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Why it’s hard to resize windows in Tahoe (Link)
Why it’s hard to resize windows in Tahoe
Norbert Heger gets to the bottom of a problem I've been having lately--my inability to resize macOS Tahoe windows at their corners: It turns out...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Why it’s hard to resize windows in Tahoe (Link)
Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store (Link)
Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store
The Verge's Elizabeth Lopatto in an absolute scorcher in which she minces no words: Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store (Link)
Some first thoughts about live immersive basketball
Some first thoughts about live immersive basketball
One of the immersive views is behind and underneath the basket. I got to watch the first quarter of tonight's Lakers-Bucks game from the front...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Some first thoughts about live immersive basketball
More reports about Apple succession planning (Link)
More reports about Apple succession planning
The Apple executive transition speculation keeps heating up. On Thursday, The New York Times's Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle weighed in with a profile of...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
More reports about Apple succession planning (Link)
A note about podcast and RSS feeds for members (Member Post)
A note about podcast and RSS feeds for members
Hi Six Colors members, This week we changed the method we use to serve episodes of the Six Colors Podcast. There's a new feed that...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
A note about podcast and RSS feeds for members (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: Wild Apple Potential (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: Wild Apple Potential
Apple chooses an Apple Card heir, one App Store app just gets worse and worse, and a PC vendor surprises. Cutting to the Chase Les...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This Week in Apple: Wild Apple Potential (Member Post)
Coroporate governance and an iPad-iPhone hybrid (Member Podcast)
Coroporate governance and an iPad-iPhone hybrid
Apple makes executive moves exactly when it intends to; Jason realizes that the call is coming from inside the iPad....
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January 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Coroporate governance and an iPad-iPhone hybrid (Member Podcast)
Apple board members will stand for re-election, despite age limits (Link)
Apple board members will stand for re-election, despite age limits
As reported by Eric Slivka at MacRumors, both Apple's Chairman of the Board Arthur Levinson and board member Ronald Sugar are standing for re-election at...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Apple board members will stand for re-election, despite age limits (Link)
Bose open sources discontinued speaker API (Link)
Bose open sources discontinued speaker API
Scharon Harding, writing at Ars Technica: Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Bose open sources discontinued speaker API (Link)
WSJ: JPMorgan Chase strikes deal to take over Apple Card (Link)
WSJ: JPMorgan Chase strikes deal to take over Apple Card
AnnaMaria Andriotis and Gina Heeb at the Wall Street Journal reporting (paywalled): “JPMorgan will issue Apple credit cards for both new and existing cardholders, the...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
WSJ: JPMorgan Chase strikes deal to take over Apple Card (Link)
Will the iPhone Fold be a phone you open, or an iPad you close?
Will the iPhone Fold be a phone you open, or an iPad you close?
Left to right: iPhone Air, Field Notes and pen, iPhone Fold mock-up, iPhone 17 Pro. If many years-long rumors are true, 2026 will be the...
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January 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Will the iPhone Fold be a phone you open, or an iPad you close?
Messages craves cloud syncing, even when you don’t want it
Messages craves cloud syncing, even when you don’t want it
Apple added iCloud for Messages several years ago to solve the problem of presence.1 Presence is a loose concept that describes where you are active...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Messages craves cloud syncing, even when you don’t want it
This Week in Apple: The shape of things to come (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: The shape of things to come
It’s a new year, so let’s look ahead to new iPhones and new iPhone accessories as well as how some other Apple products may fare...
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January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
This Week in Apple: The shape of things to come (Member Post)
PowerPhotos (Sponsor)
PowerPhotos
My thanks to PowerPhotos, from Fat Cat Software, for sponsoring Six Colors this week. PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
PowerPhotos (Sponsor)
AppleVis announces 2025 Golden Apple Awards (Link)
AppleVis announces 2025 Golden Apple Awards
AppleVis, a web site and community that follows Apple from the perspective of blind and low-vision users, announced its annual Golden Apple Awards, recognizing apps,...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
AppleVis announces 2025 Golden Apple Awards (Link)
Fitness and cable boxes on Island Day (Member Podcast)
Fitness and cable boxes on Island Day
Happy New Year! We resurface to discuss Apple's fitness strengths and weaknesses and the crime of sending elderly people new cable TV self-install kits....
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January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Fitness and cable boxes on Island Day (Member Podcast)
2026 Predictions: Executive shuffles, interesting iPhones, weird Mac moves (Macworld/Jason Snell)
2026 Predictions: Executive shuffles, interesting iPhones, weird Mac moves
When all is said and done, I doubt anyone will cite 2025 as a key year in the history of Apple. The company admitted that...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
2026 Predictions: Executive shuffles, interesting iPhones, weird Mac moves (Macworld/Jason Snell)
The Back Page: The big five-uh-oh (Member Post)
The Back Page: The big five-uh-oh
Here at Apple, we don't like looking back—only ruthlessly forward. But certain milestones demand recognition, which is why we're taking a hard look in the...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Back Page: The big five-uh-oh (Member Post)
Dan’s favorite things of 2025
Dan’s favorite things of 2025
Once again the year draws to a close and so we are forced by contractual obligation to tell you, dear readers, about our favorite things...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Dan’s favorite things of 2025
My favorite things of 2025
My favorite things of 2025
The year is at an end, and as is tradition, I've compiled a list of my favorite stuff from the year gone by. This is...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My favorite things of 2025
Apple design’s luxury bubble (Link)
Apple design’s luxury bubble
I enjoyed this thoughtful post from Garrett Murray, itself a link to a post by Louie Mantia about the departure of Alan Dye from Apple:...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Apple design’s luxury bubble (Link)
You spin me right round (like a Wi-Fi identifier)
You spin me right round (like a Wi-Fi identifier)
It seems like everyone—hackers, governments, corporations—want to track everything we do online and in the physical world. Apple has a multi-year history of rolling out...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You spin me right round (like a Wi-Fi identifier)
This Week in Apple: A well-cooked goose (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: A well-cooked goose
Tim Cook makes a holiday purchase, the iPhone Air may live on, and Apple does not thaw one degree at Christmas. Treating myself Looks like...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This Week in Apple: A well-cooked goose (Member Post)
Wish List: A more flexible Apple display strategy
Wish List: A more flexible Apple display strategy
This display can only be used by its included Mac. I've been thinking about Apple's relationship with computer displays lately. Maybe it was the report...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wish List: A more flexible Apple display strategy
The “year of Apple Intelligence,” postponed at least one year (Macworld/Jason Snell)
The “year of Apple Intelligence,” postponed at least one year
Think back to the end of 2024. It was a more innocent time. Sure, after unveiling Apple Intelligence with great fanfare at WWDC in June,...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The “year of Apple Intelligence,” postponed at least one year (Macworld/Jason Snell)