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It’s Myke’s last episode before paternity leave, so he and Jason draft Apple things they think will happen between now and his return.…

Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.…

Matt Gemmell on switching back to the Mac after being iPad-only for a very long time: Suffice to say then, that this was not a dalliance.…

Update: According to The Verge, Netflix has said this integration was in error and is being rolled back. Boo, I say. Boo. As Six Colors contributor Joe Rosensteel wrote, “Netflix deeply regrets accidentally making Netflix a better product for its customers.”…

Emma Roth at The Verge:…

The robots are coming.…

Improvements we’d like in Apple’s Photos app after acquiring Pixelmator and Photomator, thoughts on Apple renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps, a realistic task for a robot, and whether we use AI tools and which ones.…

Unless you’re looking at tiles in the Sports tab, Apple’s TV apps would prefer to pretend that live TV is not a thing that exists. This is bad.…

Last year I read this piece by Brendon Bigley at Wavelengths about two low-cost handheld game emulators:…

Everyone knows that Apple is playing catch-up when it comes to Apple Intelligence. The company’s shipping AI models seem to be way behind the cutting edge, as OpenAI grows, Google pushes forward, and newcomers hit the scene.…

I didn’t want this one to pass unremarked upon, especially given that Stephen Hackett recently discussed this issue on Connected: Apple has finally unveiled a tool to merge Apple Accounts:…

Apple Newsroom: This new longitudinal, virtual study aims to understand how data from technology — including Apple and third-party devices — can be used to predict, detect, monitor, and manage changes in participants’ health.…

Is the era of tech giants allowing their customers to secure their data coming to an end? We also discuss AltStore picking a fight with Apple, and Apple’s calculated response, rumors of robots, a rumor source’s apology, and the future of Ted Lasso.…

I had a problem. I wanted to put a stray E-Ink device, which I had sort of given up on, back into action. It has a color screen, but my attempts to write out color graphics were coming up empty.…

Jason was on Allison Sheridan’s CCATP podcast last week to discuss how he creates his Apple financial charts. It’s full of nerdy fun like how he decides when to use a serape chart vs.…

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Sobering story from the Washington Post‘s Joseph Menn (paywalled, unfortunately—here’s a BBC article that confirms it) that the United Kingdom’s government has mandated Apple provide a backdoor for access to end-to-end encrypted data in every country,…

Will Carroll returns on Super Bowl week, and we discuss Super Bowl 4K, Tubi, and the enduring power of communal live events. Also: ESPN Flagship and Fox’s streaming play, a new RSN is heard from, Apple and MLS make tweaks, your letters, and TV picks!…

What a wild story. While it’s been rumored that Apple researchers have been working on robots, now those researchers have published their results, including a pretty amazing video.…

It’s been a year since the Vision Pro arrived, and its impact on the world has been nearly nonexistent. Is this a surprise? At the time, I wrote that it was “speculative and impractical.”…

You are cordially invite-d.…

Weird apps Apple should make, the strangest looking tech we own, what will it take for Vision Pro to go mainstream, and the discontinued tech products we’d revive.…

Over the last couple decades, Apple has solidified its place at the top of the technology world. Dominant products like the iPod, iPhone, and the iPad have made it a household name, which in turn has elevated the profile of even its more modest businesses,…

Apple on Tuesday took the wraps off a rare brand-new app: Invites. And it’s more like an Evite competitor, not something designed for business meetings. Invites lets you create events to which you can — yes, you guessed it — invite guests, complete with…

I’m a Six Colors Subscriber and someone who likes to draw pictures of data, and Jason Snell kindly asked me if I wanted to have a crack and drawing some additional graphs based on the 2024 Report Card.…

Jess Weatherbed at The Verge has some very interesting breaking news: The first “Apple approved” porn app for iPhone is rolling out in Europe, via AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS app marketplace.…

We discuss the results of the Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2024 in depth, with our opinions on every category. Also, Apple had another record financial quarter, and there’s a little bit of Rumor Roundup.…

Every year we ask a collection of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people for their opinions about how Apple fared in the year just gone by.…

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.…

Really interesting interview from The Verge’s Nilay Patel with Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter on a wide range of topics, including the company’s recently launched ebook initiative.…