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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 30, 2026

Kind of fitting Tim Cook is going out with another record revenue quarter. iPad was down and Services was a little soft but otherwise a pretty great quarter for him to say goodbye on. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/apple-announces-record-q3-results/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 27, 2026

Just posted on Six Colors: Always choose the good soap https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/always-choose-the-good-soap/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 21, 2026

Now live on Upgrade: https://relay.fm/live

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 12, 2026

Replying to @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social I bought one item at Costco the other week. Felt like I had won a gold medal.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 08, 2026

Hey “The Bear” watchers. When you’re done, try HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere.” For two shows that on the surface seem very different, they are both stories about midwesterners dealing with grief and figuring out what they want from life. One’s just way more famous.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 06, 2026

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Jul 05, 2026

The Rest Is History has ruined me, in that I can’t watch Brazil play now without realizing that they are wearing yellow for the Habsburgs. Seriously. You could look it up, or listen to their episode about the Brazil national anthem. https://therestishistory.com/episodes/the-emperor-s-anthem-part-5

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · May 16, 2026

Replying to @stuart@sozial.cyberpunk.gmbh

@stuart@sozial.cyberpunk.gmbh Haven't and can't really imagine we would

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · May 13, 2026

My podcast game show of making connections between words is back! This one has some big momentum swings.

https://www.theincomparable.com/gameshow/282/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · May 12, 2026

Replying to @nieghborkid01@mastodon.social

@nieghborkid01@mastodon.social you're supposed to quote post to share it with the world but ZZZ Top is an all-timer

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · May 11, 2026

Slightly increase a band

They Probably Are Giants
Death Uber XL for Cutie
U2.1
The 1976
Crowded Duplex
Exodus

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aorbdsa5m6q5pw6japzuatds/post/3mllq6np7wc2w

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · May 01, 2026

Just posted on Six Colors: Apple in the Enterprise: The complete 2026 commentary

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/apple-in-the-enterprise-the-complete-2026-commentary/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social We are now in the era of Boring $100B quarters!

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @marlies@tacobelllabs.net

@marlies The one I got from Norway is still slightly darker than my others, so I am constantly reminded of the whole thing

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @dan@duck.haus

@dan saf-saf-saf-saf-saf-anges

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @chicgeek@front-end.social

@chicgeek@front-end.social @stillmoms@mastodon.social yes it was replaced about two hours later.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 23, 2026

Just posted on Six Colors: Introducing the Six Colors Audio Newsletter

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/introducing-the-six-colors-audio-newsletter/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 22, 2026

Just posted on Six Colors: I’m switching back from Spotlight, at least for now https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/im-switching-back-from-spotlight-at-least-for-now/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social

@Cdespinosa I always leave Markkula out of the CEOs list. The great pre-Sculley interregnum. My mistake.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @sageolson@mastodon.social

@sageolson@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social re-download to fix

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @playdate@social.panic.com

@playdate@social.panic.com if it uses dart board scoring it’s not curling, it’s shuffleboard

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @davextreme@mastodon.social

@davextreme@mastodon.social yes. Exactly

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @yatil@yatil.social

@yatil@yatil.social "classic" video podcasting has always been supported, but it requires every single subscriber to download a very large video file, which isn't super practical. this is something different.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @hagen@mastodon.social

@hagen@mastodon.social If you did eye tracking I suspect you'd find people watch it for something like 2-5% of the run time

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @jsnell@zeppelin.flights

In addition, to do Apple Podcasts video you have to pay one of Apple's 4-6 (depending on how you count) partner video hosting companies. Which is entirely antithetical to how podcasting is supposed to work.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 15, 2026

Just to make this clear, these video integrations want us to stop editing the audio and start editing the video. We don't do this with Upgrade and it's why we're not on Spotify. If you do video on Spotify it throws away your podcast audio file and just uses the audio from the video version. We put way more effort into our audio than our video edit because most of our audience is listening.

To change this would require us to change our entire process. Not impossible, but a very large undertaking

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 14, 2026

If you’re an Apple-related IT type person I would LOVE your input in my annual Apple In The Enterprise Report Card survey by Friday:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF8n9IEpzus7jmo9ZEVaH90h52pjLwImlhNnmmkCF5b9n1SQ/viewform?usp=dialog

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @sinky@social.lol

@sinky@social.lol That’s great to hear! I sort of intuited there would be an audience for it.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 11, 2026

Replying to @consequently@hcommons.social

@consequently @dmoren we recorded the episode a month ago and have already recorded the first 8, reminding us of what we missed isn't really helpful.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @securitygen@infosec.exchange

@securitygen thanks for the feedback, I’ll keep it in mind for future iterations

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 09, 2026

If you’re involved in administering Apple systems in a large organization, I’d love for you to participate in our annual Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise report card!

https://forms.gle/JpT5pRAJpmSfsVr89

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 09, 2026

Microsoft in the summer of 2025: Perhaps we should improve Windows somewhat.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @liontowershield@zeppelin.flights

@liontowershield @Shelly partially recorded even!

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 08, 2026

Just posted on Six Colors: Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/rethinking-rss-newsletters-and-how-i-read-every-morning/

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @marcoarment@mastodon.social

@marcoarment just falls into my entire thesis that Apple doesn’t know how to market/sell anything but mass consumer products, and this thing wasn’t and isn’t one. Yet was marketed as one?

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 06, 2026

Loss of Signal

(image: "From the Earth to the Moon" Apollo 8 episode)

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 06, 2026

RE: @donw@mastodon.coffee

By the way, Audio Hijack currently only lets you filter in 100Hz increments, so I can't hit 1.3333, only 1.3, which requires you to expand the filter to catch the hum and it makes things sound bad. I talked to Rogue Amoeba and they're going to consider ways to better target specific frequencies.

Apologies to anyone out there who can't hear 1.3333kHz or 2.66666kHz, but I'm 55 and I can still hear it clearly 😂

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 06, 2026

New Upgrade: The Mac Pro is dead, iOS 18 security updates are now available for all, and Siri's upcoming revamp comes into focus. After all that's done, both hosts share their Apple origin stories.

https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/610

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 06, 2026

I don't know why NASA TV lets those horrible hums at 1.33KHz and 2.66KHz out into the world, but I just filtered them out on my Mac using iZotope and Audio Hijack. 😬

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 06, 2026

Now live on Upgrade:

https://relay.fm/live

relay.fm

On-Air: Upgrade - Relay

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 04, 2026

Now finally playing some D&D on the Internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5eH-8MOz0

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 03, 2026

Watching the Apollo 18 episode of From the Earth to the Moon.

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/1968/umc.cmc.4zd46lcnodt1smu8bzyyyjgbh?showId=umc.cmc.5v9px4zu8e6h9lcbdipl413dy

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 02, 2026

Sure says something that it’s going to take five different lawyers to replace Pam Bondi. They are Pam Blueberry, Pam Strawberry, Pam Tangerine, Pam Grape, and Pam Lime.

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @leemoknows@twit.social

@leemoknows @clockwise gee thanks for sharing

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Mar 31, 2026

Here's my second piece for The Verge on Apple at 50: Between Jobs, in which I point out the good and bad things that happened during the Sculley/Spindler/Amelio era.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/897520/apple-without-steve-jobs-90s

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Mar 30, 2026

Really honored to be asked by The Verge to write a couple of pieces about Apple at 50. Here’s the first one, about the computer that made Apple a success long before the Mac: The Apple II.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/900677/apple-ii-personal-computer

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Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights · Mar 30, 2026

New Upgrade: Jason and Myke tell the story of Apple's origin: It emerged from the unique environment of the suburbs of the '70s thanks to the particular genius of its two co-founders... and the surprising help they got along the way.

https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/609

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