This week, Apple debuted the M5 chip in the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro. Real-world tests will have to wait until reviews are out, but I wanted to share some initial thoughts on the M5 and a handful of other things announced this week. M5 With all three product announcements, Apple’s focus was...
What Else Do We Want from Apple in 2025?
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JohnThis week, with rumors of more products in the pipeline, Federico and John share what they want most from Apple before the end of the year.
On AppStories+, Federico experiments with lightning fast inference and iteration using Cerebras for scripting.
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AppStories Episode 456 - What Else Do We Want from Apple in 2025?
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What Would
- iOS 26.1 wishes
- Final Cut Pro for iPad plugins
- A new iPad Pro
- A new Studio Display
- An Apple TV with upscaling
- AirTags
- Thunderbolt 5 cable
- M5 MacBook Pro
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macOS Tahoe Spotlight Tips
macOS Tahoe’s Spotlight is easily my favorite feature among this year’s updates. As I covered in my review, Spotlight gets attention every year, but this year was different because the focus was on productivity. Spotlight works well out of the box, but if you put in a little time to learn some of its less...
Calame Giveaway
Calame Exclusively for Club MacStories members, we have 10 coupon codes for Calame to give away. Calame is abrand new writing app for the Mac that that uses local AI models to assist with autocompleting words based on your writing. You can readmore about it here. Simply enter your Club MacStories email address in the...
Gadget Grab Bag
While cleaning up my office earlier this week, I realized I had accumulated a few smaller gadgets worth sharing with Club members that I haven’t covered anywhere else, so it’s time to dive into the Gadget Grab Bag. Haribo Power Bank (Sold Out) My latest battery acquisition is probably the weirdest, but when I came...
App Debuts
[[federico]] Best-o-Masto Created by Comfort Zone’s Matt Birchler, Best-o-Masto is a Mastodon app that takes a different approach to browsing your timeline by automatically surfacing the most engaging posts. Rather than showing everything chronologically, the app analyzes your timeline to find and present the posts that have gotten the most interaction, which should help you...
Interesting Links
[[John]] I bought an Amazon Echo Show earlier this year to check out the new Alexa AI assistant, and I have to agree with Jennifer Pattison Tuohy on this: the ads ruin the experience and are only getting worse. (Link) 1Password claims to have solved the security problem around letting an AI agent fill in...
Making Sense of MCP: The Standard Connecting AI to Apps
This week, Federico and John demystify Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering how it works, where it’s heading, and practical examples of what it can do.
On AppStories+, Federico and John experiment with whether AI can make sense of the information firehose.
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AppStories Episode 455 - Making Sense of MCP: The Standard Connecting AI to Apps
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- Apps and Services
- Club MacStories on MCP
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[[John]] Windows 95 Crocs are second only to Kentucky Fried Chicken Crocs. (Link) Adobe Premiere is available for the iPhone and iPad. I’m looking forward to trying this to see how it stacks up to Final Cut Pro on the iPad. (Link) LG showed off its 6K UltraFine display at CES in January and it’s...