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One year’s worth of episodes only took us 2.5 years!

SNES Classic

Japan and Europe’s SNES Classic is Better

Echo Show – amazon.com

Wired Review

Jason Snell’s Review

Chromecast works with your TV’s remote

iOS 11 Beta 2

Reviewers hating on Mike’s favorite iPad Pro case

On this week’s episode:

NBA Draft

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst updating his phone during the  NBA draft

Phil Jackson falling asleep during draft prospect workout

iOS 11

Jason’s upgrade woes and impressions

Mike’s upgrade woes and impressions

iPad Pro 10.5 inch

iPad Smart Keyboard

Logitech Slim Combo Keyboard

ProMotion

Jason justifying buying/not buying the iPad Pro

Tesla

Tesla talking to labels about launching a music streaming service?

Head of software Chris Lattner leaves Tesla

The three amiibros discuss E3 2017.

Marvel’s Spider-Man

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Anthem

Far Cry 5

Assassin’s Creed Origins

Beyond Good and Evil 2

Xbox One X

Can you build a PC equivalent of the Xbox One X for the same price? [PC World]

Metroid: Samus Returns

Metroid Prime 4

Super Mario Odyssey

Best song ever: I’ll Be Your 1-Up Girl

Rocket League for Switch

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Kirby

A Way Out

Game of Show:

Will: Wolfenstein II or Mario + Rabbids

Mike: Super Mario Odyssey

Jason: God of War

 

The results of the draft are in! Join Jason, Mike, and special guest Karen as we bask in the afterglow of the WWDC keynote.

WWDC announcements

tvOS

Amazon Prime App. That’s about it.

watchOS

New vertical scrolling dock

Siri proactive watch face

Kaleidoscope watch face

Toy Story watch faces

Music app automatically syncs some music/playlists

Ability to auto-play a playlist when starting a workout

macOS High Sierra

Faster Safari with auto-play video blocking and auto-blocking cross-privacy

Metadata synced across devices for photos

iMac, MacBook updates, sneak peak at iMac Pro

iOS 11

New app drawer for messages, iCloud sync

Person-to-person Apple Pay

New Siri voice and translation, syncing between devices

Control Center redesigned

Lane guidance for Maps, indoor maps at malls/airports

Do not disturb while driving mode

iPad Pro

New 10.5″ and 12.9″ models

Starting at $650, available next week!

iOS 11 for iPad Pro

HomePod

7 tweeters and 4″ sub

A8 Processor and six microphones

Siri and acts as HomeKit Hub

Ships in December for $349

WWDC is less than a week away. What’s Apple going to announce? We have some horrible guesses predictions.

Jason’s guesses predictions:

Siri Speaker

10.5″ iPad

iPad gets revamped pro features

Significantly improved Siri

PIP for tvOS

Dark mode

4K content on iTunes

Podcast editing app

Refreshed look in iOS 11

iTunes broken out into separate apps

Mike’s guesses predictions:

Refreshed MBP

Amazon video app for tvOS

HomeKit for Mac

Sleep tracking on Apple Watch

Ability to type to Siri

Cheaper iCloud storage pricing

Multi-user support for iPad

macOS 11

Machine learning data can sync between devices

Person-to-person Apple Pay

The three amigos are back at full strength and Will is angrier than ever.

F/U

Jason tried Juicero

No Juicero or cup needed:

http://forthepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1570.mp4

The Juicero murdering fruit:http://forthepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_4620-small.mp4

Zwift

Friend of the show Dave’s setup:

Microsoft Build keynote

Windows 10 S

Windows Store lockdown: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/03/windows-10-s-browser

Surface Laptop

$999 with i5 processor, 128gb SSD, 4gb RAM

Premium cloth keyboard

One USB A port

$50 upgrade to normal Windows (can’t downgrade)

Siri speaker

Background

KGI: Apple may announce Siri speaker at WWDC. Focus on premium audio with price tag higher than Amazon Echo.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/amazon-echo-homebrew-version/  – how Will got a budget echo going.

Sonny Dickson: Shaped like a Mac Pro and is similar to the UE Megaboom. “Apple has been working to majorly overhaul Siri and it’s capabilities, for all devices, but most notably their upcoming smarthome device.”

Mark Gurman: Siri speaker will differentiate by using advanced microphone and speaker technology

Will voice ever become the default interface? 

How important is the ability to shop using your voice?

The state of “Cutting the cord”

YouTube TV

Hulu

Tablo

TiVo

Sling

TL;DL:

Jason: Has cut the cord

Mike: Would like to cut the cord

Will: HELL NO

We’re Missing William Simmons this week (don’t worry, he told us to tell everyone that he’s fine and he’ll be back next week, trust us!) but still managed to cobble together a juicy episode:

Juicero

Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling The Squeeze [Bloomberg]

Here’s Why Juicero’s Press is So Expensive [bolt.io]

A Note From Juicero’s New CEO [Medium]

Grab A Glass of Juicero at a Whole Foods Near You [Juicero]

Amazon Echo Look

Echo Look Product Page [Amazon]

Marco Arment’s tweet [Twitter]

NES Classic, we hardly knew ye

Nintendo Discontinues the NES Classic Edition [IGN]

Fresh Patch

June Intelligent Oven

June Reviews [CNET] [TechCrunch] [PCMag]

Peloton

Took a week off and a little longer to edit and post, but we’re back! We blame bear since he forgot to record his track (and can’t defend himself). On this week’s episode:

Follow-up

Are we still playing Zelda and Horizon Zero Dawn?

Treasure Chest Minigame

Destiny Age of Triumph

Persona 5

Persona 5 Review [Polygon]

What you need to know about Persona 5 if you’ve never played a Persona game [Polygon]

New Mac Pro!!! (someday)

The Mac Pro Lives [Daring Fireball]

Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro [TechCrunch]

Apple out of the standalone display business [Twitter @reckless]

ATP Tipster on the Apple/LG display? [Twitter @ATP_Tipster1]

Corsair One review: The best small form factor PC we’ve ever tested [ArsTechnica]

Apple to stop using Imagination Tech graphics tech

Android state-of-the-art [Twitter @codinghorror]

3 weeks in a row. Must be the new show notes editor. On this week’s show, we discuss Apple’s stealth spring 2017 update.

Apple Store Update

Product(RED) iPhone 7/7 Plus

Unboxing by MKBHD

“iPad” starts at $329 for 32 GB

A9, brighter Retina display, slightly thicker and heavier than outgoing Air 2.

The Curious State of Apple Product Pricing [aboveavalon.com]

The eMac

Not discussed, but along the lines of the new iPad being geared for education, Logitech announces a line of education-focused protective cases for the new iPad [9to5mac]

iPad mini 4 now only available in 128 GB, still at $399

iPhone SE now in 32 GB and 128 GB, no other changes

New Apple Watch bands

New colors, redesigned classic buckle, Nike watch bands available standalone

Clips

Calendar woes

Gruber’s thoughts “about that purported 10.5-inch iPad” [Daring Fireball]

Tim Cook travels with only an iPad Pro and an iPhone [Independent]

1188 days (and counting) since last Mac Pro update [MacRumors Buyer’s Guide]

Apple Stock at all-time high [Yahoo Finance]

Behold the G4 Cube, Apple’s most epic computer ever [Macworld]

Discord – Slack/Skype/TeamSpeak for gamers. It’s good!

We’re not missing (unlike Richard Simmons)! 2 weeks in a row. On this week’s episode:

Follow-up

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

“a masterclass in open-world design and a watershed game that reinvents a 30-year-old franchise.” [IGN]

“open-world perfection.” [Kotaku]

This articulates Mike’s thoughts a little better [Forbes]

Missing Richard Simmons

Mike is an idiot and called it “Finding Richard Simmons” a few times. It’s “Missing Richard Simmons.” But he’s right about Zelda. Best game of all time.

Missing Richard Simmons, The Morally Suspect Podcast [NYTimes]

Richard Simmons’s Disappearing Act Inspires a Hit Podcast [NYTimes]

Richard Simmons on TODAY Show. He’s fine. Trust him.  [today]

Missing Richard Simmons Is a Brilliant Podcast – So Far [vulture]

S-Town – The new podcast from the ‘Serial’ team

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