MacSparky

Stephen Robles spent the week of WWDC 2026 at Apple Park, and I spent it running betas on a slightly scratched iPhone Air I grabbed off eBay. He sat two rows behind Tim Cook during Craig Federighi’s post-keynote tech talk. I sat at my desk in a chair.

Despite this, I think we came away with the same conclusion: this is the year Apple actually delivered on the A...

I got beta access to the new Siri AI and the first thing I asked was, “Can you check the weather for where I’ll be this weekend?”.

I’m going on vacation. I never told Siri that. It read my calendar, figured out I’d be in Hawaii, and gave me the forecast. Old Siri would have read me the weather at home, or handed me a list of web results and wished me luck.

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 the week’s new videos and podcasts, a few of the conversations happening in the member community, and what’s coming next week. Most ...

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 a launch they haven’t announced. The HomePod mini has been out of stock almost everywhere for months. I get that there are supply co...

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 know whether it’s dealing with a kid, and roughly how o...