Software is more than just a new version number: at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple rolled out expansive updates across its platforms, with a brand new Liquid Glass design, access to AI models for third-party developers, and new …
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Lees meerTechdirt’s Mike Masnick was frustrated with his task manager, so he built his own using AI tools:  This is the core problem with all productivity software: you’re renting someone else’s vision of how work should happen… So I decided to build exa…
Lees meerStephen Hackett just took a deep dive into the story of the Power Mac G5, which introduced the “cheese grater” design also used by many years of Intel-based Mac Pros.…
Lees meerLeft to right: HOMERUN (not part of season 2), Dig Dig Dino, Fulcrum Defender. Last week, Panic rolled out season 2 of games for its Playdate game handheld.…
Lees meerWhile the rest of the world has already ushered in the new year, in the Apple world the year starts on Monday of WWDC week, when Apple opens its annual Worldwide Developers Conference and sets its agenda for the next year.…
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Lees meerWhether repairability affects our buying choices, what we’d want from a rumored HomePod with a screen, what we’re looking forward to at WWDC next week, and our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2 and whether standalone handhelds appeal to us.…
Lees meerSix Colors subscriber Ampsonic—an excellent source of questions—asks: Why do some names turn red in Messages when a non-iOS user is added? It’s all about hegemony!…
Lees meerIt’s time for our 10th annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! What will be announced? Will there be a major redesign? What will the AI story be?…
Lees meerJason Snell has been covering Apple since all the Macs it shipped were beige boxes. This week, he joins Stephen and David to discuss the company’s range of legal and technological issues that seem to be adding up rapidly.…
Lees meerThis week I got an advance peek at “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” which is out today (it’s a beautiful day) on Apple TV+. It’s a movie version of the U2 frontman’s one-man show based on his book of the same name1.…
Lees meerAbout four weeks out from a manuscript deadline—already a month or two behind schedule—I broke my arm. Well, technically, someone else broke it. A Muay Thai fighter, during a sparring session in a martial arts class I definitely should not have been…
Lees meerThe dominance of YouTube, Disney grabs more kids content, TV’s mumbling problem, Amazon’s identity, the fate of SpinCos, and our TV picks.…
Lees meerThirty years ago, the first Mac clones rolled off an assembly line in Austin, Texas. If you’re not of a certain age, you might not even believe that there were once Mac clones.…
Lees meerYou can’t miss that pair of parens. Venerable text utility BBEdit got an update to version 15.5 on Wednesday, with the most notable feature being support for switchable workspaces.…
Lees meerThe New York Times’s DealBook newsletter published a smart piece about how Tim Cook might placate Donald Trump regarding his insistence that the iPhone be made in America when it can’t actually be, anytime soon if ever: Cook could announce plans …
Lees meerGiovanni Colantonio at Digital Trends reports that Apple has scooped up the game studio behind Apple Arcade’s Sneaky Sasquatch: “We love Sneaky Sasquatch and are excited that the 2-person RAC7 team has joined Apple to continue their work on it wi…
Lees meerMyke and Jason debate the merits of Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s big announcement and what it means for Apple, Tariffs continue to threaten iPhone sales, and Apple may have committed to smart glasses after all.…
Lees meerSix Colors reader Philip asked some specific networking questions that centered on this dilemma: How does the choice between using Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi get made? Does one particular transaction solely use Ethernet or Wi-Fi, or can it be a mixture …
Lees meerUp-and-coming San Francisco news site The San Francisco Standard breaks down that Sam and Jony video in depth: While the clip was full of fawning descriptions of each other — and a suspicious number of “ordinary San Franciscans” with the apparent…
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