615: Upgrade*
Stephen and Myke are joined by Jason Snell to talk about CarPlay on boats and the new version of Pastebot, before useful consumer advice is given about weather stations and network-attached storage.
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Upgrade #631: Nessie Beneath the Waves - Relay
Google Health Now Syncs With Apple Health - 512 Pixels
Garmin’s new screen-free fitness tracker doesn’t require a subscription | The Verge
CarPlay is Coming to Pontoon Boats - MacRumors
CarPlay is Coming to… Pontoon Boats — Liss is More
More Boats - Robot or Not? #357 - The Incomparable
Savvy Navvy
Pastebot 3 for Mac
Pastebot 3 Doubles Down on Mac Clipboard Automation and Introduces Two New Business Models - MacStories
Ambient WS-2000
The 3 Best Home Weather Stations of 2026 | Reviews by Wirecutter
DiskStation® DS925+ | Synology Inc.
Synology DS925+ 4-Bay 16TB NAS w/ 4x4TB HAT3300 Hard Drive Bundle
OWC ThunderBay 4: Thunderbolt 4-Bay RAID Storage
A new Mac mini: I want to believe – Six Colors
631: Nessie Beneath the Waves
Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.
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Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild | The Verge
New Apple TV 4K Box, HomePod mini and Siri AI Smart Home Hub Are Coming - Bloomberg
Apple’s reported upgrade program revamp could be a big downgrade – Six Colors
Apple Upgrade launches in the United States - Apple
Apple reports third quarter results - Apple
Apple announces record Q3 results – Six Colors
Q3 results: 3D pricing, EGOT timing, and underestimating demand – Six Colors
Subscribe to Six Colors – Six Colors
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450: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.
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Links:
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WebKit in Safari 27 changes and notes, from the WebKit blog.
Helium — My favorite Chromium browser for the Mac. Fast, free, no bloat.
Camino — An open source Mac-assed web browser based on the Mozilla engine from the 2000s. Last updated in 2012, but, blessedly, the website still works. When it was discontinued I described it as “like a glass of ice water on a hot day for Mac users who wanted a modern but Mac-like browser in the early years of Mac OS X.”.
Photos of John Ternus and Tim Cook at Apple’s WWDC post-Keynote “Tech Talk”:
Mine.
Federico Viticci’s.
Jason on BBEdit 16, the world’s greatest text editor.
Jason, writing at Macworld, on the foundation of Apple’s OS 27 updates.
Jason, writing at Macworld, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard back in 2009. (The update cost $29 — which we thought was cheap, because previous Mac OS X updates cost $129.)
Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
607: You're on Speaker Phone with Connected
WWDC26 has come and gone, and the guys have scores to pick, topics to discuss, and Liquid Glass sliders to adjust.
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Dub Dub Daily: Day 2 | WWDC26 - YouTube
Platforms State of the Union - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple Developer
Rickies.co: WWDC 2026
Rickies.net: WWDC 2026
Jason Snell: "Cable management and 4 Mac Studios"
Mark Gurman on AI Extensions – X
Lil' Finder Guy made an appearance... - Basic Apple Guy on Threads
iCloud+ Subscribers Get Higher Apple Intelligence Usage Limits in iOS 27 - MacRumors
WWDC26: Tim Cook’s Closing Reflections - 512 Pixels
WWDC 2026: Between Seasons - MacStories
848: eReaders and Workflows with Jason Snell
Jason Snell joins the show to discuss the state of e-readers, why dedicated reading devices still beat the iPad, Kindle vs Kobo, plus libraries, physical books, note-taking devices, and color e-ink.
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Boox Palma review: A phone-shaped e-reader – Six Colors
Shop all Kindle | Amazon
Kobo Sage | Rakuten Kobo eReader Store United States
Libby - Library
hoopla | streaming audiobooks, music, video & ebooks
GitHub - crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader: Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader · GitHub
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Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning – Six Colors
Stephen Robles: "My AI Voice" - Mastodon
Apple at 50: the good and the bad
It's Apple 50 week, so we've got an Apple-filled podcast. First, longtime Apple journalist Jason Snell joins the show to talk about the state of the company as a hardware maker, a software maker, a force for good in the world, and more. Then, blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash explains why he's worried about the rise of video podcasts, and the role Apple could play to make it better. Finally, The Verge's Allison Johnson helps answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about swapping your phone for a watch. And a tablet. And some other things.
Further reading:
Rank the 50 best Apple Products
Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card
Apple turns 50: celebrating five decades of the tech giant
Apple II Forever!
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement.
Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power
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442: ‘Bad Dates’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the 2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card, MacOS 26 Tahoe, Apple Creator Studio, along with what we expect/hope for in next week’s Apple product announcements.
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Links:
Apple in 2025: The Six Colors Report Card.
Kieran Healy, in a post at Six Colors published after we recorded the show: “Charting the Vibes in the 2025 Apple Report Card”.
Kieran Healy’s homepage/weblog.
My 2025 Apple Report Card.
Upgrade: “The Shifting Sands of Liquid Glass”, wherein Jason and Myke discuss this year’s report card, and Jason makes rascally comments supporting MacOS 26 Tahoe. (And Myke isn’t much better.)
Apple’s July 2025 announcement of the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit.
Derek Sivers, in 2005: “Ideas Are Just a Multiplier of Execution”.
ChangeTheHeaders — a Safari extension I convinced Jeff Johnson to build, which, among other things, allows me never to be served WebP images in lieu of PNG or JPEG.
StopTheMadness — the older sibling, companion Safari Extension to ChangeTheHeaders that gives you explicit control over all sorts of web features, on a per-website basis. (I conflated the two during the show.)
WebP.
Mac Launchers:
LaunchBar (my favorite, and until Tahoe, Jason’s too).
Alfred.
Raycast.
Tuna.
Quicksilver.
Incomplete list of what’s wrong with MacOS 26 Tahoe:
Terrible app icons.
The terrible idea to include inscrutable, inconsistent icons next to just about every menu item in every app, as documented by Jim Nielsen and Nikita Prokopov, and linked to by yours truly here and here, respectively.
Norbert Heger: “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe” — and a follow-up.
Daring Fireball: “Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe”.
Daring Fireball: “Bad Dye Job”.
Stephen Hackett’s MacOS Screenshot Library at 512 Pixels.
Steve Krug’s classic book, “Don’t Make Me Think”.
The Appearance Manager and the themes that never actually shipped for classic Mac OS.
Comparing Alan Dye’s horseshitty introduction of Liquid Glass at WWDC 2025 to Steve Jobs’s introduction of Aqua back in 2000.
Manu Cornet’s 2011 classic: “Organizational Charts In Major Tech”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
432: ‘You and Frank Sinatra’, With Dan Moren
Dan Moren returns to the show. Topics include Atlas, ChatGPT's new web browser (or anti-web browser) for the Mac; Apple's loss in a "landmark" regulatory lawsuit in the UK regarding App Store commission rates; multiple reports of poor sales for the iPhone Air; and Apple's M5 product announcements: MacBook Pro, iPads Pro, and Vision Pro.
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Sleep++, David Smith’s iOS sleep app that ties into Apple Health data, and gives what I think is a much more accurate and interesting “sleep score” than does Apple Health itself in iOS 26.
ChatGPT Atlas: new Chromium browser for Mac:
OpenAI’s announcement.
Their promotion to get 7 days of higher ChatGPT usage if you make, and keep, Atlas as your default browser.
Anil Dash: “ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web”.
Simon Willison’s initial thoughts.
Michael Tsai’s roundup of links.
Reuters: “Apple Loses Landmark UK Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions”.
Multiple reports suggest the iPhone Air is not selling well.
But it seems like Apple isn’t doing any advertising for the iPhone Air (or regular iPhone 17) at all — (yet?).
Dan’s Six Colors coverage of the M5 speed bump updates from Apple:
Base model 14-inch MacBook Pro.
11- and 13-inch iPads Pro.
Vision Pro.
Dan’s review of the new Dual Knit Band for Vision Pro (which is now the only band included by default with the M5 models).
My piece on the M5 announcements.
Dan’s previous appearance on The Talk Show, from October last year, talking about — déjà vu — new Mac hardware.
“&udm=14” — AI-overview-free Google search, from Ernie Smith. Also: My DF post about it back in May.
Dan’s personal website, with links to his science fiction novels and short stories.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
564: Would Snell as Sweet
Jason joins Stephen and Myke to talk about hard drives, window management, and charts.
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September 10, 2014: A Personal Announcement – Six Colors
San Francisco Rat - The Incomparable Mothership #458 - The Incomparable
Apple accelerates the roadmap and ratchets its revenue – Six Colors
This is Tim: Complete transcript of Apple’s Q3 2025 financial call – Six Colors
Upgrade #575: I Love to Accelerate a Roadmap - Relay
CCATP #808 — Jason Snell on The Magic Behind the Six Colors Charts - Podfeet Podcasts
Building self-updating charts in Numbers – Six Colors
Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Turn Speech Into Text With Audio Hijack 4.3’s New Transcribe Block
Stephen and Jason at Myke's Bachelor Party
Mail in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - 512 Pixels
New Mail Message in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - 512 Pixels
'Macintosh HD' Icon Updated in macOS Tahoe Beta 5 - 512 Pixels
UNAS Pro - Ubiquiti
Here's the redesigned AirDrop icon in iOS 26 - 9to5Mac
"Pizza Slice" Icons
First Look: iPadOS 26 Public Beta – Six Colors
Thoughts on iPadOS 26: Hello, It's Good to Be Back - MacStories
iPadOS 26 is way more Mac-like. Where does that lead? - Fast Company
Does iPadOS 26 steer the iPad in the wrong direction? – Six Colors
iPad Pro (2nd generation) - Wikipedia
iPad Pro 12.9‑in. (2nd generation) vs iPad Air 13‑in. (M2) vs iPad Pro 13‑in. (M4) - Apple
427: ‘The Shift-2 Crowd’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the early PC platform rivalries of the 1980s, iOS 26 leaks (and Apple suing YouTuber Jon Prosser), the various Apple OS 26 public betas and the state of Liquid Glass, and more. (Where by “more” I mean a little baseball and keyboard nerdery.)
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The MLB All-Star Game "swing-off".
NuPhy Kick75 mechanical Bluetooth keyboard.
The weird key layout of the Apple Keyboard (ADB).
Tinkerboy’s ADB-to-USB adapter. (Email Tinkerboy if you’re interested — he has a USB-C adapter too, not listed on the website.)
Jason’s keyboard and the switches inside.
John on Myke Hurley’s “The State of the Workflow”.
Apple sues Jon Prosser over Liquid Glass leaks.
Un-redacting the redacted names in the lawsuit.
Wikipedia on Think Secret and "Nick DePlume", its pseudonymous author. See also: Vintage DF coverage of Think Secret.
Ray Gun magazine and designer David Carson.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
799: The State of Apple, with Jason Snell
Subtitle: "What Do We Have on the Spacecraft That's Good?"
Jason Snell has been covering Apple since all the Macs it shipped were beige boxes. This week, he joins Stephen and David to discuss the company’s range of legal and technological issues that seem to be adding up rapidly.
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Two desks, but a single M4 Max MacBook Pro – Six Colors
Insta360 Link Webcam
Keychron Q1 QMK Custom Mechanical Keyboard - Version 2
Extracting the Touch ID Button from a Magic Keyboard -- Friday Keyboard Club - YouTube
Thunderbolt 4 Dock | TS4 | CalDigit – CalDigit
Thunderbolt 5 Dock | TS5 Plus | CalDigit – CalDigit
Tim Cook gambles big on the App Store and loses (for now) – Six Colors
The App Store prevented more than $9 billion in fraudulent transactions - Apple
App Store in the U.S. facilitated $406B in developer billings and sales in 2024 - Apple
The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model – Six Colors
Safely open apps on your Mac - Apple Support
How will Apple re-think AI features for WWDC 2025? – Six Colors
Hypercritical: Apple Turnover
Hypercritical: Apple Turnaround
Apple University - Wikipedia
Make | Automation Software
Linode | Akamai
Numbers on the Mac App Store
Jason Snell on the Magic Behind the Six Colors Charts - Podfeet Podcasts
Chit chat about charts - All this
A full list of new functions in Numbers 14.4 – Six Colors
Pushover: Simple Notifications for Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop
Scriptable on the Mac App Store
SwiftBar
SwiftBar on GitHub
557: I Will Run a Four-Minute Mile
Dan Moren joins Jason to discuss folding iPhones, long individual takes in TV shows, new OS features, and what WWDC 2025 might really bring.
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Jason and the USS Enterprise. Can you help him make a stand?
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Seth Rogen Slams Hollywood in 'The Studio': Sony Hack, 'Green Hornet'
'The Office' 20th Anniversary: Season 1 Oral History
iPhone Foldable Display Said to Feature iPad-Style 4:3 Aspect Ratio - MacRumors
Federico Viticci :ticciseal:: "If this is true, it's kind of …" - MacStories on Mastodon
Introducing iOS 19 | Exclusive First Look - YouTube
Mark Gurman disagrees on Threads
Apple’s WWDC 2025 strategy is coming into view – Six Colors
This year’s WWDC keynote will be must-see Apple TV – Six Colors
Does the California Accent Actually Exist? Turns Out, Yes
534: The Rickies (January 2025)
Subtitle: Too Much Kissin’
It is time to name a new Annual Chairman, so the guys judge their 2024 predictions and make a new round of guesses for what 2025 may bring to the Apple faithful.
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Annual Rickies 2024 • Rickies.co
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Apple Vision Pro May Now Be Out of Production - MacRumors
2025 Annual Rickies — Rickies.net
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412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
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Yours Truly: “In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement”.
“Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM”.
David Schaub’s chart of base RAM in Mac desktops since 1984.
His corresponding chart of base RAM in Mac laptops since 1999.
Dan, in a column for Macworld: “The Truth Behind Apple’s Most Unpopular Decisions: It’s Not About You”.
M4 iMac:
Daring Fireball: “Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals”.
MacRumors: “M1 vs. M3 vs. M4 iMac Buyer's Guide”.
M4 Mac Mini, now even mini-er:
Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.
Dan Moren: “The M4 Mac Mini: Tricks and Treats”.
M4 MacBook Pros:
Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils New M4 MacBook Pro Lineup, Including, Hallelujah, a Nano-Texture Display Option”.
All Souls Lost — Dan’s latest novel, a modern noir mystery.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
522: I Consume All of My Dark Secrets
Subtitle: Jason Snell Alert
Federico and Myke are joined by Jason Snell to discuss Apple hardware in unexpected places, their dream peripherals, and how they are (or not) using their Vision Pros.
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ReadKit
Threads knows it has an engagement bait problem - The Verge
Pixel Thermometer rolling out body temperature support in Europe – 9to5Google
Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left in a Bar - MacRumors
M4 MacBook Pro offered for sale on Russian site; likely real – 9to5mac
Upgrade #532: I Am Foreign Exchange Headwinds - Relay FM
iPhone 4 - Wikipedia
This Is Apple's Next iPhone – Gizmodo
Steve Jobs: "What have you done that's so great?" - MacStories
Steve Jobs tells the media to switch off their wifi mifi for his demo - YouTube
Apple wins a patent for a removable keyboard with trackpad-like functionality built-into the keys + higher resistance to unwanted materials - Patently Apple
Mokibo Fusion Keyboard
@viticci • Decided to get the @verge Nomad band for my Apple Watch Ultra to match the iPhone 16 Plus • Threads
Sport Band - 46mm/49mm | The Verge | NOMAD®
NightWatch: An Apple Watch stand, if you want it – Six Colors
Apple Vision Pro Series Head Strap - Spigen
A Cozy WWDC — Todd Heberlein
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
Apple Vision Pro Series Head Strap - Spigen
Solotop for Apple Vision Pro Modern Solo Knit Top-strap Adapters print & Ship - Etsy
Air Cover 2.0 para Apple Vision Pro – Open System – Infinity One 3D
Last week in Apple Vision Pro | Frostbyte | Substack
410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost.
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Links:
Ten years of Six Colors.
Take Control of Photos (updated for iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Sequoia).
KQED: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A’s at Last Game in Oakland.
A’s fan who was at their first game in Oakland in 1968, and their final game last week.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
203: The Little Lies You Tell Yourself, with Jason Snell
Jason Snell is back to talk about staying focused as an indie and his unique spin on off-site personal retreats.
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397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.
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Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction”.
Yours truly:
“The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue”.
“European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta”.
Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
“Thoughts on Music”.
“Thoughts on Flash”.
Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022.
Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging.
ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline”.
Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter.
Calcaterra’s breakdown of the Ohtani gambling scandal.
The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
496: 40th Anniversary of the Mac Draft
Celebrating 40 years of the Mac, we've gathered an all-star panel of longtime Mac users to pick the best Macs, Mac software, and Mac accessories, as well as induct a few events or devices into the Mac Hall of Shame.
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20 Macs for 2020 - Relay FM
The best Mac ever | Macworld
The iMac G3 Project – 512 Pixels
How the iMac saved Apple - The Verge
BBEdit
FileMaker - Wikipedia
tinkerBOY
'The Green Button'
A Tour of Apple’s External (LCD) Displays – 512 Pixels
PowerBook 5300, a Compromised Mac | Low End Mac
Some of Apple’s lemons – 512 Pixels
20 Macs for 2020: #17 – PowerBook 500 & 5300 – Six Colors
The Macintosh TV was a cul de sac off the road to converged video | Ars Technica
20 Macs for 2020 #9: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (#12) - Relay FM
474: Redesigned Into a Butterfly
Apple's spooky October event has come and gone, so the guys sort through the wreckage of their picks and talk about the M3 and new Macs. Jason had to step in.
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The 'Sunday Problem'
The new, more affordable Apple Pencil is now available to order - Apple
Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Event Brings the M3 to Life – 512 Pixels
Myke's Finder Jack-O'-Lantern
Apple's Scary Fast Event with Stephen Hackett – AppStories
Upgrade #484: Space Grayer - Relay FM
“Unwrap the Gift of Podcasts” – 'Ugly Tee/Sweater/tanktop'
Keynote Rickies, October 2023 – Rickies.co
Keynote Rickies, October 2023 – Rickies.net
Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone - YouTube
Apple Music's Lower-Priced Voice Plan No Longer Available - MacRumors
383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestant on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.
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John Warnock, RIP
“Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story” by Pamela Pfiffner
iPhone charging clickbait nonsense:
TheStreet: “Apple issues a surprise iPhone danger warning”
Yahoo News: “Apple says don’t sleep next to charging phone”
What Apple actually says, which isn’t new
Apple and Disney:
Jason at Macworld: “Apple Buying Disney Isn’t the Fairy Tale It Once Was”
Yours truly: “Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree”, and “Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts”
“Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” by Neal Gabler
iMac at 25:
Jason writing at the Verge: “How the iMac Saved Apple”
Me, linking to Jason’s piece
Me, linking to Steven Levy’s 1998 Newsweek profile of Jobs and the original iMac
Jason’s 20 Macs for 2020 podcast series. You’ll never guess which Mac (rightfully) topped the list.
iPad as travel computer, or really just a computer:
Jason: “Giving Up the iPad-Only Travel Dream”
Me on the iPad now
Me on the same damn thing back in 2013
The iconic “Yum.” poster
“Perfect Bid” — fun Netflix documentary on the guy who beat The Price Is Right
Bike: Hog Bay Software’s excellent new(ish) Mac outliner
“Headless Body in Topless Bar”, the greatest headline ever written
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
375: ‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell
Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM's dumb decision to drop CarPlay.
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Will Carroll at Under the Knife, speculating on how Apple could revolutionize sports broadcasting in VR.
Steve Jobs introducing the original iPhone.
Jason on the new Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps for iPad.
Me ranting about GM dropping CarPlay.
Mac versions of Apple’s iWork apps lost features in 2013 for compatibility with iOS versions.
‘Ford CEO Jim Farley Seems Very Happy That GM Is Dropping CarPlay’.
My wife’s photo from our seats at Celtics-Sixers game 6.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren
Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.
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New M2 Pro/Max MacBook Pros and Mac Minis
Techmeme’s review roundup
Dan, at Six Colors, on the M2 Mac Mini
Jason Snell on the M2 16-inch MBP
AppleInsider: “Entry Level M2 Mac Mini, 2023 MacBook Pro Have Slower SSD Than Predecessors”.
2nd-gen HomePod review roundup.
Dan’s “The Galactic Cold War” series of novels and short stories.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.
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Jason’s review of the new iPads.
Jason’s take on the iPad announcements: “The iPad’s Erratic Odyssey Continues”.
Yours truly’s take on the announcements last week: “The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great”.
New $70 Logitech Crayon.
Apple’s $9 USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter.
Apple’s growing array of iPad keyboards.
Apple’s eMac — an iMac-like Mac with a CRT display for education that was introduced in 2002.
Joe Rosensteel on the new Apple TV 4K hardware.
Good explainer on Matter from The Verge.
Steven Troughton-Smith’s ideas for improving Stage Manager on iPadOS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).
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Twitter thread pondering whether reaction to iPadOS’s M1-or-better requirement for Stage Manager would have gotten a different reaction from owners of older iPads if the feature had debuted with the M1 iPad Pros last year.
Jason’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Apple’s announcement of its 10-year Major League Soccer streaming deal.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.
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Links:
Apple in 2021: The Six Colors Report Card.
Breaking down the results with charts and graphs, thanks to Kieran Healy.
“Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction” — Healy’s outstanding introduction to the R programming language and ggplot visualization library.
Healy’s also-excellent website.
My personal 2021 Apple report card.
Keychron Q2 mechanical USB keyboard. My son bought this and swapped out the switches for a set of Zealio V2 62g switches.
Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource and Audio Hijack — two great Mac utilities that can’t exist on iPadOS.
Clipboard managers (which also can’t exist on iPadOS):
Pastebot.
Keyboard Maestro.
LaunchBar.
Jason Snell: “Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?”
Upgrade: One of Jason’s plethora of podcasts, this one co-hosted with Myke Hurley.
Last week’s Upgrade, discussing the 2021 Report Card.
Floppy Emu: “a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.” Amazing work from Steve Chamberlin.
Moltz’s “The Terminator” t-shirt design. (It will not be back.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
384: Don't Fear the Laser
With Myke on assignment, Dan Moren joins Jason to discuss the features Apple hasn't yet delivered in 2021 and its product lineup for 2022. Then Jason breaks down the new e-readers you could use to read one of Dan's novels.
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Snell's law - Wikipedia
First Apple Mixed Reality Headset Rumored to Focus on Gaming, Media, and Communication - MacRumors
iPad Pro With Wireless Charging, iPad Air 5, and iPad 10 Reported to Debut in 2022 - MacRumors
2022 Apple Watch Lineup Rumored to Include New Apple Watch SE and 'Rugged' Model for Sports - MacRumors
Apple Planning Five New Macs for 2022, Including Entry-Level MacBook Pro Refresh - MacRumors
Nominate for the Upgradies
Apple is running out of time to deliver on its 2021 promises | Macworld
macOS Monterey Universal Control: Why it's late | Macworld
Brother HL2280DW Support
2021 e-reader roundup: Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Paperwhite reviews – Six Colors
How Kobo beats Kindle on library books – Six Colors
Which e-reader should you buy? – Six Colors
Dan Moren
The Nova Incident | Dan Moren
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324: ‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media day from Basketball Digest’s best NBA reporter.
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Links:
Garmin Adventure Watches.
Daring Fireball: “Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?”
Jason's iPad Mini review.
My iPad Mini review.
Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”.
Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”, which I conflated with Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” during the show, but about which Jason promptly corrected me.
“Downstream” — Jason’s new podcast with Julia Alexander.
“This is Dave from Basketball Digest.”
“My Next Guest Needs no Introduction”.
“The PosCast” with Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur.
New Orleans Pelicans.
Charlotte Hornets.
Utah Jazz.
Giants and Dodgers.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
342: MH AH 👻 😬
Apple's Spring Event has come and gone, and now the picks must be graded. Will Stephen remain in power as the Keynote Chairman? Can Myke gain access to both Twitter accounts, or is Federico poised for a comeback?
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First Impressions: Kensington's StudioDock Aims to Turn Your iPad Pro into an Expandable Desktop Workstation - MacStories
New 12.9-inch iPad Pro Not Compatible With Older Magic Keyboard - MacRumors
AirTag Review Roundup - MacStories
AirTag and Accessories - Apple
AirTag Tidbits: Maximum of 16 Per Apple ID, Low Battery Notifications on iPhone, and More - MacRumors
Belkin, Moment, Nomad and More Debut AirTag Accessories - MacRumors
AirTag Glasses Strap | NOMAD®
AirTag Case Rugged Armor – Spigen Inc
The iPad Pro is a killer machine but its software is killing me – Macworld
Parkinson's law - Wikipedia
The Rickies Score Card - Notion
This contains spoilers for today's grading of picks.
310: ‘Russian Nesting Doll Code’, With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, Apple TV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign.
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The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project, now with all three bonus content episodes with yours truly.
[Apple’s March 21, 2001 press release announcing Mac OS X 10.0’s release, including where to buy it (it came in a box and cost $129)](. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/03/21Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend/).
Jason in August 2000: “Mac OS X: The Full Story”.
Jason’s 10.1 story for Macworld.
Steve Jobs claiming in 2005 — announcing the Mac’s Intel transition — that Mac OS X had set up Apple “for the next 20 years”.
Jason: “Can Apple Explain Its Home Strategy?”.
iMac Pro canceled in Friday night announcement.
HomePod canceled the next Friday night.
Dan Frakes’s review of the iPod Hi-Fi in 2006.
Yours truly on Intel’s new “Go PC” campaign with Justin Long: “Intel Goes Long” and “Going Longer”.
Stickergate.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
