My first Apple Pay transaction, in 2014. It’s hard to believe Apple Pay launched a decade ago, and only slightly less hard to believe that we’ve reached the point that I can link to my decade-old story about using Apple Pay for the first time at my …
Lees meerI really enjoyed this story by Rachel Karten about how, amid widespread outrage about a disastrous software update from Sonos, the company’s Social Media Program Lead was doing it right: KeithFromSonos is a Sonos employee who is very active in th…
Lees meerThe two previous Kindle Oasis models, in happier times. Amazon announced a bunch of brand-new Kindle models Wednesday, including a refreshed Paperwhite and a new color model, both of which I’ve ordered and will review soon.…
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Lees meerOur experiences with Passkeys and thoughts on their upcoming portability, opinions on Threads showing online status by default, views on Amazon’s new Kindle lineup including the color model, and our preferred methods and platforms for consuming news…
Lees meerAirPods 4 with ANC (left) are great if you can’t bear AirPods Pro 2 (right), but are inferior in every other way. It’s hard to believe it’s been eight years since AirPods first arrived on the scene.…
Lees meerApple Intelligence is about to hit the mainstream. Within the next couple weeks, Apple is likely to ship iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, all of them bringing the first in the suite of features that Apple has been talking about since J…
Lees meerThe FIDO Alliance, which oversees the specifications for passkeys, has released a draft standard for the import and export of those cryptographic keys: FIDO Alliance’s draft specifications – Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) and Credential Excha…
Lees meerIf you had a square on your bingo card for a new iPad mini during an October Apple event, well, partial credit: the company today unveiled the seventh-generation of the diminutive tablet, adding the A17 Pro processor and support for the Apple Penci…
Lees meerWhat AirPods Adaptive mode is for, Apple’s first immersive narrative film, tricky executive retention efforts, the Vision products roadmap, Apple TV+ goes to Amazon channels, and the trouble with iPhone 16 Camera Control.…
Lees meerThere’s a line in Titanic that any IT or security professional can relate to. The ship’s architect explains that he wanted to include enough lifeboats for all the passengers, “but it was felt the deck would look too cluttered.”…
Lees meerIt was a busy summer at the Snell house. Our roof predated our purchase of our house, and we’ve been in this house 25 years, so… yeah.…
Lees meerI just watched “Submerged,” the new immersive short film directed by “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger, on the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the first scripted, narrative-driven piece of immersive video on the platform, and after the…
Lees meerWe’re getting closer to the end, presumably, of the most static design era in the iPhone’s history. While Apple continues to iterate on the specs of its most important product, the iPhone 16 product line is visually part of a generation that dates …
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Lees meerHow we prepare our tech for emergencies, the headphones we like best, our file organization systems, and outfitting our home theaters for spooky season.…
Lees meerWe discusss how Apple is so influential that even its simplest moves can make or break companies and industries. Also: Apple plans a big Halloween week, and there’s an immersive thriller coming to Vision Pro.…
Lees meerDo you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.…
Lees meerNick Heer comments on a spectacularly weird New York Times story titled “Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?,” which is actually about how Apple has ratcheted up contacts-sharing security in iOS 18: What I do not understand is granting Bier’s object…
Lees meerBrian Williams will bring live news to Prime Video, but what’s the future of streaming news? Also: More cable bundles include streaming services; Amazon programs a night of game shows; Netflix’s coming compensation crunch; and a Diamond/MLB update.…
Lees meerApple’s often got a reputation as an uncompromising driver of new technology. Look no further than the classic example of shipping the original iMac without a floppy drive or legacy ports, or designing the iPhone without a hardware keyboard, or even…
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