Apple’s in a strange position vis-a-vis many of its biggest rivals. While the company has in the past counted many of the most prominent tech companies in the world—IBM, Microsoft, Intel—as rivals, in more recent years, it’s been strategically savvy…
Lees meerSobering story from Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz in the New York Times about one of the impediments to coronavirus response and tracking: the fax machine. Dr. Mark Escott, the interim health authority for the city of Austin and Travis Count…
Lees meerIt’s that time of year again. Today is World Emoji Day, and Apple has revealed some of its forthcoming Emoji designs to Emojipedia: (Image courtesy Emojipedia.) Ninja, Boomerang, Piñata and Bubble Tea are among the additions shown in today’s iOS e…
Lees meerFor someone who makes their living writing words, I spend a surprising amount of time in spreadsheets. Sometimes that’s because it’s the best way to organize information (my nerdy quiz show Inconceivable! has long been managed in a massive Google Sp…
Lees meerThat’s some powerful Kool-Aid. Apple’s uneasy competitor/partner relationships, the many eras of Apple, and Dan recommends a WordPress plug-in.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerA timely little story by Hansen Hsu from the Computer History Museum about a previous Apple chip transition: Apple did this the very first time in the early 1990s, with the move from Motorola 68000 (a.k.a. 68K) to PowerPC. Motorola’s 68K chips we…
Lees meerYes, you should keep your password secret and secure as much as possible. That said, almost all of us have people in our lives who we’d like to share a login with, whether it’s a partner with whom we’ve pooled our newspaper subscriptions or a roomma…
Lees meerWhen there’s not much Apple news, we give you our picks. So many picks.…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute show that does its quarterly results half way through the show, Dan and Mikah are joined by John Voorhees and Kelly Guimont to discuss the era of peak streaming services, Apple’s blindspots, our work device setups, and th…
Lees meerThis week Myke and Jason discuss John Gruber’s essay about Apple’s App Store priorities and then assemble a list of apps that are missing key operating-system features. There’s also more news about ARM Macs, Apple continues to make TV deals, and we …
Lees meerDesigner Michael Farup suggests that macOS Big Sur will start the pendulum swinging back away from minimalism and toward richness, across the entire technology industry: Given the chance of a redesign on the mac, Apple did not choose minimalism a…
Lees meerI think this is a pretty fair take from Benjamin Mayo about finding a balance between “traditional” WWDC and what we saw in June: Doing something live, truly live, has this effervescent ambience that will never be matched by something that has be…
Lees meerIt’s public beta season, and we’re stalking the purple elephant.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerAs you might expect, this is a great high-level overview of the themes of iPadOS 14 from Federico Viticci: Even more than last year, I believe that “inspired by the Mac” is the lens through which iPadOS 14 is best examined. Agreed completely. It…
Lees meerThis is a great time for sitting at home and watching things so let’s talk about what’s on the telly. (Brought to you by our new Rebound Prime membership!)…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech show that knows how to Tik Tok, Dan and guest host Jason Snell are joined by special guests Ant Pruitt and Kathy Campbell to discuss how staying home has impacted our use of social media, the tech we’ve ordered since…
Lees meerThe arrival of Macs running Apple silicon isn’t just about faster, more power efficient processors. It’s also an opportunity for Apple to reinvent Mac hardware using lessons learned from the iPhone and iPad. Apple can take this time to also reconsid…
Lees meerLegendary cartoonist Gary Larson is back, and it’s all due to digital drawing tools and a clogged pen: Despite my retirement, I still had intermittent connections to cartooning, including my wife’s and my personal Christmas card. Once a year, I’d…
Lees meerApple’s services are in the spotlight, as Apple TV+ adds material, Apple News gets kicked to the curb by the New York Times, and Apple Arcade grapples with finding the right kind of games to publish. In other streaming news, we touch on Quibi and CB…
Lees meerThere’s never been a more exciting time to be a Mac user. And I say that as someone who’s been one for nearly 30 years now, ever since my dad brought home a Macintosh LC in 1991. I lived through the transition to PowerPC, the dark years of the ninet…
Lees meerDavid Sparks comments on the rumors that the new iPhones won’t ship with power adapters in their boxes: If I were Apple, I’d be looking at ways to ship the phone without a charger or cord, but also have some mechanism where, if customers need tho…
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