Shades Of Brown

Sadiq and Cristian talk about WWDC 2018. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Follow Up 00:06:15 - iOS 12 00:42:17 - WatchOS 5 00:55:41 - macOS 10.14 WWDC 2018 Listener e-mail from Jay: I can't really answer the question of the week chosa posed for *favorite* terrible Android phone names as I don't particularly pay attention to the market outside of what y'all discuss on the show, but I do have a list of prepai...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about the Essential Phone being canceled, HTC U12+, LG G7 ThinQ, OnePlus 6, Steam Link being removed from the App Store, App Store Developers Union, Dongles, Xbox Accessibility Controller, USB C external GPUs, and then laugh at YouTube Music. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Not So Essential Phone 00:06:44 - HTC U12+ 00:10:19 - LG G7 ThinQ 00:19:27 - OnePlus 6 00:29:30 - Steam Link R...

Sadiq and Cristian discuss Microsoft Build 2018 and Google I/O 2018. Show Notes: 00:08:08 - Microsoft Build And Windows News 00:20:44 - Google Duplex 00:31:40 - ADT-2 00:32:46 - Android P 00:50:10 - Desktop Linux Apps On Chrome OS Developer Conferences and their Keynotes, Microsoft Build and Google I/O: Tech’s Two Philosophies Exponent Episode 151 - Two by Twos Google I/O Keynote The Verge 14 minu...

Sadiq and Cristian talk the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, the Xbox April 2018 Update, quickly mention Spotify's free tier redesign, and then discuss Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe. Content Warning: Discussions of Sexual Abuse and Transphobia in the latter half when we discuss Kanye West and Dirty Computer. Show Notes: 00:00:22 - Windows 10 April 2018 Update 00:31:22 - Xbox April 2018 Update 00:51...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about Chat, not Google Chat but just Chat. RCS and Google's 69th new chat initiative. They also talk about Telegram and Chrome's design refresh plus Sadiq got a Nintendo Switch. There's a lot of yelling about chatting and design. Content Warning: Politics, Chat App Discourse Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Chat (by Google) 00:26:33 - Telegram Banned In Russia 00:38:34 - Chrome Mater...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about emails, Apple being creepy, Apple being bad at words, T-Mobile being ridiculous, and blogs. Cristian also pretends to be an engineer at Apple and a SoundCloud rapper. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Preshow: La Croix Please Give Me Money 00:01:12 - Gmail Redesign 00:12:18 - Apple Leaked Report On Leaks Leaked? 00:23:06 - Apple Notifying macOS Users Of 32Bit Support Being Phase...

Sadiq and Cristian get in their feels about desktop Linux for an hour. Show Notes: Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will Be Shaped By Workflows Microsoft reorg shakes up Windows group, Windows leader Terry Myerson departs Contact: Cristian on Mastodon Sadiq on Mastodon Stipes Radio on Mastodon Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Overcast| Pocketcasts | RSS

Sadiq and Cristian talk about iOS 11.3, watchOS 4.3, macOS 10.13.4, the Apple education event, and Destiny 2's Go Fast update. Content Warning: Politics, Random Thunder Noises, Food Show Notes: 00:00:25 - Apple's OS Updates 00:22:28 - Apple's Education Event 00:48:50 - Destiny 2 "Go Fast" Update Apple OS Updates: Apple Releases iOS 11.3 with iPhone Battery Settings, ARKit 1.5, New Animoji, and Mor...

Sadiq and Cristian spend an hour bullshitting about music, race, philosophy, politics, and vendor lock in for about an hour. Content Warning: We are in extreme bullshit mode near the end when we're talking about politics, some of the opinions in this podcast are extreme spicy hot takes and we understand that. Show Notes: MTV Run The Jewels: NPR Tiny Desk Concert The Lock In Erasing Complexity: The...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about the Galaxy S9 some more, new Fitbit watches, and next week's Apple event. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Galaxy S9 00:24:34 - Fitbit Versa and Ace 00:42:29 - Apple buying Texture and next weeks event Samsung S9 reviews Ars Technica The Verge Fitbit takes a second swing at smartwatches with the $199 Versa Fitbit Ace is the company’s first fitness band for kids Apple is buying...

Sadiq and Cristian follow up on Android Go, talk about the first Android P Developer Preview, make fun of Alexa, make fun of Cristian for getting a HomePod, and then talk about Battle Royale Games. Show Notes: 00:00:21 - Android Followup and P 00:24:27 - Alexa Is Laughing At Us 00:26:52 - Cristian Got A HomePod, oops 00:38:12 - Battle Royale Games Android P and Followup Creepy Alexa HomePod Battle...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about Alto's Odyssey, mobile games, the Galaxy S9, and Android Go phones shown off at Mobile World Congress. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Alto's Odyssey 00:21:14 - Mobile Game Recommendations 00:29:00 - Samsung Galaxy S9 00:40:09 - Android Go Phones We Talk Games, Mobile Edition Alto's Odyssey The state of iOS game development, according to the creators of Alto’s Odyssey What are...

It's our 50th episode spectacular! 🎉 Sadiq and Cristian talk about what they did in the first episode, which is every major tech company and where they stand today. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all so much for being apart of this journey with us. CW: Kids these days jokes, SystemD, browser discourse. Show Notes: 00:01:00 - Follow Up 00:03:50 - Timeshade (?) 00:06:04 - Apple 00:32:54 -...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about chat apps, design, privacy, and loot boxes. It's Shades Of Brown bingo! Show Notes: 00:00:51 - How WeChat Came to Rule China 00:10:48 - Apple Delaying iOS Features To Focus On Stability 00:26:19 - Microsoft Letting Users View Windows 10 Telemetry Data As Raw JSON 00:34:20 - Xbox Games Pass To Get First Party Exclusives On Launch 00:40:30 - D.Va’s Pro Gamer Past Just G...

Sadiq and Cristian talk about YouTube for 40 minutes. Content Warning: Suicide, Bigotry, Politics Show Notes: Youtube Has A Fake Peppa Pig Problem YouTube is leaving its creators in the dark Additional Changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) to Better Protect Creators Sponsor a YouTube channel - YouTube Gaming Help Social: Cristian on Mastodon Cristian's Mastodon Instance Sadiq on Mastodon Sa...

Sadiq and Cristian make fun of CES for half an hour, and then they talk about Final Fantasy 15 and Tacoma. Show Notes: 00:00:58 - CES 2018 00:30:03 - Final Fantasy 15 (no spoilers) 00:38:35 - Final Fantasy 15 (spoilers) 00:46:12 - Tacoma (no spoilers) 00:47:49 - Tacoma (Spoilers) CES 2018: Ars at CES 2018 Assistants are all over the place: Google is introducing a new Smart Display platform Google’...

Sadiq and Cristian follow up on the Apple Battery Debacle from last week, talk about Google's still developing OS Fuchsia, and we take a look at a new open standards based social network, micro.blog. Show Notes: 00:00:27 - iPhone Battery Replacement Program 00:03:26 - Google’s experimental Fuchsia OS can now run on the Pixelbook 00:09:49 - Micro. Blog Apple Followup: A Message to Our Customers abo...

Cristian and Sadiq talk Google fighting fragmentation, Apple throttling iPhones, Apple taking a page from Microsoft's book, and we talk albums of the year. Show Notes: 00:00:11 - Google requiring new apps submitted to the Play Store to target the most recent OS 00:06:14 - Apple throttling iPhone CPU speeds when the battery starts to decrease in potential charge 00:17:28 - Apple merging iOS and mac...

This week on Shades Of Brown we talk about the iMac Pro, drama surrounding Destiny 2, and we talk about our top games of 2017. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - iMac Pro 00:16:00 - Destiny 2 Curse Of Osiris Discourse 00:36:09 - Our Games Of The Year iMac Pro MKBHD iMac Pro: 1 Week Impressions Vincent LaForet Cabel Sasser Twitter thread Craig Hunter Destiny 2 Three months in, Destiny 2 has a “quality-of-life”...

This week on Shades Of Brown we talk lots about software updates. Apple had a software update cycle, as did Google. We also discuss the state of Apple's software quality. Microsoft announced new Windows 10 on ARM devices and Amazon and Google are fighting in a nasty way. Plus Cristian reviews the Xbox One X. Show Notes: 00:00:13 - macOS Root Bug 00:03:16 - iOS 11.2 and Dategate 00:11:17 - tvOS 11....

This week on Shades Of Brown we talk about new features in Windows 10, Cristian takes a look at Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, and Sadiq talks about his time without internet connectivity last weekend. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - Hello! 00:00:30 - Windows 10 Insider Build Features 00:22:05 - Animal Crossing Pocket Camp 00:33:36 - Sadiq's Weekend Without Internet New Windows search interface borrows heavi...

This weeks on Shades Of Brown we talk about the latest Firefox release, laugh at Need For Speed: Payback, get sad about Midnight Club, laugh again at the Razer Phone, and talk about Music Streaming Exclusives. Show Notes: Mozilla Firefox Quantum | A Quantum Achievement Need for Speed: Payback is garbage Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Razer Phone Reputation by Taylor Swift Social: Cristian on Mastodo...

This week on Shades Of Brown we talk about the iPhone X and the Xbox One X. Yes we know it's pronounced iPhone Ten. Don't @ us. Show Notes: iPhone X Links: The Verge Ars Technica Buzzfeed TechCrunch Mashable Austin Mann’s in-depth camera review Daring Fireball review roundup Xbox One X Links Windows Central Ars Technica Game Streaming Social: Cristian on Twitter Sadiq on Mastodon Stipes Radio on T...

This week on Shades Of Brown we talk about the latest drama over iPhone review units and microtransactions in video games. Show Notes: Various Links About The iPhone Drama: Marco Being Salty Stephen Hackett On This Drama http://archive.is/26g4t rich_tenenbaum's tweet Loot Boxes in Video Games: Nintendo Financials The Sixty Dollar Myth (The Jimquisition) Turning Players Into Payers (The Jimquisitio...

This week on Shades Of Brown, we're discussing all of Microsoft's Fall OS releases. We also discuss the latest Google Pixel Drama and the Surface Book 2. Plus Cristian has an iPhone 8 and talks about their experience with it. Show Notes: Microsoft OS Releases: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Anti Cheat Feature Added Silently Xbox One Fall Update Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility Surface Book 2...