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Just hours after Apple's September event, Jason is joined by Stephen Hackett to talk about updates to the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the new iPad Pro, iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: GoToMeeting: Make it easy to meet with your team whenever you need to, wherever you are. Click the 'Try it Free' button for a 30-day free trial. Stamps.com: Postage on demand. Click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in UPGRADE, for a no-risk trial and your $110 Bonus Offer, including a digital scale and up to $55 FREE postage. FanDuel -- Use code upgrade and check out the special money-matching deal. Guest Starring: Stephen Hackett Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Apple Events - Special Event September 2015 - Apple John Gruber on Twitter: "Employees outnumber media 2-1 in here. 1000 employees, ~400 media." Apple Watch Bands - Apple iPad Pro - Apple Hands-on with Apple's new iPad Pro | The Verge Steve Jobs, on the stylus Apple TV - Apple Pondering a name change for OS X | Macworld iPhone 6s - Apple iPhone Upgrade Program - Apple

This week we look forward to the Sept. 9 Apple media event, which Jason will be attending. What will it take for a new Apple TV to be a success? Also, a Wii U game wins over a party of eleven-year-old boys in a mouseless house, and we further ponder the eternal mystery of why some people don’t like Tap to Click. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'UPGRADE' to get 15% off Hover: Simplified Domain Management. Use code 'LIFTOFF' for 10% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Accidental Tech Podcast: 132: Digital Hearth Connected #54: Tim is the New Cook - Relay FM Cortex #11: 0% Entertaining - Relay FM Runbow for Wii U - Nintendo Game Details Jim's Leather Loop Jim's Milanese Loop iPhone 6S: Larger front FaceTime camera, Force Touch parts shown in new photos & video | 9to5Mac Apple TV 4 coming in October for under $200, Apple TV 3 stays & gets new streaming service | 9to5Mac Apple TV 4: Gaming and Siri will be major focuses, expect Bluetooth game controllers + enhanced wireless | 9to5Mac Amazon Fire Game Controller – Shop Now 5by5 | Hypercritical #49: Pinching the HarmonicaJohn Siracusa on Video Game Controllers. All the unreleased Sport Band colours Amazon.com: Blue Microphones Snowball Amazon.com: Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone Six Colors liveblog (@sixcolorsevent) | Twitter Upgrade #52: Click to Click - Relay FM

This week we break down what adding Force Touch to iOS might mean, highlighting the difficult design and marketing choices Apple has to make when it rolls out new products. Also, Jason shocks Myke by saying something nice about pens, we address some WarGames and Twitter follow-up, and we answer your #askupgrade questions. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: GoToMeeting: Make it easy to meet with your team whenever you need to, wherever you are. Click the 'Try it Free' button for a 30-day free trial. Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. Use code UPGRADE for 10% off Stamps.com: Postage on demand. Click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in UPGRADE, for a no-risk trial and your $110 Bonus Offer, including a digital scale and up to $55 FREE postage. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Aren’t An Overnight Success | TechCrunch The Incomparable | High Five (Episode 260) Clockwise #100: The Speed of Your Voice - Relay FM Connected #53: Go Down the Pole and Run to the Fire - Relay FM Accidental Tech Podcast: 129: Tap-to-Click Wizard Cortex #10: Zero Artistic Skills - Relay FM NORAD to limit tours of military bunker at Cheyenne Mountain Six Colors: Is the pen still mightier than the keyboard? Taking Notes: Is The Pen Still Mightier Than the Keyboard? | MindShift | KQED News Field Notes — “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.” Why I'm writing on the iPad | Macworld The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 128, With Guest Matthew Panzarino Magic Recs (@MagicRecs) | Twitter 'Bench Buddies', by Tiffany Arment Action Launcher for Android 5by5 | The Prompt #38: 45 Minutes in Traffic Six Colors: What's on my desk Hover Series 2 Monitor Arms by RightAngle Products The Verge - YouTube Polygon - YouTube Tested - YouTube CGP Grey - YouTube Marques Brownlee - YouTube Anglophenia - YouTube Alton Brown - YouTube SmarterEveryDay - YouTube The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133 - YouTube Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy #1 - YouTube Geek & Sundry - YouTube Complete Field Notes Colors Collection from Butchers to Two Rivers SEALED EXTRAS | eBay

This week Jason cleans off his desk and we follow up on Google’s new Alphabet. Then it’s time for Myke to go back to the movies with 1983’s “WarGames” and as a special bonus, Pixar’s “Inside Out." This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. TextExpander 5, from Smile: Type more with less effort. Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. Use code UPGRADE for 10% off. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Introducing Liftoff and Top Four — Relay FM Top Four - Relay FM Liftoff - Relay FM Welcome | grafiksyndikat*@forgottentowel's Portfolio The Incomparable - Smart, funny pop culture podcasts Accidental Tech Podcast: 130: Technical Countermeasures Infinite Loop: Michael Malone: Amazon.com Upgrade #30: Boarding a Sinking Ship - Relay FM Australia Apple Pay could be far off as banks push back on Apple’s fees | 9to5Mac Twitter on the Mac: Do your job, or get out of the way | Macworld The Odd Couple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The picture of Job's Desk on Twitter In a Private Light: Diana Walker’s Photos of Steve Jobs | TIME Jason's Tidy Desk This Week in Tech 523 | TWiT Is Howl The "Netflix Of Podcasts" We've Been Waiting For? | Fast Company WarGames (1983) - IMDb The Incomparable | Using Computers to Impress Girls (Episode 189)The Incomparable episode about WarGames Inside Out (2015) - IMDb Riley’s First Date? Is a Sublime Follow-Up to Inside Out | Disney Insider | Articles

Jason returns from his 2,000-mile car trip just in time to discuss the meaning behind Google’s transformation into Alphabet and the future of Twitter. And as always, they answer some of your questions. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: GoToMeeting: Make it easy to meet with your team whenever you need to, wherever you are. Click the 'Try it Free' button for a 30-day free trial. Hover: Simplified Domain Management. Use code 'FOLLOWOUT' for 10% off your first purchase. Stamps.com: Postage on demand. Click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in UPGRADE, for a no-risk trial and your $110 Bonus Offer, including a digital scale and up to $55 FREE postage. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Six Colors: 2000 miles with Apple Maps Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal: Nick Bilton: Amazon.com The developer of the best Android app for Twitter works for Twitter now | The Verge Obituaries for the Pre-Dead - The New York Times A year of Relay FM — Relay FM B-Sides - Relay FM Outspoken Investor Chris Sacca Backs Jack Dorsey As Next Twitter CEO | TechCrunch The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 128, With Guest Matthew Panzarino Dorsey's Tweet Jack Dorsey and Other Twitter Insiders Make Show of Support - The New York Times Official Google Blog: G is for Google Infinite Loop by Michael Malone

Our hosts show off their age gap by comparing how they watch television as a part of a larger discussion about the role of the Apple TV in Apple’s product line. Then Myke and Jason discuss the future of Twitter. Plus they discuss tricks of the journalism trade, Myke’s first experiences with Apple Pay, and answer some of your #askupgrade questions. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Casper: Because everyone deserves a great night sleep. Get $50 off with the code 'UPGRADE' Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'UPGRADE' to get 15% off Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 126, With Guest Jason Snell How Steve Jobs’ obit got published - Fortune Elizabeth Taylor - Child Actress to Film Queen - The New York Times Get Ready For A New Apple TV In September - BuzzFeed News This Chart Shows Why Comcast Would Be Interested in Vice Media and BuzzFeed - CMO Today - WSJ Twitter's latest financials are strong but its executives are jumping ship | The Verge What Twitter Can Be. | LOWERCASE capital The Case for Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO - Stratechery by Ben Thompson The growth formula: Q&A with Kevin Weil, Twitter's head of product | The Verge Foundation 01 // Jack Dorsey - YouTube OmniOutliner - outlining & writing for Mac, iPhone, and iPad - The Omni Group

Jason and Myke discuss Apple’s enthusiastically vague approach to Apple Watch sales figures, Myke’s fear that content blockers could wreck people’s livelihoods, and classic iPods and iPod Classics. Plus, Jason takes a European geography quiz. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: GoToMeeting: Make it easy to meet with your team whenever you need to, wherever you are. Click the 'Try it Free' button for a 30-day free trial. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people. Stamps.com: Postage on demand. Click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in UPGRADE, for a no-risk trial and your $110 Bonus Offer, including a digital scale and up to $55 FREE postage. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Jason takes the European Countries Quiz B-Sides #12: Jason & Stephen Talk Space - Relay FM Six Colors: A new 4-inch iPhone: Coming later? Or never? Six Colors: Revitalizing an old iPod with OWC's iFlash adapter Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch - The New York Times The 5 biggest takeaways of Apple's Q3 2015 quarterly earnings | Macworld Six Colors: Apple reports $49.6B quarter on strong iPhone, China results Six Colors: 'It's Tim': What Apple's CEO told analysts Redesigning Overcast’s Apple Watch app – Marco.org The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 126, With Guest Jason Snell The mobile web sucks | The Verge Daring Fireball: The Verge's Web Sucks One Verge Article Loads 9.5MB Across 263 HTTP Requests | The VergeVox Product's Response to page load times. The Verge’s web sucks – Marco.org Publishers and the Smiling Curve - Stratechery by Ben Thompson With Split View in El Capitan, going full screen makes sense | Macworld Apple removes option to buy iPhone 6 via AT&T's two-year contract - CNET

Myke and Jason party like it’s 2005 and spend a lot of time talking about the iPod, including what the new iPod touch might mean for the future of the iPhone product line, and the mystery of the continued existence of the iPod nano and iPod shuffle. Plus they address some follow-up about tea, space, and American geography. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'UPGRADE' to get 15% off. TextExpander 5, from Smile: Type more with less effort. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Rooibos - Wiktionary Hibiscus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Connected #48: Vast Emptiness of Nothing - Relay FM The OSU Astronomy Courses of Richard Pogge StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson Science Friday Myke's Attempt at the US State Quiz Six Colors: New iPod touch gets iPhone 6 power Is the new iPod touch a harbinger of a 4-inch iPhone 6c? | Macworld iPad Air 2 Teardown - iFixit NFC Reader for Apple Pay, Contactless & Chip | Square The iPod nano and shuffle won't sync Apple Music songs | iMore Apple - iPod iPhone, iPad, Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy The Pharmacy with Dr Dre on Connect Markdown — MacSparky Daring Fireball: Markdown Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 11 Drafts | Agile Tortoise Byword • Simple and efficient text editor for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Jason and Myke dive into the iOS 9 and El Capitan public betas, then divert to both Pluto and San Diego to talk space exploration and Comic-Con. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: NM Tea Co.: Making excellent teas available to people all around the world. Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. Use code UPGRADE for 10% off Stamps.com: Postage on demand. Click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in UPGRADE, for a no-risk trial and your $110 Bonus Offer, including a digital scale and up to $55 FREE postage. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Paul's 'Shuffle' Image The Incomparable | Summer Superhero Spectacular: Gotham Region (Episode 255b) Accidental Tech Podcast: 125: A Better Future for Everybody Nintendo president Satoru Iwata dies at 55 | Polygon Satoru Iwata's lifetime of accomplishments | Polygon Virtual - Relay FM Isometric - Relay FM Six Colors: Summer of testing: El Capitan and iOS 9 public betas are here On Negative App Store Reviews During Betas of iOS and OS X – MacStories First look at the OS X El Capitan public beta, out today | Macworld Six Colors: Debugging from three billion miles away How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate | NASA Amazon.com: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - Mike Brown Mike Brown (@plutokiller) | Twitter Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer [HD] - YouTube The Incomparable | Bashing Two Action Figures Together (Episode 146) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Comic-Con 2015 Reel - YouTube Suicide Squad's trailer from Comic-Con released officially | PolygonReleased after the show was published First Clip From Sherlock Special - Sherlock - BBC - YouTube

The pros and cons of Apple’s relationship with the web development community, our first week with Apple Music and Beats 1, Jason doesn’t go to Comic-Con, and the first Upgrade Baby is born. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: lynda.com: An easy and affordable way to help individuals and organizations learn. Free 10-day trial. Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use code 'UPGRADE' to get 15% off Hover: Simplified Domain Management. Use code 'ROBOT' for 10% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: Support Upgrade with a Relay FM Membership Six Colors: ComiXology 3.7: New app makes the best of the Amazon/Apple situation London Comic Con Apple Loses Appeal in E-Books Price Fixing Lawsuit, Ordered to Pay $450 Million Fine - Mac Rumors I'm going independent — 512 Pixels Material - Relay FM Safari is the new IE | Read the Tea Leaves Safari is the new IE 2: Revenge of the Linkbait | Read the Tea Leaves Nuzzel - News From Your Friends Six Colors: Web developers are grumpy about Safari Safari isn't the new IE: it's the user-centric web | iMore Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is. — Kenneth Auchenberg Accidental Tech Podcast: 123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism iOS 9 and Safari View Controller: The Future of Web Views – MacStories Six Colors: More on "Safari is the New IE" Six Colors: Tip: Find the rest of a song's album in Music on iOS 8.4 ♬ Apple Music Is Pretty Broken ♬ - YouTube Better Elevation » • Disconnect The A List: Alternative - Apple Music Playlist Alternative Party - Apple Music Playlist Indie Songs About Youth - Apple Music Playlist Apple Music Tumblr A Guide to “Elton John’s Rocket Hour” on Beats 1 Radio : EltonJohn.com St. Vincent's Mixtape Delivery Service: June 30, 2015 - Apple Music Playlist Robot or Not? - a podcast from The Incomparable Get help with the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch - Apple Support No, Apple is not adding DRM to songs on your Mac you already own | iMore Brits Try To Label The United States On A Map, Hilarity Ensues