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#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!
#520: Cruel Summer
July 8th, 2024 · 95 minutes
There's more news about Apple's battles with Epic and the EU, and Apple tightens its ties with OpenAI, but all of the controversy gets us thinking about what makes us stay excited about technology during difficult times.
#519: The Intelligent Trinity
July 1st, 2024 · 91 minutes
After some feedback about the future of the Vision Pro, we discuss Apple's adventures in the EU, the inevitable fragmentation of Siri, and a curious new AirPods rumor.
#518: Having Lots of Money Doesn't Make You a Bank
June 24th, 2024 · 120 minutes
Apple backs away from some financial services and changes its Vision hardware approach, and there's a new phase in the company's relationship with the EU. For the Summer of Fun, we look at our current iPhone home screens.