Six Colors

Everyone loves the MacBook Neo.

My thanks to Coherence X6 for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

I’ve been using the Apple Watch Series 12 for a week now, but this isn’t a review.

Over at LexOnTech our pal Lex Friedman1 has the skinny behind the long defunct Apple Cards, a project driven by Steve Jobs himself: In 2011, Mike said, “Steve Jobs was on one of his famous walks after having had a dinner with someone,” and he said to his…

Qualcomm: Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the renewal of its global patent license agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027.

Stephen Hackett reminds you that it’s September, and you know why that matters: We are flying through September, and our St.

Sometimes, it’s the little things in life, as this week’s crop of intriguing apps proves.

How we decide between new and older tech, whether iPhone users are ready for the foldable life, the new Apple features we’re most excited about, and payments from class action lawsuits.

Lex’s phone, Dan’s Watch and Moltz’s vacuum.

Just up the road from Apple in Redwood City, Steve Jobs’s NeXT is fading and flailing, but has a modern operating system just like the one Apple desperately needs to buy to replace Mac OS.

You ever have one of those moments when you start to copy a large file in the Finder and groan when the Progress Window tells you it’s going to take forever?

The new products are here!

Safari web apps are great when they fit the job.

The new iPhone 18 Pro Max battery is quite capacious—so much so, in fact, that it potentially runs afoul of international shipping regulations.

2024’s M4 Mac mini was a revelation.

My thanks to Rogue Amoeba, the leaders in Mac audio software, for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

Ashley Belanger at Ars Technica runs through recently unsealed documents in the case brought by news organizations led by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft: Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeated…

David Pogue, in his newsletter: The new AI Siri came out this week as part of OS 27 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and it’s a life changer.

Last year, Apple integrated the iPhone 17 Pro into its Friday Night Baseball coverage.

Our relationship with telephoto lenses, whether Genmoji has gotten better, our thoughts on the iPhone Duo, and the sci-fi interfaces we’d love or hate to use.

Lex talks about his iPhone purchase experience, Dan has Duo expectations and Moltz volunteers at the Apple Store.

Apple desperately needs a replacement for Mac OS, but negotiations with Jean-Louis Gassée’s Be are at the breaking point.

One of the benefits to being part of the Apple ecosystem is the plethora of apps that work across all of Apple’s devices so that you can access them whether you’re sitting in front of a Mac, out and about with your iPhone or even strapping on a Vision Pro…

If you have at least the minimum iCloud+ 2 TB subscription, you can enable video summaries.

The 27 OS releases have dropped.

A new, but familiar, Strategery.

By now you’ve probably heard the promise of iOS 27: it’s a Snow Leopard-like year where Apple spent a lot of time not on big marquee features, but on smaller fixes and enhancements throughout the operating system.

Last year’s macOS release, macOS 26 Tahoe, was a mixed bag.

Rogue Amoeba, leading the way in Mac audio software.

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

The Internet’s Dr.

(Anastasiya Badun/Unsplash) At my gym, all the signs are handwritten and friendly.

We give our keynote reactions, Dan makes tentative plans and Moltz and Lex need to get their hearing checked.

“It’s just a big iPhone.”

In his first event video since taking over as Apple CEO, John Ternus got a cheeky introduction from his predecessor Tim Cook before boldly referencing some classic Steve Jobs moments and setting the company’s most important product on a new course.

We break down Apple’s September 9 event, including the foldable iPhone Duo, the non-foldable iPhone 18 Pro, the surprising new Apple Watches that double as AI wearables, and the event debut of John Ternus as Apple’s CEO.

Apple’s events are always a deluge of information, delivered by smooth-talking presenters who are probably trying to hypnotize you with their soothing hand motions.

The ideal iPhone form factors we’d pick, whether we want a foldable iPhone for ourselves, the last project we got hyperfixated on, and our backup setups.

We’ll all know soon enough, but kudos to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman for breaking some new details 12 hours before Apple’s event begins: Its device, called the iPhone Duo, will start at $2,000… The entry-level version will include 256 gigabytes of storage, wi…

You might be interested in knowing how to embrace Apple Passwords with a bear hug, leaving behind your current password manager.

General Motors has been saying for a few years now that it’s going to get rid of CarPlay and Android Auto on its EVs because, well, reasons.

A possible replacement for Mac OS arrives in the form of a company founded by a charismatic former Apple executive—but not the one you’re thinking of.

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

The deed is done!

Our thoughts on the Dyson CameraJet toothbrush, features or products we’d like to see return in the Ternus era, travel devices we brought but never used, and whether we’ve encountered AI-generated food menus.

It’s the year of Lex on the desktop, mobile and everywhere else.

Apple’s homegrown next-generating operating system fails to launch, leaving the company in dire straits and searching for a lifeline from outside the company.

In the mid-1990s, Apple knew the classic Mac OS was running out of time.

This is more of a comment than a question.

Artificial Intelligence takes center stage in a few of the apps enjoying this week’s spotlight — and not the kind of AI that’s going to have you rolling your eyes or organizing a protest march against the nearest data center.