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Six Colors offers daily insights into Apple, various tech companies, and how technology interacts with culture. The site is led by its founder and editor-in-chief, Jason Snell.

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This Week in Apple: Time is the FireWire in which we all burn

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | John Moltz

Apple wants you to know about its latest pet project, WWDC is over but for all the shouting, and we bid FW (farewell) to FW (FireWire). Oh, you have a movie coming out? There is just kind of a lot right now all the time so you may be excused for missing the 10,000 times Apple tried to tell you about it but were you aware that Apple has a movie coming up? Can anyone guess the name? It’s two characters and rhymes with “fu-un”.
At WWDC 2025, Apple played to its strengths

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

Another Worldwide Developers Conference is in the books, and after a week of keynotes, briefings, and travel, I’ve finally had a chance to sit and zoom out to the 35,000-foot view of the company’s latest announcements. The Apple of 2025 has definitely learned some lessons. In hindsight, last year’s event has seemed even more rocky, with the company hustling to unveil Apple Intelligence, including showing off features that still have yet to ship.
Apple keeps checking items off my Mac wishlist

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

A couple of years ago, I recalled that in the early days of Mac OS X, I built up an entire array of utilities that allowed me to use my Mac just how I wanted it. I felt utterly naked on a Mac without LaunchBar, for example. But in the intervening two decades since OS X’s early days, Apple has just kept improving the base features of macOS to the point where most of my old “must-have Mac utilities” had become ones I kept around more out of habit than necessity.
Apple’s built-in transcriber blows away Whisper

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

John Voorhees of MacStories took Apple’s new Speech framework, available to all developers, for a spin in the macOS 26 beta and got great results in making audio transcripts: It’s still early days for these technologies, but I’m here to tell you that their speed alone is a game changer for anyone who uses voice transcription to create text from lectures, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more.
Reducing suboptimal iCloud Photos storage sizes

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

iCloud Photos requires mysterious files and processes and often consumes huge amounts of storage space. Six Colors subscriber John writes in with a question about one aspect of this: I have photos set to optimize storage, and it’s currently (according to DaisyDisk) using 60GB of my 500GB MacBook Air.…But mediaanalysisd is also using 60GB – I understand that’s one of the processes that run when idle, but should it be using that much space, and can I restrict it?
This Week in Apple: Let’s talk about something else

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | John Moltz

Apple gives them something to talk about, enhanced Siri is definitely maybe coming, and congratulations sickos, you can now look through windows on the iPad. Your ass is Liquid GlassCongratulations! We have something new to argue about other than the intersection of politics and tech or AI or App Store rules or all of the other things we’re so very tired of arguing about! Yes, almost as if the company wanted to change the subject, Apple announced a new look and feel to all its operating systems.
Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Some of us have spent an awful lot of time pondering the iPad’s use cases as a professional productivity device. As a heavy user of the iPad, I’ve frequently wanted to push it into areas where it wasn’t designed to go because if I could get it to do what I wanted, it would fit in my life better than going back to the Mac. As I pushed, the iPad pushed back. In recent years, I’ve come to accept that most of the time I travel, I have to bring both my iPad and my MacBook.
20 years of ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

The Steve Jobs Archive has remastered his classic Stanford commencement address for its 20th anniversary: It’s not an obvious candidate for a classic. A commencement address by a college dropout.
Canal+ to debut Immersive doc produced with new Blackmagic camera

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

French media company Canal+ that it’s working on a documentary about French motorcycle racer Johann Zarco at the French Grand Prix, which would probably not be notable for most people were it not for how it was made: Produced in collaboration with Apple and MotoGP, a competition organized by Dorna, this new documentary event is the first Apple Immersive Video production filmed entirely with the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera.
visionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple’s newest platform toward the future

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of wearable devices in front of our eyes, Apple needs to keep pushing toward that future at every opportunity. Fortunately, visionOS keeps moving forward, with several substantial feature improvements that have rolled out in updates over the past year-plus. With visionOS 26, Apple keeps pushing, as it should.