Since the very beginning, it’s been clear that computers provide incredible power to those who know how to use them to get work done.…

My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs had returned to Apple and engineered the ejection of Gil Amelio as CEO, but there was no iMac yet, no visible turnaround in terms of products at all.…

Our thoughts on Valve’s Steam Machine pricing, the third-party camera apps we actually use, whether we wait for tech sales before buying, and if being the “tech person” inspires others or just makes them defer to us.…

This week we discuss post-CEO job opportunities for Tim Cook, new TVs and our beta experiences or lack thereof.…

Jason returns to John Gruber’s podcast for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, Jason and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.…

In the spirit of the Summer of Fun (and Apple history Kickstarters), John Siracusa joins us to discuss when Apple was forced to replace the Classic Mac OS.…

I stumbled on this post via Bluesky, in which Jason Hazeley was utterly baffled by this section of a printed book:

The movement takes the place of a scherzo and is mainly constructed [of] the welcome datacompordinary major scale with the four lower notes shifted a semitone upward.

When Amazon Prime Day gets underway this Tuesday (June 23), it will be the first time in nearly a decade that I’m not involved in some tech site’s effort to go all out with coverage around the online retailer’s multiday sales event.…

Years ago, in the era between the introduction of the iPhone and the modern period of widespread cellular coverage, my wife and I were driving with our quite young children across the vast, unexplored expanse of north-central Pennsylvania, en route to a family wedding.…

Mojave Paint is a new macOS image editor. If you use layers, masks, channels, selections, adjustments and filters all in the same editing session, Mojave Paint might be for you.…

Basic Apple Guy has a rundown of the new icons in Golden Gate compared to their Tahoe predecessors:

The colours are much bolder, several icons have been adjusted, and the refraction in the Liquid Glass effect has changed significantly, especially in icons like Journal.

My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best ad and tracker blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.…

In an exclusive with the Wall Street Journal, Tim Cook announced that Apple will be raising the prices on its products¹ as a result of high prices for memory and storage worldwide:

“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said.

Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It’s an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock.…

James Chang has built a project that upgrades the file-sharing stack on Apple’s long-discontinued Time Capsule hardware so that it will work on modern OS versions:

This is a modern Samba setup that runs directly on the Time Capsule itself; macOS 27 can connect to the Time Capsule as a network share, and use it for Time Machine backups…

You get the full Apple experience reproduced: after you install this, you do not have to worry about it again, even if the device IP address changes.

Snap’s latest smart glasses, whether we’ve tried Apple’s new Shortcuts creation feature, AI-powered pets, and who wants a dumb phone?…

In this episode we describe pictures to the listener for maximum hilarity.…

Back from WWDC, Jason and Myke have had more time to think about Apple’s announcements—and to try many of them in beta releases. Siri AI impresses, we have Snow Leopard vibes, and much more.…

I have a Mac Studio M2 Max with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD in front of me. While not the most powerful personal computer you can purchase today, it is among the most computationally capable ever made—a vastly capable machine.…

Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers and annoyances across all your Apple devices?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.…

Adam Engst at TidBITS took the time to extract every item on the WWDC 2026 keynote slide that captured our attention last week. Even better, Adam grouped the changes into operating systems, apps, and other categories.…

My thanks to Unite Pro for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

Safari web apps and PWAs are a nice start, but they’re limited. Browser tabs are messy.…

Apple’s pattern of updates is often described as two beats, maybe like the lub-dub sound of your heart: a year of big changes, followed by a year of tweaks that feature just a couple of marquee improvements.…

This soundbite has been making the rounds this morning, from an interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on the show Mostly Human:

I mean, the way that we have designed Siri, Siri really wants to say ‘Listen, that’s not what I’m here for, right?

Our hopes for fixes in the ’27 platform updates, what we’ll do with our Intel Macs now that they’ve reached end of the road, whether we’ll trust the new Siri AI, and how we feel about Apple’s child safety and age verification answers.…

Here’s a beautiful essay by Federico Viticci about covering WWDC for 10 years:

I look at the content creators who are possibly experiencing their first WWDC, and realize: how am I still here, and still taking notes on an iPad, while these younger folks are shooting videos that millions of people will watch?

In a preview of our new Designed in California podcast, we travel to the summer of 1976, as Apple travels to Atlantic City for a computer trade show, the Apple II begins to form, and the fellowship between the two Steves shows signs of breaking.…

The last two years at WWDC, Apple has felt like it’s been in a hurry. In 2024, in a hurry to catch the AI wave before it entirely passed them by.…

I’m home after two and a half days down in the South Bay for WWDC.…

Apple’s annual software updates have implications throughout time. They reach back to older devices, some years making them more performant and usable or, alternatively, removing support for them altogether; they deal, obviously, with the products people are using and buying right now; and, perhaps most interestingly, they hint at what we might see from the company down the road.…