This week in the Labs was a lot of fun as we covered Apple’s WWDC event. We had three meetups, and there were multiple videos. This year’s WWDC announcements were unlike most years, and we all had a lot of takes. Below you’ll find…
Continue reading →Apple’s Hardware Is Waiting on Siri
It used to mean something specific when an Apple product went out of stock. The old machine sold out right before the new one showed up. Now things go out of stock because Apple can’t get the chips, or because they’re holding back for…
Continue reading →Apple Finally Owns Age Verification
I’ve been saying on the Lab Report for years that Apple needs to own the age of the person holding the device. This year they did something about it. The piece that matters is the new Declared Age Range API. It lets an app…
Continue reading →HomeKit Secure Video Hits 4K. You’re Welcome.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a whole post complaining that HomeKit Secure Video was still stuck at 1080p in 2026. I never published it. I figured I’d look silly if Apple fixed it the week after I hit send. Then the keynote…
Continue reading →Turn Your Web Apps Into Real Mac Apps with Unite Pro
This post is sponsored by BZG Apps. My thanks to Unite Pro for sponsoring MacSparky this week. I spend a ridiculous amount of time in web apps. My browser has become a second operating system. The trouble is that browser tabs are terrible containers…
Continue reading →Apple Intelligence Table Stakes
Back in 2017, the night before the WWDC keynote, I wrote a short post about table stakes. I’d spent a year living on the iPad, and a lot of it still felt like swimming upstream. My argument was that fixing the iPad’s file management…
Continue reading →This Week in the Labs — June 5, 2026
Welcome to This Week in the Labs, my Friday roundup of everything that happened in MacSparky Labs over the past week. Below you’ll find the week’s new videos and podcasts, a few of the conversations happening in the member community, what’s coming next week,…
Continue reading →Designed in California
Jason Snell and Myke Hurley just put a new podcast on Kickstarter, and the pitch grabbed me right away. It’s called Designed in California, and it tells the story of Apple across all fifty years of the company. Jason did the research and writing.…
Continue reading →My New Podcast: Intentional AI with Chris Bailey
I’m proud to announce I just released a new podcast, and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it for months. It’s called Intentional AI, and it’s a show about using AI to actually get your work done. Not the doom. Not the hype. The…
Listen & read notes →Focused 257: Stephen Robles
On this episode of Focused, I’m joined by Mike and our guest Stephen Robles, the new co-host of Mac Power Users who went fully independent last October. Stephen makes the case for the generalist, the person who’s good at a lot of things instead…
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