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#530: I Am Beyond Recovery

September 23rd, 2024 · 97 minutes

Jason and Myke share their first thoughts about the iPhone 16 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10, live and in person!

#529: Grind Down That Silicon

September 16th, 2024 · 111 minutes

All of Apple's new operating systems are here, and we discuss our favorite new features--and acknowledge the elephant waiting in the wings. We also spend a little time celebrating the tenth birthday of both Upgrade and Six Colors.

#528: Here's My Child Criminal

September 10th, 2024 · 103 minutes

From the iPhone 16 to the Apple Watch Series 10 to the AirPods 4 to the other AirPods 4, and with the release of Apple Intelligence hanging over it all, we break down the announcements from the September Apple Event.

#527: The 2024 September Event Draft

September 2nd, 2024 · 92 minutes

Jason and Myke preview what will happen at next week's Apple event. What new features will the new iPhones have? How will the Apple Watch transform? How will Apple Intelligence be featured? To the winner goes the glory.

#526: Journal and Learnal

August 26th, 2024 · 115 minutes

We bring the Summer of Fun to a close with our opinionated rating of 60 different Apple app icons.

#525: Best of U3

August 19th, 2024 · 90 minutes

Fortnite and Epic return to the (not your) iPhone, Apple opens up NFC and enacts new restrictions on Patreon, Spotify posts a link, and we discuss what is and is not a 'Tabletop Robot.'

#524: We're Making a Trifle

August 12th, 2024 · 94 minutes

This episode has a lot of layers, as we discuss the Olympics, the Google antitrust ruling, Apple's new EU fee plan, a tiny new Mac mini, macOS dialog disasters, and the tech world of a decade ago.

#523: I Got It to Hallucinate Already

August 5th, 2024 · 88 minutes

Myke has a mostly positive Apple Intelligence experience (except for Siri), Apple results make us consider the power of Services, and the Color Czar may be up to their old tricks.

#522: Reserve Your Spot

July 29th, 2024 · 93 minutes

After recapping their excitement about the Relay 10 event in London, Jason and Myke discuss the arrival of Apple Intelligence in a surprising beta release and imagine some interesting new directions for the iPhone product line.

#521: I Can Get Pineapple Into Anything

July 15th, 2024 · 88 minutes

Jason and Myke interview the writers of "What If...? An Interactive Story" for Vision Pro about the challenges of writing something that's not quite a movie and not quite a video game for a brand-new platform. Also: hot dogs!