Six Colors

The cycle’s about to begin anew: Apple announced on Tuesday that its 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference will run June 9-13. The event, including keynote and sessions, will be available for free online, along with a limited in-person component at Apple Park.…

Stephen Hackett joins Jason to discuss A.I. fallout, EU moves to expand device interoperability, Jason’s recent shootout of TV streaming boxes, and more.…

Apple Newsroom: Next month, a new software update will bring lossless audio and ultra-low latency audio to AirPods Max, delivering the ultimate listening experience and even greater performance for music production.…

Never in the dark: Your keys. Or you. FlashFinder is the first keychain flashlight that supports Apple Find My. It redefines your keychain or backpack with seamless location finding, guiding you back to lost items with sound and light cues. …

MLB is trying to open up local streaming, but it doesn’t solve the problem of reaching casual fans. Also: a weird café in Korea and our TV picks.…

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Maybe this is why Apple executives want Gemini so badly?There’s a lot of talk recently about Siri being behind the competition. Siri often can’t find what you’re looking for, or what you want to know, and there’s no telling when it might be able to.…

If you’ve ever wanted your TV to be sponsored, Amazon has you covered.Ever since I cut the cord, my only interface to the world of television has been my Apple TV.…

Nothing is rotten on this podcast.…

What we carry in our wallets, do we want dumb phones, how we feel about the new Pebble smartwaches, and whether we’d be interested in a cellular MacBook.…

Third-party smartwatches and wireless headphones are among the devices and technologies that Apple will have to provide better interoperability with, according to a ruling from the European Commission today.…

This week on Upgrade, my guest John Siracusa and I pondered whether Mark Gurman’s report that the forthcoming iPhone Air wouldn’t be as big as an iPhone Pro Max because of a fear of a return to the days of “bendgate.”…

If we go by the usual schedule, we’re probably a little under three months out from this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference—chances are it’ll be announced before the end of this very month.…

John Siracusa joins Jason to discuss Apple interface redesigns, Apple’s ongoing AI disasters, the management challenges of Siri, and Jason’s reviews of the new MacBook Air and Mac Studio.…

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Because apparently I’m just doing “fun Severance tidbits” now, here’s a piece by Nico DeMattia at The Drive about something I’d found myself wondering while watching the show: why are all the cars on Severance old?…

Jess Weatherbed writing at The Verge, with a statement from Apple’s Shane Bauer:…

Some people, whether you’re in the media or software development or technical support, take and publish a lot of device screenshots. And while an image straight from an iPhone or Apple Watch looks fine, it often looks much better to be put in context by…

How we maintain battery health, thoughts on Discord’s IPO and if any tech company improved post-IPO, the must-have and leave-behind tech for trips, and how to protect non-tech-savvy older adults from scams like the ‘Grandparent scam.’…

Gruber vs. Gurman.…

Mercury Weather can cover a weekend getaway.When I was planning my trip to New Zealand a couple of years ago, I got frustrated by the fact that there was no way to see, at a glance, the weather in the various cities I’d be visiting when I’d be visiting them.…

Just when we thought the M3 was in the ground and Apple had rapidly moved every single Mac model over to the fresh and new M4 processor, in rolls the high-end Mac Studio, equipped with the impossible-to-predict, never-before-seen M3 Ultra processor.…

The new Mac Studio is an interesting product because it’s got a surprising wrinkle: its high-end configuration, which starts at $3999 and escalates rapidly from there, is powered not by an M4 chip but by a new and unusual M3 chip, the M3 Ultra, which offers…

The M4 MacBook Air can drive two external displays with its lid open.The new M4 MacBook Air is the Mac most people should buy.…

It’s been a quiet week, so John Gruber briefly joins Jason to discuss Apple’s AI delay, new Macs, new iPads, and the future of Apple regulation worldwide.…

The MLB/ESPN separation and the future of ESPN, the Nationals escape from MASN, Fox’s sports streaming service quandary, interesting tidbits from the Sloan Sports Conference, and our TV picks!…

Craig Federighi shows off the Semantic Index in June 2024.As reported by John Gruber, Apple announced on Friday that some of its most anticipated Apple Intelligence features won’t make it in this year’s cycle after all.…

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Spring is the time of somewhat odd Apple announcements. We all know we’ll see the revisions to all of the company’s software platforms in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference, and that new iPhones and Apple Watches arrive in September.…

Search and ye shall not findTo say that it has been controversial every time Apple rejiggers Settings on any of their platforms is putting it mildly.…