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It looks as though Apple will hold a special event next month unlike any it’s held in recent memory, according to multiple reports. At the center of the stage won’t be new Mac, iPhone, or iPad hardware, but a new collection of subscription services.…

I’ve always prided myself on being conversant with many terms from the English spoken in Ireland and Great Britain, having read a lot of books and watched a lot of movies and TV from those countries while growing up. 1…

Apple’s plans to launch a subscription service for news are, by this point, an open secret. Just under a year ago, the company announced its acquisition of existing magazine subscription service Texture, which Apple executive Eddy Cue quickly revealed would…

Great take from Recode’s Peter Kafka, as always, on why magazine publishers specifically are willing to swallow Apple’s 50-percent revenue split:…

This week on the 30 minute tech show that gives 60 Minutes a run for its money, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Aleen Simms and Casey Liss to discuss Apple wanting 50 percent of publisher revenue for its news subscription service, where exactly all…

John Paczkowski of BuzzFeed News, a pretty reliable reporter on this stuff, says Apple is planning a roll-out event for March 25:…

Federico Viticci said it best on the Connected podcast last week: The departure of Angela Ahrendts as Apple’s retail chief is a Rorschach test. One’s reaction to the news will reveal a lot about one’s feelings about the current state of Apple’s retail…

This week, on the irreverent tech show that will always be your Valentine, we discuss Amazon’s purchase of Eero, Kashmir Hill’s attempt to cut the major five tech companies out of her life, Apple’s naming of a new product marketing head for VR, Angela…

As I wrote earlier this month, I ended up finishing my Six Colors Report Card story on the Mac because I ran into several roadblocks when I tried to finish the project on my iPad.…

AdAge’s Garrett Sloane:…

This is a weird one. The Panic Inc. Twitter account tweeted:…

Federico Viticci has convinced me that I should be using a different app to connect my iPad to my local Mac mini file server and to my Linode server via FTP:…

Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels bought a MacBook Air to replace his wife’s 12-inch MacBook:…

It’s been reported that the iPad’s home screen will be evolving in 2019, but what form will that evolution take? Myke and Jason make a wish list, and also discuss Angela Ahrendts’s departure from Apple Retail, Spotify’s investment in podcasting, and…

My thanks to Glenn Fleishman for sponsoring Six Colors this week as a way of promoting the new edition of his ebook, Take Control of Slack. Here’s Glenn to explain himself:…

Digital and information security is something that everybody’s had to become all too familiar with over the past decade. As we carry around devices that themselves store everything from our friends’ contact details to our bank account information, it’s…

This week on Download, Stephen Hackett and Jason discuss Apple’s retail changes and Facebook’s 15th anniversary. Then Natalie Jarvey of The Hollywood Reporter visits to discuss Spotify spending a lot of money on podcasting companies, and Jeremy Burge of…

Reuters reports a slight but significant reorganization in Apple’s hardware engineering teams:…

Buried at the end of Mark Gurman’s high-profile Bloomberg report about future Apple product announcements is a tidbit that’s of enormous interest to anyone who loves using their iPad.…

This week, on the 30-minute show that is replete with clock puns, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Matthew Cassinelli and James Thomson to discuss which iOS apps and games stand the test of time on our devices, what Apple could do to improve Siri…

This week, on the irreverent tech show that gets meta, Dan confesses to buying an iPhone SE…but there’s a catch. Plus, Lex shares a Netflix show that he’s enjoy over and over, and John buys a new clicky keyboard (trying saying that five times fast). Plus…

Every once in a while a tech story falls through the cracks because it’s just outside of my usual purview. Hence this story, which I actually caught on Marketplace the other night, about a sting operation conducted against Huawei by the FBI at this year’s…

Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia has the details about the next batch of Emojis approved by the Unicode Consortium:…

Apple:…

Last week I posted the annual Six Colors Report Card, a story package that includes lots of quotes (about 5,000 words out of the 30,000 words submitted by panelists) and a bunch of charts. It’s a large project and I worked on it across both macOS and iOS,…

What Apple’s quarterly results had to say about iPhone sales and prices, Apple reaches a fork in the road when it comes to keyboard design, and just after the official opening of 2019 iPhone Rumor Season comes the official opening of 2020 iPhone Rumor Season.

By Glenn Fleishman…

It was the second-best of times, it was the worst of times. The last three months of 2018 comprised Apple’s second-largest fiscal quarter of all time … but it was smaller than the year-ago quarter. And no amount of rising services revenue or record-setting…

The results are in and, despite a downturn in iPhone sales that require reissuing its revenue estimates, Apple still managed to pull in billions of dollars in its latest quarter. Yes, the drop in iPhone sales that we’ve all been talking about did hurt…

In the New York Times, Edmund Lee has a fascinating look at Locast, a company that’s streaming broadcast TV over the Internet for free, thanks to a potential loophole: it’s structured as a non-profit.…