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As with most of Apple’s major software releases, iOS 12 contained a slew of new features—often more than any one person would find themselves using regularly. But one new ability that I have found myself actually using over the past few months was…

Are Apple’s recent aggressive promotional deals for iPhone an indicator that its aggressive pricing strategy isn’t working, or is this all part of a larger strategy? Are the old rules giving way to a whole new set of Apple strategies? We also discuss…

Consult the lawgiver’s scrolls and watch out for talking dolls! It’s a madhouse! A madhouse! And also, the 50th anniversary of “Planet of the Apes.” Join us as we explore the world of spaceman Taylor (Charlton Heston) and his long journey through an…

This week, a lot of the focus of the tech industry was on Hawaii, of all places. That was where Qualcomm was putting on a three-ring circus (or was it a luau?) in service of the forthcoming rollout of 5G cellular networks, highlighting the company’s strong…

This week I got a little envious of Matthew Cassinelli, who was proudly posting how he’s building all these Shortcuts on iOS that let him do cool stuff involving automatically posting things to his blog.…

Over the many decades of its existence, Apple has faced a lot of challenges. There was the company’s battle against IBM early in the PC era, the seeming dominance of Windows during the 1990s, and even the worry that the company itself might cease to exist in…

Qualcomm rolls out 5G cellular networking at a Hawaiian resort; Tumblr bans sexual imagery and nudity; Apple fails emoji biology; and streaming services consider inserting ads into paused video.

I had been planning to write an article on this topic—and I still probably will, eventually—but Federico Viticci has done a marvelous job in detailing all the ways he works on his iPad, most notably with stands and keyboards:…

The big story from Microsoft land is that the company is throwing in the towel on doing its own web rendering engine and embracing the Chromium open-source project, which is what powers Google Chrome. The new version of Microsoft’s new Edge browser will be…

This week, on the irreverent tech show that spends a surprising amount of time talking about amphibians, we touch on some hot button issues, including Tim Cook’s speech at the Anti-Defamation League and Tumblr’s ban on adult content. Fortunately we round…

Just how big is Amazon’s announcement last week that Apple Music is coming to echo devices? It all depends on if you see it as saying something larger about how Apple is prioritizing its subscription services compared to its traditional focus on making money…

This week, on the 30-minute tech show that never goes on vacation for long, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests James Thomson and Rosemary Orchard to discuss Apple Music coming to Amazon Echoes, the celebrity tech PSAs we’d like to see, what tech…

Comixology on the 12.9- and 11-inch iPad Pros.…

Break the shrink wrap and lift off the lid! It’s time to get together with friends and family to play some games. In this second Incomparable Board Game Draft, we’re allowing all sorts of tabletop (non-roleplaying) games. The result: 21 more games you…

John Siracusa joins Jason to discuss the future of Apple’s ARM processors and how they might change the Mac, Apple Music coming to the Amazon Echo and what that might mean about the future of Apple’s forthcoming TV service, whether they’re using their…

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On this week’s episode of Accidental Tech Podcast, the hosts rolled a bunch of the hot topics of the moment into one - namely, how the iPad Pro compares to laptops and the potential Mac future of Apple’s custom-built processors.…

You might have missed it between all the turkey brining and Black Friday sales, but last week The Information reported that Apple has considered making a tiny AppleTV “stick” similar to those made by competitors like Amazon and Roku.…

Taylor Soper at GeekWire reports on a surprising Amazon Web Services announcement today:…

Longtime app developer David Barnard details all the ways you can cheat to get ahead on the App Store:…

Coffee table books from Mimeo (2016) and Motif (2017).…

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments involving a class-action lawsuit against Apple on Monday, and reports from observers suggested that the court is inclined to allow the lawsuit against Apple to proceed in lower courts.…

Where does iOS go from here? This week Myke and Jason discuss the top 10 iPad features for iOS 13 they’d like to see. Also, Myke at the Movies returns, as Myke watches “My Neighbor Totoro” for the first time.

This month a viral Twitter post taught us all a valuable lesson about just how intuitive phone interface aren’t: Apple has let iPhone users move a text-editing cursor around on screen for a few years, but outside of the tech press nobody seemed to get the…

In Apple’s ideal world, we’d all have our collections of our own personal devices—preferably Apple-branded. We’d never leave the house without our iPhone or our Apple Watch (or probably both); we’d sit down on the couch, browsing the web on our own…

A very happy turkey day to all of our U.S.-based friends from your favorite irreverent tech show. But it’s business as usual here, as we discuss what (if anything) we’re buying in the upcoming commercial onslaught, explain why iOS’s cursor-movement…

Reviewers can’t agree if the iPad Pro can be used for “real work” or not, but there’s one thing they all seem to agree on: the new iPad Pro hardware is great and Apple needs to invest in upgrades for iOS to take advantage of it.…

This week on the 30-minute show that can eat pie in under 30 minutes, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jeff Carlson and Allison Sheridan to discuss iOS’s discoverability problem, when we buy our gear, holiday tech support tasks, and whether we use…

If you’re still looking for Thanksgiving dish ideas, please consider this week’s edition of The Incomparable. To celebrate Thanksgiving, we drafted an entire meal, dish by dish. Kathy Campbell revealed her hands-off approach to Thanksgiving dinner. Philip…

[Michael Gartenberg is a longtime industry analyst who previously worked at Apple. He’s the Contributing Analyst at Six Colors.]…