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AppStories
Federico Viticci, John Voorhees
AppStories is a weekly exploration of the world of apps by MacStories' Federico Viticci and John Voorhees. Each week, they discuss the best new apps, the impact of apps on our culture, and cover the stories behind popular apps. Hosted by Federico Viticci and John Voorhees.
- 30 minutes 46 secondsAn Apple Intelligence Wish List
This week, Federico and John look ahead to WWDC and beyond to consider how Apple Intelligence could be used to change the way we use our iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
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An Apple Intelligence Wish List
- A more conversational Siri
- Developer Tools
- Pixelmator Team to Join Apple
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19 January 2025, 6:19 pm - 28 minutes 46 secondsApple Prophecies and Predictions for 2025
This week on AppStories, Federico and John predict what we’ll see from Apple in 2025. From agentic AI to App Intents and Siri, they explore what will shape the year ahead and the implications to users and developers.
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- Memberful – Easy-to-Use Reliable Membership Software
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Apple 2025 Predictions and Prophecies
Federico:
- There will be more agentic AI than ever
- Even more Chromium browsers with AI features
- Apple will acquire a smaller AI company like Mistral
- More smart glasses will be released as will custom community firmware for the Meta Ray-Bans
- Vision Pro apps will come to Android XR
- Game streaming apps will come to the iPhone
- Someone will try to get a Sony PS4 emulator approved by Apple app reviewers
John:
- A shakeout of AI apps
- App Intents adoption will be slow
- The Apple Watch will gain new sensors and Apple and Massimo will settle their blood oxygen dispute
- AI will continue to slow development of other OS features
- We’ll see more innovative game controllers for the iPhone
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12 January 2025, 5:23 pm - 24 minutes 54 secondsOur Holiday Nerd Projects
This week, Federico and John round up the tech and productivity projects they have planned for their annual holiday break.
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Holiday Nerd Projects
- Mentioned
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- NotebookLM
- Zapier
- Retroid Pocket 5
- Obsidian
- Logitech Creative Console
- Mac mini and retro gaming
- TRMNL
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22 December 2024, 4:28 pm - Mentioned
- 29 minutes 47 secondsThe AppStories Year in Review
This week, Federico and John explore the trends that shaped the App Store in 2024.
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The 2024 Trends that Shaped the App Store
- Government Regulation and Antitrust Enforcement
- Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act
- Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA
- AppStories, Episode 369 – Digging into the DMA
- AltStore Is Now Available in the EU
- The EU Pulls iPadOS Into the DMA Fray
- Apple Changes How the Core Technology Fee Works and Confirms that Its Alternative Business Terms Will Apply to iPad Apps This Fall
- European Commission Preliminarily Finds That Apple Has Violated the Digital Markets Act
- Apple Announces New Changes to the Browser Choice Screen and Default Apps on iOS and iPadOS in the EU
- The European Commission Opens Two iOS Interoperability Proceedings Against Apple
- Understanding the DOJ’s Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
- AppStories, Episode 377 – Why the DOJ Claims Apple Is a Monopoly
- The Vision Pro
- Apple Releases Immersive Short Film Submerged and Announces Upcoming Immersive Content
- visionOS 2: The MacStories Review
- Apple Announces New Immersive Video Content for the Vision Pro
- visionOS 2: The MacStories Overview
- A Comprehensive Guide to Gaming on the Apple Vision Pro
- The Apple Vision Pro Developer Strap
- Artificial Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT, Together
- Apple’s Commitment to AI Is Clear, But Its Execution Is Uneven
- iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review
- AI Companies Need to Be Regulated: An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress and European Parliament
- Wired Confirms Perplexity Is Bypassing Efforts by Websites to Block Its Web Crawler
- Indie Developers: The Foundation of the Vision Pro and the Future of App Intents
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15 December 2024, 4:49 pm - Government Regulation and Antitrust Enforcement
- 55 minutes 19 secondsThe 2024 MacStories Selects Awards
This week, Federico and John reveal the winners of the 2024 MacStories Selects Awards, which celebrate the exceptional design, innovation, and creativity of apps across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
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The 2023 MacStories Selects Awards
- MacStories Selects 2024: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Transit
- Best New App: Croissant
- Runner-Up: Simple Scan
- Best App Update: Sofa 4
- Runners-Up: Remind Me Faster 5.2 and GoodLinks 2
- Best New Feature: Play’s Channels Inbox
- Runners-Up: Sequel Magic Lookup and Halide’s Process Zero
- Best Watch App: Chronicling
- Best Design: Shareshot
- Runner-Up: Reeder
- Best Mac App: Moom 4
- Runner-Up: Bezel
- Readers’ Choice: Play
- Runner-Up: Sequel
- App of the Year: Delta
- Runner-Up: Raycast
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9 December 2024, 3:40 pm - MacStories Selects 2024: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year
- 47 minutes 53 secondsAssistive AI Automation Tools
This week, Federico and John consider the differences between assistive and generative AI and cover the sort of automation tasks for which assistive AI is useful.
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Assistive Versus Generative AI
- Context, Consent, and Control: The Three C’s of Data Participation in the Age of AI
- What Is Agentic AI?
- AI Companies Need to Be Regulated: An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress and European Parliament
- Apple’s Commitment to AI Is Clear, But Its Execution Is Uneven
- Apple Frames 3.3 Adds Support for iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, M4 iPad Pro, and Apple Watch Series 10 (feat. An Unexpected Technical Detour)
- ChatGPT’s Last Mile Solution for Apple Frames: ImageMagick
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1 December 2024, 4:42 pm - 1 hour 7 minutesA Cavalcade of Nightmares
This week, John is joined by his NPC: Next Portable Console co-host Brendon Bigley for a conversation about Control Ultimate Edition coming to the Mac, Bluesky, a friendly interrogation about the apps and gear Brendon uses, and more.
This episode is sponsored by:
- Capacities – A novel approach to note-taking.
Links and Show Notes
A Conversation with Brendon Bigley
Control Ultimate Edition Is Coming to the Mac
- Control Ultimate Edition Is Coming to the Mac Early Next Year
- Whisky
- Apple is rumored to be working on a game-specific app store
Bluesky
- MacStories Is on Bluesky
- Cross-Posting
- Other apps
A Friendly Interrogation
- Email: Gmail
- Task Manager: Tot
- Writing
- Web Host
- RSS and Read-Later
- Readwise Reader
- Also mentioned
- Podcasting
- Hardware
- Audio Hijack
- Ableton Live
- Camo Studio
- Also mentioned: SoundSource
- Podcast Host: Transistor.fm
- Also mentioned:
iOS Game Recommendations
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24 November 2024, 4:25 pm - 37 minutes 29 secondsWhat Kind of Person Are You?
This week, Federico and John interview Robb Knight, John’s co-host on Ruminate, a show about the open web, snacks, and the occasional videogame about Mastodon, ActivityPub, and the apps Robb uses day-to-day.
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- Notion: Try the powerful, easy-to-use Notion AI today.
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A Conversation with Robb Knight
- Ruminate
- Ruminate is a bi-weekly podcast exploring the weird web, offbeat snacks, and more hosted by John Voorhees and Robb Knight. Every other Tuesday, John and Robb bring the weird web to your podcast player with their latest online discoveries, oddball snacks, and the occasional videogame obsession. It’s a fun and entertaining mix that will broaden your Internet horizons and amuse you at the same time.
- A Selection of Robb’s Projects
- We Got Family podcast https://wegot.family
- EchoFeed https://echofeed.app
- Pokedon https://pokedon.rknight.me
- What Robb Uses
- Hardware
- First Mac: 2009 iMac
- Current Mac: - 16" M2 Max with 64GB of memory and 1TB storage
- Apps
- Task Management: Godspeed
- Email: Mail
- Writing: Obsidian
- Code: Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and PHP Storm
- RSS: NetNewsWire for the Mac andReeder Classic for iOS synced with Miniflux
- Hardware
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17 November 2024, 6:53 pm - 50 minutes 38 secondsThe Apple Version of Comic Sans
This week, Federico and John are joined by Chris Lawley for a fun defense of his taste in music and beverages, plus a discussion of Apple’s acquisition of Pixelmator, working on the iPad, Final Cut Pro for iPad, and the apps Chris uses for his daily work.
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- Memberful – Help Your Clients Monetize Their Passion.
- Inoreader – Build your own newsfeed with Inoreader
Links and Show Notes
A Conversation with Chris Lawley
- Chris Defends Himself
- Pixelmator Team to Join Apple
- Hush
- A Friendly App InterrogationInterrogation
- Lire
- Read-later and bookmarks
- Writing
- Obsidian
- Also mentioned:
- Drafts
- Chris’ Dark Knight theme for Drafts
- Pair of Thieves Black V-necks
- Podcast Recording
- Video Recording
- Video Editing
- Final Cut Pro for iPad
- Task Manager
- Reminders
- Email
- Apple Mail
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- Chris Lawley’s YouTube channel
- The Untiled Site
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10 November 2024, 5:06 pm - 32 minutes 18 secondsWrist Browsing
This week, Federico and John are joined by Jonathan Reed to check in on the parts of watchOS 11 that he’s still using, talk about browsing the web from an Apple Watch, and dig into the apps he uses day-to-day.
Links and Show Notes
watchOS Vibe Check
- watchOS 11: The MacStories Review
- µBrowser
- Also mentioned: Ticci Tabs
A Friendly App Interrogation
- Jonathan’s Apps
- RSS: Reeder Classic
- Read Later: Reader by ElevenLabs
- Task Management: Reminders with Remind Me Faster
- Writing: Ulysses
- Also mentioned
- Follow Jonathan’s work at MacStories
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3 November 2024, 5:29 pm - 41 minutes 7 secondsRaycast, Tailscale, and Day One with Comfort Zone's Niléane Dorffer
This week, Federico and John are joined by Niléane Dorffer who writes at MacStories and is a co-host of Comfort Zone, a podcast all about trying new things in your tech life, to talk about three of Niléane’s favorite apps – Raycast, Tailscale, and Day One – after which Federico quizzes Niléane about some of the everyday apps she uses.
This episode is sponsored by:
- Memberful – Help Your Clients Monetize Their Passion.
- Notion – Try the powerful, easy-to-use Notion AI today.
Links and Show Notes
Introducing Niléane Dorffer
- Comfort Zone
- Latest episode:
Raycast
- MacStories Coverage of Raycast:
Tailscale
- MacStories Coverage of Tailscale:
Day One
- Related MacStories Coverage:
What Do You Use?
- The Apps Niléane Uses:
- Task Management: Nothing or Calendar
- RSS: Nothing (previously, Reeder)
- Read Later: Safari Reading List with a Raycast extension
- Writing: Obsidian and Notes or Google Docs
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