Blogs about Apple

This week on the podcast: Stephen wants to make showers more interesting, Federico is spending time with AI writing tools, and Myke is excited about a possible Apple smart home hub.

Apple may intend to double iPhone production in India in the event the US puts tariffs on Chinese imports, raising production to 26% of global manufacturing within the next two years, local reports claim. Building …

Bill Atkinson, on Facebook, “Request for Prayers”: On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because of vascular involvement, surgery is not possible. I am taking weekly chemo treatments to shrink the tumor before …

This past weekend I was fortunate to be a participant in the “Relay FM 10th Anniversary Extravaganza”, a live show in London celebrating Relay’s decade of podcasting. Relay is the home of Under the Radar. …

The recent Beeper controversy briefly brought the “blue bubbles vs. green bubbles” topic back into the mainstream. Here’s a brief review for those of you who are (blessedly) unaware of this issue. Messages sent using …

Pixelmator: Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time. Stay …

Robb Knight in My Computing Origin Story and Kev Quirk in My computing History have both written posts about their computing history as part of WeblogPoMo2024. I thought I’d write about mine. I didn’t have …

Apple today announced the launch of major updates for its Final Cut Pro video editing software designed for Macs and iPads. Final Cut Pro has been version 10 since 2011, but after 13 years, Apple …

The Magnetic Mask. Source: Apple. Today, Apple revealed the latest updates to Final Cut Pro for the Mac and iPad, with both offering a variety of new features and simplified workflows. Final Cut Pro 11 …

Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond. …

Juli Clover: App Store Connect 2.0 includes a refreshed UI throughout the app, as well as new capabilities. Developers are able to promote their apps by generating marketing assets for app launches, version updates, featured …

by Jean-Louis GasséeYes, with help gratefully acknowledged below, my book is finally available at Amazon in print and Kindle formats. It was harder than I presumptuously expected. I hope to do better in a future …

Many iPhone users have discovered that Wi-Fi is turning itself on automatically on their iPhone, usually after they install a system software update to iOS, restart the iPhone, or turn the iPhone back on. This …

Although we’ve posted a couple of smartphone reports covering top U.S. and Global Smartphones for Q3, a new report by Kantar does the deepest dive of all regarding the status of global smartphone shipments. The …

Eric Hal Schwartz for TechRadar (via Nick Heer): Microsoft has made Copilot the name and style of its AI assistant and other AI services for more than a year, but it seems the company might …

I've just pushed up Acorn 7.4.6, which is about bug fixes. Specifically Quick Look fixes for MacOS 15 Sequoia (which was kind of tricky to get done right). If you're on Sequoia, make sure to …

How we read (with or without tech), our favorite pet tech, whether we’d get a HomePod with a screen, and the small cute tech we like. Go to the podcast page.

Yeah, I skipped a few weeks’ worth of notes, but the gist of things is that I moved to a new role, had a grueling first week (wasn’t able to leave the house for breaks), …

Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a …