Torn between Be and NeXT, Gil Amelio tries to analyze it all scientifically, including final demos from both teams. But was the end result a foregone conclusion?…

Apple’s slow move toward a fitness band makes us wonder if the company has lost its ability to execute quickly. Also, it’s time for a MacBook Neo check-in, and Myke questions Jason’s Apple Watch use.…

After my massive article on migrating your passwords, passkeys, and other secrets from third-party password managers to Apple’s Passwords, Wallet, Safari, and general ecosystem—potentially with help from another app—reader Scott asked whether I was directing people into weaker security.…

Everyone loves the MacBook Neo. Apple’s fresh-squeezed laptop was a not-too-surprising hit with computer buyers, and presumably sales have continued to be good despite a $100 mid-stream price increase elevating its original $599 price tag to a still-good-but-not-astounding $699.…

My thanks to Coherence X6 for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

Safari web apps are great when they fit the job. But sometimes you need Chromium: a Chrome extension, a separate browser profile, or simply a website that works better in Chrome.…

I’ve been using the Apple Watch Series 12 for a week now, but this isn’t a review. The first wave of reviews that dropped at embargo time were all from people who had used the device for about the same amount of time, and it seems a bit silly to just repeat those observations—and a week after all of those stories were published.…

Over at LexOnTech our pal Lex Friedman¹ has the skinny behind the long defunct Apple Cards, a project driven by Steve Jobs himself:

In 2011, Mike said, “Steve Jobs was on one of his famous walks after having had a dinner with someone,” and he said to his walking companions from Apple, Mike was later told: “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just right now on my iPhone send [the dinner companion] a thank you card?”

Qualcomm:

Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the renewal of its global patent license agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027.

“We are pleased to extend the Apple license agreement,” said John Han, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL).

Stephen Hackett reminds you that it’s September, and you know why that matters:

We are flying through September, and our St. Jude campaign is rocking and rolling.

Sometimes, it’s the little things in life, as this week’s crop of intriguing apps proves. None of our entries promise anything revolutionary — just control over one aspect or another of your Mac that should stand to make your user experience just a tad bit better.…

How we decide between new and older tech, whether iPhone users are ready for the foldable life, the new Apple features we’re most excited about, and payments from class action lawsuits.…

Lex’s phone, Dan’s Watch and Moltz’s vacuum.…

Just up the road from Apple in Redwood City, Steve Jobs’s NeXT is fading and flailing, but has a modern operating system just like the one Apple desperately needs to buy to replace Mac OS.…

You ever have one of those moments when you start to copy a large file in the Finder and groan when the Progress Window tells you it’s going to take forever?…

The new products are here! Jason reviews the M6 Mac mini, and then Jason and Myke both talk about their hands-on experiences with the iPhone 18 Pro and Apple Watch series 12.…

Safari web apps are great when they fit the job. But sometimes you need Chromium: a Chrome extension, a separate browser profile, or simply a website that works better in Chrome.…

The new iPhone 18 Pro Max battery is quite capacious—so much so, in fact, that it potentially runs afoul of international shipping regulations. If you’re shipping batteries over 20 Wh, it triggers more restrictions.…

2024’s M4 Mac mini was a revelation. It packed Apple silicon power into a shockingly compact space, breathing new life into Apple’s all-time utility Mac and (eventually) making it into a go-to device for home AI and even back-end podcast transcription.…

My thanks to Rogue Amoeba, the leaders in Mac audio software, for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

As of this month, Rogue Amoeba has been building independent Mac software development for 24 years.…

Ashley Belanger at Ars Technica runs through recently unsealed documents in the case brought by news organizations led by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft:

Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said.

David Pogue, in his newsletter:

The new AI Siri came out this week as part of OS 27 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and it’s a life changer.

Last year, Apple integrated the iPhone 17 Pro into its Friday Night Baseball coverage. As you might expect, this year it’s doing the same with the recently announced iPhone 18 Pro.…

Lex talks about his iPhone purchase experience, Dan has Duo expectations and Moltz volunteers at the Apple Store.…

Our relationship with telephoto lenses, whether Genmoji has gotten better, our thoughts on the iPhone Duo, and the sci-fi interfaces we’d love or hate to use.…

Apple desperately needs a replacement for Mac OS, but negotiations with Jean-Louis Gassée’s Be are at the breaking point. But does CEO Gil Amelio have any other options?…

One of the benefits to being part of the Apple ecosystem is the plethora of apps that work across all of Apple’s devices so that you can access them whether you’re sitting in front of a Mac, out and about with your iPhone or even strapping on a Vision Pro headset.…

The 27 OS releases have dropped. Jason has a review of macOS Golden Gate and Myke acts as the ambassador for Siri AI. And we’ve also got more reactions to just what makes the iPhone Duo so interesting.…

Strategery was always one of our very favorite games in the early days of iOS. And by “we,” I mean large portions of the staff at Macworld, including both myself and Lex Friedman.…

By now you’ve probably heard the promise of iOS 27: it’s a Snow Leopard-like year where Apple spent a lot of time not on big marquee features, but on smaller fixes and enhancements throughout the operating system.…