On Tuesday Apple halted all sales in Russia and removed the RT and Sputnik apps from the App Store. Here’s the Apple statement: We are deeply concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and stand with all of the people who are suffering as a …
Lees meerOur most speculative draft yet! Jason and Myke refuse to wait for Apple. Instead, they predict what will happen at Apple’s next product launch—whenever it might happen. Will the M2 make its debut? Will there be an iPhone SE, and will it look any dif…
Lees meerIn June 2020, when Apple unveiled its first Mac built around its own chip, the M1 processor, the company said it was planning for a two-year transition for its entire computer line. Here we are, just months away from the two-year anniversary of that…
Lees meerI use iZotope’s RX audio utilities constantly. They clean up background noise, remove buzzing and humming, and even remove the reverberations from echoey rooms. There was even that one time when someone played three hours of D&D with a sump pump bee…
Lees meerOoooh, Apple, you’ve done it this time. You’ve gone and gotten a European country mad—and not just any European country, but the Netherlands, a country which in the context of an epic fantasy novel would surely be a shadowy realm inhabited by demons…
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Lees meerViacomCBS changes its name, Peacock weathers the Super Bowl storm, the Disney brand continues to evolve, the culture of binge-dropping begins to fade away, Netflix is Doing Just Fine, and your letters!…
Lees meerPyto does its thing.Upon arriving at our topical resort for a week on vacation, my wife and daughter sat out on the deck doing crossword puzzles and I broke out my iPad with Magic Keyboard and tried to solve a puzzle of my own—namely, debugging a Py…
Lees meerJason imagines a future iOS App Store improved by sideloading, Myke gets back into reading digital comics, and both of them have a very strongly worded wish list involving the rumored big new iMac.…
Lees meerThe long, slow transition to electric cars. And is Jason’s iMac shut-down procedure Lawful Good or Neutral Evil?… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerObsolete tech, smartphone camera lenses, Chrome OS on an old Mac or PC, and app tracking privacy on Android.…
Lees meerEach year when Apple’s WWDC wraps up, I find myself doing what a lot of app developers do: planning my response to the upcoming version of iOS. But my summers aren’t consumed by Xcode or SwiftUI. My annual contribution to the Apple economy is a boo…
Lees meerIf we know anything about iOS as a platform, it’s that if you want to run apps on it, you need to download them from the App Store. (If you missed it, it turns out that this decision continues to be controversial!) The iPhone and iPad have never bee…
Lees meerWe all know it needs to happen. So Basic Apple Guy went ahead and redesigned System Preferences on macOS: Everyone has a thing in their life long overdue for a change. It might be a piece of clothing that you’re convinced still looks good on you …
Lees meerLast in, first out? John Gruber, who was the final person to enter the Six Colors Report Card (to be fair, there were four stragglers who popped in at the very last moment), has published his full responses: For what it’s worth, Snell shared with…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa has Opinions on video streaming apps: I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a stre…
Lees meerJason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.…
Lees meerAh, the humble wireless router: a staple of the internet age, something we’ve all got tucked away in our house somewhere (or worse, out in full view). They’re a pain, a thing that sometimes just needs to be rebooted for no apparent reason, whose err…
Lees meerThe Six Colors Report Card for 2021 is in the books, but nerds being nerds, there’s always a clamor for more statistical slicing and dicing of the data. This year I’m happy to present a few charts from Six Colors member, Duke University professor, a…
Lees meerTaking a stroll through the Apple Newsroom, and how some Apple press releases are like takeout shots in curling.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
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