790: Wandering Around The Verge, with David Pierce

03/30/25 • 91 min

David Pierce is Editor-at-Large at The Verge. This week, he talks with Stephen and David about the hardware and software he relies on for work, the overall state of Apple in 2025, and his complicated feelings about his new SodaStream.

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Guest Starring:

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Links and Show Notes:

More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback David Pierce | The Verge David Pierce (@davidpierce.xyz) — Bluesky David Pierce (@imdavidpierce) • Threads The Vergecast Podcast | The Verge MacWhisper 12: Now with Automatic Speaker Recognition - MacSparky Pebble Casio Watches with Step Tracking Mac Power Users #789: Back to the Mac, with Matt Gemmell - Relay NotePlan - Tasks, Notes, and Calendar Mac Power Users #756: Exploring NotePlan with David Roth - Relay Remind Me Faster InstaRemind Notion Calendar Mimestream Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 9 - Apple Installer Newsletter | The Verge How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever | The Verge Daring Fireball: Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino Daring Fireball: Gurman: Tim Cook Has Put Mike Rockwell in Charge of Siri, Reporting to Craig Federighi Apple's Hidden AI Prompts Discovered in macOS Beta - MacRumors Search for photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support On Apple Offering an Abstraction Layer for AI on Its Platforms - MacStories Bend Fantasy Hike The Day of the Jackal (TV series) - Wikipedia Instant Notion App

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789: Back to the Mac, with Matt Gemmell

Author Matt Gemmell joins Stephen and David to talk about using an iPad as his only computer for eight and a half years and why he recently switched back to the Mac.

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Guest Starring:

Matt Gemmell

Links and Show Notes:

More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback Matt Gemmell Books — Matt Gemmell Matt Gemmell (@[email protected]) Matt Gemmell (@mattgemmell.bsky.social) Matt Gemmell - YouTube Element 5 Hub – CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Dock – CalDigit Three Tiny Laptops - MacStories Back to Mac — Matt Gemmell Rediscovering the iPad — Matt Gemmell

Matt's 2016 post about switching to the iPad.

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791: Exploring iCloud.com

iCloud is the glue that holds much of the Apple ecosystem together, syncing data and content between devices. This week, the guys walk through what is possible by using the iCloud website, including data recovery tools, account settings, and more.

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