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Let's have some fun and predict what's coming tomorrow! General Event Stuff 1. Absolutely nothing we see on the stream will be live. 2. Press will get hands-on with the new hardware afterwards. 3. Risky - Tim makes some comment that could be seen as a reference to current political
On the verge of the 8th generation Apple Watch announcement, I thought it would be fun to rank all the previous models from best to worst. My criteria for this ordering is based on how good it would have been for an average person to buy a new Apple Watch
This tweet has been making the rounds today, and fair play to it, it's a really nice-looking mock up! Just recreating the battery indicator pic.twitter.com/cK8PZDe9Y5 — Brian Michel (@brianmichel) August 9, 2022 My feedback on this would be "ok it looks great at a large size on a
Last month I complained about the Safari download window being hard to read with the default settings. Today I'm back complaining about contrast and legibility again with the updated Home app in macOS Ventura. I wanted to add an accessory today and I stared at the window for a few
I just noticed that Apple updated the Font Book app in macOS Ventura, and while I don't know for sure, it seems that it was done in Swift UI. It's nice! Here's what I wrote a few days before WWDC this year: WWDC wish: Font Book comes to iOS and
Apple released public betas for all their main products today, and I think the one people will enjoy the most up front will be the new lock screen. We got: 1. New fonts 2. Color controls 3. Wallpaper filters 4. New animated wallpapers 5. Depth-detection in all photos 6. Widgets
I've gone all in on Siri for voice assistants in my home. A HomePod is always close enough to take my requests, and being able to AirPlay from my devices to them quickly is a huge draw. But I do have one Google Assistant speaker in the house… It's technically
Mail for iOS and Mac got a few solid updates, which means I had to give it a shot on iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura. I appreciate the new snooze, send later, and undo send features are nice, and work as you'd expect, although I still have issues
Just over 2 months ago I made this video where I proposed something called studioOS that was exclusive to the Pro iPads and allowed them to run more apps at the same time in a fully-windowed environment. Here's the very quick mock up I threw together for it: So you
On a pretty regular basis I’ll see someone write a thread or blog post about why they’re switching to all stock iPhone apps. The dream seems to be throwing all third party apps to the side and going all in on Apple stuff. Everyone is of course allowed
There's a constant stream of Apple rumors, and you never know exactly how accurate any of them are until months (or years) later, but we never go back to look up how accurate the rumors were, so I wanted to change that today. I went through all the posts to
The new Studio Display reviews are out, and the general consensus seems to be that it's a pretty damn good display with great speakers and a decent-to-terrible webcam that's getting fixed with a software update rolling out as we speak. A few reviewers have criticized the product for having old
The Mac Studio looks great, and as a computer lover, I want one just because, but I thought this mental exercise was a good way to determine if it's right for you. Consider an alternate reality where the Mac Studio was released in October 2021, and the new MacBook Pros
Apple used their now-famous vague performance charts to show how their new M1 Ultra system on a chip smoked NVIDIA's top-of-the-line RTX 3090 graphics card both in performance and power usage. I believe Apple 100% about the power usage, but the performance numbers are a bit misleading, in my opinion.
Jason Snell does his excellent Apple report card every year, and while I wasn’t invited (Jason, call me 😊), the report card has been rattling around in my head since it came out and I wanted to add my takes, so consider this a write-in ballot. As a reminder to