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- 474: I'm Not a Doctor, I'm an Auditor
With a busy fall looming, Mac analyst Stephen Hackett joins the show to give Jason's computing setup a check-up. And some iPhone rumors suggest the Color Czar may be leaving a lump of Space Black coal in Myke's stocking this year.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Relay FM for St. Jude – Donate Now! Connected #462: GET, OPEN, UPDATE - Relay FM Jason's Hardware Jason's Dock Another Plea to the Reminders Team, This Time About the Today View – 512 Pixels Jason's Menu Bar 512 Pixels Stephen Hackett - Relay FM iPhone 15 Pro Max to face 3-4 week delay – analyst - 9to5Mac iPhone 15 Could Come With Color-Matched Braided USB-C Cables [Updated] - MacRumors Here Are All the iPhone 15 Colors We Expect From Apple - MacRumors iPhone 15 Pro to Come in Blue and Gray Titanium, No Gold Expected - MacRumors iPad Pro 2024: Magic Keyboard, Redesigned Tablet, M3; September 12 Event Details - Bloomberg Understanding your subscription analytics - Apple Podcasts for Creators1 hr 25 min - 473: I Can Talk About the George Foreman Grill Now
The iMac turns 25, Relay turns 10 (next year in London), print magazines apparently still exist, and listeners have questions about why Apple would ever want to buy Disney.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Downstream - Relay FM Relay FM 10th Anniversary Extravaganza - Hackney Empire How the iMac saved Apple - The Verge From Apple’s first iMac G3 to the iMac with M1: a visual history - The Verge For a generation of students, the iMac was a gateway to the future - The Verge In a world full of laptops, is there a place for the iMac? - The Verge 20 Macs for 2020 #20: iMac G3 (#1) - Relay FM The Vergecast: bring back the computer room! - The Verge Generation gap: Using Shortcuts with Folder Actions – Six Colors1 hr 35 min - 472: Step Aside, Bob!
For years, rumors about Apple and Disney combining seemed ridiculous--but in light of Apple's transformation and Disney's difficulties, suddenly it seems a lot more possible. Myke and Jason examine Disney's business and try to imagine what portions of it Apple would actually want. Also: What would be in an Apple Watch X?
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Upgrade Episode 187 – PodSearch MLS Season Pass subscribers have doubled since Lionel Messi joined the league - 9to5Mac Apple is now working on two Lionel Messi documentary series - 9to5Mac Cadillac’s Escalade IQ is the next GM vehicle to lack Apple CarPlay - The Verge Podshuffle Apple Event September 12, 2023: Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2; Watch X Later - Bloomberg Samsung Announces Blood Pressure Monitoring Application for Galaxy Watch Devices – Samsung Global Newsroom Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time – The Hollywood Reporter Could Apple really buy Disney? – Six Colors Downstream - Relay FM List of assets owned by the Walt Disney Company - Wikipedia Everyone Running Hollywood Is Old. Does That Matter? - The Ringer The Interns of Hollywood Can See Through the B.S. - Puck1 hr 44 min - 471: A Technological 23rd Century Star Trek Thing
Jason has the painful details about Apple's comeback bid for college football TV rights that fell just short of the goal line. We also discuss what Apple's rich-but-middling quarterly results say about the importance of this fall's iPhone launch.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Connected #366: 5, 1, 4, 6, 9, 6, 3, 4, 7, 8, 2, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 12, 3, 4, 1, 5, 9, 11, 8, 6, 4, 11, 5, 1, 1, 2, 8, 8, 2, 8, 12, 3, 6, 6, 11, 12, 2, 6, 1, 9, 1, 7, 10 - Relay FM The Laughing Cat 'LOL' Apple prepping for iPhone 15 Pro event on September 13 - 9to5Mac Kuo: New AirTag Likely to Enter Mass Production in Late 2024 - MacRumors Disney reportedly wants to team up with Apple to expand ESPN distribution - 9to5Mac Pac-12, Apple deal was $23M per school and underwhelming, but hope remained until 11th hour - The Athletic Downstream - Relay FM Apple Q3 2023 Charts: $81.8B revenue, down 1% – Six Colors This is Tim: Apple’s Q3 2023 analyst call, transcribed – Six Colors If this is Apple struggling, everything is going to be just fine | Macworld Tim Cook uses Vision Pro every day, and other earnings call info - 9to5Mac Announcing Callsheet — Liss is More 15-inch MacBook Air demand reportedly low, but not every product can be a best-seller - 9to5Mac1 hr 26 min - 470: Magic Titanium
This week we wonder if Apple will profess further mastery of the Periodic Table with this fall's iPhone Pro release, and if Lionel Messi will conquer the world with Apple's help. And for the Summer of Fun, Myke asks Jason about his writing process and tools.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Bananaman - Wikipedia Lionel Messi is already giving Apple’s MLS streaming service a boost - The Verge Offside With Taylor Twellman on Apple Podcasts Expected Goals - Rory Smith - Amazon MLS, Apple appear pleased with media deal so far - Sports Business Journal Lionel Messi Ventures Into Charted Territory - The New York Times Apple iPhone 15 Pro Features: USB-C Port, New Design, Thinner Bezels - Bloomberg Periscope Lens: What is it? And When Will Apple Use One in iPhone? - MacRumors Snell's law - Wikipedia Keychron Q1 Build with Jason and Stephen! -- Friday Keyboard Club - YouTube Searching for the perfect iOS Markdown writing tool – Six Colors 1Writer — Powerful, beautiful Markdown editor for iOS Taio - Markdown & Text Actions Scrivener HYPER METEOR – Playdate Bloom – Playdate Catalog Dave the Diver on Steam Designing a Weather app for visionOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer Tips for Vision Pro Labs - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer1 hr 30 min - 469: Bring in the Boffins
Myke's summer is a lot less fun due to his concerns about a bill advancing in the UK Parliament that could potentially drive some Apple services out of the country. Also we try to understand just what's happening at Apple regarding AI products, and we have issues with services that push algorithmic timelines.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Embed the Photos Picker in your app - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer Burgee - Wikipedia Unity adds visionOS beta program – Six Colors 1Password will soon let users unlock vaults with passkeys – 9to5mac The UK’s Online Safety Bill, explained - The Verge Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning - BBC News The online safety bill: taking a sledgehammer to the internet in the UK? Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals - BBC News Daring Fireball: Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can't Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols Government boosts protection for encryption in Online Safety Bill but civil society groups concerned | Computer Weekly Apple Preps Ajax Generative AI, ‘Apple GPT’ to Rival OpenAI and Google - Bloomberg Apple Creates New Vision Products Group (VPG) for Future Mixed-Reality Headsets - Bloomberg Bloomberg: No, really, Apple’s working on language AI – Six Colors Developer Labs - visionOS - Apple Developer Developer Kit - visionOS - Apple Developer Apple Vision Pro: Will Developers Sell VisionOS Apps for the $3,499 Device? - Bloomberg Vision Pro Developer Kit Terms - James Thomson: Mastodon The Threads Episode: How We Got Here, Meta Obstacles and Advantages, Everyone Hates Twitter (And Uses It Every Day) Immigrant Song (Jason and Myke’s Version) dropping soon? Look out Led Zeppelin, Upgrade is coming for ya🤘 | Instagram1 hr 44 min - 468: Nonstop Bangers Involving Saxophone SolosSubtitle: 🎷
As the Public Betas arrive, there's breaking bad news for Mac Pro fans, Jason has an invitation for Tim Cook, and we explore our favorite Emoji.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Upgrade (@upgraderelay) – Instagram Upgrade (@upgraderelay) – TikTok Transcript: Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the state of Apple’s pro Macs | TechCrunch How to watch Lionel Messi debut on MLS on Apple TV - 9to5Mac Apple to Announce Q3 2023 Earnings on August 3 Following New Macs - MacRumors GM dealers aren’t happy future EVs won’t support CarPlay - 9to5Mac First Attempt at Designing for visionOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer Designing a Weather app for visionOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer David Smith (@[email protected]) - Mastodon 📅 World Emoji Day — July 17, 2023 Myke's Frequently Used Emoji Jason's Frequently Used Emoji Jason's Frequently Used Slack Emoji 👹 Japanese Ogre Emoji – Emojipedia Microsoft Teams Emoji List – Emojipedia Apple Emoji List — Emojipedia First Look: macOS Sonoma Public Beta – Six Colors First Look: iPadOS 17 Public Beta – Six Colors First Look: 2023 Public Beta platform features – Six Colors First Look: iOS 17 Public Beta – Six Colors First Look: watchOS 10 Public Beta – Six Colors Myke's LOL Emoji Issue1 hr 38 min - 467: The Least Important Mac
We struggle to balance empathy with reality as we try to explain why the Mac Pro is the way that it is, and why that's unlikely to change. Also, the Summer of Fun ends up taking on the future of social media, and Myke asks Jason to talk him into installing the iOS beta.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Nick Hornby - Wikipedia Fever Pitch - Wikipedia Designing for visionOS | Apple Developer Documentation Apple streaming first episode of Foundation free on YouTube, ahead of second season premiere - 9to5Mac TestFlight Now Supports visionOS Apps - MacRumors ATP 542: Penguin Camel Monkey Shark — Accidental Tech Podcast Apple Mac Pro M2 Ultra review: a powerful computer in search of an audience - The Verge Larger iMac With Around 32-Inch Display Reportedly in Early Testing - MacRumors Apple has arrived to the Threads party as new platform approaches 100M users - 9to5Mac Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users - The Verge My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere – Six Colors Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri - The New York Times1 hr 20 min - 466: Try to Stop Me Now, Batman
This week we get to the bottom of the secrets of the mysterious Puzzle Society, Goldman Sachs can't make money on credit cards, Apple might be getting into college football, and there's a lot of weird follow-up. Typical Summer of Fun stuff!
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback JUBEL Beer Shandy Shack House Hippo Commercial - YouTube Companies Committed to Kids - Wikipedia House hippo - Wikipedia Sam's Audio Clip on 'Beta' – Mastodon Kiwis please help | TikTok Notification Summaries - iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review - MacStories Apple previews new features coming to Apple services this fall - Apple The Puzzle Society Andrews McMeel Universal Sign in here for the Relay FM Crossover Feed to get the Membership Special Apple AirPods Plans: Hearing Test, Body Temperature, Cheaper Models, USB-C - Bloomberg Goldman Is Looking for a Way Out of Its Partnership With Apple - WSJ WSJ: Goldman Sachs wants to bail on Apple Card partnership after $1B loss, in talks with Amex - 9to5Mac Apple Card responsible for more than $1 billion in losses - 9to5Mac Goldman Sachs Extends Partnership with Apple – WSJ Is Apple ready for some college football? – Six Colors Daring Fireball: Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of ‘Silo’ Free — on Twitter ‘Ted Lasso’ Finale, ‘FUBAR’: Streaming TV Rankings May 29-June 4, 2023 – The Hollywood Reporter Flagship 'Morning Show' returns to Apple TV+ in September for season 3 - 9to5Mac Apple’s alien show Invasion returns for season 2 in August - The Verge 'High Desert' cancelled at Apple TV+, but unlike other streamers Apple won't pull shows off its platform - 9to5Mac Downstream - Relay FM1 hr 43 min - 465: No Dark Modes, Only Dark Rooms
Developers are getting their hands on (simulated) visionOS for the first time, and we speculate about how spatial apps might work. And for the Summer of Fun, we gauge our excitement level for various Apple-related product rumors.
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Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Apple Vision and the challenge of 3D movies – Six Colors Pro tip: The iPhone has a discoverability problem – Six Colors Here's everything new in iOS 17 beta 2 - 9to5Mac Apple adds passkeys to Apple ID, iCloud logins – Six Colors First look at Apple News crossword puzzles in iOS 17 – 9to5mac NYT Games - The New York Times Joe Hribar: "iOS 17 beta 2 and Interactive Widgets" - Mastodon Apple and LG team up to bring AirPlay to hotels later this year - 9to5Mac Voice to Text Update - 2023 Edition (MacSparky Labs) - MacSparky visionOS - Apple Developer Designing for visionOS | Apple Developer Documentation Steve Troughton-Smith: "Guest mode in visionOS " - Mastodon Developers' Early Experiments with visionOS - MacStories Steve Troughton-Smith: "Spatial multitasking is kinda neat" - Mastodon Broadcasts on the App Store Devin: "Timer support underway" - Mastodon David Smith: "Oh wow, the first of the Apple Vision Pro in-person labs will start in July!" - Mastodon What Apple Didn’t Reveal About the Vision Pro — The Information Vision Pro Features 'Left Out' For Now Include Fitness Apps, Full-Body Tracking, and More - MacRumors Report: Apple Vision Pro top strap helps headset weight issue, but Apple might not include it in the box - 9to5Mac Apple 2023 and 2024 Road Map: iPhone 15, M3 Macs, iPad Air, Vision Pro Headset - Bloomberg Apple Product Roadmap 2023–24: Over 15 New Devices in Development - MacRumors Guy Kawasaki - Wikipedia1 hr 54 min
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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.
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