About this episode
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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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
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.
Incom
