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Epic takes on Apple and Google's dominance of smart phone app stores with an app update and corresponding legal filings and publicity campaign. What's Apple's next move, and more importantly, what do we wish Apple would do to change its App Store policies? Also, Apple releases a bundle with the promise for many more, which leads us to get a little bit sad about the state of Apple's current service offerings. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Mint Mobile: Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month. Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021, and can be used only once. Bombas: Super comfortable socks for you and someone in need. Use this link for 20% off. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Relay FM - Twitch Martin Scorsese Apple First-Look film TV Deal For His Sikelia Banner – Deadline Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Inks First-Look Deal With Apple – Deadline Apple TV+ greenlights “Harriet the Spy,” starring Beanie Feldstein and Jane Lynch - Apple TV+ Press Fortnite vs Apple vs Google: a brief and very incomplete timeline - The Verge Tired of paying fees to platform owners, Epic Games goes to court – Six Colors Apple Threatens to Terminate Epic Games' Developer Accounts on August 28 - MacRumors WSJ plans to stick with Apple News+ because it attracts ‘a different audience’ - 9to5Mac Apple Readies ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundles to Boost Services - Bloomberg Daring Fireball: Thoughts on an ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundle Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos - MacRumors Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut. - The New York Times The Week Old Hollywood Finally, Actually Died - The New York Times Apple TV+ subscribers get CBS All Access and SHOWTIME bundle at a great value - Apple Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop Keyboard & Mouse | Microsoft Accessories Dygma Raise ErgoDox Logitech MX Ergo Logitech MX Master 3 Logitech MX Vertical

Jason reviews the new iMac (with nano-texture display) and the public beta release of macOS Big Sur. Myke thinks Apple's making a big mistake in keeping game streaming services off of its platforms. And in Upstream, the transformation of the film industry continues at a rapid pace. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: TextExpander, from Smile: Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Get 20% off with your first year. KiwiCo: STEM, STEAM & Science Kits for Kids. Get 30% off your first month plus free shipping. Hover: Make a name for yourself. Get 10% off any domain name. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Apple TV on Twitter: Ted Lasso Trailer Oprah Winfrey Sets New Interview Series at Apple - Variety Apple TV+ orders new thriller series 'Shining Girls' starring Elisabeth Moss - 9to5Mac Robert Downey Jr., Team Downey Set Apple Drama Series (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety Apple TV Sports Plan Still Not Clear – Sportico.com Mark Duplass: ‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 In Global News Rewrites – Deadline Mulan is heading to Disney Plus on September 4th for $30 - The Verge Judge Agrees to End Paramount Consent Decrees | Hollywood Reporter AMC Theaters is learning to embrace the streaming era, not fight it - The Verge 2020 iMac review: The last picture show – Six Colors First Look: macOS Big Sur Public Beta – Six Colors Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines - The Verge Google Stadia, Nvidia GeForce, Microsoft XCloud Not On Apple iOS - Bloomberg Dithering ‎Dithering Preview on Apple Podcasts 20 Macs for 2020 – Six Colors 20 Macs for 2020 - Relay FM 20 Macs for 2020 - YouTube Macintosh Performa - Wikipedia

The summer gets a little more serious as we discuss Apple's newest iMacs, Phil Schiller's job transition, Apple emails disclosed by the House Antitrust Subcommittee, and Apple's surprisingly strong financial results. Also, Jason launches his new "20 Macs for 2020" project. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code UPGRADE at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase. Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021, and can be used only once. DoorDash: Dinner from your favorite restaurant delivered to your door. Get $5 off your first order. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Last hurrah? 27-inch iMac get Intel processor upgrade, all-SSD storage, T2 chip – Six Colors Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow - Apple Apple Fellow | Apple Wiki | Fandom 20 Macs for 2020: An Introduction – Six Colors 20 Macs for 2020: #20 – Power Mac G5 – Six Colors 20 Macs for 2020 - Relay FM 20 Macs for 2020 - YouTube The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 291, With Nilay Patel Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps - The Verge ATP 390: I Invented This Anti-Pattern — Accidental Tech Podcast Mark Gurman on Twitter: "Now we know how Apple convinced Amazon to finally put Prime Video on the App Store in 2017" Apple Q3 2020 results: Everything up – Six Colors For once, the Mac and iPad lead Apple's record financial results | Macworld The new iPhone won’t ship until October – Six Colors Mark Gurman on Twitter: "Cook says Apple TV+ production has been impacted by Covid-19." Mark Gurman on Twitter: "Apple CEO Tim Cook tells @EmilyChangTV in interview that Apple has “kicked” U.S. employee return to offices until early 2021."

This week Stephen Hackett joins Myke and Jason to consider the best and worst changes to app icons in macOS Big Sur. What makes a good icon? How are books shaped? What is the origin of the term "email"? What happened to Lou? Staring at icons for a long time really makes you think... This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: PDFpen, from Smile : The ultimate tool for editing PDFs on the Mac. Upgrade+: More content, no ads. Fully: Everything you need to find your work flow. Get $30 off. Guest Starring: Stephen Hackett Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. There will be new emojis in 2021 after all – Emojipedia Connected #265: What Are You, a Dictionary? - Relay FM 'For All Mankind' Season 2 Trailer Shared on IMDb, with No Official Release - MacRumors Werner Herzog Sets Shooting Star Documentary 'Fireball' at Apple - Variety Apple eyes new streaming strategy after Tom Hanks drama breaks records – Fast Company macOS Big Sur Application Icons macOS Big Sur Utilities Icons Connected - Relay FM Mac Power Users - Relay FM Liftoff - Relay FM Six Colors liveblog (@sixcolorsevent) / Twitter

Apple's big design changes in macOS Big Sur aren't limited to visuals. The system's alert sounds have changed, too. What better way to run down those changes than on a podcast during the Summer of Fun? Also, Apple News adds some audio features Myke likes, while Jason remains skeptical of whether Apple News can really help the sad state of the news business. Plus: Peacock Premium... Plus. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: ExpressVPN: High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service. Get 3 months free with a 1-year package. Mint Mobile: Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month. Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021, and can be used only once. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Apple Pushes Home Work for Store Team, Doubts 2020 Office Return - Bloomberg Idris Elba Strikes First-Look Deal With Apple – Deadline Apple expands original film slate with “Palmer,” starring Justin Timberlake - Apple TV+ Press Tom Hanks-Starrer Greyhound Torpedoes Apple TV+ Opening Weekend Record – Deadline Netflix The Gray Man Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans Joe & Anthony Russo – Deadline Apple News launches new audio features, expands local news offerings for readers - Apple Shumita Basu (@shubasu) / Twitter Duarte Geraldino (@Duartegeraldino) / Twitter

This week Myke and Jason discuss John Gruber's essay about Apple's App Store priorities and then assemble a list of apps that are missing key operating-system features. There's also more news about ARM Macs, Apple continues to make TV deals, and we discuss our favorite features of the iOS and iPadOS Public Betas. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021. DoorDash: Dinner from your favorite restaurant delivered to your door. Get $5 off your first order. KiwiCo: STEM, STEAM & Science Kits for Kids. Get 30% off your first month on select crates. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Formula 1: Drive to Survive – Netflix Kuo: New Apple Silicon Macs will include redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2021 - 9to5Mac Apple Strikes Overall Deal With ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Creator – Deadline Apple Studios Snow Blind Jake Gyllenhaal Gustav Möller Graphic Novel Pic – Deadline War movie Greyhound appearing on Apple TV+ 'heartbreaking' - 9to5Mac CBS All Access to Stream UEFA Matches in Expanded ViacomCBS Deal | Hollywood Reporter Quibi Slams Report That It Lost 92% of Its Early Subscribers - Bloomberg First Look: iOS 14 Public Beta – Six Colors Daring Fireball: A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d’Etre for the App Store Dithering JustWatch - The Streaming Guide TV Time | Your TV shows calendar (TVShow Time) TV Forecast Review: An Elegant Way to Track Your Favorite Shows - MacStories

Apple's services are in the spotlight, as Apple TV+ adds material, Apple News gets kicked to the curb by the New York Times, and Apple Arcade grapples with finding the right kind of games to publish. In other streaming news, we touch on Quibi and CBS before diving into Disney+--most specifically, Myke at the Matinee featuring "Hamilton." This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code UPGRADE at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase. Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021. ExpressVPN: High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service. Get 3 months free with a 1-year package. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Connected #301: We Should Be Developers - Relay FM Apple public interviews relating to WWDC 2020 Is Anyone Watching Quibi? – Vulture Lord & Miller Set Murder Mystery Comedy Series at Apple (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety ‘Defending Jacob’ Showrunner Mark Bomback Inks Overall Deal With Apple – Deadline Apple Studios Record Deal Emancipation Will Smith Antoine Fuqua – Deadline Tom Hanks on surviving coronavirus: 'I had crippling body aches, fatigue and couldn't concentrate' | Film | The Guardian CBS and NBC’s new deal shows how complicated keeping up with streaming is - The Verge NBCUniversal's Peacock strikes licensing deal for ViacomCBS content Magnum, podcast - a podcast from The Incomparable The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News - The New York Times Daring Fireball: The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News Apple Cancels Arcade Games in Strategy Shift To Keep Subscribers - Bloomberg iOS 14 can automatically redirect web links to Apple News+ for premium articles - 9to5Mac ‎Grindstone on the App Store ‎Roundguard on the App Store Myke at the Movies | Myke at the Matinee: "Hamilton" (Episode 42) Hamilton (2020 film) - Wikipedia Hamilton's America (TV Movie 2016) - IMDb Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter: "Appreciate you so much, @brokeymcpoverty. All the criticisms are valid." “First Burn” [Official Video] - YouTube Design for the iPadOS pointer - WWDC 2020 - Videos - Apple Developer What changes might be coming to new Mac hardware? – Six Colors Game Show - a podcast from The Incomparable Parsely – Memento Mori Theatricks

This week we welcome Apple's Bob Borchers and Ronak Shah to the show to discuss macOS Big Sur, including all the new features in Safari. There's also an awful lot of follow-up from the busy WWDC week that was, and we discuss the possible features of new Macs running Apple silicon. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021. Linode: Cloud Hosting & Linux Servers. Get a $20 credit. Bombas: Super comfortable socks. Shop the Pride Collection and get 20% off your first order. Guest Starring: Ronak Shah and Bob Borchers Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. WWDC 2020: The little stuff you might have missed – Six Colors WWDC 2020: All the Little Things in Apple's New OS Releases - MacStories Gestures - Interaction - watchOS - Human Interface Guidelines HomePod to add support for third-party streaming music services like Spotify - 9to5Mac Introducing Car Keys - WWDC 2020 - Videos - Apple Developer Meet Nearby Interaction - WWDC 2020 - Videos - Apple Developer Macs with Apple silicon will get new, refined boot and recovery mode – Six Colors Design for the iPadOS pointer - WWDC 2020 - Videos - Apple Developer WWDC 2020 Thursday: Giving a few pointers – Six Colors ‎Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast on Apple Podcasts Apple Responds to Your Comments! - MKBHD - YouTube The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020 - YouTube Meet the Surface Studio 2 – The Ultimate Creative Studio – Microsoft Surface Third-party accessories can now be integrated into the Find My app with iOS 14 - 9to5Mac Myke at the Movies | Myke at the Matinee: "Hamilton" (Episode 42)

Myke and Jason break down the WWDC 2020 keynote, which featured changes to the Mac both expected and unexpected and some long-wanted updates for iOS. Did the iPad updates let us down? Are we ready for the Apple Watch to track our sleep? And who won the draft? This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Linode: Cloud Hosting & Linux Servers. Get a $20 credit. DoorDash: Dinner from your favorite restaurant delivered to your door. Get $5 off your first order. ExpressVPN: High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service. Get 3 months free with a 1-year package. Fully: Everything you need to find your work flow. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. The Upgrade WWDC20 Event Draft Interactive Scorecard iPadOS 14 Preview - Features - Apple ‎Watchsmith on the App Store

It’s time for our fifth annual competition regarding what will happen at next week's WWDC keynote! Will there be a stage? Will there be enormous Mac announcements? Will iPadOS and Apple Watch get some love? This week is for guessing, and next week is for harsh reality. Also, we introduce Upgrade+. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: TextExpander, from Smile: Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Get 20% off with your first year. Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails. Use offer code UPGRADE to get 30% off. Offer expires on January 31, 2021. Linode: Cloud Hosting & Linux Servers. Get a $20 credit. KiwiCo: STEM, STEAM & Science Kits for Kids. Get 30% off your first month on select crates. Links and Show Notes: Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Upgrade Keynote Draft 2020 – Interactive Scorecard Upgrade Keynote Draft 2020 – PDF Scorecard Apple reveals lineup for its biggest-ever Worldwide Developers Conference - Apple Tim Cook on Twitter: Announcing Apple's Racial Equity and Justice Initiative