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Mac Power Users

Learn about getting the most from your Apple technology with focused topics and workflow guests. Creating Mac Power Users since 2009, one conversation at a time. Hosted by David Sparks and Stephen Robles.

Website ↗ Last published 1 November 2026 873 posts collected by Sputnik

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“App developers are going to have a time. They've already had a time with iPhone Duo, and now to think about their apps on a touchscreen. Mac developers, if you only made Mac apps, never had to think about touch at all. And starting today, now you do. And you have to figure out how your app is going to interact with a touchscreen, which is wild.” — Stephen Robles, Mac Power Users
Stephen Robles · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I thought they were going to do something really cool with the operating system. Remember when they added the mouse support to the iPad, how they redid mouse support like you've never seen before, and the interface would kind of organically grow up around wherever the pointer was? It looks to me like they really didn't do that here. There's not a lot of affordance for touch on an interface that was never designed for touch.” — David Sparks, Mac Power Users
David Sparks · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I would like to eventually get to a point where I'm not giving all my data over to these companies. I think it's coming. I don't think it's here yet. And I don't think buying expensive hardware now is going to really move you along. You're going to want to buy the good hardware in a couple of years when the models are up to it.” — David Sparks, Mac Power Users
David Sparks · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I have spent extensive time testing local AI the last couple months, using a 128 gigabyte MacBook Pro. The performance of the local models is not good enough to justify the expense for a normal user… the local models still hallucinate more. They still need a lot more management. I just don't think the technology for local use is there yet.” — David Sparks, Mac Power Users
David Sparks · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“The AI music thing is weird in as much as that there's a front end for it, but there's no back end for it. There's no audience that's waiting on the other side going, oh my goodness, I can't wait to listen to this AI music. Because what's happening is you have all these kids running around with Suno on their phones and they're all going to their friends going, hey, look what I did… End of conversation.” — Michael Whalen, Mac Power Users
Michael Whalen · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you are not shooting on the same device that your audience is viewing it on, it reads as more phony. It does not communicate the same thing to have a big expensive production shot on an Arri Alexa that you're then watching in TikTok. It looks like an ad the moment you see it.” — Tyler Stalman, Mac Power Users
Tyler Stalman · 27 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…I genuinely don't think that take-home work is a reliable way of assessing students anymore. I think it just isn't.” — Teddy Svoronos, Mac Power Users
Teddy Svoronos · 6 Sep 2026 Listen →
“Like the code they produce works, but there's no guarantee you have how well it works. It's almost certainly not thought through well because there's nobody thinking. There's no brain, actually.” — Werner Jainek, Mac Power Users
Werner Jainek · 23 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Mac Power Users is hosted by David Sparks , Stephen Robles and Katie Floyd .

Recent Episodes

  1. 1 Nov 2026

    873: iPhone Duo Review and Touchscreen MacBook Pro

  2. 25 Oct 2026

    872: The Mighty Mac mini

  3. 18 Oct 2026

    871: AI Can't Fake Taste with Emmy-Winning Composer Michael Whalen

    With Michael Whalen

  4. 11 Oct 2026

    870: The Full Sparky

  5. 4 Oct 2026

    869: It Was Basically a Wash

  6. 27 Sep 2026

    868: Tyler Stalman Reviews iPhone 18 Pro Camera

    With Tyler Stalman

  7. 20 Sep 2026

    867: Deep Dive on macOS 27 and Siri AI

  8. 13 Sep 2026

    866: The Ternus Doctrine

  9. 6 Sep 2026

    865: Harvard Professor Teddy Svoronos on AI in the Classroom

    With Teddy Svoronos

  10. 30 Aug 2026

    864: Marked Safe from Buying M5 Ultra

  11. 23 Aug 2026

    863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek

    With Werner Jainek

  12. 16 Aug 2026

    862: Mac Launcher Showdown

Guests

Brett Terpstra (13 episodes), Merlin Mann (10 episodes), Myke Hurley (8 episodes), Federico Viticci (8 episodes), Jason Snell (7 episodes), Casey Liss (6 episodes), Gabe Weatherhead (6 episodes), Ken Case (6 episodes), Bradley Chambers (6 episodes), Rosemary Orchard (6 episodes), John Siracusa (5 episodes), Marco Arment (5 episodes), and 207 more.