Humane Ai Pin. (Photo: Humane) I’m not bullish on the Humane Ai Pin, the clip-on device whose first reviews arrived with knives out this week. The thing feels like a commodity product from 2026 that escaped back a couple of years—a basic hardware conduit for cloud AI models that … | Continue reading
Dr. Drang has come for the Apple Sports app: Scores are only part of what a good sports app is about. Sports apps are used not only when you can’t watch a game and want to be kept plugged in, they’re also used—even more often used, I think—to give you background information on th … | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. Kolide wants your business to be secure. Think of it like airport security: there are two lines, one to verify your identity and another to scan your carry-ons.… | Continue reading
Howard Oakley of Eclectic Light Company has a deep dive on how your Mac knows what app to open when you double click a file: In the days of Classic Mac OS, that was accomplished using the infamous Desktop Database, which recognised files and apps by means of their Creator and Typ … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman of Bloomberg has another one of his excellent chip scoops, this time about the future of the Mac: The company, which released its first Macs with M3 chips five months ago, is already nearing production of the next generation — the M4 processor — according to people wi … | Continue reading
Lately you can’t throw a digital camera without hitting a story on the various regulatory and legal challenges Apple’s been facing. While some have decried these actions as interference in the internal operations of a company, there’s one salient detail that I think those opinion … | Continue reading
Color e-readers, apps and devices we use while traveling, tech products we have but no longer want, and the tech products we’d immediately replace.… | Continue reading
Ashley Belanger, writing at Ars Technica: Reuters collected data from six companies, confirming that, when presented with a choice screen, many EU users will swap out default browsers like Chrome or Safari for more privacy-focused options. … | Continue reading
We’re not mad at technology, just disappointed.… | Continue reading
Our weeklong baseball nightmare is over. As I recounted on opening day, the MLB app for iPad—which works on the Mac and is great to have!—had… | Continue reading
Casey Liss joins Myke to discuss Apple’s new Spatial Personas for visionOS, and their thoughts on an immersive experience from… Gucci? Also, emulators are coming to the App Store, and Myke wants to check Casey’s vibe.… | Continue reading
You know the drill: when you go through airport security there are two lines. In one, a TSA agent makes sure you’re the person in your passport photo.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Listen Later for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Listen Later is such a clever idea. If you’re like me, you collect longer articles throughout the week that you just don’t have time to dive into at the moment.… | Continue reading
Is it time for a Disney pep talk? We discuss what’s working and not working, and how Disney’s ready for streaming success if it’s willing to change.… | Continue reading
Voice Dream Reader, the highly regarded Mac and iOS text-to-speech reading app, is the latest beloved app to adopting a subscription model, angering its loyal user base in the process.… | Continue reading
Our physical versus digital media preferences, the one tech product we have in (too much) abundance, whether we keep our phones in a case, and our journaling habits and methods.… | Continue reading
You guys know calendars.… | Continue reading
Now that’s more like it. Spatial appears above the red Leave button. On Tuesday, Apple flipped the switch on a new version of Persona, its 3D representations of visionOS users.… | Continue reading
Last week I provided a lot of tough love to Major League Baseball’s apps on Apple’s platforms. The MLB visionOS app is really buggy and lacks some key features.… | Continue reading
We often cite anonymous reports about Apple’s future, but where do those reports come from? We discuss of the value and ethics of Apple rumor coverage.… | Continue reading
Welcome to a world where your reading list becomes your listening playlist. We are thrilled to introduce you to ListenLater.net—an innovative service that turns articles into podcasts, making your favorite reads accessible in your favorite podcast app.… | Continue reading
Matt Birchler’s got an excellent and quick primer on what it means to turn on federation on your Threads profile: I know I’m drilling this in a lot, but you literally do not need to have a Mastodon account. … | Continue reading
Play… ball? A few years back I reported with delight that you could now use the MLB iPad app on Apple Silicon macs. While MLB’s TV streaming service works on the web, it was nice to have everything in a separate app.… | Continue reading
On Thursday Apple debuted its first immersive video since the Vision Pro launched, a five-minute-long compilation of highlights from the MLS Cup playoffs late last year.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide helps its customers keep their devices in compliance, which keeps their company data safe. Kolide has seen a rise in cyber liability insurance issues recently.… | Continue reading
You can’t close the main window, and that’s not the worst of it. As is typical for one of Apple’s best sports partners, Major League Baseball had a demo app for visionOS ready to go for the debut of the new platform.… | Continue reading
Lots of Disney this time! We talk Disney’s big succession question, Taylor Swift’s Disney+ numbers, and Disney’s deal in India. Also, a quick Sports Corner on NFL streaming rights, Spulu, and ESPN as a streaming aggregator.… | Continue reading
Apple announced today that the first Apple Immersive Video documentary for Vision Pro, featuring highlights from last year’s MLS playoffs, will debut tonight (March 28) at 6 p.m.… | Continue reading
All things begin with the Department of Justice.… | Continue reading
Our use of tethering for Internet, Mac buying advice, our notification styles, and the TikTok ban.… | Continue reading
It’s that time of year, when young developers’ fancies turn to thoughts of platform updates. Probably because Apple has announced the dates for its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, which will take place between June 10 and 14.… | Continue reading
My younger child’s MacBook Pro was unsalvageably full. Only a complete wipe would suffice—and then Time Machine failed us. I love my children, but they do sometimes forget what I do for a living: answer questions and write books about the most troubling problems people have with … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice joins the European Commission in contributing to Apple’s legal troubles; and in a surprise, pre-emptive move, we attempt to predict the future of the iPad via a draft!… | Continue reading
When MGM Resorts suffered a $100 million hack in September, CEO Bill Hornbuckle wasn’t too worried about the lost revenue, because cyber insurance would cover the tab.… | Continue reading
Europe’s Digital Markets Act continues to be the gift that keeps on giving—a gift Apple probably wishes it could return. The European Commission today announced that it was opening a slew of investigations into big tech companies over their non-compliance with the DMA, including … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin has an excellent (if technical) rundown of a recently unearthed security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series processors. Basically there’s a system that tries to predict what memory addresses are going to be used in order to speed up processing, but Apple’ … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday. While I am not a lawyer, I’ve written extensively about Apple for 30 years and just read all 88 pages of the full complaint.… | Continue reading
When I wrote about Apple’s new Sports app, I heard from several people who pointed out that maybe Eddy Cue had done his job a little too well.… | Continue reading
How we search online, our tips for minimizing vehicle data tracking, the GenAI features we’d like to see added to Apple’s platforms, and what features we’d want to see in a future iPad.… | Continue reading
This is the ad-free version.… | Continue reading
Jason recently reviewed the new M3 MacBook Air, and a key feature of the new models is Wi-Fi 6E support. Wi-Fi 6E is a big deal because it adds the 6GHz spectrum to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands we’re all used to.… | Continue reading
Since 2021, Six Colors has been compiling an annual report card focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government. We formulated a set of survey questions that would address the big-picture issues regarding Apple in the enterpri … | Continue reading
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith watched all of today’s workshop between Apple and the EU on the Digital Markets Act and posted some highlights on Mastodon. Of particular interest was an exchange between Apple’s representatives and Riley Testut, the developer of AltStore, an exist … | Continue reading
Quite a scoop from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry. … | Continue reading
Is Apple working with Google on its A.I. strategy? We break down what that might mean for the future of Apple’s platforms—and why it might make a lot of sense.… | Continue reading
Do 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.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. None of us are as good at clocking deepfakes as we think we are. Even your mom, or your boss, or anyone in your IT department might not be able to tell the difference.… | Continue reading