Someone bought the bar we were all hanging out in, and they started interrupting the music with edicts about bar rules, fired most of the staff, aren’t paying their bills, installed a velvet rope where VIPs can spit on the other bar patrons, had bou…
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Lees meerApple’s self-repair program, which was announced last year, arrived in April, and came to the Mac in August with support for the M1 MacBook Air and all three M1 MacBook Pro models, has now been extended to support Mac desktops and the new Apple Stud…
Lees meerEarlier this year, Belkin released the Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Notebooks, a $30 adapter that lets you attach an iPhone to the top of a MacBook screen and use it as a webcam via macOS Ventura’s Continuity Camera feature.…
Lees meerIt’s the most wonderful time of the year, but the news doesn’t stop! We discuss next year’s Mac lineup, the end of Apple’s NFL Sunday Ticket negotiations, and reports that Apple is planning to open up the iOS app ecosystem in response to new rules f…
Lees meerThe end of the year is nigh, and with it comes a host of pieces looking both back at the year that was in Apple news, and forward to the year that will be.…
Lees meerMy thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring Six Colors. Kolide takes a different approach to endpoint security and fleet management. They help companies meet compliance goals by enlisting the support of their users with a structured, message-based…
Lees meerWhether we’d install a third-party app store on our phones, our most anticipated Matter devices, the tasks we’d pawn off onto an AI chatbot, and our non-holiday holiday traditions.…
Lees meer(Shutterstock)Lawsuits, new laws, and proposed regulations have been swirling around Apple and some of its core business practices for years now. But on Tuesday came the first report—from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, perhaps the most reliable breaker of…
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Lees meerWhat’s the point of HBO Max if it doesn’t have all the HBO shows on it? Julia ponders the strange goings on at HBO and WarnerMedia.…
Lees meerMyke has returned, and so have the Apple Car rumors. But before we try to figure those out, we’ve got to consider Apple’s encryption announcements, Tim Cook’s appearance at a chip factory in Arizona, and John Siracusa’s appearance in our shared show…
Lees meerSecurity and privacy have been two of Apple’s main selling points in the modern era, especially as the company positioned itself against rivals like Google, Meta, and Amazon, all of whom offer a variety of free and cheap products and services, gener…
Lees meerMy thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring Six Colors. Kolide takes a different approach to endpoint security and fleet management. It’s all about helping customers meet compliance goals by enlisting the support of their end users with a structur…
Lees meerOn Wednesday Apple announced some major new security initiatives that the company will be rolling out from now through later in 2023. The biggest one is the addition of nine Apple services to end-to-end encryption, meaning that Apple can’t access cl…
Lees meerYang Jie and Aaron Tilley, reporting over the weekend for the Wall Street Journal (Apple News link): In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain th…
Lees meerOn Tuesday, Apple announced a new Music feature for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV (but not Mac!) that combines Apple Music’s live lyrics with the ability to adjust the volume of vocals to create a singalong mode it’s calling Apple Music Sing: Apple …
Lees meerYou know the old thought experiment about the AI designed to make paper clips, that quickly decides that in order to maximize paper clips, it will have to get rid of all the humans?…
Lees meerApple tends not to be a first mover when it comes to new technologies, which often leads to the popular phenomenon of pundits declaring that the company “needs” to make such-and-such a product.…
Lees meerJason joins Dan in person at Dan’s desk to discuss projects in progress, automations, and Twitter and Mastodon.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community..
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