Calling Apple’s history with speaker accessories “mixed” is probably being kind. In 2006, the company made its first foray with the iPod Hi-Fi, a technically impressive but expensive and ultimately doomed speaker dock for the company’s icon music pl…
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Lees meerMigration Assistant, and cat.One of my favorite episodes of Upgrade is from early in the show’s run, when we spent time critiquing the experience of buying and setting up a new iPhone. I keep coming back to something we said in that episode: Buying …
Lees meerMy new MacBook Air is proving to be all that I’d hoped, and it’s not just because of the fancy new M1 processors. Since I’m coming from a 2014 MacBook, I’m reaping the benefits of all the other advancements Apple has made to its laptop line in the i…
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Lees meerApple’s reducing its App Store commission, new gaming consoles are here, the tech that brings us joy, and how we’re coping with celebrations in the year that is 2020.…
Lees meerApple Newsroom: The new App Store Small Business Program will benefit the vast majority of developers who sell digital goods and services on the store, providing them with a reduced commission on paid apps and in-app purchases. Developers can qua…
Lees meerIn this special, extra-packed episode we’ve got an interview with Apple’s Tim Millet and Tom Boger about Apple’s new M1 Macs, followed by Jason’s review of the new Macs after spending nearly a week with all three models. Plus, Myke and Jason review …
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Lees meerAfter a lot of speculation, Steve Jobs finally filled in the Mac’s fourth product quadrant with a consumer laptop that was one of a kind. But what’s a “consumer laptop,” really?…
Lees meerMac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene. The code it originated with, and many of the software managers and programmers who built it, came to Apple in the same transaction that brought Steve Jobs…
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Lees meerThe tasks we still do analog instead of digital, the lack of touch interfaces on Apple’s new Macs, is this the end of speeds and feeds, and whether we can live with just two ports on our computers.…
Lees meerWhen smoke blew into my region from some nearby forest fires, I needed to pay attention to local air quality in order to decide when I could go outside safely. Geof Crowl’s helpful Air Lookout app, which just got an update to version 2, is an iOS ap…
Lees meerTim Cook can sit anywhere he wants.Picking up where Dan left off and before I clock out for the night, here are some other quick thoughts about the day’s events. A first step. Apple said it themselves in their video event Tuesday: The M1 is a “first…
Lees meerThree new Macs have arrived, and they’ve brought the Apple-designed M1 processor with them. Myke and Jason break down the new chip, the new hardware, and what it all means for the future of the Mac. And did they both buy new Macs after the event end…
Lees meerFor a 45-minute event, Apple packed a lot in. And it was all about the Mac: new versions of the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, all based on Apple’s new M1 chip. And, just like that, about half of Apple’s Mac lineup has already made …
Lees meeriPhone SE (1st generation, left) and iPhone 12 mini (right).Yesterday I took delivery of review units of the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max, and while the next couple of days are going to be all about Apple Silicon, I’m also trying to use thes…
Lees meerAfter years of speculation over whether it would happen, and months of rumors over how it will happen, the day’s almost here. This week, Apple is prepared to launch the third processor architecture transition in the history of the Mac. In some ways …
Lees meerHas the processor inside the first wave of Macs that run Apple silicon already been tested? There’s a GeekBench score that seems to have been submitted from an as-yet-unreleased Mac. Could it be real? Sure. Could it be a fake? Sure. The truth is, th…
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