596: The 2025 Upgradies
Dec 29, 2025•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 596
Episode description
It's time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories! Only the finest will walk away with the most coveted of titles: Upgradies Winner.
This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by:- Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code upgrade26.
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- iPad Multitasking
- Clipboard History for Mac
- Private Cloud Compute in Shortcuts
- Athlytic
- Liquid Glass
- iPad Multitasking
- Call Screening
- Moonbound by Robin Sloan
- Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
- Apple in China, by Patrick McGee
- Ensh*ttification, by Cory Doctorow
- Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green
- Connected
- Crash Course Pods: The Universe
- Wavefrm
- The Town
- Kinda Funny Gamescast
- The Rest is History
- Connected
- Upgrade
- iPhone 17 Pro
- AirPods Pro 3
- iPhone Air
- iPad Pro M5
- MacBook Air M4
- RoboRock vacuum
- Combustion thermal probe
- Traeger pellet grill
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Bambu Labs P2S 3D Printer
- Trmnl E-Ink Display
- “Sky Blue” MacBook Air
- XTEINK X4
- Cord Cutting Drama
- AI
- Liquid Glass
- Apple Intelligence
- RoboRock vacuum
- Combustion thermal probe
- M4 MacBook Pro and Second Desk
- Lutron Shades
- Vtech RM7767HD
- iPad mini in the Nursery
- AirPods Pro 3
- Apple Watch
- Nintendo Switch 2
- “Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son” - Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge
- “Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed” Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge
- Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
- Apple Succession
- Alan Dye Leaves Apple
- AI Arms Race
- Announcement of the Steam Machine
- Apple gives up on personalized Siri until “the coming year”
- Jony Ive and Sam Altman share a coffee in SF
- Apple, Epic, Judge Gonzalez Rogers — Apple losing ability to charge 30%, being held in contempt, etc
- Apple Intelligence
- AWS / Cloudflare Outages
- Liquid Glass
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