Our thoughts on the EU’s plans for messaging interoperability, how we feel about smart implants and body modifications, when and why we choose websites over apps for certain services, and long overdue feature requests for products we use each day.…
Lees meerThe launch of the Mac Studio was a big moment for Apple. After years of preparation, that launch marked an important milestone in the Mac’s journey. Apple exec John Ternus’s declaration that the M1 chip family is complete marks the end of the first …
Lees meerApple’s first foray into live sports streaming debuts on April 8: Apple and Major League Baseball today announced the first half of the 2022 “Friday Night Baseball” schedule. These scheduled games are available to anyone with internet access, for…
Lees meerIt’s episode 400! We evaluate the forward-looking predictions we made back in episode 300, and then draft stories we’ll be talking about over the next hundred episodes! Also, an Apple TV+ movie won Best Picture and we round up an awful lot of Apple …
Lees meerInside of Apple are two wolves… Okay, I’m only sort of kidding. But it’s true that there’s long been an internal conflict within the company that reaches into its very soul. On the one side is that intrinsic philosophy, trotted out at many a keynote…
Lees meerManaging Zoom windows, Apple’s cycle of listening to (or ignoring) its customers, and the disadvantages of Apple re-using its technology.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
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Lees meerBig tech outages, our data backup strategies, the tech wisdom we’d impart to the masses, and the last time we felt out of our depth.…
Lees meerRecycling is good. Just ask Apple. After the company was repeatedly called out by Greenpeace for poor performance on environmental issues, it began a process to detail all the ways it was being green, including that now-familiar slide that appears a…
Lees meerSo the Mac Studio has two SSD slots. They’re proprietary and you can’t just swap them in anyway. But why? Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham has an excellent overview: Deeply sympathetic as I am to the goals of the right-to-repair movement, and dee…
Lees meerBack in late 2000—unfortunately, I don’t have any email archives from this period—we were planning a cover story about Mac customization. Written by Christopher Breen, it recommended utilities like James Thomson’s DragThing and St. Clair Software’s …
Lees meerIn our YouTube video on Thursday, Dan relayed a question from a listener asking if the Studio Display supported automatic rotation. I grabbed the screen and twisted — and nothing happened. Oh well! Maybe it’s a VESA mount thing. But, being right-han…
Lees meerI wasn’t expecting one of the bigger reactions to my Mac Studio review to be my aside about the power strip I’ve been using for more than a decade, but that’s what happened! Here’s what I wrote: Funny thing about Apple silicon: Apple’s not kiddin…
Lees meerWhen it comes to iPhone upgrades, Apple is incremental. So are iPhone reviews. Those of us who review iPhones are, for understandable reasons, focused on what’s new between this year’s model and the last. Fortunately, Apple’s release of a new iPhone…
Lees meerJason’s spent a week with new Apple products. Lots of opinions about what’s wrong and right with the Studio Display. Jason third-thinks his Mac Studio purchase and comes out ahead.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get m…
Lees meerJennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge: Matter, the new smart home interoperability standard being developed by Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and others, has been delayed. Again. Expected this summer, the launch has been rescheduled for …
Lees meerOn Thursday Jason and Dan went on YouTube and talked about the new Mac Studio and Studio Display and answered your questions. Here’s the video in case you missed it: …
Lees meerOur experience with game streaming services, our thoughts on Elden Ring, whether we order tech online or choose to pick it up, and the products we purchased from Apple’s March event.…
Lees meerOn Monday, Apple released macOS 12.3 and iOS/iPadOS 15.4. The two biggest features in these updates are Universal Control and mask support for Face ID. I recommend the excellent MacStories summaries of macOS and iOS. Universal Control The pointer go…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa joins Jason to talk about the Mythical Mid-Range Mac Minitower, the distortion of the iMac over time, the modular possibilities offered by the Apple Studio Display, and other fallout from last week’s Apple announcements.…
Lees meerLast week’s “Peek Performance” event saw the company launch its latest low-cost iPhone, a revamped iPad Air, an external display and, oh yeah, the first brand new Mac model in years. Those announcements picked off a bunch of the low-hanging fruit an…
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