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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 18h

This Week in Apple: The red shirt diaries (Member Post)

This Week in Apple: The red shirt diaries

An Apple event may be nigh as the company shakes up its organization. Apple’s so busy, no wonder it needs to lie down! One day...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 23h

Magic Lasso Adblock: Block ads in iPhone, iPad and Mac apps (Sponsor)

Magic Lasso Adblock: Block ads in iPhone, iPad and Mac apps

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...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 1d

Immersive live NBA games coming to Vision Pro (Link)

Immersive live NBA games coming to Vision Pro

Apple has shown some immersive sports events, including NBA All-Star weekend, after the fact. But live streaming immersive video hasn't happened yet. After much anticipation,...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 1d

iPhones, AirPods, and AI (Member Podcast)

iPhones, AirPods, and AI

Reviewing some iPhones, responding to AirPods, and trying to parse the wild world of AI hype....

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 2d

14 years later, Siri is again the key to Apple’s future (Macworld/Jason Snell)

14 years later, Siri is again the key to Apple’s future

I was there on that early October day 14 years ago when Apple--led on stage by Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, and Scott Forstall--rolled out iOS...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 2d

Starlink moves conflict with Apple’s satellite strategy (Link)

Starlink moves conflict with Apple’s satellite strategy

Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica reports about how Elon Musk's satellite broadband ambitions are clashing with Apple's current strategy: Apple is partnering with satellite company...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 2d

iPhone 17 Pro review: Orange you glad you’ve gone Pro?

My iPhone is orange. I mean, really orange. Not "brown but if you hold it in a certain light, it kind of looks orange if...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 3d

iPhone Air review: Back to the future

The more I think about the iPhone Air, the more I think back to the introduction of the MacBook Air back in 2008. I used...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 4d

iPadOS 26.1 beta brings back Slide Over, adds microphone adjustments

Slide Over lets you hide apps off the side of the iPad screen. Again. Monday's second beta for iPadOS 26.1 includes two highly requested changes...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 4d

Navigate your Mac without a mouse

Ok, hotshot, here's a test. You've got a Mac with a keyboard. There's no USB mouse to hand within a 500-mile radius. You have an...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 7d

This Week in Apple: The phial of Ivegladriel (Member Post)

This Week in Apple: The phial of Ivegladriel

This time the leaks are coming from outside Apple! Got a yacht? Jony Ive has the product for you. And Apple’s software has enough problems...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 7d

Different visions of vision products (Member Podcast)

Different visions of vision products

As we write about Vision Pro and visionOS 26, Apple makes a move to build smart glasses from the bottom up....

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 7d

Clic for Sonos (Sponsor)

Clic for Sonos

My thanks to Clic for Sonos for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clic for Sonos is the fastest native Sonos client for iPhone, iPad, Mac,...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 7d

Apple’s ICEblock capitulation is business as usual

So, I guess I'm going to need to keep writing this piece. Say what you will about Apple's decision this week to remove from the...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 8d

visionOS Diary: Work it

It's been a busy few weeks around here, what with Apple's latest platform updates and new iPhones, but I finally have time to catch my...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 9d

visionOS 26 Review: Keep moving toward the future

The side of my head does look like that! If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 9d

Two iPhones, an iPad, and a podcast: Adventures with Final Cut Camera

Myke framed by Final Cut Camera on an iPhone. A bit lost in the hubbub around the announcement of the M4 iPad Pro back in...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 10d

The Back Page: Liquidity crisis (Member Post)

The Back Page: Liquidity crisis

After a long summer of discontent, Apple released its latest operating system updates earlier this month, and the result has been RAGE! PANIC! RIOTING IN...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 11d

Export keys securely from Passwords to third-party managers

I ranted about the joy of passkeys and some of their limitations a few weeks ago, and that prompted a question from Six Colors member...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 14d

This Week in Apple: To laugh, perchance to scream (Member Post)

This Week in Apple: To laugh, perchance to scream

Apple has HAD ENOUGH of government overreach, Tim Cook makes a new friend, and the App Store remains undefeated. Practicing my tight five Apple would...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 14d

New iPhones and Q&A (Member Podcast)

New iPhones and Q&A

We're trying out new iPhones, and answering your questions!...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 14d

Quip: The Clipboard Manager for Apple Devices That Doesn’t Suck (Sponsor)

Quip: The Clipboard Manager for Apple Devices That Doesn’t Suck

My thanks to Quip for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clipboard managers aren’t usually exciting. Most of them just capture everything you copy, then become...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 15d

Apple adds iPhones to Friday Night Baseball coverage

Imagine an orange phone at Dodger Stadium. (Apple TV+) Surprise! Last Friday, Apple TV+'s Friday Night Baseball broadcast of the Giants and the Dodgers featured...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 15d

Apple posts thoughts on the DMA (Link)

Apple posts thoughts on the DMA

In an unsigned post on Apple Newsroom, Apple has poured out its heart about the EU's Digital Markets Act: It’s been more than a year...

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Six Colors @sixcolors.com · 15d

Nic’s Fix brings back original HomePods (like mine)

My HomePod, open to the world. One of my original HomePods died last year of a sudden illness. It was survived by its fellow stereo...

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