Blogs about Apple

We just closed down Relay’s 2024 St. Jude campaign. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to raise $1,078,348 to further St. Jude’s mission of finding cures and saving children. From the bottom of our …

Apple seems on track to become the world’s biggest smartphone vendor again across the critical gifting season, even as the size of the smartphone market climbs. To be fair, this isn’t such a big surprise. …

After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment — including this upcoming week. Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball …

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 …

Lee Peterson: The first one is via a VPN. If you already have one or if not you can sign up easily with someone like Nord (the one I use, don’t use a free service!) …

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 announced the HomePod mini smart speaker four years ago today at its "Hi, Speed" special event. The low-cost smart speaker was announced alongside the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, ‌iPhone‌ 12 Pro, and iPhone …

I joined Lee Peterson on his podcast, Home Screens, for a tour of my iPhone Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Control Center pages. The theme that ties it all together is ‘quick entry.’ Whether it’s …

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. …

Howard Oakley: All storage media, including memory, SSDs and rotating hard disks, can develop fragmentation, but most serious attention has been paid to the problem on hard disks. This is because of their electro-mechanical mechanism …

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 users have already installed iOS 18 onto iPhone or iPadOS 18 onto iPad, but there are also a large number of iPhone and iPad owners who have not yet updated to the latest operating …

This morning Bloomberg's Mark Gurman stated that Apple is preparing a response to Meta's camera glasses, though clearly behind the curve. While Gurman surmises that Apple will have their basic glasses device launching in and …

Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: A few months ago, the SuperDrive went out of stock on Apple’s online store in the U.S., and it is now listed as sold out or unavailable in all countries. Given …

Juli Clover at MacRumors: With the iPhone 15 models that came out last year, Apple added an opt-in battery setting that limits maximum charge to 80 percent. The idea is that never charging the iPhone …

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 Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. As …

DeskPad creates a virtual display that is mirrored within its application window so that you can create a dedicated, easily shareable workspace.

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 …