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Jason Snell: Apple announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2024 on Thursday. The company booked $90.8 billion in revenue (down 4% versus the year-ago quarter) with $23.6 ...

https://512pixels.net/2024/05/apple-files-q2-results-with-record-service-revenue/

John Voorhees: One of the most controversial aspects of Apple’s response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) was the introduction of a Core Technology Fee (CTF), which must be paid by devel...

https://512pixels.net/2024/05/apple-announces-changes-to-the-ctf/

Tom Lokhorst has put together a wonderful site that catalogs WWDC sessions dating back to the year 2000. I bet this one was fun.

https://512pixels.net/2024/05/the-wwdc-index/

Somehow, we have arrived at episode 500 of Connected,1 and I’m so glad Apple waited to release new iPads until next week, so we could play our traditional game before the event next week: Apple...

https://512pixels.net/2024/05/connected-500/

John Voorhees at MacStories: Today, the European Union announced that it has added iPadOS to the products and services subject to the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The designation gives Apple six mo...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/ipados-dma/

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I’m very happy with this particular episode of the podcast: Neil Jhaveri founded Mimestream, a macOS email app for Gmail users. Stephen and David talk to Neil about his time at Apple, Mimestrea...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/mpu-742-mimestream/

This weekend, my Mastodon and Thread timelines exploded with people being locked out of their Apple IDs. While it didn’t happen to me, it did to Michael Tsai: I had another instance of my Apple...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/the-apple-id-had-a-bad-weekend/

I spent the week with ALSAC — the fundraising organization at St. Jude — with half a dozen Relay folks and a few hundred other content creators who are using their platforms for fundraising....

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/a-week-with-st-jude/

Howard Oakley: When Apple introduced Fusion Drives back in late 2012, they were an attractive option for many iMacs and Mac minis. At a time when SSDs of 1 TB and greater size were expensive, the...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/reflecting-on-the-fusion-drive/

I think it’s finally iPad time: The event is scheduled for 7 AM Pacific.

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/apple-announces-event-for-may-7/

I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp: In preparation for a future Mac Power Users episode, I’ve been playing with a bunch of AI software,...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/ai-overlay-tmp-home-folder-mac-os/

Robert Lea, writing about our far-flung friend: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyag...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/voyager-1-is-back-online/

Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: This one is way too close to home. News started to spread this morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog, and Tom Bridge’s site about ho...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/charles-edge-passed-away-on-friday/

This week on MPU: On this feedback episode, the guys catch up on listener feedback, share some unique uses for Freeform, discuss some good Apple Watch apps, and talk about the Mac’s startup sou...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/mpu-741/

Hartley Charlton, writing at MacRumors: Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories, according to the Apple leaker and prototype collector known as “Kosutami.” In a post on X (forme...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/finewoven-is-unraveling/

Earlier today, David and I shipped version 6.2 of Widgetsmith. This release is for both iOS and visionOS, and packs some cool goodies: Widgetsmith 6.2 brings a brand-new widget type: Background S...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/widgetsmith-6-2/

This week’s episode of Connected got weird: The guys try AltStore and the Delta game emulator live on the show before discussing reviews of the Humane AI Pin and the response to those reviews. ...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/connnected-489/

I adore Soulver for Mac, and am so glad version 3 is now out for iOS.

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/soulver-3-for-ios/

This week on the podcast: Lee Garret is the new owner of ScreenCastsOnline. He joins Stephen and David to discuss his background in technology, his Apple gear, and how clear communication and pro...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/mpu-740/

David Pierce has reviewed the Humane AI Pin, and it seems pretty, pretty, pretty bad. We already knew — from Humane’s recent video — that the device could be quite slow to respond. That wa...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/oh-the-humanity/

Apple Newsroom: Today Apple announced an upcoming enhancement to existing repair processes that will enable customers and independent repair providers to utilize used Apple parts in repairs. Begi...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/apple-announces-support-for-used-parts-in-iphone-repairs/

This week on the show: Myke has a friend, Federico is dreaming of emulation, and I got stuck in traffic.

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/connected-497/

Apple Support: The iMac (Mid 2007) computer has two Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (SDRAM) slots in the bottom of the computer. It comes with at least 1 GB Double Data Rate (DDR2) SDRAM...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/kbase-article-of-the-week-imac-mid-2007-memory-specifications/

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This week on Mac Power Users, David and I revisit Freeform and discuss how it’s improved since its launch and what Apple could do next with the application. We also share how they use the app a...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/mpu-739/

This week on the world’s greatest podcast: While waiting for new iPads and Apple’s AI efforts to materialize, Stephen, Myke, and Federico have been changed by spatial Personas.

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/connected-496/

Howard Oakley: Seven years ago, on 27 March 2017, Apple introduced one of the most fundamental changes in its operating systems since Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was released 16 years earlier. On that ...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/seven-years-diiiiing/

I just spent some time playing with spatial Personas with Jason Snell, and I have to say, having Personas free from their floating boxes makes the whole thing much more personal. When you join a ...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/my-spatial-persona-impressions/

Today, Apple is launching spatial Personas to users of the Vision Pro. In short, this allows a caller’s Persona to break free of a singular box during a FaceTime call and puts them directly int...

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/spatial-personas-roll-out-to-vision-pro-users/