Insights & Trends
Apple’s move into the low-cost laptop market will accelerate enterprise adoption — and most IT teams aren’t ready for it.
Explore the future of Mac virtual desktops and learn how cloud-hosted Mac and emerging VDI trends enhance security, graphics performance, and productivity for modern enterprises.
MacStadium CTO Chris Chapman explains the key features and announcements from WWDC 2025 that he is most excited about, but it's not what you may think.
Everything you need to know about Apple's WWDC 2025 Keynote, including the new Liquid Glass OS design.
DeepSeek R1 is a groundbreaking open-source AI model. Discover what makes R1 unique, and what it means for secure AI on Mac as a whole.
Explore how you can harness private context to generate relevant, actionable insights with AI on Mac. Learn key methods, benefits of using Macs for private AI, and the essential components for building your own private AI solution.
M4 has arrived, and our own Matthew Pulsipher gives a first look at the ins and outs of the new Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro, along with updated benchmarks.
Apple recently announced the M4 Mac mini, complete with an external redesign. Our team of Mac experts highlight the important changes in the new mini and how it impacts MacStadium.
The September 2024 Apple Event launches new iPhone 16 features, as well as updates with Apple Watch and more.
WWDC 2024 was full of exciting announcements for developers. MacStadium has the inside scoop on what new features will impact devs the most.
Read the top WWDC 2024 highlights from the most anticipated Apple event of the year. iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, Apple Intelligence, and more were just announced by Apple.
Mobile game development on Apple platforms can pose unique challenges for developers. Luckily, we have answers to your most frustrating issues. Continue reading to discover mobile game development solutions.
MacStadium recaps the news from Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ event on October 30th, 2023. Learn more about the new M3 series chips, the new MacBook Pro and iMac models getting the upgrade, and what our experts expect to see next.
At WWDC 2023, Apple unveiled major updates: the 15-inch MacBook Air, M2 Ultra chip, new Mac Studio and Mac Pro, plus iOS 17, macOS Sonoma, watchOS, and the all-new Apple Vision Pro.
This latest Xcode release is packed with great new functionality that makes developing for iOS and macOS even better. We highlight some of the best new features in this post.
That was an ULTRA fabulous Apple Event! As is the MacStadium way, our team's already placing orders and planning rack configs. We were the first to have M1s in the cloud, and we'll be the first for Mac Studio.
Is your development team ready to make the transition from Intel to Apple silicon? Download our developer’s handbook to begin planning your transition to M1.
Xcode 13 offers great improvements in terms of developer experience, while also opening the door to parallel upgrades for teams looking to move to iOS 15, macOS Monterey, and Apple’s new M1 architecture.
In this blog, we’ll explore the new TestFlight for Mac and highlight the features available for developers to get feedback from end-users on apps before they go live.
The Mac community is always exciting. Welcome back to MacStadium Notes, our blog series where we’ll take a look at what’s happening in the Mac community and share interesting stories and information.
GitOps was a major topic of conversation at KubeCon 2021. Learn a bit about GitOps and get a rundown on our favorite GitOps talks from the conference in this post.
We’ve put together this list of the best fastlane resources to make it easy for you to get started with automating the deployment of iOS and macOS apps.
Announced at WWDC21, Xcode Cloud brings continuous integration and delivery into the hands of Xcode developers. Learn what we know so far as beta starts this week.
Flaky CI tests can hurt developer confidence, and ultimately your team’s bottom line. Learn about common causes of flaky tests and how to resolve them.
Mailplane allows you to easily manage your Gmail account with an all-in-one macOS app. Learn how Mailplane uses a Mac mini to build, test, and run analytics for their popular app.
The results of the 2020 iOS Developer Community Survey are out, we’re investigating the rise in popularity of SwiftUI over the past year and what's driving this change.
Are you looking for a new job in 2021? We’ve assembled some of the best places to find developer jobs. Whether you want a change or just checking out the market, we’ve got some of the best resources for your search.
Upgrading to Xcode 12.5 now requires Big Sur. What does that mean for your team? In this post, we give you insights into the new Xcode and iOS SDK.
As developers, we know you’re always working to level up your skills. We’ve got some of our favorite (and your favorite) repos for Swift.
How are you testing your apps? In this blog post, we discuss the pros and cons of three different forms of testing: simulators, emulators, and physical devices.
Mac, Linux, or Windows? Swift can run in all three places, so which are you picking? Our rundown can give you some guidance when you’re looking to run Swift!
Apple has updated the macOS software license agreement for Big Sur, going from 15 sections to 16 sections. This doesn’t happen very often... Brian Stucki, MacStadium's Apple Evangelist, shares his thoughts what this means for all of us.
iOS 14 has a brand new feature called App Clips. Get ready to explore this new, mini-versions of iOS apps as we explore what you can expect from these cool new tools.
In this last installment of Dave Verwer’s iOS Developer Community Survey, we’re turning our analytical eye to what iOS developers are working on both personally and professionally.
We’re back with Part 2 of our analysis of Dave Verwer’s iOS Developer Community Survey. In this installment, we talk tools - from Swift to Objective-C and from Jenkins to Bazel, here’s what developers are using.
Dave Verwer’s iOS Developer Community Survey came out a couple of months ago, and we’ve been looking over the data ever since. In part 1, we look at where iOS devs keep their Macs.
Xcode’s latest release, 11.4 Beta 3, has brought advancements across the board. Here’s our rundown of the two new features we love and think could benefit you the most.
Is CI automation on your team's wishlist for 2020? Check out this piece for three must-have tools before getting started.
A collection of our favorite resources based on specific use cases to help you make a well informed choice as to which route to take in the creation of your next application.
We recently had a call with a customer who has been experiencing slow run-times after moving to Xcode 11. Have you experienced similar issues? We want to know!
"I'm Mac mini aficionado and MacStadium VP Brian Stucki, and today is the most mini day of my life." Let me share 24 hours in Brooklyn and some of the things that led up to that day. I also have some thoughts on the new Mac mini.
Apple's recent earnings and $1T valuation only mean an increase in iOS and macOS app production and their corresponding CI efforts.
Text replacement snippets are a useful tool that can be used on macOS and iOS. You create shortcut text that, when typed, expands to something longer.
There is a new terminal server option for Mac. It is called NuoRDS. It is simple to install, has a number of options and is quite well developed.
Bjango is a well respected and long time developer for great Mac and iOS apps. They have released new apps that will help you monitor your remote servers from your Mac or iOS devices.
This update brings all sorts of upgrades and features, but there is one particular that is quite useful if you are running a Mac server to host your mail, notes, calendars and other features in macOS Server.
Many MacStadium customers take advantage of the fast internet connection and strong performance of one or more Mac mini’s to outsource CI and CD build server duties.
With the software industry moving forward rapidly and trends shifting, a delay in product release can be disastrous for a company.
Several weeks ago, we have obtained a working patch which corrects this condition for 10.9.x and 10.10.x. It is our understanding that this patch will eventually be incorporated into a future version of OS X 10.10.x Mavericks.