Myke Hurley writing on The Enthusiast covers three themes from John Ternus’ new CEO bio that was updated today on the Apple Leadership page: Number 2: John has led much of the company’s focus in areas like reliability and durability, introducing new techniques that have made Apple products remarkably resilient I would not have predicted…
Source: Perplexity. Perplexity has announced hybrid compute for Personal Computer on Apple silicon Macs. Personal Computer already combined cloud-based Computer tasks with access to local files and apps, but its AI processing was primarily cloud-based. Recently, Perplexity also introduced Portable Computer, a local-first version of Computer that can escalate work to the cloud with a…
Designed in California, the Apple history podcast from Myke Hurley and Jason Snell, is now live on Relay with two new free episodes, plus more for Kickstarter backers and Relay subscribers. Over the summer, Myke and Jason ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for the new show, which will be released as topical series. The first…
Throughout 2026, Federico and I have been working on a series of software projects and apps with the help of tools like Codex and Claude Code. Some of those are internal tools, but others are the sort of productivity apps from which anyone can benefit. It’s taken a while because we’re picky (and careful), but…
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories’ articles and podcasts: Setting Up Hermes Agent, GLM-5.3-Flash in Open Minis, and Finding the “Secondary Agent”, by Federico Lessons of a Failed App Experiment, by John Getting the Most Out of a Mac-Connected Mic for Dictation and Meeting Summaries, by John…
Last night, I sat down with my Vision Pro and caught the first part of the Yankees–Red Sox game live in Immersive Video. I wouldn’t call myself a baseball fan these days, but I have fond memories of many summer evenings at Tiger Stadium and Wrigley Field, and I was keen to see how Apple’s…
Dear MacStories reader, It’s Zac here, the developer of Soulver — a notepad calculator you might have heard of. You type your thinking in plain text, and live answers appear in a column alongside as you go. I started working on Soulver all the way back in 2005. The reason I’m still improving it 20…
Parker Ortolani on the Pebble Index, the recently released AI smart ring: Ambient computing is here at home on speakers and in the workplace with apps like Wispr Flow, it’s only a matter of time before we carry it with us everywhere. The Pebble Index is the best preview of that future. The simple gesture…
I’ve recently been asked to explain what an “agent harness” is (particularly after I wrote about my favorite app of the year so far, Open Minis). I realized it was one of those concepts I could understand intuitively but not quite articulate. Thankfully, other people have done a better job of explaining it than I…
Source: Apple. Today, Apple announced a new M6 chip that will debut in the Mac mini and an M5 Ultra that is coming to the Mac Studio. The company also announced an M5 Pro Mac mini and an M5 Max Mac Studio. Let’s take a look at the headline specs. The headline feature of the…