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3 days ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

Six Colors subscriber Ampsonic—an excellent source of questions—asks: Why do some names turn red in Messages when a non-iOS user is added? It’s all about hegemony! Ok, not quite, but it is about the tricky issue of how Apple deals with email addresses connected or not connected to iCloud accounts. Outside looking inWhen you enter an email address or type one into the address field in Messages, the software does a quick behind-the-scenes check.

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | John Birmingham

About four weeks out from a manuscript deadline—already a month or two behind schedule—I broke my arm. Well, technically, someone else broke it. A Muay Thai fighter, during a sparring session in a martial arts class I definitely should not have been in. The next morning, I had to call my editor and fess up: instead of hammering away at the keyboard, I’d been getting my forearm snapped like a dry twig. Now I wasn’t going to be hammering away at anything except painkillers and regret.

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

Six Colors reader Philip asked some specific networking questions that centered on this dilemma: How does the choice between using Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi get made? Does one particular transaction solely use Ethernet or Wi-Fi, or can it be a mixture of the two? Home, home on the range of choicesOne of the joys of the modern Mac is that you can attach all sorts of networks to it, and macOS just figures it out. Gone are the days of installing drivers or digging deep into network configuration settings.

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Ever since OpenAI announced a couple of days ago that it’s integrating Jony Ive’s hardware startup, I’ve been struggling with what to write about it. Struggling because it’s obviously an important technology topic, and needs to be taken seriously. But also struggling because I’ve seen a lot of people who think, talk and write about this stuff for a living reacting to the announcement with enthusiasm and positivity, and I just don’t feel that, not even a little bit.

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

Six Colors subscriber Brandon Minich asked: I haven’t been able to keep track of…what is the current status of the emulation of Windows on the Mac after the changeover to Apple silicon? Is this even worth doing like it used to be in the Intel days? And how does the ARM-based Windows work with Mac emulation, if at all?