Six Colors

As the song goes, we all need a little help from our friends.

Just as we’re busy pondering the HomeView and preparing for the iPhone Duo launch, word arrives of another Apple event on the horizon!

One of the most bizarre and sometimes useful features added in macOS 27 Golden Gate is contextual naming in the Finder, as well as other places where a name for a file is useful, using Apple Intelligence.1 I say bizarre because it’s easy to be surprised by

Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers and annoyances across all your Apple devices?

Apple’s new HomeView sure seems like a good fit for the kitchen, which is why the company’s press releases, demos, and ads seem to lean into the idea that you’ll be cooking with the little guy.

Following up on my discussion of the new $299 Apple TV 4K pricing, here’s Glenn Fleishman with a helpful chart and table: I wondered what the entry-level, initial price of each Apple TV box at introduction was, from the March 2007 original to the Apple TV…

The new edition of my ebook about Apple’s Photos app is out now: Get to know Apple’s Photos app and how best to use it to import, manage, edit, sync, and share your photos in macOS 27 Golden Gate and iOS 27/iPadOS 27!

This summer, I stood up for the Apple TV hardware in the face of one analyst who said that it was “essentially dead” because nobody would spend $200 on a streaming device.

It was iPhone Duo preorder day, if you didn’t know.

The best writer on the smart home beat today is The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who I think has the best take on the HomeView I’ve seen so far: HomeView’s simplicity may put off hardcore home automation enthusiasts, but I’d argue it’s perfect for the…

Our thoughts on the new HomeView and its confusing pricing, whether we’re using AI agents like Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots, how we feel about passkeys, and if we’d ever use an Apple Pencil with an iPhone Fold.

Apple stuffs a lot of different kinds of tasks into Messages.

I was curious about the limitations of the new Siri Remote‘s Precision Finding feature, which requires an iPhone 17 generation or newer.

Two decades after the Walkman had revolutionized personal audio, a new compressed digital audio format emerged that would redefine how we listen to music.

This week we talk about Apple’s new devices and absolutely no Apple blogger drama whatsoever.

HomeView’s got a limited catalog of Apple apps.

We break down Apple’s big home announcements, including the new HomeView, a collection of smart home products, a new HomePod Mini, and the new (and surprisingly expensive) Apple TV 4K.

ElevationLab has withdrawn its AirTag Silencer from sale.

On Tuesday as a part of its deluge of smart home announcements, Apple has launched something a bit different: a series of products called Apple Home Collection that are… not quite Apple products, but not not Apple products.

In an announcement sure to shock the very foundations of the world, Apple rolled out a new Apple Siri Remote with support for Find My with Precision Finding and a speaker that can play a noise, ensuring you’ll never again lose it in your couch cushions for

Among its smart home product announcements on Tuesday, Apple announced the new HomePod mini 2, priced at $149 and powered by an S10 chip (introduced in the Apple Watch Series 10).

As was widely expected, Apple today took the wraps off its “HomePod with a screen”, dubbed the HomeView.

It’s a real grab bag of apps in this week’s report, but that seems wholly appropriate somehow.

Mark Gurman has last-minute Apple product details in his Sunday newsletter: The centerpiece is a new smart home hub called the HomeView.

John Ternus on stage introducing the MacBook Neo.

In this bonus episode, Jason interviews former Apple SVP of Retail Ron Johnson about why Steve Jobs wanted to get into retail, understanding what Apple’s brand represents, the customer-service model of the Apple Store, and much more.

I had to listen to a bunch of TTS voices to make my final choices.

Nice use of the rainbow logo, Apple.

Leaked Apple smart home gadgets, Apple’s upcoming smart home hub with a screen, our feelings on smart recording tech, and whether we want a touchscreen on our MacBook.

Sometimes, putting these columns about intriguing macOS and iOS apps together feels a little like improvisational jazz — I’m not always sure where this is going or how it’s going to wind up, but hopefully there’s a note or two that someone gets some enjoy…

MacRumors’s Hartley Charlton has a post detailing the designs of some rumored upcoming smart home devices co-developed by LG and Apple, thanks to FCC filings: Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is working with LG Electronics on accessories for its u…

Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs make a deal that will change the future trajectory of Mac OS, Apple, and the tech industry.

Late last month I got several emails from Spotify, all pretty much the same: Hello, Our automatic review tools determined that this podcast may contain content that infringes the rights of a third party.

Back in June, I tried to elaborate on why building software is more than coding in an age of AI coding assistants: Whatever you call it, whether it’s being a producer or product manager or something else that isn’t a programmer, creating good software in…

Apple introduced iMessage within Messages in 2011 as its house-brand, end-to-end encrypted messaging product.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge, illuminates some challenges with the new parental controls Apple added in this year’s software updates: I’m not even trying to use Screen Time on my son’s devices.

Credit cards, dryers, and, if we have time, the two Apple events expected this month.

Together in Memphis, Myke and Jason discuss John Ternus prodding Apple to move faster, Apple’s regret about giving apps Full Disk Access, and the impending release of Apple’s long-rumored home hub product.

Way back in January I noted that one of the features that had kept me from using Passwords as my only password management app was its inability to manage SSH keys, a feature offered by competitor 1Password.

In a post on Apple’s Developer News site, the company says it will be updating the Full Disk Access permissions: Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access

Hello from Memphis, where we are currently hosting the 8th annual 12-hour Podcastathon.

Amazon on Thursday announced new Kindles, including a new base model, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft.

ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory.

Apple has become one of the world’s most valuable companies because of its products: the Mac, the iPad, the Apple Watch and most especially the iPhone.

Minor bugs that drive us mad, app blasts from the past, smart home infrastructure, and our non-car navigation systems.

When Apple updated its iWork suite in April of last year, I complained that the company didn’t break out the full list of functions that it had added to Numbers in its 14.4 release.

Torn between Be and NeXT, Gil Amelio tries to analyze it all scientifically, including final demos from both teams.

Scary children, speculating about Apple’s October event and touchscreen Macs.

Apple’s slow move toward a fitness band makes us wonder if the company has lost its ability to execute quickly.

After my massive article on migrating your passwords, passkeys, and other secrets from third-party password managers to Apple’s Passwords, Wallet, Safari, and general ecosystem—potentially with help from another app—reader Scott asked whether I was direct…