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Dec 9, 2024 · The Transit team’s ability to innovate and expand to more regions around the world, all while keeping the app focused on the main feature set that it launched with 12 years ago, is remarkable. For that, and the app’s ever-beautiful design, Transit deserves to be recognized with this year’s MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement Award. …

Jan 16, 2025 · The second half of 2024 saw a lot of change to my setup and Federico’s. We launched the MacStories YouTube channel, expanded our family of podcasts, and spent time chasing the ultimate portable gaming setup for NPC: Next Portable Console. The result was that our setups have evolved rapidly. So, today, we thought we’d catch folks up on what’s changed.

Fun conversations about media, behind the scenes of MacStories, and more. Hosted by Federico Viticci and John Voorhees.

Comfort Zone is a weekly podcast that pushes its hosts outside of their, well, comfort zone hosted by Christopher Lawley, Niléane Dorffer, and Matt Birchler. Every Thursday, each host will bring new technology they’ve tried to the show to discuss whether it worked and how it pushed them out of their comfort zone. Then, at

Oct 25, 2024 · MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Ruminate, Comfort Zone, and NPC: Next Portable Console that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing ...

Jan 24, 2024 · Steven Levy, writing for Wired, interviewed Apple executives about the secret to the Mac’s 40-year run: “With the transition to Apple silicon that we started in 2020, the experience of using a Mac was unlike anything before that,” says John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. Ternus’ comment opens up an unexpected theme to our

Jan 24, 2024 · This morning, the Steve Jobs Archive remembered the 40th anniversary of the Mac with a message to its email subscribers that tells the story of when Rolling Stone photographer Norman Seeff and reporter Steven Levy visited Apple. It’s a great anecdote that captures the spirit of the team that created the Mac in the time leading up to its public unveiling. The post also explains Jobs ...

Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, Unwind, a fun exploration of media and more, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a ...

Nov 18, 2024 · MacStories and each of our six podcasts have brand-new official accounts on Bluesky, and you can find each of our writers and podcasters there, too. Best of all, it’s easy to find us using the MacStories Starter Pack, which will take you to a list of every account. From there, you can follow all of the accounts at once or pick and choose among them; you can also browse a timeline of all of ...