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Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories In this special interview episode, Federico and I welcome Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman to discuss his 16-year journey covering Apple. Mark shares how he started as a teenage app developer…

A lot has changed in my professional life over the past year. As of today, I am working fully from home on three separate long-running projects, and now more than ever, the web browser has become central for all three. Since the M2 MacBook Air is my only…

Source: Apple. WWDC25 will be held from June 9 - 13 this year and include an in-person experience on June 9 that will provide developers the opportunity to watch the keynote at Apple Park, meet with Apple team members, and take part in special activities.…

Source: Apple. Apple has announced a partnership with DJ software and hardware platforms to integrate Apple Music’s catalog into their offerings. The new program, called DJ with Apple Music, expands on an integration that was already in place for…

It’s been quite a while since I did a full review of Agile Tortoise’s Terminology, an extensible dictionary and reference tool for the iPhone and iPad. It’s hard to believe the app has been around for 15 years now, but with today’s release of version…

Speaking of opening up iOS to more types of applications, I enjoyed this story by Victoria Song, writing at The Verge about the new EU-mandated interoperability requirements that include, among other things, smartwatches: This is a big reason why it’s a good…

This is an interesting idea by Parker Ortolani: what if Apple allowed users to change their default assistant from Siri to something else? I do not want to harp on the Siri situation, but I do have one suggestion that I think Apple should listen to. Because I…

Bryan Irace has an interesting take on the new generation of developer tools that have lowered the barrier to entry for new developers (and sometimes not even developers) when it comes to creating apps: Recent criticism of Apple’s AI efforts has been juicy…

In a surprise announcement this morning, Apple announced that the AirPods Max with USB-C will be getting an update next month that adds support for lossless and ultra‑low latency audio over the cable. According to the press release: With the included USB-C…

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Darth Chris makes an appearance, Niléane has an exclusive first look at…checks notes… the iPhone 16 Pro, Matt insists on talking about MacWhisper even more, and the crew…

Less than two weeks ago, Apple announced that it was delaying the launch of a more personalized Siri. Today, Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg, says the company is shuffling leadership of the project, too. According to Gurman: Chief Executive Officer Tim…

One of the best indicators of how sticky a cross-device utility will be in my setup is how quickly I install it everywhere. For Sindre Sorhus’ Scratchpad, the answer was “very sticky.” The simple text utility works on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch,…

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I explore a collection of Shortcuts helper utilities that extend functionality beyond the built-in system actions, sharing how these apps address gaps in…

Just as I was linking to Eric Migicovsky’s post about the disadvantages third-party smartwatch makers face when trying to integrate with the iPhone, the European Commission (EC) released a pair of related specification decisions regarding Apple’s Digital…

It’s been over a year and a half since the debut of Callsheet, the app from Casey Liss for looking up information about films and TV shows, and the app has grown a lot in that time. From new app icon variations to more fine-grained spoiler settings to…

It’s been just shy of one year since the U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states sued Apple for antitrust violations. It’s not clear what will become of that lawsuit given the change of administrations, but as it stands today, it’s still an active case.…

I loved this post by David Smith on his decision to remain optimistic about Apple’s rumored iOS 19 redesign despite, well, you know, everything: Optimism isn’t enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a feeling, optimism is a choice. I have much less of the enthusiastic…

Fello AI is a native macOS app that unifies today’s top AI models into one streamlined chat client. Instead of juggling multiple subscriptions and clunky web tools, you can now access models like ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Pro, Grok, LLaMA, or…

As I read Sebastiaan de With’s review of the iPhone 16e’s camera, I found myself chuckling when I got to this part: You can speculate what the ‘e’ in ‘16e’ stands for, but in my head it stands for ‘essential’. Some things that I consider…

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane takes the challenge to the next level. MacStories Unwind This week John is tricked by Daylight Savings, Federico and he…

JSAUX’s 16” FlipGo Pro Dual Portable Monitor is the sort of gadget that I expect most people will look at and either understand immediately or dismiss, which makes it the kind of hardware I love. I have a fascination with portable displays borne of too…

Apple has officialy renewed its hit comedy series Ted Lasso for a fourth season on Apple TV+ with series star and executive producer Jason Sudeikis returning. Sudeikis even offered a small hint of what viewers can expect: As we all continue to live in a world…

Earlier today, the GSM Association approved new RCS specifications that enable end-to-end encryption when using RCS to send messages. According to a post by Tom Van Pelt, the GSMA’s Technical Director: Most notably, the new specifications define how to apply…

In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, I’ve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps I’m using – the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences – aren’t native iPad apps.…

Last June at WWDC, Apple announced Swift Assist, a way to generate Swift code using natural language prompts. However, as Tim Hardwick writes for MacRumors, Swift Assist hasn’t been heard from since then: Unlike Apple Intelligence, Swift Assist never…

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I share our self-imposed tech deadlines for the hardware and software they use. This episode is sponsored by: Memberful – Easy-to-Use Reliable Membership…

Source: Apple. I’ve been thinking about Apple’s position in AI a lot this week, and I keep coming back to this idea: if Apple is making the best consumer-grade computers for AI right now, but Apple Intelligence is failing third-party developers with a lack…

Apple revealed a new Immersive Video title for the Vision Pro. As announced at SXSW today, Vision Pro users will be treated to a live performance of three Metallica songs: “Whiplash,” “One,” and “Enter Sandman” on March 14th. According to…

Speaking of the new Mac Studio and Apple making the best computers for AI: this is a terrific overview by Max Weinbach about the new M3 Ultra chip and its real-world performance with various on-device LLMs: The Mac I’ve been using for the past few days is…

For all the criticism (mine included) surrounding Apple’s delay of various Apple Intelligence features, I found this different perspective by Ben Thompson fascinating and worth considering: What that means in practical terms is that Apple just shipped the…