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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: There’s more than one way to multitask a cat

6 days ago | sixcolors.com | John Moltz

iPadOS 19 takes another swing at a perennial problem, rumors swirl again about Apple’s upcoming headset offerings, and the tariff clown show continues. This time for sureHey, do you like football? Well! Guess what! Apple loves football, too! In fact, Apple would like to play football with you! Let’s play! It’ll be really fun. Apple will just hold the football right here. You gather up as much energy as possible and come charging at the football and try to kick it. OK, go ahead.
This Week in Apple: Are we having fun yet?

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | John Moltz

The ups and downs of the tariff circus are making this writer sick, the sharks are out for Apple’s failure to deliver a smarter Siri and this last one… I’ll believe it when I see it. I want off this rideI’m starting to wonder if there’s any real reason to cover the tariff situation—it’s like trying to predict the end elevation of a rollercoaster by using its current position.
How Apple can catch up on AI

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

At MacStories, Federico Viticci does some excellent speculation about how Apple might catch up in AI: Yesterday, Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information, published an outstanding story detailing the internal turmoil at Apple that led to the delay of the highly anticipated Siri AI features last month…. one tidbit in particular stood out to me: Federighi has now given the green light to relying on third-party, open-source LLMs to build the next wave of AI features….
Building self-updating charts in Numbers

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Dan’s sort of turned Six Colors into a Numbers-themed blog over the past few days, but I thought I’d pile on with an additional post about Apple’s spreadsheet app, which I use to generate all our financial charts. Recently, I appeared on Allison Sheridan’s podcast for one of the most exciting conversations you will ever hear about using computers to visualize data.
Why price increases aren’t the only way Apple can fight tariffs

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Apple is one of the world’s most valuable and powerful companies, offering some of its most popular products. And yet, with the stroke of a sharpie, a raft of U.S. tariffs threatens its entire business. Life comes at you quick. There are a lot of suggestions that the prices of Apple products are headed up. Apple Stores are crowded with buyers who are trying to beat the anticipated price increases.
A full list of new functions in Numbers 14.4

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

Earlier this week, I mentioned my excitement over the recent update to Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet app adding more than 30 new functions. But alas, though I reached out to Apple to try and get a complete list, I haven’t gotten one yet. Fortunately reader Neil came to the rescue: using the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine, he retrieved an older version of Apple’s list of functions and compared it to the new version, thus isolating all the new functions.
Seeking entries in the Apple in the Enterprise 2025 report card survey

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Since 2021, Six Colors has been compiling an annual report card focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government. We formulated a set of survey questions that would address the big-picture issues regarding Apple in the enterprise, and we ask them every year. If you’re part of the Apple IT community and would like to participate in this year’s survey, it’s just a click away. Results will be posted at the end of the month.
You can’t make the iPhone in the U.S.

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Here’s a good piece by Jason Koebler of 404 Media about how Apple will not be making an iPhone in the U.S. anytime soon: The truth is that, assembled in the U.S. or not, the iPhone is a truly international device that is full of components manufactured all over the world and materials mined from dozens of different countries.
White House: iOS helpfully added Atlantic editor to Signal chat

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

How did the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg get added to that Signal group about military action in Yemen? It might have been a helpful suggestion from iOS. Hugo Lowell of The Guardian writes: According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by [National Security Adviser Mike] Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.
Upgrading my accounting spreadsheet with Numbers’s latest update

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

I get that maybe most people don’t get as excited about an update to Apple’s spreadsheets app, but I am, frankly, a Numbers enthusiast.1So when I saw that this past week’s update to Numbers 14.4 added “over 30 new functions”, I was intrigued to see what was available2—and, more to the point, if there was anything that could fill in some gaps in functionality.