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It’s time for another Apple event draft!

Today Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO and Phil Schiller is scaling back his involvement in the company’s events and his supervision of the App Store.

I know there’s no connection between my local area network and our house’s plumbing system, but when the faucet started running uncontrollably literally seconds after I fixed a network outage, I had to wonder: did we have a poltergeist?

Joe Lemire of Sports Business Journal has a detailed story about how MLB came to hire Jason Weingradt, the developer behind the amazing baseball app Mosaic: By drawing on public application programming interfaces (APIs) from the league and other sources,…

Jason Snell is a journalist, podcaster, and Jeopardy!

Apple’s Friday Night Baseball made its immersive video debut on the Vision Pro Friday, with numerous live immersive cameras scattered around Yankee Stadium for the night’s game between the Yankees and the Red Sox.

Apple’s overhaul of Siri and its expansion of Apple Intelligence are extensive.

Our Mac upgrade plans in the light of price hikes, YouTube view metric changes, our home internet speeds, and how many apps we have our phone.

Today Relay launched the public and private feeds of my new podcast, Designed in California.

The Apple II makes its public debut at a landmark event in the history of personal computers, and Steve Jobs truly comes into his own.

Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last.

We travel to the summer of 1976, as Apple travels to Atlantic City for a computer trade show, the Apple II begins to form, and the fellowship between the two Steves shows signs of breaking.

We take you back to 1976 and recount Steve Jobs’s numerous attempts to sell Apple or, at the very least, get someone to make an investment in the fledgling company.

Apple emerged from the unique environment of the Santa Clara valley suburbs of the ’70s thanks to the particular genius of its two co-founders and some surprising help they got along the way.

Lex and Moltz talk new Macs, old games, Lex’s apps and Apple community drama before getting interrupted by some heartbreaking news.

In a bit of a late-August surprise while the world awaits word on the next generation of iPhones, on Tuesday Apple announced two new processors, the M5 Ultra and M6, which help power new iterations of its Mac Studio and Mac mini desktop computers.

The EU gives up and settles with Apple, John Ternus’s new home strategy starts to come into focus, and people at Apple just love the folding iPhone.

We’ve got a pair of apps that help you get a little reading done, albeit with two different approaches.

My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

The Schlage Sense Pro is an unobtrusive match for my door hardware.

When I was visiting my pal Myke Hurley in London last year, I noticed that he had a second display to the right of his main one.

Tech bag or brand recommendations, Apple’s most overlooked feature, the app we’d vibe code for ourselves, and our thoughts on the leaked AirPods with cameras for Visual Intelligence.

Wallet on iPhone is a bulging catch-all.

Oops!

Guy English joins us.

Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect.

I’m not an AI hater: I’ve used it for my fair share of projects that involve coding or for troubleshooting various technology problems.

Backups, as any computer user knows, are worth their weight in gold.

OpenAI’s hardware plans, our folding phone thoughts, smart lock experiences, and the future of the iPad.

The namesake Mosaic, now operated by MLB and on Apple TV.

A TerminalWidget shortcut action and its output.

Clearly, creating Mac apps that make the most of your voice continues to be a focus of developers — at least based on the offerings coming across my radar lately.

We discuss the new betas, give Lex a live bug report and then hit the books.

After a visit to Jason’s backyard, we discuss OpenAI’s response to Apple’s lawsuit, the future of Apple’s wearable line, the return of “Ted Lasso,” and some starters for Spider-Man.

We trust Apple with a lot of our data.

This is turning out to be the year of immersive sports.

Your voice may be your passport, as a certain Robert Redford picture once asserted, but two macOS apps in our spotlight this week view your voice as a way to get more things done on your Mac.

Our favorite ways to share data between devices, what we’d like to see iOS on next after PontoonPlay, whether Private Relay concerns us, and any “dead” media formats we still enjoy.

A story by 404 Media’s Joseph Cox, who last month broke the news about a flaw in Apple’s Hide My Email feature, is now back to report that iCloud Private Relay, a feature that is supposed to obfuscate users’ IP addresses, may not be so private: A series of

Moltz has a can-do attitude but it’s Lex and Dan who get the questions about actually doing things.

Tanya Reynolds and Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso.”

The almost-natural-language notepad calculator Soulver’s latest release adds better tools for calculating durations or intervals between dates and times, planning travel itineraries, tracking inflation, finding distances, performing bandwidth math, and sp…

From an un-bylined post on OpenAI’s site: Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction is both based on false information and completely unnecessary because we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets.

Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple’s financial results, the approach of Apple’s new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.

The reckoning is coming.

I’m still the boss, kid.

Tim Cook signals for victory!

On Thursday, Apple announced record third-quarter earnings, with total revenue of $109.4B, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 22%, Mac revenue was up 10.4%, Services revenue was up 12%, and Wearables revenue was up 6%. iPad rev…

On Thursday afternoon, Apple will announce the results of its third fiscal quarter for 2026.

Back in April of this year, I suggested that the MailMaven email app for macOS might become my new best friend.