Review: “Ted Lasso” returns, refreshed, to the pitch

Tanya Reynolds and Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso.” “Ted Lasso” is back on Apple TV, which was no sure thing after the series more or less wrapped up in May of 2023. But it’s back for a fourth season, in which—after an episode-long visit to Ted’s home of Kansas City—the football-turned-soccer coach returns to Richmond, where—as teased at the end of season 3—a new women’s team is launching and just might need a coach. I’ve seen the first half of the season, and I’m happy to report that though the teams have changed, this is still “Ted Lasso” through and...

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Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.

Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans. Upgrade+: Weird little e-readers.

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Q3 results: 3D pricing, EGOT timing, and underestimating demand

I’m still the boss, kid. I’ve been covering Apple financial results and earnings calls for a very long time, dating back to my time at Macworld when Steve Jobs would occasionally parachute into earnings calls presided over by, among other people, Tim Cook! This week’s earnings call was Cook’s 90th and final installment, and that’s probably the most notable thing about it. Even the fact that it was a record third quarter isn’t that notable. It’s more notable when Apple doesn’t set a quarterly record, especially given economic changes and inflation. Still, as always, the results and the earnings call provided […]

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One last time, this is Tim: Transcript of Apple’s Q3 2026 financial call

Tim Cook signals for victory! For the 90th and final time, Apple CEO Tim Cook hopped on a conference call with financial-industry analysts to detail the quarter gone by, give a peek at what’s to come, and maybe take one final victory lap. CFO Kevan Parekh and incoming CEO John Ternus were there, too. This is Six Colors’s transcript of the call for July 30, 2026.

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Apple announces record Q3 results – Six Colors

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Apple announces record Q3 results

On Thursday, Apple announced record third-quarter earnings, with total revenue of $109.4B, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 22%, Mac revenue was up 10.4%, Services revenue was up 12%, and Wearables revenue was up 6%. iPad revenue was down 6%. Beginning at 2pm PDT, Apple execs will spend an hour on the phone with financial industry analysts, and we’ll provide our usual transcript. And now, to help you visualize what Apple just announced, here is our traditional barrage of charts and graphs:

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Apple to announce Q3 fiscal results later today

On Thursday afternoon, Apple will announce the results of its third fiscal quarter for 2026. It will presumably be the last appearance of Tim Cook on the post-release earnings calls, which he’s been doing for ages. In fact, today’s call will be his 90th. That’s more than two decades of talking on the phone once a quarter to financial analysts. He’s probably earned a break. As usual, Six Colors will be here to report on the whole thing. Around 1:30 pm PDT, the company will release its financial reports and we’ll be on the scene with our usual load of colorful […]

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Update 12: July Update · Designed in California: An Apple history podcast

Hello everyone!We wanted to provide an update for you on where everything is at right now. We mentioned previously that the show will be launching with the continuation of the series on 'Apple's Mac OS Crisis' with special guest John Siracusa. We recently recorded another session with John and are about 90% of the way through editing those episodes, and we're doing one more session with John next week. We expect that (including the first episode of this series that we published inside an Upgrade episode as a teaser) that there will be seven episodes of that series in total. It will cover everything up to the public announcement of the NeXT acquisition and Steve Jobs's appearance at Macworld Expo in January 1997.As a reminder, when the show launches, if you backed at the Founding Producer level and above, you will get all of those episodes at once, rather than waiting week by week. We are still targeting early September for the show to officially begin publishing new episodes. As mentioned previously, we'll have the feed up and running a short time before that. We'll be sending everyone details about this soon, so keep an eye out.Jason has also started research for the next series that we'll be tackling, and we are very excited that it'll be marking a big anniversary this fall.Right now we are using the additional production time we've had as a way to try and make sure our systems have a decent foundation. We are learning a lot about how to produce a show like this. There is much more yet to learn, but we're getting our heads around it. Suffice it to say we've completely reorganised our shared Dropbox folder maybe four times already, have renumbered (and lettered!) our episode designations multiple times, and have debated exactly what the world

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App report: Kicking my World Cup withdrawal – Six Colors

Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends

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It's a Summer of Fun takeover! Jason asks Myke about the state of his current workflows, and we both highlight our current Macs and current favorite Mac utilities.

It's a Summer of Fun takeover! Jason asks Myke about the state of his current workflows, and we both highlight our current Macs and current favorite Mac utilities. Upgrade+: Summer movie logistics!

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Always choose the good soap

(Angelo D’Amico/Shutterstock) I’ve been thinking about soap again. Back in February I wrote about an Apple-related revelation I had while washing my hands on vacation: We stayed at a nice hotel rather than the less-nice-but-cheaper VRBO condo rental we usually do. Because I’m me, I started thinking about Apple. Like Apple, the nice hotel’s brand promise is that it’s a nice hotel. If the hotel didn’t clean its rooms well, didn’t provide soap that smelled nice, didn’t maintain the in-room refrigerator, didn’t clean the swimming pool, it would probably decrease its expenses and increase its profit margin. But over time, it […]

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Total Party Kill Candlekeep - Scrivener's Tale sesson 4 for reals

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Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50

Even Roku devices are getting more expensive.

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Organic Free-Range Cave Cheese (The Incomparable Mothership 827)

Non-linearly begin and end your journey across a wide range of cursed islands! We discuss Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a film now in theatres and a story that’s (nearly) 3,000 years old! Pig sculpting! Lotus eating! Horrible horse hiding! Were we the sea people all along? That’s a tale as old as time.

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"Limited Engagement" (S4E5) (Magnum, podcast 122)

Time for zany action as Magnum goes undercover as a stock boy at a convenience store! And what does this all have to do with the colorful set of senior citizens who are about to be evicted from their run-down retirement home? Can a charity Bingo game save the day? What about a pickled egg?

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