Feelings on the Epic v. Apple ruling and Kindle’s new purchase option, whether we report bugs to small devs or stay silent, how we balance a single or multi-device Mac setup, and one feature we’re hoping to see at the upcoming WWDC.…
Give it up, Apple.…
Years ago, when I was working my first post-college job in web development and IT, I found myself totally burned out. One day, sitting at my computer, I opened up a blank Word document and just started writing down all the things I wanted to be doing instead.…
Twenty-seven years ago this week, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino to unveil the first new product since his return to Apple: the original iMac.…
The Verge’s Andrew Liszewski reports that Amazon’s Kindle app for iOS now provides a button to go get an ebook: Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange “Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings. …
We break down Apple’s failure in U.S. District Court and what it means for the future of Apple’s policies, corporate culture, corporate executives, and bottom line.…
Ahoy, Hexachromes! It’s your best friend and best nemesis, Glenn! I’m joining the Six Colors stable as a nice shade of beige to answer both your least and most troubling problems across the Apple ecosystem.…
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.…
Things are weird in Apple-land. Legal judgments are piling up in unexpectedly bad ways. Tariffs threaten large parts of Apple’s business. This year’s banner Apple Intelligence features got delayed indefinitely.…
Every quarter after releasing financial results, Apple CEO Tim Cook and its CFO Kevan Parekh hop on a conference call with analysts to detail the quarter gone by, give a peek at what’s to come, and creatively avoid answering any pointed questions from analysts.…
On Thursday, Apple reported its second-quarter 2025 fiscal results. Revenue was $95.4 billion, up 5% versus the year-ago quarter. Mac revenue was up 7%, iPad revenue up 15%, iPhone revenue up 2%, and Services revenue up 12%.…
My friend John Siracusa launched his Mac utility Hyperspace back in February. The app uses a clever feature of APFS, the Apple file system, to purge a disk of duplicate data without disrupting any files.…
If you noticed the ground shaking, don’t bother checking USGS1: it’s not an earthquake, it’s just a court order upending Apple’s App Store model.…
Tim Cook specifically approved enhanced “scare screen” language, according to the court ruling. U.S. District Court judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled largely in Apple’s favor in the Epic v.…
Shōgun gets another season, Match Game re-revived, binge behavior calculated, bonus content promoted, Netflix results parsed, Apple TV+ losses pondered, and our TV picks explained.…
How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we’ve learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers.…
The Apple watch continues.…
Jason Snell and Weldon Dodd are back on the Mac Admins Podcast to discuss this year’s Apple in the Enterprise Report Card. How did the last year go for Mac Admins with Apple Products?…
In 2021, device-management startup Kandji approached Six Colors to commission a new entry in our Report Card series focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government.…
Every year we ask the Apple IT/Mac admin community for their opinions about how Apple fared in past 12 months. You can read our 2025 Enterprise report card for the average scores and some juicy quotes.…
I’m going to wax a little philosophical for this week’s column, which also happens to be my last. Stay Foolish debuted ten years ago, almost to the day, but I’ve been writing regularly for Macworld for nearly twenty years.…
Last week, Roku held a press event in New York where they unveiled their latest streaming devices, wireless cameras, and minor adjustments to their existing, content-driven interface.…
Apple tiptoes a line between the U.S., China, and India, while Europe hits back with a big fine. Is the solution to the iPad’s high-end malaise… the Mac menu bar?…
On a very bad night’s sleep, the Health apps shows how long I was awake, and how much time it took for me to get back into core sleep.…
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A mock-up I made in 2021 of what a more Mac-like iPad would look like when hooked up to a 5K display. Two weeks ago, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported that some serious changes were in the works for iPadOS 19: I’m told that this year’s upgrade will focus on productivity, multitasking and app window management — with an eye on the device operating more like a Mac. …
Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the original Apple Watch’s ship date. (It was announced in September 2014 but didn’t ship until April the following year.)…
Dan’s away and we can’t figure anything out.…
Interest in a humanoid home robot and its role, who we’d want to own Chrome if Google sells it and what they’d do with it, the streaming service we’d cancel first, and our favorite go-to site for inspiration, nostalgia, or feel-good vibes.…
I never reviewed the Apple Watch Series 10 when it came out, but I got one on day one and have been wearing it faithfully since then.…
Rumors abound that Apple is about to redesign all its operating systems, dramatically changing the devices we use every day starting this fall. It would be a perfectly understandable reaction to wonder why Apple would focus on aesthetics while so many parts of its business seem to be in turmoil.…
Friend of the site Todd Vaziri with another amazing post, years in the making: Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. …
Myke Hurley returns to the show to discuss eight weeks of fatherhood and fatherly advice, everything he’s missed, and modern baby technology. Plus we wonder about Vision Pro rumors and Jason offers academic apologies and e-reader follow-up.…
Six Colors contributor Shelly Brisbin has just updated her longtime, definitive book about accessibility features in iOS: I’m pleased to announced that iOS Access for All (iOS 18 edition) is available now. …
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.…
(Slaps roof of camper van) This bad boy can fit so much Apple revenue in it. The incredibly unpredictable nature of the United States’s trade policy is going to have a profound effect on Apple hardware, not just in the U.S.,…
Simple solutions to complex tech problems, whether iPadOS 19 can solve its power user problem, if we look forward to Siri knowing what’s on our screen, and OpenAI’s prospective social media network.…
We’re an analog podcast now.…
Tariffs! Are they off? Are they on? Are they halved, doubled, super-tricksy inside outified? Nobody really knows. While my colleague Jason Snell already gave some concrete ideas for how Apple can deal with the wild world of import taxes, I’m taking a more speculative bent.…
Will Carroll joins Jason to discuss MLB’s big television plans, the ratings challenge for the NBA Playoffs, and our TV picks. [Downstream+ subscribers also get: Vision Pro at Yankee Stadium, made-for-TV leagues, threats to MLS, and Zombie Vin Scully.]…
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After nearly 500 episodes away, Scott McNulty returns to the podcast to discuss the resilience of babies, dysfunction at Apple, the future of the Vision Pro, and (of course) ebooks and e-readers.…
Jeremy Reimer at, yes, Ars Technics with the first of a three-part series on the history of the internet. I even learned a few little tidbits that I hadn’t known before: In the meantime, Steve Crocker at the University of California, Los Angeles, was working on a set of software specifications for the host computers. …
At MacStories, Federico Viticci does some excellent speculation about how Apple might catch up in AI: Yesterday, Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information, published an outstanding story detailing the internal turmoil at Apple that led to the delay of the highly anticipated Siri AI features last month…. …
My thanks to Intego for sponsoring Six Colors this week with Mac Washing Machine X9. You know the drill: spring cleaning. It’s a useful concept to force you to do the necessary tasks you would otherwise put off, and it goes for your digital live as well.…
Dan’s sort of turned Six Colors into a Numbers-themed blog over the past few days, but I thought I’d pile on with an additional post about Apple’s spreadsheet app, which I use to generate all our financial charts.…
Whether we use a docking device with our main PC or Mac, feelings of algorithm fatigue and if it’s enough to leave Spotify, the software we geek out over like Numbers, and if rising prices due to tariffs might stop us from buying a new phone this year.…
Trade wars are good and easy to win.…
Apple is one of the world’s most valuable and powerful companies, offering some of its most popular products. And yet, with the stroke of a sharpie, a raft of U.S.…
Earlier this week, I mentioned my excitement over the recent update to Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet app adding more than 30 new functions. But alas, though I reached out to Apple to try and get a complete list, I haven’t gotten one yet.…
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