Upgrade

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Upgrade looks at how technology shapes our lives, from the devices in our hands and pockets to the streaming services that keep us entertained. Hosted by Jason Snell and Myke Hurley.... more

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January 13, 2025546: Headline Snob
Bonnets off to the BBC, the trouble with headlines, Socrates on mountain skis, some slight existential dread about Mac software, irrational love of old computers, Apple's smart home strategy for 2025, and the long wait for some AI features.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Connected #534: The Rickies (January 2025) - Relay Apple Intelligence summaries might get warning labels. That’s not enough. – Six Colors LLMs aren’t always bad at writing news headlines – Six Colors Artifact’s killer feature was rewriting bad headlines – Six Colors Fires Deal Another Blow to Reeling Entertainment Industry, City - Bloomberg Report: Apple’s US chip manufacturing grows by adding Apple Watch S9 SiP - 9to5Mac How TSMC’s Arizona Chip Plant Seeded a Tiny Taipei in the Desert - The New York Times Apple Intelligence | Imagine it. Genmoji it. | iPhone 16 - YouTube After 30 years, Script Debugger is being retired – Six Colors Upgrade #338: Loved by Podcasters the World Over - Relay The mortality of software – Six Colors Apple 2025 Plans: iPhone 17, Smart Home Hub, iOS 19, AI, Apple Watch, iPads, M5 - Bloomberg The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already - The Verge Apple Watch | Quit Quitting | Apple - YouTube WHOOP Kuo: Ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air will be just 5.5mm at thinnest point - 9to5Mac
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1h 36min
January 06, 2025545: The Bee Bonnet Company
A new year dawns! We consider what it has in store for Apple and why the company's A.I. features need to be judged critically. Then we turn back the clock to 2000 and consider the moment when Mac OS X changed everything.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback The Rest Is History Apple Stops Selling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE in More EU Countries - MacRumors Apple Intelligence falsely claimed Luke Littler had already won - BBC News Jason's post on Bluesky 2025 will be the year of Apple Intelligence (again) | Macworld Vision D’oh: The "Fun" Problem Facing Apple’s VR Ambitions – Julia Alexander Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification of smart home products - The Verge 25 years since the Dock’s debut – Six Colors 25 years on, Mac OS X continues to be Apple’s standard bearer – Six Colors Looking back 25 years later, even Steve was wrong about Mac OS X | Macworld Macworld 2000 Keynote - YouTube Hypercritical: SwitchGlass
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1h 37min
December 30, 2024544: The 2024 Upgradies
Subtitle: These Go to Eleven
It's time for the 11th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2024, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories! Only the finest will walk away with the most coveted of titles: Upgradies Winner.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback upgradies.com Ivory Flighty Carrot Weather Croissant App Balatro Shareshot Delta Mimestream Raycast Pixelmator Pro SwiftBar Retrobatch Downie BBEdit 15 Affinity Designer Apple Passwords iPhone Mirroring ChatGPT visionOS 2 The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Astro Bot Balatro Inside Out 2 Deadpool & Wolverine Dune: Part Two Godzilla Minus One Past Lives American Fiction Shrinking Slow Horses Shōgun Silo Bad Monkey Dark Matter Hacks Shoresy Masters of the Air The Diplomat A Man on the Inside The Penguin How to Be a Dad Service Model Wind and Truth The Armageddon Protocol Titanium Noir The Book of Love The Rebound Connected - Relay FM Upgrade #492: The 2023 Upgrade Holiday Special - Relay FM The Rest Is History The Rest Is Politics NPC: Next Portable Console Diggnation The Town Steam Deck Google Pixel 9 Meta Ray-Bans Ozlo Sleepbuds Miyoo Mini Plus EverLights Traeger Ironwood Grill Review: Belkin Travel Bag and Head Strap for Vision Pro – Six Colors Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn’t here yet - The Verge 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia
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2h 20min
December 23, 2024543: In the Pocket of Big Turkey
Subtitle: The 2024 Upgrade Holiday Special
To celebrate the season we discuss Christmas lights, tech gifts, favorite holiday food items, holiday TV and movies, and answer some holiday-themed listener questions. Happy holidays to all Upgradians!
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Links and Show Notes: Gift lists
Myke:
Racing Sim Setup for F1 games
M4 Pro Mac mini (64GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 10GB Ethernet, Two Studio Displays)
PlayStation 5 Pro 30th anniversary edition
Remarkable Paper Pro
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold
Jason:
Retro arcade cabinet (Dream Arcades, Arcade1Up, Xgaming)
Sony BRAVIA XR A95L 77 inch QD-OLED 4K HDR Smart TV
Litter Robot 4
A proper set of reliable video cameras for the outside of my house
A robot mop, probably
Final food tier list
S – Roast Potatoes, Chocolate, Ginger snaps/Gingerbread
A – Mashed Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, Stuffing, Pigs in blankets, Pumpkin/Sweet Potato Pie
B – Turkey, Maple glazed parsnips and carrots
C – Roast Beef, Ham, Egg Nog
D – Candied Yams
F – Green bean casserole, Aspic
Christmas content draft results
Jason: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Myke: Home Alone 2
Jason: Miracle on 34th Street
Myke: Die Hard
Jason: Elf
Myke: Frozen
Jason: Duck Soup
Myke: Jingle All the Way
Jason: Doctor Who: “Last Christmas” and “A Christmas Carol”
Myke: The Bear: “Fishes”
Jason: Muppets Christmas Carol
Myke: Love, Actually
Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Upgrade 526: Journal and Learnal - App Icon Tier List - YouTube Green Bean Casserole "Miracle on 34th Street" - Myke at the Movies #46 - The Incomparable Jingle All the Way - Wikipedia Why Can't All Movies Be Muppet Movies? - The Incomparable Mothership #570 - The Incomparable Ginger-Molasses Cookies — Pixels + Crumbs Holiday Cocktails ft. How to Drink | Basics with Babish - YouTube Incomparable Game Show 245: Mind Meld (with Nog) A Marshmallow World - Wikipedia
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1h 30min
December 16, 2024542: Wellies on the Ground
Myke prepares the way for a big arrival (including of many Upgrade guest hosts), we're deeply puzzled by reports of a large folding Apple device, and Myke gets out the conspiracy yarn regarding what Tim Cook is up to in the United Kingdom.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Baby Hurley! – Myke Hurley – Instagram iOS 18.2/macOS 15.2 Review: Picture not so perfect? – Six Colors Mango Baby: Newborn Tracker with Siri Shortcuts Appearance: Apple Intelligence’s generic humans – Six Colors Report: Apple to Stop Selling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE in EU This Month - MacRumors Get 20% Off an Annual Membership of Upgrade+ BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline - BBC News The Upgrade Episode 600 Draft of the Ages ChatGPT Won't Say Certain Names and No One Seems To Know Why - Newsweek Apple’s new Messages features are great, but the notifications are overwhelming – Six Colors Apple expands U.K. investment and doubles local engineering teams - Apple (UK) Tim and Keir – Instagram His Majesty King Charles III visits Apple’s U.K. headquarters - Apple Tim Cook is the latest tech CEO to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago - The Verge Daring Fireball: The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip Apple Working on Giant Foldable iPad, Revamped Mouse, Longer-Range AirTag 2 - Bloomberg Apple Plans Thinner, Foldable iPhones to Revive Growth - WSJ Report: Apple designing all new Magic Mouse, fixing charge port placement - 9to5Mac Apple Watch Could Get Blood Pressure Monitoring in 2025 - MacRumors iOS 18.3 beta 1 now available - 9to5Mac Carbon Copy Cloner Jason's Bluesky post
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1h 28min
December 09, 2024541: Nonotexture
Jason bought a laptop, Apple and Sony may be cooking up a Vision Pro scheme, and we review Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Get 20% off a year of Upgrade+ Why I'm finally ditching my desktop Mac for something better | Macworld The Eleventh Annual Upgradies Nomination Form Apple, Sony Talk PlayStation VR Hand Controller Support for Vision Pro - Bloomberg Apple’s Vision platform needs to do more than get cheaper – Six Colors Simply brings its piano app to Vision Pro – Six Colors It's Good for Apple, and Okay for You - Allen Pike Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion
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1h 39min
December 02, 2024540: Validation for Shower Jason
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to discuss emergency calls, reaction to Jason's "The Mac is the Model" piece, iPhone metals, our innate troubleshooting powers, Jason's laptop dilemma, the ChatGPT Mac app, and some very old Vision Pro news.
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Guest Starring:
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Upgrade+ - Relay FM Give the Gift of Relay FM Use Emergency SOS on your Apple Watch - Apple Support Once again, the only way forward is the Mac | Macworld Vote on the Eleventh Annual Upgradies! The Upgradies - history Apple to Keep Titanium Chassis for iPhone 17 Pro Models, Claims Leaker - MacRumors Mac Power Users - Relay FM AI insiders worry that model progress is hitting scaling wall - The Verge Indecision at the intersection of Mac Studio and Mac mini – Six Colors How I turned the M4 Mac mini into a travel computer - 9to5Mac ChatGPT on your desktop | OpenAI LaunchBar 6 Apple has been working on Vision Pro since at least 2008 - 9to5Mac Apple is most dangerous when it shows up late | Macworld Fast charge your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro - Apple Support Sol | Illuminate Your Mind
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2h 8min
November 25, 2024539: 98 Yards with My Boys
Apple might recommit to the smart home, Smart Siri feels a long way off, Apple's movie movies anger Hollywood creatives, and Jason's done with the era of App Store exclusivity.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Bears Stage Memorable Comeback To Win Big Game - California Golden Bears Athletics Cal Highlight Vault: "The full Fernando Mendoza post game interview after defeating Stanford" Get 20% off a year of Upgrade+ Give the Gift of Relay Review: Belkin Travel Bag and Head Strap for Vision Pro – Six Colors Apple’s first smart display needs to make the smart home just work - The Verge Time for Apple to take the Smart Home seriously – Six Colors How Apple Intelligence can take over the world (or just the Apple ecosystem) | Macworld Jason Snell (@snell.zone) — Bluesky Myke Hurley (@myke.social) — Bluesky Introducing Sill | Tyler Fisher The Eleventh Annual Upgradies Nomination Form Apple Readies More Conversational LLM Siri in Bid to Rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT - Bloomberg Mark Gurman on iOS 19 – Threads Downstream - Relay FM Jon Watts On Why He Canceled George Clooney & Brad Pitt 'Wolfs' Sequel – Deadline Paramount Boss on Gladiator II, Scary Sequels and Wicked Showdown - Bloomberg Once again, the only way forward is the Mac | Macworld "Say Anything" - Myke at the Movies #6 - The Incomparable
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1h 41min
November 18, 2024538: A Lot of Mac in Your Face
Is Apple trying to boost revenue by truly embracing smart home products, or is it too late? Also, Jason reviews Kindles while lamenting the current state of e-readers, and the Vision Pro gets new accessories and a music video by The Weeknd!
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Wikipedia The Incomparable Mothership Get 20% off a year of Upgrade+ Give the Gift of Relay The Eleventh Annual Upgradies – Nomination Form Apple Home Hub Detailed: Apple Intelligence, HomeOS, Square iPad-Like Design - Bloomberg David Smith: "Reading the report of a possible Apple Home Hub Device" - Mastodon Kuo: Apple to release its own smart home camera in 2026, with AI features - 9to5Mac Gurman: Apple 'evaluating' idea of releasing a TV set again - 9to5Mac 2024 Kindle Colorsoft and Paperwhite Review: No perfect choices – Six Colors Apple debuts The Weeknd’s immersive music experience for Apple Vision Pro - Apple Channel 4 launches Vision Pro streaming app with a Taskmaster environment - 9to5Mac Review: Belkin Travel Bag and Head Strap for Vision Pro – Six Colors
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1h 48min
November 11, 2024537: Square Minus One
Jason's gotten his hands on the M4 MacBook Pros, the M4 iMac, and a visionOS widescreen Mac display. (And we're both considering Mac mini purchases.) Plus: Apple's issues with new products, and the threat of huge EU fines.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback The Eleventh Annual Upgradies Nomination Form The Upgradies – Past Winners Apple-backed Matter adds new smart home device types, better cross-platform experience, more - 9to5Mac Testing the Vision Pro With New Ultrawide Display Option in visionOS 2.2 - MacRumors Apple Explores Push Into Smart Glasses With Internal Study - Bloomberg Connected #526: At Least Mine Has Four Legs - Relay FM iPad Accessory Integration Becomes the EU's Next Regulatory Feud With Apple - MacRumors EU puts iPhone interoperability with watches and headphones on notice - The Verge Apple to Face First EU Fine Under Bloc’s Digital Markets Act - Bloomberg M4/M4 Pro MacBook Pro review: Brighter, clearer, faster – Six Colors M4 Mac mini Review: Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty form factor – Six Colors M4 iMac Review: Gloriously niche – Six Colors Apple explains why the M4 Mac mini power button is located on the bottom - 9to5Mac @macstadium • Racking the new M4 Mac mini? No problem – Threads New iPad Mini Compatible With Final Cut Pro, But Lacks Stage Manager - MacRumors
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1h 49min

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