Seems like a waste of an iPhone. So Apple is apparently taking the smart home seriously. Apparently the company is working on a new home controller that looks like a small iPad, and is exploring security cameras and smart doorbells.…
Lees meerThe best time for Apple to truly embrace smart-home tech was five or ten years ago. The second best time, of course, is now. The good news is that, according to reports from reliable sources such as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple seems to have fina…
Lees meerTikTok troubles; Apple Intelligence to be turned on by default; the UK moves toward its own DMA; Apple leans into the smart home; and Samsung joins Apple in the chase for the ultra-thin smartphone.…
Lees meerJoe Adalian joins Jason to discuss Netflix’s big moves, price hikes, and what drove Jason to cancel it. Also we answer your letters and make some TV picks!…
Lees meerI know the road is well-trod by now, but yes, we’re back to talk about Apple Intelligence once again. Why? Well, for better or worse, it seems to be pretty much all that Apple wants to talk about these days, and when the company has put this much ti…
Lees meerApple enabling Apple Intelligence features by default, the AI summaries that work for us, Samsung’s boring new phones, and our cable management predilections.…
Lees meerTrying to stay positive.…
Lees meerTwo office views from 2014. Left: My final docked work setup at IDG. Right: My first setup in my garage. When I started Six Colors more than a decade ago, I maintained continuity with my corporate job in a bunch of ways.…
Lees meerSumming up Apple’s devil’s bargain when it comes to AI features; what TikTok says about the chaotic future of tech regulation; Apple TV+ in the era of “Severance” and “Silo.”…
Lees meerSometimes a solution is simpler than you think it’s going to be. I was trying to figure out a way to write a shortcut to take a folder and have all of its sub-folders compressed into individual archives—i.e.,…
Lees meerSticking it to the man.…
Lees meerOur use of CarPlay, Android Auto, or other systems for navigation; creative AI problem-solving cases we’ve encountered; thoughts on Sonos’s struggles and future as a customer; and whether we use TikTok amid its potential US shutdown.…
Lees meerThe Camera Control button control on the iPhone 16 family seemed like a good idea, but the devil’s always in the details, isn’t it? Apple made too many promises, all of them in conflict with one another because they all rely on using the same tiny…
Lees meerTruly, Apple’s rise from near-bankruptcy to being one of the most valuable companies in the world is a story for the business history books. But as legendary football coach John Madden frequently said, “winning is the best deodorant.”…
Lees meerOne of the consequences of switching to a laptop from a desktop is that my old method of cloning my disk daily has been thrown out of whack.…
Lees meerWill Carroll joins for a mega Sports Corner: Fubo meets Hulu to enable Venu, Netflix goes full force into live sports, how football dominates American TV, NFL announcers, and our TV picks!…
Lees meerMeta ditches third-party fact-checking, making unsightly TVs more attractive, the tyranny of always-on phone displays, and the robot vacuum of your nightmares.…
Lees meerWe’re not mad, Tim, we’re just disappointed. Also, we’re mad.…
Lees meerLex Friedman’s dual-desk setup, now (again) with treadmill. I’m writing this article at 2.6 miles per hour. Fifteen years ago(!), I wrote an article for Macworld about upgrading to a standing desk.…
Lees meerOn Monday I complained about Apple’s response to Apple Intelligence making mistaken summaries of news headlines. But here’s the funny thing: large-language models are actually pretty good at writing news headlines.…
Lees meerThe BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple: Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelli…
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