How the iPad Pro’s M4 chip sets the iPhone and Mac on a new path (Macworld/Jason Snell)
donderdag 9 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Well, that was fast. The M3 chip, introduced last October, is already yesterday’s news. We’re living in an M4 world, courtesy of the surprising announcement that the new iPad Pro is powered by Apple’s next generation of chips.…
Lees meer(Podcast) Clockwise 553: Love, Medical Care, and an Angry Lawyer
woensdag 8 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)How we recommend iPads to people, whether Apple should stop holding events, what one task our perfect chatbot would do, and how we feel about the Apple Pencil.…
Lees meer(Podcast) The Rebound 494: Ya Burnt, David Copperfield
woensdag 8 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)A startling John Ternus of events.…
Lees meerDoes the iPad lineup make sense now? Yes and no
woensdag 8 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
Ever since Steve Jobs’s famous two-by-two grid of Apple devices, Apple aficionados have tried to cram the company’s product lines into neat little boxes.1 In recent years, the iPad line has seemed exceptionally complex and difficult to delineate.…
Lees meerSome hands-on iPad event impressions
woensdag 8 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple declared Tuesday as the biggest date in iPad history since the launch of the product in 2010. I’m not sure I’d go that far. It was a major event, to be sure, but so was the original iPad Pro and Apple Pencil launch in 2015 and the 2018 launch …
Lees meer(Podcast) Upgrade 511: You’re Nice to Hold
woensdag 8 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Both Jason (New York) and Myke (London) have had their hands on the new iPads and are here to report back with all the details. We discuss M4 surprises, iPad Air choices, iPad Pro use cases, and save a little time to Lawyer Up.…
Lees meerApple’s binning M4 chips in the new iPad Pro models ↦
dinsdag 7 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Wes Davis, writing at The Verge: The newly announced iPad Pro hides a sneaky upgrade option that Apple didn’t mention during its event today. When you cough up the $600 it costs to jump from the 256GB base model iPad Pro to the 1TB version, Apple…
Lees meerWhat Apple didn’t mention in its iPad keynote
dinsdag 7 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple on Tuesday made some big moves to its iPad lineup, introducing new models of the iPad Air and iPad Pro, as well as a new Magic Keyboard and the Apple Pencil Pro.…
Lees meerThe iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what’s next?
maandag 6 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
iPad Pro and keyboard, circa its October 2018 announcement. It’s hard to believe that it was more than five and a half years ago that I flew home from a New York Apple event, my mind spinning with the announcement of a new iPad Pro at a unique Apple…
Lees meerParsing Apple’s quarterly statements, from AI to India
vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Here are a few assorted thoughts about Apple’s second-quarter 2024 financial results based on the analyst call with executives that followed the release. For a “boring” quarter where Apple revenue was flat and profits surpassed $20 billion, there ar…
Lees meer(Podcast) Downstream 68: Gentle Hum
vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)We revisit the philosophy of binge drops versus weekly releases—because it’s complicated. [Downstream+ members also get to hear us discuss the future of Paramount, complicated NBA rights negotiations, and more RSN drama.]…
Lees meer(Sponsor) Conversation Tree Press
vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)My thanks to Conversation Tree Press for sponsoring Six Colors this week. This is a very different kind of Six Colors sponsor, but they’re doing something special.…
Lees meerApple’s Star Wars themed Precision Finding ad ↦
vrijdag 3 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Hey, it’s that time Apple made an ad directly targeted at me. I just used Precision Finding last week while traveling around the D.C. area; it was a handy way for my wife and to find each other in the Smithsonian museums when one of us would go o…
Lees meerThis is Tim: Transcript of Apple’s Q2 2024 analyst call
donderdag 2 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
On Thursday Apple announced its quarterly financial results, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time for Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri to spend some quality time with their favorite financial analysts on a scheduled phone call.…
Lees meerThis is Tim: Transcript of Apple’s Q2 2024 analyst call
donderdag 2 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen) On Thursday Apple announced its quarterly financial results, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time for Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri to spend some quality time with their favorite financial analysts on a scheduled phone call.…
Lees meer2024 Q2 Apple Results: $90.8 billion revenue, Services record
donderdag 2 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2024 on Thursday. The company booked $90.8 billion in revenue (down 4% versus the year-ago quarter) with $23.6 billion in profit.…
Lees meer2024 Q2 Apple Results: $90.8 billion revenue, Services record
donderdag 2 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2024 on Thursday. The company booked $90.8 billion in revenue (down 4% versus the year-ago quarter) with $23.6 billion in profit.…
Lees meerApple tweaks Core Technology Fee terms for free apps and small developers ↦
donderdag 2 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple continues to revise its approach to complying with Europe’s Digital Markets Act, today announcing a pair of exceptions to its Core Technology Fee. The first pertains to apps that are totally free: First, no CTF is required if a developer ha…
Lees meerApple tweaks Core Technology Fee terms for free apps and small developers ↦
donderdag 2 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple continues to revise its approach to complying with Europe’s Digital Markets Act, today announcing a pair of exceptions to its Core Technology Fee. The first pertains to apps that are totally free: First, no CTF is required if a developer ha…
Lees meer(Sponsor) Conversation Tree Press
woensdag 1 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)At Conversation Tree Press, we celebrate the craftsmanship of beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, and finely bound books. Each of our editions include newly commissioned artwork from some of today’s leading illustrators and are perfect for th…
Lees meer(Podcast) Clockwise 552: Spoiler: It’s Always DNS
woensdag 1 mei 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)How we’d like to see Apple implement GenAI, our home network troubleshooting process, the iPad model we currently use and what features would prompt an upgrade, and our views on the centralization of account logins, like those from Apple and Google.…
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