Upgrade

I’ve been listening to Upgrade since the early days, and it’s remained the first podcast I listen to each week. It sets the tone for my tech news consumption, especially around Apple, and often shapes the way I hear and think about topics on other shows. Jason and Myke have a great dynamic, balancing thoughtful analysis with humor and perspective. It’s more than just a tech show—it’s become a key part of how I follow the Apple ecosystem and the broader world of technology.

While i’m all for calling out Apple over hypocritical practices, the hosts’ eagerness to ban Grok over its admittedly disgusting content is reprehensible. Have your political views overshadowed your interest in keeping the Internet open? By your logic, every social media network should be shut down, along with much of the rest of the web. You’re on the UK’s side on this? Because they’re banning the things you don’t like? Do you think you and the rest of us will end up in a better place if all governments follow their lead?

Jason and Myke are just now humiliating themselves because they have nothing interesting to share. First they had two short 30 seconds ads in 2010s now have more of them and much longer ads, back then they just had one show behind their paywall, now they have many shows and they have overtime and they want you to pay for that, they want you buy their overpriced merch, this business is not going to last much longer. Just stop wasting everyone's time and accept that you don't have anything intellectual to say and no one cares

These guys are pretentious and out of touch, with poor takes. Especially the American, the Brit is slightly more tolerable. Every time I give them another try, I regret it by the end of the first episode. Listen to ATP or something else.