Apple event set for September 9 – Six Colors
Apple is nothing if not consistent. That announcement we all expected might happen today, happened today: Apple is giving the world two weeks’ notice that its next media event (which we all k…| Six Colors
The Moltz Family Road Trip 2025 (motto: “Oh, god, how many more days do we have?!”) checks in to talk about the little surprises that could appear at Apple’s September event, Eddy Cue’s eyes being bigger than Tim Cook’s wallet, and ongoing complaints about Tahoe—the operating system, not the lake, which we hear is lovely.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
Good morning and welcome to Apple Park. We’ve got a lot of very exciting announcements in store for you today, which is totally the same day that I’m recording this.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
John Scalzi: For the new release of the Pixel 10 Pro (and the 10 Pro XL, which is mostly the same phone, just larger), Google has introduced something called the “Pro-Res Zoom,” a process by which, once you zoom in with the camera over about 30x zoom, after you’ve snapped the photo, Google will run it through an “AI” processor, not to bring out the details that are actually there, but to make up details that seem reasonable to assume are there, based on whatever processing algorithm...| Six Colors
My thanks to Quip for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clipboard managers aren’t usually exciting. Most of them just capture everything you copy, then become a cluttered dumping ground. Quip takes a very different approach. Quip is a supercharged clipboard manager and text expander for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed to feel like a natural extension of the OS. It gives you full control over your clipboard history, syncs seamlessly across devices with iCloud, and introduces Super Shortcuts...| Six Colors
Every year at this time1, my pals at the Relay podcast network raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I’m happy to announce that I’ll once again be participating in the live 12-hour Podcastathon from St. Jude’s campus in Memphis on September 19 at noon Eastern. Yep. 12 hours. Circle a large space on your calendar for that. It will be fun and wacky and I hope we raise an awful lot of money for St. Jude while we’re on the a...| Six Colors
Apple’s OS betas are nearing completion, but not all betas for developers are OS Developer Betas: On Thursday Apple released Xcode 26 beta 7, which adds direct support for the new OpenAI GPT-5 model and lets users add existing paid Claude accounts to use Claude Sonnet 4: Claude in Xcode is now available in the Intelligence settings panel, allowing users to seamlessly add their existing paid Claude account to Xcode and start using Claude Sonnet 4… When using ChatGPT in Xcode, users can now...| Six Colors
I appreciate what Adobe is doing with Project Indigo. It’s a free iOS camera app, but it is heavily disclaimed as being experimental with unique features you can’t find in other apps. But Adobe also says they’re targeting “casual” photographers, which seems misguided. A few people I know have even been evangelizing Project Indigo because they love it so much, especially when they compare it to photos from Apple’s Camera app. My enthusiasm for this product doesn’t match their own...| Six Colors
The read-it-later service Pocket has shut down, and with it went its integration with Kobo e-readers. Fortunately, earlier this summer Kobo owner Rakuten announced that Instapaper would replace Pocket as its new read-it-later service of choice. As of today, that support is live. After a Kobo software update and a quick trip to a special URL to link a Kobo to an Instapaper account, the system works just like the old Pocket integration did. Add an article to your Instapaper account, and then go...| Six Colors
The tech we have in our vehicles, the dependable tech that just works and what might make us replace it, how often we upgrade our phones or computers and why, and which social platforms we use — including where we heard about Taylor Swift’s engagement. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
John Moltz joins host Guy English to get obsessive about floors, Liquid Glass and icons. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
John Voorhees of MacStories has a review of Tot 2.0, the simple Mac/iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch notes app by The Iconfactory: My favorite 2.0 feature is that Tot now supports automatic indenting. If you indent a line using the Tab key, the next line will begin at the same indentation level when you hit Return. That makes creating hierarchical lists a lot faster than before. My only quibble with the feature is that if you’re making a bulleted list, to indent a line, you need to first back up and...| Six Colors
John McCoy (host of the Sophomore Lit podcast on The Incomparable!) used the recent kerfuffle over the Cracker Barrel rebranding (if you don’t know, he covered it in his post) to discuss a trend in corporate branding: Just because I doubt that these choices were motivated by politics doesn’t mean the detractors don’t have a point: something basic is being lost here. In both cases the companies have discarded character and context in an effort to streamline their identity. I have written...| Six Colors
Fantastic article by Lucasfilm historian, the appropriately named Lucas O. Seastrom, on creating an extremely detailed Star Wars-themed lounge at ILM: An entirely original piece in the Hideout was an industrial-style fan in the ceiling, an idea that dated all the way back to Field’s original safehouse concept. “I really wanted to make sure that something was moving,” says DeBaun. “Most everything in the room is still, except for the fan.” Using a fan acquired by Hirschfield and a co...| Six Colors
Apple is nothing if not consistent. That announcement we all expected might happen today, happened today: Apple is giving the world two weeks’ notice that its next media event (which we all k…| Six Colors
After an era of stability, Apple may be about to mix things up with the iPhone, including a bunch of new models and even a change to the traditional fall roll-out cycle. And we end the Summer of Fun with a summery Ask Upgrade! Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Clipboard managers aren’t usually exciting. Most of them just capture everything you copy, then become a cluttered dumping ground. Quip takes a very different approach. Quip is a supercharged clipboard manager and text expander for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed to feel like a natural extension of the OS. It gives you full control over your clipboard history, syncs seamlessly across devices with iCloud, and introduces Super Shortcuts—a built-in text expansion system that lets you paste ...| Six Colors
Tear those epaulettes off one of your admin accounts in macOS. It knows what it did! And what’s that? It’s just too darned powerful. An account marked as an administrator can carry out …| Six Colors
Wait, Moltz is on vacation this week? Who allowed that? Dan, did you give Moltz the go-ahead? Great, Dan’s not even answering. I know, it’s long past Miller Time on a Friday in Boston, but you never know. Oh well. At least I can give people a reminder of what they’re losing this week, unless they happen to catch a glimpse of Moltz as he drives across the country. I hear he and the Macalope are doing a buddy comedy road trip. When they get to Chicago, watch out. Apple TV+ subscription pr...| Six Colors
The Bluesky social network has decided to block all devices from the state of Mississippi due to its far-reaching law that has some exceptionally broad requirements in the name of protecting children. The Bluesky Team: The Supreme Court’s recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comply with Mississippi’s age assurance law—and make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive personal information and undergo age checks to access the site—or risk massive fines. The law wou...| Six Colors
ESPN has left the exclusivity of the cable bundle at long last, and we break down what it all means. Also: TV Picks and your letters! (Downstream+ listeners also get: MLB’s complex new TV deals, and can Jason cut the cord for real?) Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
One of those really quiet summer weeks.| Six Colors
Guy English joins us to talk about Lex’s guilt-inducing new Mac purchase that he sacrificed his morals for. We talk about refurbed Macs and Vision Pros, Dan’s new Folder Automations, iCloud woes, and the reality that Apple just needs to stop doing things. There’s a little Lex.Games talk, too. Guy mentions Lex’s interview with Marco Arment from 2018 about the podcast industry. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Steamclock: Steamclock: We make great apps. Design and develo...| Six Colors
Whether we’ve used tech to build habits lately, if we edit Wikipedia, our approach to software updates, and if we blog or have any blog recommendations.| Six Colors
We imagine how Apple would tier list its own products, and discuss what kind of personality might work for a tabletop “robot” from Apple.| Six Colors
The passkey was introduced with some excitement by Apple and varying degrees of hurrahs from Microsoft and Google a few years ago.1 This humble method of combining strong encryption, avoiding passw…| Six Colors
The definitive Mac of the last decade was the 13-inch MacBook Air, introduced in 2010 and featuring a wedge-shaped design. It influenced all the Apple laptops (and let’s face it, a lot of PC …| Six Colors
My thanks to Clic for Sonos for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clic for Sonos is the fastest native Sonos client for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and visionOS. It’s easy to get set up and get going, whether you’re playing to a single device or grouping multiple speakers together. Clic for Sonos offers deep integration with native Apple technologies, with support for Widgets, Live Activities, Shortcuts, a Mac Menu Bar app, and support for Control Center. It works with your S...| Six Colors
Setting up a folder Automation in macOS Tahoe. One of the most exciting additions in macOS Tahoe is Shortcuts automation, which (among many other things) allows Shortcuts to act when things move or change in the filesystem. More than two decades after Folder Actions brought those features to Mac OS X Jaguar, Apple has built a modern take on the feature that’s been popularized by third-party utilities like Hazel. Unfortunately, Apple’s implementation of this feature is pretty basic—it’...| Six Colors
Apple preps for September, raises and lowers some prices, and takes the phrase “read the room” maybe too literally. Touching things up It’s less than a month until Apple’s expected iPhone 17 event and the company is rushing to dot all the “i”s in “iPhone”.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
Apple Newsroom: Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming later today. Users with these models in the U.S. who currently do not have the Blood Oxygen feature will have access to the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature by updating their paired iPhone to iOS 18.6.1 and their Apple Watch to watchOS 11.6.1. Following this update, sensor data from the Blood Oxyg...| Six Colors
Our display setup and window management; which legacy online component should be sunset after AOL dial-up; whether new Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence automation appeals; and views on YouTube’s AI age verification and the best and worst ways to do it. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
We talk presidential participation awards, Perplexity’s bid for attention and removing the notch. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
I do love it when I reference Dr. Drang on Upgrade and he responds with an entire blog post: As Jason said on the show, he’d probably need a kayak that’s a bit bigger and more stable than mine because of the choppier water he’d encounter in his bay. While I’ve been out on windy spring days when the waves were a foot high and had whitecaps—yes, even on the relatively small lakes around here—it’s unusual for me to see much chop. It’s about a mile (less if I walk) from my house t...| Six Colors
At the MIT Technology Review, my old colleague Mat Honan has a great piece about the simultaneous promise and overpromise of AI: In some ways, the AI hype cycle has to be out of hand. It has to justify the ferocious level of investment, the uncountable billions of dollars in sunk costs. The massive data center buildouts with their massive environmental consequences created at massive expense that are seemingly keeping the economy afloat and threatening to crash it. There is so, so, so much mo...| Six Colors
Blind ranking bad Apple products, hope for a cheaper MacBook, the perils of Siri automation, and apparently Tim Cook took a trip to Washington D.C. for some sort of meeting? Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
If you use Sonos hardware you deserve the best. Clic for Sonos is the fastest native Sonos client for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro. There’s no lag, just seamless Sonos playback. It’s easy to get set up, giving you smooth control, whether you’re playing to a single device or grouping multiple speakers together. Clic for Sonos offers deep integration with native Apple technologies, with support for Widgets, Live Activities, Shortcuts, a Mac Menu Bar app, and su...| Six Colors
I recently wrote about duplicating iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos to a network-attached storage (NAS) system. This struck a nerve for folks who want to keep full-resolution backups of their Photos Library when they don’t have enough local storage. (That column was focused on not needing to keep your Mac powered up to handle these iCloud offline backups when the Mac was otherwise not in use.) Readers wrote in or replied via social media with strategies and workarounds, as well as suggesting ...| Six Colors
Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and one of three men to have gone around the moon twice, died on Thursday: The plight of Apollo 13 in 1970 transfixed Americans. The capsule was nearly 56 hours into its flight and some 200,000 miles from Earth when the astronauts heard that ominous bang. Red lights signaling system failures glowed on their console. Captain Lovell, along with Mr. Swigert and Mr. Haise, civilians but also former test pilots who were making their first spaceflight, joined ...| Six Colors
Apple bestows a prestigious award, acquisition speculation continues, and set the date: new iPhones are coming. Presidential Participation Awards Apple has upped the ante in its bid to please our petulant president, bumping up the $500 billion investment it had previously pledged.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. And with the new App Ad Blocking feature in v5.0, it extends the powerful Safari and YouTube ad blocking protection to all apps including: News apps Social media Games Other browsers like Chrome and Firefox So, join the community of over 350,000 users and download Magic Lasso Adblock today from the App...| Six Colors
To celebrate our 100th episode, we draft streaming services! Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Back in May on MacBreak Weekly, Andy Ihnatko recommended an incredibly clever project called pico-mac-nano, a seemingly impossible complete emulation of the original Mac in a case only 2.4 inches/62mm high. I bought it while we were still on the air, and it arrived a couple of weeks ago. It’s slightly wonky (sometimes the display thinks it’s wider than it is, and though it’s preloaded with MacPaint it won’t actually launch it), but the fact remains: I can attach a USB mouse to this ti...| Six Colors
Jason joins Stephen and Myke to talk about hard drives, window management, and charts. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Our approach to cable management at home, the tech we pack for inflight entertainment, the devices and chargers we bring on quick trips, and our go-to strategy for international phone data plans. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Dan is away but Lex and Moltz are here to discuss AI slop, Apple’s comments on its enhanced Siri efforts and goings on in the podcast industry. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Longtime Macworld and New York Times columnist and prolific author David Pogue has a new project: a 600-page book about Apple’s history: In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, one of the most valuable companies in the world. The 600-page book features 360 full-color photos, new facts that correct ...| Six Colors
What’s that jingling sound? It might be the cash in Apple’s pockets after its record financial quarter. Also: Apple responds to the DoJ, and Tim Cook gives an AI pep talk. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Do you want to block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — not just in Safari? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. The new App Ad Blocking feature in Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 builds upon our powerful Safari and YouTube ad blocking, extending protection to: News apps Social media Games Other browsers like Chrome and Firefox All ad blocking is done directly on your device, using a fast, efficient Swift-based architecture that follow...| Six Colors
I released an audiobook a few weeks ago, the first time I had done so. This was the counterpart to the print and ebook editions of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a work that explores the evolution of printing technology. I used Adobe Audition to record and edit, as well as insert markers that would be exported to serve as chapters. Steven Schapansky, a beloved member of The Incomparable team and excellent audio engineer, took on the audio clean-up and production for me. Audition lets you c...| Six Colors
Another Apple employee is careless with an iPhone, Tim Cook answers questions, and some former Apple AI employees need new business cards. Maybe AI can design them for them.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
A few quick thoughts about Apple’s latest financial results, which featured record third-quarter revenue (depicted here in chart form, of course) and a few interesting details in the post-results phone call with analysts. The ratchet effect On our YouTube reaction video, Dan suggested that this quarter, which was essentially “boring” and yet generated $95 billion in revenue, means that Apple is about to enter an era where it breaks $100 billion in revenue in its dull quarters. I think h...| Six Colors
Every quarter after releasing financial results, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh hop on a conference call with analysts to detail the quarter gone by, give a peek at what’s to come, and creatively avoid answering any pointed questions from analysts. This is Six Colors’s transcript of the call. Tim Cook’s opening statement Thank you, Suhasini. Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining the call. Today, we are proud to report a June quarter revenue record of $94 billion, up ...| Six Colors
In its ever continuing quest for services revenue, Apple earlier this month rolled out its latest subscription service, AppleCare One. While it might seem like AppleCare One is simply a way to bundle up its extended warranty coverage for your Apple devices, it’s actually a foot in the door of something even more powerful.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
On Thursday, Apple reported its third-quarter 2025 fiscal results. Revenue was $94 billion (a fiscal third-quarter record), up 10% versus the year-ago quarter. Mac revenue was up 15%, iPhone revenue up 13%, and Services revenue up 13%. The Wearables/Home/Accessories category was down 9% and iPad revenue down 8%. Dan Moren and I broke down the results on YouTube. Read on for the charts!| Six Colors
Our experiences with tap‑to‑exchange features like phone payments, what we truly consider ephemeral online, a recent tech frustration that hampered productivity, and opinions on children’s shoes with hidden AirTag slots. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Lex is back and we discuss traveling, AppleCare One and iPhone 17 Pro leaks. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
It’s Public Beta season and we’ve got thoughts about the good and bad in macOS Tahoe. Then Jason forces Myke to listen to some sounds of the summer, but probably not the ones you’re thinking of. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Travelers used to find themselves at a loss for cheap mobile data when traveling outside of their home country or region, and often wound up paying dearly for it. You now have an enormous range of options, but it’s always better to make plans before you leave. I remember going to the United Kingdom in 2017, my first trip to Europe since 2000, and being armed with too little practical information. I knew that I should be able to drop into a Tesco or other store and find a cheap SIM plan that...| Six Colors
Foldable iPhone rumors heat up as Apple delivers a new plan and new betas. More screen time Foldable mania has hit the Apple world as rumors run rampant of Apple shipping its most expensive iPhone ever next year.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.| Six Colors
My longtime colleague Harry McCracken has a new piece about the future of the iPad at Fast Company that is definitely worth your consideration: As someone who’s used an iPad as my main computer for almost 14 years, I can’t join the chorus of unbridled enthusiasm for iPadOS 26’s embrace of Mac conventions such as floating, overlapping windows and a menu bar at the top of the screen. Apple may well be making the right decision to please the largest pool of people who want to get work done...| Six Colors
One of the questions raised by the recent announcement of AppleCare One came from Six Colors member Jono, who—when I mentioned that the only AppleCare I had was via the iPhone Upgrade Program—wondered “if there is any interaction with that at all.” It was a good question, and honestly, one I should have thought about more myself, being an iPhone Upgrade Program subscriber. The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is yes! These two programs are compatible, though if you want to do that, it do...| Six Colors
The Verge’s Victoria Song dives into the “antioxidant sensor” on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 with some surprising (or not) results: I colored my thumb with a yellow-orange marker. Wouldn’t you know it? My Antioxidant Index shot up to 100. Next, I colored it with a blue marker. My score dropped to zero. Unfortunately, my color-based hypothesis was foiled by a piece of roasted broccoli. It, too, scored 100 and is, in fact, rich in carotenoids. Perhaps the blackberry had failed because, w...| Six Colors
After a pretty big overhaul a few years back with watchOS 10 and a more modest update in watchOS 11, I’d describe this year’s update—now numbered 26 like the rest of Apple’s platforms, and available as a public beta—more focused. Sure, there’s a new Liquid Glass design that aligns with the rest of the company’s platforms, but the vast majority of big new features focus on a single app—Workout—which gets not only its own UI overhaul, but also a big new Apple Intelligence feat...| Six Colors
iPadOS 26, now available as a public beta, is one of the biggest updates in iPad history. There’s a new design that changes the look and feel of the whole interface, yes, but also the introduction of a whole raft of productivity features that lift the iPad closer to the Mac—for those who want to use it that way. It’s like a weight has been lifted from the soul of the iPad. It remains a very nice device to use in full-screen mode with all the simplicity attendant to that mode, or via a s...| Six Colors
iOS 26! It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18. How time flies. After a year that saw the debut of Apple Intelligence and the subsequent controversy over the features that it didn’t manage to ship, Apple seems to have taken a different tack with iOS 26. In addition to the expansive new Liquid Glass design that spans all of its platforms, Apple has largely focused on smaller, “quality of life” improvements rather than marquee new features. That’s not a bad thing, e...| Six Colors
For many years, Apple’s annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad. But Apple’s latest operating-system releases (all synced up as version 26)—due this fall and available now as a public beta—are spreading the love around. Yes, macOS Tahoe inherits a new design language that feels like it was designed for other devices. But look closer and you’ll find the biggest updates to Spotlight ever, including direct acce...| Six Colors
The real motivators behind CBS’s cancellation of The Late Show; why the current era of late-night talk is ending; CBS makes a South Park deal; the future of PBS; why ‘Pulse’ was not ‘The Pitt’; a Peacock price hike; and Jessica Fletcher vanishes. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Whether we buy AppleCare, how we clear out our inboxes, our smartwatch band habits, and travel tips for coming to America. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
(Source: Apple) Maybe you religiously sign up for AppleCare when you buy a new Apple product. Maybe you do it every once in a while. Maybe you never do it. No matter your approach—well, maybe not the “I never sign up for it” people—there’s a new option in town: AppleCare One. The new service, which Apple announced on Wednesday for customers in the U.S., gives you coverage for up to three Apple products for $19.99 a month and additional products for $5.99 per month per device—no ma...| Six Colors
Apple approaches the public beta, the UK reportedly backs off and who’s buying a foldable iPhone? Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
Apple Maps navigation might be on par with Google’s these days, but Apple’s location data is not. Google offers broad coverage for many points of interest, while Apple’s data has mostly relied on knitting together bits from competing business partners. This attempts to mimic Google’s comprehensive coverage without Apple having to do the foundational work itself. Apple recently announced it would integrate data from Michelin Guide (prestigious/exacting), The Infatuation (trendy/young),...| Six Colors
Apple casts a chill over its employees (and the media?) by alleging a theft of trade secrets, the first folding iPhone really might only be a year away, and Myke forces Jason to rank some classic Apple products. Go to the podcast page.| Six Colors
One of Apple’s key selling points for decades has been its warranty service. Yes, the company has had some notable points of irritability—some of which have led to apologies or consumer lawsuit settlements—but, by and large, you don’t have to fight or fight much less hard to get your devices repaired.1 When it comes to stuff you buy that works with Macs, iPhones, and iPads, the track record is a little murkier, partly because it’s not always clear what warranty service is available ...| Six Colors
The Rebound’s Canadian bureau checks in to talk with Dan and Moltz about the Vision Pro, cheap MacBooks and trade wars.| Six Colors
Imagine a slideshow of images of every portable Mac Apple has made, displayed in chronological order. It starts with the Macintosh Portable and ends with two M1 MacBooks. For a while, the slides ar…| Six Colors
The bottom row of my Stream Deck is devoted to Podcast Notes. Three years ago, Dan and I collaborated on a project that allowed us to dynamically create editing notes on our Macs while recording a …| Six Colors
The M4 MacBook Air can drive two external displays with its lid open. The new M4 MacBook Air is the Mac most people should buy. It’s easy to get caught up in the small changes Apple rolls int…| Six Colors
On Tuesday Aaron Lee and Eifeh Strom of Digitimes reported that Apple is “reportedly developing a low-cost MacBook series to compete with Chromebook models in the education sector that could …| Six Colors
In late 2023, Digitimes reported that Apple was developing a low-cost MacBook, kicking off a lot of speculation about what that might mean and how the company might execute on such a product. Here&…| Six Colors
Last week, Roku held a press event in New York where they unveiled their latest streaming devices, wireless cameras, and minor adjustments to their existing, content-driven interface. If you were hoping for a dramatic update to Roku OS, Lucas Manfredi has the disappointing details over at The Wrap:| Unauthoritative Pronouncements
Jason Snell wrote about how he rejoined Netflix on the ad-supported tier, and it was a poor experience for him. Not only because he’s not used to seeing TV shows with ads these days, but because Netflix shows aren’t always made with ads in mind.| Unauthoritative Pronouncements
I know, linking to myself is very Obama-awards-Obama meme. This post is relevant if you’ve been keeping tabs on what I’ve been writing about on my blog recently. Those posts here helped me see a pattern. I’m not sure if anyone else sees a pattern, or if I’ve just made a mess with red string and a pile of mashed potatoes that looks like Devil’s Tower, but I like to think it makes sense.| Unauthoritative Pronouncements
A while ago Jason Snell said that he would do a streamer box/dongle shoot-out on an episode of Upgrade, and today’s the day he hit publish. It’s well worth your time to read it, particularly if you aren’t as familiar with “the state of the art” in the streaming landscape. The last time I did a “device shoot-out” was in 2016, and none of the platforms are the same. I certainly stopped recommending Fire TVs, and only recommend Apple TVs.| Unauthoritative Pronouncements
I wrote about my building frustrations with Mail for Six Colors. I knew my draft was way too long before I turned it in, and apologized to Jason Snell. Instead of having a bee in my bonnet about Mail, I had a whole bee hive. The post on Six Colors is a much more focused, and more relatable, blog post that went right into the problems with Categories. That’s why Jason’s a great editor, folks. I’ll include the less interesting parts here as a “bonus” for people that like to read about...| Unauthoritative Pronouncements
Last night there was some back and forth about fonts for writing, and fonts for terminals, and then the color of the background and the text, etc. It was a lot. I didn’t need to inject myself into that conversation so I did some selective favoriting. This morning Jason Snell wrote a little more about it and shared a site (via Leo Laporte) where you do a little tournament bracket between a set of monospace fonts. None of the monospace fonts in the bracket are what I use, but I came out of it...| Unauthoritative Pronouncements
During last week’s WWDC festivities, John Gruber interviewed Apple executives on stage for The Talk Show Live, as he’s done for years. This time it was different because people at home …| Six Colors
Support for mice and trackpads on iPadOS is real. In a world that’s gotten awfully used to disappointment lately, it’s far better than I imagined. And we don’t even have to wait u…| Six Colors
Bill Atkinson, who was instrumental in creating the Mac, has died, according to his personal Facebook page: We regret to write that our beloved husband, father, and stepfather Bill Atkinson passed …| Six Colors
Six Colors provides daily coverage of Apple, other technology companies, and the intersection of technology and culture. Its founder and editor in chief is Jason Snell. Its East Coast Bureau Chief …| Six Colors
Shortcuts for Mac adds support for LLM actions. So last year’s WWDC was too bold, too loud, too defensive. And, as it turned out, too aggressive in promising features Apple couldn’t del…| Six Colors
Editing the Home View in Bora Bora. I’m just back from Cupertino, and there’s an awful lot to think about. But before all that, I thought I’d cover what absolutely everyone is tal…| Six Colors
The Vision Pro isn’t a product many people should buy today, and that’s not really surprising. It’s an example of Apple playing a long game, trying to build a wearable computing p…| Six Colors
Now that’s more like it. Spatial appears above the red Leave button. On Tuesday, Apple flipped the switch on a new version of Persona, its 3D representations of visionOS users. Anyone with vi…| Six Colors
My 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 …| Six Colors
Here’s the problem with CarPlay Ultra: It’s still CarPlay. Based on what we’ve seen of CarPlay Ultra, Apple believes that if it controls the appearance of the displays in cars, then using the car will be a good experience. I’m not sure that’s an assumption I’d make, especially when styling isn’t directly connected to function—as is the case with most of what distinguishes CarPlay Ultra from CarPlay. The real hallmark of Apple is a bad settings screen. (Image: Top Gear.) There...| Six Colors
Here’s what the new M2 MacBook Pro is not: new. Yes, it’s powered by a new generation of Apple silicon, but it’s very much the same laptop that was updated for the Apple silicon e…| Six Colors
What the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro is… depends on your perspective. If you’re taking the 1000-foot overview of the Mac market, it’s most notable for being the first shipping product …| Six Colors
The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal–but t…| Six Colors
