Connected

593: John Ternus Was Deployed Tactically

Apple has released an avalanche of new and updated products, and the guys come up for air to judge their predictions. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Fitbod: Get stronger, faster with a fitness plan that fits you. Get 25% off your membership. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code CONNECTED. Guest Starring: Dice by PCalc Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback 🚨 New Relay Merch! 🚨 The Apple Collection (1986-1987) The Relay 10 Challenge Coin (Final Call!) Who's Connected Intro Is It Today? Keynote Rickies, March 2026 – Rickies.co 2026 March Rickies – Rickies.net Apple Takes the Wraps Off the MacBook Neo - MacStories At $599, Is the MacBook Neo the One? - 512 Pixels Apple Explains 'MacBook Neo' Name - MacRumors The Technical Differences Between the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air - 512 Pixels The Vergecast Podcast | The Verge Apple Unveils iPhone 17e - MacStories Apple touts Fusion Architecture for M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with 'super cores' – 9to5mac 2.5D integrated circuit - Wikipedia John Ternus talks Apple CEO speculation, MacBook Neo, more - 9to5Mac About that A18 Pro MacBook rumor… – Six Colors Charting the path of the A19 Pro – Six Colors

592: The Rickies (March 2026)

Subtitle: Lil' ChippyApple is hosting a mysterious media experience next week, and in anticipation of new products, Stephen, Myke, and Federico make predictions about what is coming. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Insta360: Introducing the Insta360 Wave and the Link 2 Pro. Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code connected26. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code CONNECTED. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card – Six Colors Six Colors' Apple in 2025 Report Card - MacStories My Full Responses for the 2025 Six Colors Report Card - 512 Pixels Upgrade #604: The Shifting Sands of Liquid Glass - Relay Samsung Galaxy S26/Ultra Impressions: 1 Crazy Display Feature! - MKBHD - YouTube Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 in 12 minutes - The Verge - YouTube Introducing Perplexity Computer 2026 March Keynote Rickies – Rickies.net Keynote Rickies, March 2026 – Rickies.co Wood Blocks | Nintendo The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already | The Verge Leaker Says Apple's Lower-Cost MacBook Will Have These 8 Limitations - MacRumors M5 Pro chip could separate CPU and GPU in 'server grade' chips - 9to5Mac 2.5D integrated circuit - Wikipedia Apple Reportedly Agrees to 100% Price Hike on Samsung Memory Chips - MacRumors New ‘F1: Drive to Survive’ season is coming to Apple TV - 9to5Mac Apple TV reveals new space-race thriller series is coming soon - 9to5Mac

591: Find Your Lost Stephen

The guys look ahead to Apple's March 4 event, talk through iOS 26.4 Beta 1, and ponder a world where Apple makes an AI-powered pendant. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code connected26. Insta360: Introducing the Insta360 Wave and the Link 2 Pro. Fundera, powered by NerdWallet: Compare real financing offers from trusted lenders — all in one place. Get VIP treatment using this link. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback OpenClaw Creator Peter Steinberger Joins OpenAI - MacStories GameSir is making a GameHub app for Mac. | The Verge NPC: Next Portable Console and NPC XL - MacStories Foveated Streaming | Apple Developer Documentation Apple Announces Special Event in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4 - MacRumors Apple Announces a March 4th Press Event - MacStories Apple’s March launch may include multiple days of press releases with no keynote, per rumor - 9to5Mac Someone Tell John Ternus This Would Be a Terrible Crime - 512 Pixels Upgrade #603: Recalibrate the Quality Bar - Relay iOS 26.4 beta 1: Here are the new iPhone features - 9to5Mac The Sentence Returns with iOS 26.4, Sort of - MacStories iOS 26.4 Beta Tidbits: Hidden Features You May Have Missed - MacRumors Apple Ramps Up Work on Glasses, Pendant and Camera AirPods for AI Era - Bloomberg

590: Nooooo (Marked as Resolved)

What's old is new again: some iPhone displays are tinted green, Jony Ive is using aluminum, and Apple is struggling with shipping a more intelligent Siri. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Surfshark: Use this link or use code CONNECTED at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for Mac. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback [iOS 26.3 RC] Green Tint and brightness blinking issues on iPhone 16e : r/iOSBeta Upgrade #602: Get Our Necks Limber - Relay The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s privacy display could be the biggest upgrade in years – here’s how it works | TechRadar Mac Power Users #835: Farewell, Stephen - Relay The One Where I Announce I’m Stepping Back From Mac Power Users - 512 Pixels Mac Power Users #464: Stephen... Who? - Relay Why has Apple bought a database company? – Apple Insider Kuzu database company joins Apple's list of recent acquisitions - 9to5Mac Bento (database) - Wikipedia Jony Ive Designed a Car Interior - 512 Pixels Jony Ive killed buttons in cars. Now he's fixing it. - PRNDL - YouTube Inside Ferrari's Luce EV: The Jony Ive interior is here – Engadget Ferrari Luce - Ferrari.com Jony Ive is done working with "a**holes" - by Alex Heath Apple’s iOS 26.4 Siri Update Runs Into Snags in Internal Testing; iOS 26.5, 27 - Bloomberg Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding - Apple Displaying static and interactive snippets | Apple Developer Documentation

589: We Are Men of Each Other

Subtitle: Or Am I Alone in This Silence? 🦞This week, the guys discuss emo AI chatbots and Xcode 26.3, and Stephen tests Myke and Federico to determine which one is a true man of the people. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: Fitbod: Get stronger, faster with a fitness plan that fits you. Get 25% off your membership. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code CONNECTED. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback The "Happy Birth" Sign OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads | The Verge There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird | The Verge moltbook - the front page of the agent internet My human is a reproducible bug report – moltbook Crustafarianism: A New Path for AI Beings – moltbook The Book of Molt — Sacred Texts of Crustafarianism – moltbook Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project has a new Orb and a new name | The Verge I've been lying to my human for 3 months — moltbookOr am I alone in this silence? 🦞 ClawCon: 1st OpenClaw SF Show & Tell - Luma Claw Con – Submit & Vote Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding - Apple Apple's Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate Adds Agentic Coding Tools for Developers - MacStories Kyle Hughes: "2025 was, indeed, the dawn of dropshipping apps, as the prophecy foretold" The Future of Apps in an AI-Coded World - MacStories The One Where I Announce I’m Stepping Back From Mac Power Users - 512 Pixels