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Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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Interview: Dave Verwer

Twitter: @daveverwer. Independent iOS developer, technical writer, author of iOS Dev Weekly, which celebrated Issue 500 last week, and creator of Swift Packages. How did iOS Dev Weekly get started? I sat down and wrote Issue 1, pushed send and only then realised I had used ‘Weekly’ in the newsletter’s name and would need to...


Interesting Links

LG unveiled its latest OLED TVs at CES in January, but this week, the new models, which should be available by the end of the month, got prices. (Link) Panic showed off a short video of its upcoming portable game console, the Playdate, mirrored to a Mac, which will allow gameplay to be streamed. The...


Interview: Sawyer Blatz

Twitter: @SawyerBlatz. Creator of iOS budgeting app, Nudget, and iOS devleoper at Slack. How did you get started with iOS development? I actually started back in 2015 with the release of Swift. I always thought it’d be cool to make apps that I could use on my phone and carry with me every day, but...


In This Issue

An announcement about MacStories Favorite, CleanShot X, more Taio automations fromFederico, aninterview with Nudget developer Sawyer Blatz, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast episodes....


In This Issue

IINA, reading Twitter in an RSS client, Federico shares threeTaio automations, John rounds up the latest pro apps to adopt native M1 Mac support, an all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged is out,plus the usual Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStoriespodcasts....


Interesting Links

If we told you a few years ago that NASA would land a new rover on Mars powered by the same processor found in the iMac G3, would you have believed the story? Gizmodo has all the details on NASA’s decision to use the PowerPC 750 chip for its Perseverance rover. (Link) The next game...


Interesting Links

This week The Verge checked back in with Apple’s Fitness+ service asking the question ‘Who is it for?” (Link) Riccardo Mori has a terrific look back at Mac OS X Snow Leopard to see if it lives up to the pedestal on which so many users put it. (Link) Brian Heater at TechCrunch puts the...


Previously, On MacStories

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Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

[[appstories_artwork]] Next week on AppStories, Federico and John reveal their favorite iPhone and iPad accessories as well as a couple of failed accessory experiments. [[unwind_artwork]] This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John recap the week at MacStories including John’s review of the M1 MacBook Air and Mac mini, Federico’s review of GoodTask’s new Kanban...