes as time goes by. In the meantime, you can read Dan’s first look at the iPadOS 14 beta and my first look at the iOS 14 beta, both from July.…
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Lees meerNicole Wetsman, reporting for The Verge, answers a question I had about exactly how Apple is marketing the oxygen sensor in the Apple Watch Series 6: The Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor isn’t a medical device and won’t be able to diagnose or mo…
Lees meeriPad Pro, you’re on the clock. Tuesday’s announcement of the new iPad Air continues Apple’s aggressive importation of iPad Pro features into the lower ends of the iPad product line. But it also brings the $599 iPad Air surprisingly close to the $799…
Lees meerApple announced new Apple Watches and iPads on Tuesday, and here’s our quick reaction to the news. Shockingly, we walk away feeling pretty good about… Apple’s services? Plus: Surprise! Those operating system updates are coming sooner than anyone sus…
Lees meerApple held an event on Tuesday that focused on the iPad and Apple Watch, though there were some more products announced than that. Here’s a summary: A new iPad Air that picks up many of the features of the iPad Pro, including support for the Apple …
Lees meerApple’s special event live stream will begin at 10am Pacific, in less than an hour as I type this. We’ll be posting some live thoughts at the @sixcolorsevent Twitter account, which is also embedded below. Shortly after the event concludes, you can h…
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