Halloween! The night when ghouls and goblins roam the streets, demanding treats of innocent residents. When fear haunts our every waking moment, and the line between the worlds of the living and the dead is blurred.… This story is for Six Colors me…
Lees meerJason got to spend some time with the new M3 iMac and MacBook Pro, and returns to spill the details! We delve into the differences between chips in the M3 family, the curious case of the new low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro, and much more.…
Lees meerFor the first time in the Apple silicon era, Apple isn’t using its lowest-end chip to usher in a new generation of processors. On Monday, Apple announced not just the M3 chip but its beefier siblings, the M3 Pro and M3 Max.…
Lees meerMy thanks to iMazing for sponsoring Six Colors this week. iMazing is the answer to so many questions about how you can have more control over how to sync and back up iOS and iPadOS devices… and want to do it all from a Mac or Windows PC rather than …
Lees meerApple has announced a “scary fast” new product announcement, and so Myke and Jason have convened an emergency session to draft what they think will happen at next Monday’s mysterious event.…
Lees meerThis message bubble has two stickers obscuring text, and a real Tapback that doesn’t. When Apple first announced iOS 17, one of the new features got me really excited.…
Lees meerNext week’s Apple event may not feature Tim Cook dressed as a mummy—more’s the pity—but Apple’s teaser video has all but confirmed what many had expected: this October event is all about the Mac.…
Lees meerFinally we discuss Lex’s problems, just before the podcast goes off the rails.…
Lees meerUsing an all-in-one messaging platform, using an all-in-one calendaring app, using — and telling others about — Passkeys, and what we hope to see at Apple’s “Scary Fast” October event.…
Lees meerIt takes money to make money: specifically, it takes your money to make money for large corporations. As online services around the world raise their prices, Apple is no exception; today, the company announced higher costs for several of its online …
Lees meerChalk this one up as something I’ve never seen before: an Apple event in the evening. The company on Tuesday announced a “Scary Fast” event coming Monday, October 30 at 5pm Pacific time.…
Lees meerA single Apple Pencil announcement leads us to think existential thoughts about the iPad product line, and Jason had an idea about a new MacBook Pro in the shower.…
Lees meerPasskey adoption seems to be accelerating. The Verge reports Amazon has now joined the ranks of online services that allow you to generate the secure credentials to log in to its site, joining Apple, Google, and a slew of others.…
Lees meerOne of the interesting things about Apple’s big yearly platform updates is that the features that are big and flashy often aren’t the ones that make the biggest difference.…
Lees meerNetflix (which is still top dog) reports results and makes price hikes. Also: Disney+’s value proposition, the complexity of selling ads for streaming, Marvel discovers TV, and your letters.…
Lees meerIf the bricks of Apple’s business are its hardware and software products—iPhones, iPads, Macs, and the software that runs them—then the mortar that holds them together is composed of the company’s services, the chief ingredient of which is iCloud.…
Lees meerMyke Hurley drops some balloons (on purpose, this time). When Apple shipped iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, it introduced a slew of new video features, all based on intercepting video input and running it through a machine-learning pipeline that detects th…
Lees meerBooks open, pencils down.…
Lees meerUnderrated Apple apps, our reading setups, feelings on the Apple Pencil, and our thoughts on onboarding processes.…
Lees meerMy book about Apple’s Photos app has been updated for macOS Sonoma, iOS 17, and iPadOS 17. Among the new items covered are photo stickers, the upgraded People & Pets albums, Apple Watch changes, custom iPad lock screen features, new Photos widgets, …
Lees meerIt’s an entirely innocuous announcement that says so much. Tuesday’s reveal of a new Apple Pencil that’s got a USB-C port and lacks numerous features of both the first- and second-generation Apple Pencils sure seems like minor stuff.…
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