Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users.

My name is Stephen Hackett.

I'm joined by my friend and yours, Mr. David Sparks.

Hello, Steven. How are you?

I am good. How are you today?

I'm doing great.

You know, it's the, we're headed into the end of the year. I feel like I've got a lot

more of my play at the end of the year than normal, but it's good. I'm keeping up with it. How about you?

Are you recovered from your sabbatical? You feel like you're back in the saddle? I'm back in the

saddle. Yeah. In fact, we just recorded an episode of Focused, like an hour ago about that

thing. Yeah, we got into feelings. Yeah, so people should go check that out when that comes out.

But yeah, it's good to be back. And it's, yeah, end of the year is fun. We get to do some fun stuff

on the show, including today, because today is part one of our state of the platforms for the year. Yeah, I always look forward to this

every year. You know, as the year goes by, you start thinking about it, like what is, what's

going on. And this is the thing where we take apart each platform for Apple, look at them in terms of

hardware and software, some of our own thoughts.

And they've gotten so long that we've decided to do it over a couple.

In fact, we've done it a couple ways.

At one point, we were doing one platform per show, but that was a little much, right?

So now we got it to two shows.

So this week and next week we're going to be covering the state of all the Apple platforms.

Can't wait to get started.

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