This Week in Apple: Sweet solutions (Member Post)
vrijdag 10 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
The new Macs are here! The new Macs are here! But Apple would like iMac fans to go ahead and buy the 24-inch model, please. Meanwhile, remember Intel?… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, p…
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donderdag 9 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Last week Apple announced its fiscal fourth quarter results, posting another flat sales quarter even as profits (and services revenue) continue to rise. And as usual, I filled a bunch of numbers into a Number spreadsheet, ran my little charting Auto…
Lees meerInside Apple’s evasive talk about Mac sales and Services success (Macworld/Jason Snell)
donderdag 9 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Last week, Apple reported its financial results, and they were the kind that answered the question, “Under what circumstances would financial analysts look askance at nearly $90 billion in revenue and $23 billion in profit?”…
Lees meer(Podcast) Clockwise 528: The Jeweled Dung Beetle
woensdag 8 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Troublesome software bugs, our thoughts on tech companies’ involvement in standards creation, iMessage interoperability, and what we think about video game movies and TV shows.…
Lees meer(Podcast) The Rebound 469: Do You Know How Many Adapters There Are In The Post-Apocalyptic Future?
woensdag 8 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)In this episode, alliances are formed and broken. Just like Dan’s trackpad.…
Lees meerA picture is worth a thousand permissions requests
woensdag 8 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Last month I wrote about how Apple’s cascade of macOS alerts and warnings ruin the Mac upgrade experience. My point wasn’t to ask Apple to make the Mac less secure.…
Lees meerSam Byford on ‘Chinese knockoffs’ ↦
dinsdag 7 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)I really enjoyed this piece by Sam Byford of Multicore about how the Chinese smartphone market differs from the rest of the world: Unlike the U.S.,…
Lees meer(Podcast) Upgrade 485: Best Witch and Beast Feature
maandag 6 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Jason has reviewed the new M3 iMac and M3 MacBook Pro, and Myke asks him for all the details. We also discuss why the large-iMac era is at an end, and review Apple’s recent quarterly financial results.…
Lees meerM3 iMac Review: Keep playing the hits
maandag 6 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
After nearly two and a half years, the iMac has finally gotten its update. The venerable desktop Mac was a late addition to the first generation M1 processor, but now it’s in the vanguard of Apple’s M3 chip generation.…
Lees meerThis is Tim: Apple Q4 2023 analyst call transcript
donderdag 2 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
As always, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spend an hour talking to investment analysts about the company’s just-completed quarter. And as always, we’ve got a transcript!…
Lees meerApple Q4 2023 financial results and charts
donderdag 2 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)On Thursday, Apple reported results for its financial fourth quarter of 2023, covering the months of July, August, and September. The company generated $89.5 billion in revenue, down 1% from the same quarter last year.…
Lees meerApple’s event was shot on the iPhone 15, and that’s still impressive ↦
woensdag 1 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Frequent contributor Joe Rosensteel writing at his own blog about the fact that Apple’s “Scary Fast” event was shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max and that some people have taken issue with the fact that Apple still used professional lighting, rigs, and c…
Lees meerThree ‘Scary’ details Apple didn’t want to tell you during its Mac event (Macworld/Dan Moren)
woensdag 1 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple’s goal with its product events is manifold: it wants to introduce new devices to its customers on its own terms, while simultaneously putting a stake in the ground to both fire shots at its competitors and signal to investors that it’s continu…
Lees meerThe Back Page: The horror, the horror (Member Post)
woensdag 1 november 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
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 meer(Podcast) Upgrade 484: Space Grayer
dinsdag 31 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Jason 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 meerA magic number: New MacBook Pros and iMacs usher in the M3 era
dinsdag 31 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
For 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 meer(Sponsor) iMazing
vrijdag 27 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)My 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 meer(Podcast) Upgrade 483: The 2023 October Event Draft
vrijdag 27 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple 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 meeriOS 17.2 beta sticker reactions: 👎🏻
donderdag 26 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
This 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 meerA Mac event is the perfect time for Apple to show off its peripheral vision
woensdag 25 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Next 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 meer(Podcast) The Rebound 467: Doing Hobo Things
woensdag 25 oktober 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Finally we discuss Lex’s problems, just before the podcast goes off the rails.…
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