iPhone 17e and iPad 12 Features and Release Date Rumors Surface in Two New Reports

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/05/iphone-17e-and-ipad-12-rumors/

I’m with the Macalope on this one: “The iPhone’s supremacy was never going to last forever, but is all this spending on AI warranted? The Macalope has said repeatedly that AI has any number of practical, valuable uses, particularly in programming, data analysis, and accessibility. It just doesn’t belong in literally everything.”

#Apple #AI #iPhone #AIInvestmentBoom #Macworld #Macalope

https://www.macworld.com/article/3036876/ai-demnd-chip-apple-tsmc.html

#Macworld thinks HP "discovered" a formfactor that "even Apple didnt think of”.

My 1978 (yes, 48 years ago) computer:

Macworld's Best Web Sites

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macworlds-best-web-sites

A list of websites and Internet tools circa 1996.

#macgarden #Reference #1996 #Macworld

Is anyone else getting this #overheating issue on #Macs running #Tahoe?

https://www.macworld.com/article/2999630/macos-tahoe-freezing-crashing-macbook-pro-fix.html

I am: and #MacWorld’s suggested fix, changing #Spotlight settings, doesn’t seem to be working … 

iOS 26.4 and iOS 27 Features Revealed in New Leak

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/alleged-ios-26-4-and-ios-27-features/

"PREPARE TO ENTER #HYPERTEXT."

(From an #ad on p30 of #MacWorld issue July 1987, via @johnblood's "Computer Ads from the Past" blog)

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/vote-for-the-october-2025-post-topic

https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8707_July_1987

#html #web #webdev

6. August 1997: Wie Apple und Microsoft Frieden schlossen
Am 6. August 1997 beendeten Apple und Microsoft ihre lange Rivalität durch ein Investment und eine weitreichende Kooperation. Dieser Tag veränderte nicht nur Apples Zukunft, sondern prägte
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/6-august-1997-wie-apple-und-microsoft-frieden-schlossen/
#Mac #News #1997 #Apple #BillGates #InternetExplorer #Investment #Kooperation #MacWorld #Microsoft #Office #Rivalitt #SteveJobs #Technologiegeschichte

All 15 New iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro Colors Revealed in Latest Leak

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/16/all-new-iphone-17-and-17-pro-colors-leaked/

Reading a 1991 #MacWorld article about "low cost Macintoshes" ($2,450 to $8,850 in today's money, lol).

Kind of surreal how it predicted #Apple's then-future financial woes, although screaming Chicken Little over the supposedly paltry 30% profit margin is already a very late-stage-capitalistic mood. One very interesting tidbit is that Apple up until that point spent an average of 750 USD marketing EACH UNIT (total marketing budget / yearly sales, I'd surmise). WOOOOOOOOW.

Also, there's an inset article asking if Sculley (the CEO that fired*/took over from Jobs) was worth his 16.7 million** USD salary/bonuses/benefits.

lol, that'd be a budget McCEO today!

*More like Jobs tried to fire him, but he had too many friends on the board, IIRC.

**Early 32-bit era humor/irony or just coincidence: 16.7 million is also 2^24, a.k.a. the number of colors reproducible by a non-HDR "truecolor" display

Notice how quickly the image opened on the old Mac running the old macOS when Steve clicked the image. ~2005. It should be using HDD even.

My MacBook Pro M1 Pro slower on the same task. Crazy.

#apple #stevejobs #mac #macos #macworld #vintagecomputing

Very cool old tutorial. First you open HUE / red channel then make a range smaller to pick up only dark red areas, shift HUE to the most left, to see the selection better, tweak the range again, to perfectly match areas that you want to fix. And then move HUE back from 0 to right, more to yellowish side. Very cool.

#photoshop #macworld

#Macworld reports that the next version of #macOS will be called macOS 26 instead of macOS 16. If #Apple hadn’t dropped the OS X name, I guess they’d have to start calling it OS XX.

Dan Moren is on #Jeopardy!
#macworld

Dan Moren Questions What It Means To Be An Apple Fan These Days

The headline of Dan Moren’s final column for MacWorld says it all: I’m An Apple Fan In 2025. What Does That Even Mean?

Moren has been writing for MacWorld and been a sensible voice inside the Apple community for close to 20 years. He’s signing off his regular column gig for MacWorld, but he’ll still be around on the likes of Six Colors, podcasts, and I’m sure other places. Which is good, because his voice is an important and reliable one.

In his farewell, he raises the question many are asking of themselves, and the questions many are asking of Apple in its current state and our own state of affairs. As he puts it in a nutshell of a statement:

As Apple started becoming more and more successful, I’ve become increasingly skeptical that one should ever really consider oneself a “fan”of a company.

It’s a well thought out and well reasoned post and one that I think should be read by anyone considering themselves a fan, or a no longer fan, or even someone who just doesn’t care for Apple or its products.

A big part of the self-examination I know quite a few folks are going through in assessing their current relationship with Apple deals with issues bigger than just the products. For lack of a better description call them corporate issues. Even using that label — corporate — feels dirty to type in ways that seem damning in more dangerous ways these days. But that’s a fungible feeling and thinking that’s becoming increasingly tangible.

Here’s the thing. Technology advances. Humans advance. Nothing that feels foundational or allegiance adhering, or even worth being infatuated about is going to ever stay the same. Nor are our feelings about what we first might have fallen in love with, regardless of how the object of that affection itself grows and changes. Change is constant.

Microsoft had my allegiance back in the Tablet PC days because they won it when those much maligned devices provided a better, more productive way to do my work. Microsoft changed. I did too. iPads replaced what Tablet PCs were for me in my work and my play, and those are the tools I still use today. Do I think that will be forever? Not a chance. I mourned the loss of Tablet PCs. I’m sure if Apple stopped making iPads, I’d go through a similar grieving process. But again, that’s change. That’s life.

That’s also growth. But growth on the human side of the ledger rarely equals growth on the corporate side. In my brief time on this planet the two have never added up to successful equation that yields anything other than diverging results. That’s one thing I don’t ever expect to change.

Kudos to Dan on a job and career well done, (and still going) and kudos for a lovely farewell column in MacWorld.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

#Apple #DanMoren #MacWorld #Microsoft #SixColors #TabletPC

@BasicAppleGuy Amazing OS X is 24 years old, 25 if you include the Public beta and its unveiling at #Macworld 2000 with Aqua. In 2001 when OS X launched, Mac OS 9 was 17 years old. So, OS X has a more solid foundation, jumped two CPU architectures, switched file systems, multiple redesigns, spawned multiple offshoots - iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, Vision OS.

Hmm. This one is interesting. #MacWorld is suggesting that #Apple’s 2010 acquisition of LiquidMetal may be critical for their folding phone. The name refers to the process of making extremely precise components, ICYWW, and might be used for the hinge. #tech #iPhone www.macworld.com/article/2…

TechCrunch rejoint MacWorld et PCWorld dans un fond d’investissements http://dlvr.it/TJgbtY #TechCrunch #MacWorld

Happy 20th birthday to the #MacMini — a favorite #MacWorld Expo memory. We took pictures with it as though it were a sandwich.

…And now I will crumble in to dust.