Amongst the additions in macOS Monterey are a couple new screensavers—I know, try and contain your excitement. One is the retro “Hello” module inspired by Steve Jobs’s introduction of the original Macintosh. The other is the eponymous “Monterey” mod…
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Lees meerApple’s added a few features over the last couple years that help us cope with our current world situation, whether it be unlocking our iPhones with our Apple Watches or improvements to FaceTime. In iOS 15.1 last month, it rolled out the ability to …
Lees meerLast week Apple announced the results for its fiscal fourth quarter, which was the latest in a series of records set by the company. As always, I generated a bunch of colorful charts based on the numbers.1 With the closing of the fourth quarter come…
Lees meerNetflix will begin to roll out games to its subscribers worldwide starting tomorrow: 🎮📱 Let the Games Begin📱🎮 Tomorrow, Netflix Games will start rolling out on the Netflix mobile app. First on Android, with iOS on the way. It’s early days, but we’r…
Lees meerWe’re joined by Apple VPs Tom Boger and Tim Millet to discuss Apple’s chip-design philosophy and how it factored into the company’s first high-end Mac chips, the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Also, Jason and Myke discuss Apple’s latest record quarterly results…
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Lees meerIt’s Record Quarter Season again. On Thursday, Apple announced another record for its fiscal fourth quarter, ending its fiscal year with a three-month period in which the company generated $83.4 billion in revenue, up 29 percent from the same quarte…
Lees meerHere’s our (ongoing) transcript of Apple’s conference call with financial analysts on October 28, 2021… Tim Cook’s opening remarks Thanks, Tejas, and good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for joining the call today. A year ago, I spoke to you abou…
Lees meerOn Thursday, Apple announced results for its fourth financial quarter of 2021, covering July through September. The company generated $83.4 billion in revenue. (The previous two fiscal fourth quarters showed very low growth over the previous year, s…
Lees meerWhether we could see ourselves making use of a “Metaverse,” our supply chain woes, the best features of macOS Monterey, and how we review devices as tech journalists.…
Lees meerSooner or later, we all get our Mac mini stories. This time, it’s Lex.…
Lees meerOne of the most interesting wrinkles about Apple’s new MacBook Pros is that the company offers them with two different chips. At first glance, you might assume that the more expensive M1 Max chip is simply a bigger, faster, more powerful chip than t…
Lees meerIf there’s a theme of Apple’s operating-system releases in 2021, it’s platform unification. This development is most significant for macOS, which tended to lag behind iOS in the 2010s, missing out on some or all of the year’s exciting innovations. A…
Lees meerIf there’s two things that we here at Six Colors love, it’s putting data in our Macs’ menu bars and the weather—also, of course, combining those two things. Following Jason’s previous excursions into adding weather info to his menu bar, I decided to…
Lees meerJason’s spent the last week with the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor, and we’ve got his in-depth review. And at last, Jason and Myke both review the new Apple Watch Series 7.…
Lees meerThe new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal—but they also reject the minimalist design mid-2010s Apple, which ach…
Lees meerPanic’s Cabel Sasser shares a look at a prototype for the original iPod: To celebrate, I want to show you something you’ve never seen before. Now, there are a lot of mysteries in the Panic Archives (it’s a closet) but by far one of the most mys…
Lees meerFifteen years ago, I wrote this: Since its first release five years ago on October 23, 2001, the iPod has become one of the most recognizable products in the world. It has transformed Apple’s business and its public image, and is probably respons…
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