485: WWDC and Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager

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🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Stephen and David have boots on the ground in San Jose for WWDC 2019. In this episode, they interview Doug Brooks, the Apple Product Manager for the new Mac Pro. Afterward, David and Stephen share initial thoughts on updates to macOS and the brand new iPadOS. David has some tough questions for Stephen about his future and the new Mac Pro, and they get to share the good news about the brand new "Sparky Button." Finally, our hosts give you the lowdown on their WWDC experiences.

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0:00.0	MacPower users episode 485,
0:02.6	W.W.C. 2019, an interview with Doug Brooks
0:06.4	product manager for the all new Mac Pro. Welcome to the Mac Power Users. I'm David Sparks and joined by my co-host Mr. Stephen Hackett.
0:19.0	Hey Stephen. Hey David, how are you?
0:21.0	Good. We've got a lot to cover here at W.W. D.C.
0:23.6	but before we do anything, we want to share an interview we did with Doug Brooks over from
0:29.3	Apple.
0:30.3	He's the product manager for the Mac Pro, and he gave us a little bit of time to talk about the new machine.
0:36.0	Okay, Stephen, we're the real deal now.
0:39.0	We're sitting in Apple, and we're joined by Doug Brooks, manager for the all new Mac Pro.
0:43.4	Welcome to the show Doug. Thank you, good morning. I guess first I just wanted to say
0:47.5	congratulations. It's a real impressive new Mac you've built there. Thank you very much.
0:53.0	We're so thrilled to be able to share it with everyone here at W.W.C.
0:57.0	and can't wait to get it in the hands of our customers a little later this year.
1:01.0	Well, Doug, before we get started, I thought it would be fun just to share a little bit
1:04.4	about yourself and your background and how you got involved with the Mac Pro.
1:09.1	Yeah, I'm a senior product manager on the Mac team, have been with Apple over 20 years.
1:16.2	I have been in product marketing across a lot of different products, but, you know, for the
1:21.5	last few years,
1:23.6	been working on Mac Pro and I Mac Pro,
1:26.4	in the kind of a Pro Desktop space.
1:28.4	Had a lot of fun getting these products out
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