2025 App Store Award Winners Revealed From a pool of 45 finalists, Apple has named 17 App Store Award winners comprised of apps and games across all of its platforms. This year’s App Store Award honors were presented to: Apps iPhone App of the Year: Tiimo from tiimo.  iPad App of the Year: Detail from Detail Technologies B.V.  Mac App of the Year: Essayist […]
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Podcast Rewind: App Evolution, Odin 3 Emulation, Window Management, and TV Affiliates Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John explore current changes to the world of apps through the lens of its past evolution. On AppStories+, we build “money’s no object” holiday wish lists for ourselves. NPC: Next Portable Console This week, Brendon, Federico, and John catch up on […]
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Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good? Great post by Allen Pike on the importance of a great app experience for modern LLMs, which I recently wrote about. He opens with this line, which is a new axiom I’m going to reuse extensively: A model is only as useful as its applications. And on ChatGPT for Mac specifically: The app does a […]
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John Giannandrea’s Retirement From Apple Announced Today Apple announced the retirement of John Giannandrea, the company’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy. Giannandrea will remain at Apple as an advisor until next spring. News of Giannandrea’s retirement was paired with an announcement that Apple has hired Amar Subramanya as vice president of AI. Subramanya, who worked at Microsoft […]
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