Can Apple buy its way out of trouble? We discuss the promise and pitfalls of Apple acquiring an AI powerhouse… or literally anything else.…
Lees meerI know we all like to get a good memento mori jolt now and again, particularly when the world is in turmoil! (That’s sarcasm.) But as I grow older, I can’t avoid thinking about my digital legacy, or that of my parents, as I am the executor named in…
Lees meerKenneth Chang and Iera Hwang of the New York Times take a deep dive into the unique data challenges of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is powered by a 3.2 gigapixel camera: Each image taken by Rubin’s camera consists of 3.2 billion pixel…
Lees meerLast week’s Six Colors podcast was recorded entirely on iPads running iPadOS 26, mine in California and Dan’s in Massachusetts. The podcast is usually just for Six Colors members, but you can listen to it here if you want.…
Lees meerThis year, John Voorhees and I returned to the scene of the crime—the place where we got a demo in 2024 of Swift Assist, a feature that never shipped that we could’ve sworn we saw demoed live—to see the updated Xcode with AI assistance.…
Lees meerThey should have given it a theatrical run. Apple has largely tied major revisions of tvOS to the launch of new Apple TV hardware over the years.…
Lees meerOur interest in drones and how we’d use them, household standards for wearing Bluetooth headphones, whether we install OS betas and on which devices, and the rare app or service where we don’t mind seeing ads.…
Lees meerFederico Viticci of MacStories got to sit down with Apple’s Craig Federighi to discuss iPadOS last week, which is a tremendous thing to see, and you can read all about it: After all the talk over the past 15 years about the “post-PC era”, why hav…
Lees meerClipboard history in Spotlight on macOS Tahoe. A couple of years ago, I recalled that in the early days of Mac OS X, I built up an entire array of utilities that allowed me to use my Mac just how I wanted it.…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees of MacStories took Apple’s new Speech framework, available to all developers, for a spin in the macOS 26 beta and got great results in making audio transcripts: It’s still early days for these technologies, but I’m here to tell you …
Lees meerZaz splits WBD, the neverending Paramount sale, listener letters, and TV picks! [Downstream+ subscribers also get: Apple TV stasis, Clooney on CNN, and the Great Netflix User Migration.]…
Lees meerThe Summer of Fun begins with loads of WWDC follow-up, including some big-picture reflections on last week and a discussion of some of our favorite features in Apple’s beta OS releases.…
Lees meeriCloud Photos requires mysterious files and processes and often consumes huge amounts of storage space. Six Colors subscriber John writes in with a question about one aspect of this: I have photos set to optimize storage, and it’s currently (acc…
Lees meerYou may not know it, but there’s an app built right into your iPhone, iPad, and Mac that can supercharge your experience using all those products — and it’s about to get even more powerful.…
Lees meerArs Technica’s Dan Goodin: The import/export feature, which Apple demonstrated at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.…
Lees meerOn Thursday there was a Six Colors Zoom call for Backstage-level members and contributors alike. Glenn Fleishman asked Jason Snell and Dan Moren about Spotlight. He wondered about the discoverability and the intuitiveness of some of these features.…
Lees meerThe Steve Jobs Archive has remastered his classic Stanford commencement address for its 20th anniversary: It’s not an obvious candidate for a classic. A commencement address by a college dropout.…
Lees meerFrench media company Canal+ announced this week that it’s working on a documentary about French motorcycle racer Johann Zarco at the French Grand Prix, which would probably not be notable for most people were it not for how it was made: Produced …
Lees meerLex has the big news and then, if we have time, we’ll talk about WWDC and whether or not Apple’s funny.…
Lees meerMy visionOS 26 persona. The side of my head really does look like that! If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of wearable devices in front of our eyes, Apple needs to keep pushing toward that future at every op…
Lees meerThe most contentious decision about tabs since the soda got discontinued. For a company that’s long been known for its “my way or the highway” philosophy when it comes to design, some of Apple’s latest interface choices have abandoned that approach …
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