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12:00pm By Jason SnellMy thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. 1Password wants you to understand the details about how laws like GDPR can affect your business.…(Podcast) Clockwise 564: It Was Pokémon Go’s Fault
Wed 3:48pm By Six Colors StaffOur experiences with purchasing tech insurance like AppleCare and its benefits, our approach to managing battery levels and charging devices, the tools and apps we use for iPhone photography, and a non-Apple tech gadget we’ve enjoyed.…(Podcast) The Rebound 505: Charlie Ten C Ten
Wed 12:48pm By Six Colors StaffThis is an all brat podcast now.…(Sponsor) You can’t ignore GDPR anymore
Mon 12:00pm By Six Colors StaffWhen the EU enacted GDPR in 2018, executives and security professionals waited anxiously to see how the law would be enforced. And then they kept waiting…and waiting…but the Great European Privacy Crackdown never came.…Gone to Scotland
Jul 18, 2024, 2:00 pm By Jason SnellIsle of Skye, Scotland. (Shutterstock)Summer is the time for travel. And this summer, thanks to the Relay 10 event in London, a lot of your favorite podcasters and writers in the Apple world are using the event as an excuse to take an European vacation.…Apple announces new immersive Vision Pro content ↦
Jul 18, 2024, 1:51 pm By Jason SnellWould you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?Immersive content for the Vision Pro—one of the device’s best features—has been frustratingly slow in coming. But Apple just announced a bunch of new stuff:…(Podcast) Downstream 74: The Infinite Stadium
Jul 18, 2024, 12:43 pm By Six Colors StaffSportswriter Will Carroll joins Jason for an all-Sports Corner edition. We discuss the NBA TV deal, the NFL lawsuit, and the future of sports broadcasting. [Downstream+ members also get: the post-RSN world, Netflix and live sports, and more.]…Overcast turns 10 ↦
Jul 17, 2024, 6:13 pm By Jason SnellMy podcast player of choice for the last ten years just celebrated, yep, its 10th anniversary. Here’s Overcast’s sole proprietor, Marco Arment:…(Podcast) Clockwise 563: Peripherally Curious
Jul 17, 2024, 2:37 pm By Six Colors StaffWhere we primarily do our text entry (smartphone, tablet, or computer), our involvement with user groups either as speakers or attendees, the apps we keep in our iPhone dock and why, and how we use Apple Pay.…(Podcast) The Rebound 504: Excellent Choices in Whiskey and Stocks
Jul 17, 2024, 12:36 pm By Six Colors StaffIn this episode we reveal whether or not we bought anything.…Apple’s AI plans could put power back in the hands of users (Macworld/Jason Snell)
Jul 17, 2024, 12:00 pm By Jason SnellThe future of technology sometimes goes in surprising directions, taking an obvious path and then suddenly doubling back to go down a road less traveled. There was a time when The Future was underpowered client devices powered by remote servers, until it…First look: iPadOS 18 Public Beta
Jul 15, 2024, 4:31 pm By Jason SnellThe iPadOS 18 Public Beta is here. Dan Moren has his first impressions of all the features it shares with iOS 18, but there are a few that are exclusive to the iPad.…First look: macOS Sequoia Public Beta
Jul 15, 2024, 4:31 pm By Jason SnellmacOS Sequoia, out in public beta now and due to be released this fall, is more of a work in progress than most macOS beta versions come July.…First Look: iOS 18 Public Beta
Jul 15, 2024, 4:30 pm By Dan MorenSix takes on one Home Screen: eat your heart out, Andy Warhol.Ultimately the reaction to 18’s initial public beta may be more about what’s not there than what is.…(Podcast) Upgrade 521: I Can Get Pineapple Into Anything
Jul 15, 2024, 12:09 pm By Six Colors StaffJason and Myke interview the writers of “What If…? An Interactive Story” for Vision Pro about the challenges of writing something that’s not quite a movie and not quite a video game for a brand-new platform.…My prescription for Apple: Hire some ombudspeople
Jul 12, 2024, 12:00 pm By Joe RosensteelApple touts a lot of things—vertical integration, interface design, the longevity of its hardware, the direct-to-consumer retail experience, and more—as part of the reason for its success.…(Podcast) Downstream 73: Must-Stream TV
Jul 11, 2024, 7:55 pm By Six Colors StaffVulture’s Josef Adalian returns to discuss the ramifications of the sale of Paramount, and where the company might go next. We also once again consider that classic streaming question—to binge or not to binge?…Apple to enable third party NFC payments in the EU ↦
Jul 11, 2024, 10:19 am By Dan MorenEuropean Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager has announced that Apple has committed to allowing third-party payment apps use the same NFC features as Apple Pay in Europe.…Accessing inflight Wi-Fi for free via your air miles account’s “name” field ↦
Jul 11, 2024, 6:49 am By Dan MorenI don’t know what to say about this other than that it is technological insanity in the absolute best way. This meant that on my next flight I could technically have full access to the internet, via my airmiles account.…(Podcast) The Rebound 503: At Least 38 Seconds
Jul 10, 2024, 3:35 pm By Six Colors StaffSlowing that AI roll.…(Podcast) Clockwise 562: Famously a HomePod Hater
Jul 10, 2024, 3:35 pm By Six Colors StaffOur interest in the new Amazon Echo Spot, our current charging setup and thoughts on Nomad’s new 65W GaN charger, thoughts on a HomePod with a display, and which dead property we’d like to see AI revive from any medium.…Apple’s next-gen HomePod could change everything we know about Siri (Macworld/Dan Moren)
Jul 10, 2024, 8:09 am By Dan MorenAt this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple gave a little bit of time to its major platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS—even tvOS got some love. But one device was conspicuously absent: the HomePod.…Apple no longer taking OpenAI board seat ↦
Jul 10, 2024, 6:46 am By Dan MorenCamilla Hodgson and George Hammond, writing at the Financial Times (paywalled):…TUAW returns as a gross, zombie AI-generated garbage site ↦
Jul 9, 2024, 4:09 pm By Jason SnellVia Christina Warren, some jokers called Web Orange Limited have acquired The Unofficial Apple Weblog—a classic player in Apple blogging—and have turned it into a gross AI-generated garbage blog posting as a real one:…Apple outpaces global PC growth ↦
Jul 9, 2024, 11:50 am By Jason SnellAnalyst Canalys has updated its worldwide PC market share stats, and while the PC industry actually showed 3.4% growth year-on-year, Apple’s sales grew 6% during that period:…(Podcast) Upgrade 520: Cruel Summer
Jul 8, 2024, 5:04 pm By Six Colors StaffThere’s more news about Apple’s battles with Epic and the EU, and Apple tightens its ties with OpenAI, but all of the controversy gets us thinking about what makes us stay excited about technology during difficult times.…I’ll have my AI email your AI
Jul 5, 2024, 5:16 pm By Jason SnellThere’s a joke in one of my favorite movies, “Real Genius,” which feels directly applicable to a lot of AI discussions we’re having today. (It’s an ’80s movie, so it’s not a scene—it’s a montage, set to “I’m Falling” by The Comsat Angels.)…(Podcast) Clockwise 561: Conspiracy Theory Bankruptcy
Jul 3, 2024, 3:22 pm By Six Colors StaffOur app routines, how we feel about smart rings, the smartest other tech gadgets in our homes, and how we stay informed without spiraling into doom.…(Podcast) The Rebound 502: I Don’t Wanna Think About Anything
Jul 3, 2024, 12:21 pm By Six Colors StaffHello, darkness, my old friend. We’ve come to talk technology again.…Hey Siri? No, I didn’t mean you. (Macworld/Jason Snell)
Jul 3, 2024, 10:00 am By Jason SnellWe’re about to enter the Apple Intelligence era, and it promises to dramatically change how we use our Apple devices. Most importantly, adding Apple Intelligence to Siri promises to resolve many frustrating problems with Apple’s “intelligent” assistant.…
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