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Mac Power Users

790: Wandering Around The Verge, with David Pierce

Mac Power Users

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How To, Tech, Sparks, David, Set Up, Mac, Workflow, Ios, User, Help, Power, Stephen Hackett, Technology

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett. I'm joined as always by

0:08.2

my friend and yours, Mr. David Sparks. Hey, Stephen. How are you doing today? I am great, David. How are you?

0:15.0

Excellent. And looking forward to another fun show of Mac Power Users. And today we have a guest.

0:23.1

We do. You're not the only David this week, so it's going to, we were just talking about this. It's going to be confusing.

0:27.3

But we are joined by David Pierce from the Verge. Hello, David Pierce. Hello. I've decided,

0:33.7

I was being nice about this before, but I've decided there can only be one David. And when we are, we will fight it out over the course of this episode.

0:41.4

I don't know what that looks like, but it's, it's, I'm very upset about it and it's happening.

0:45.5

Okay, so if we're going to choose weapons, I choose AppleScript. How's that?

0:50.0

Ooh, all right, I lose. I'm out. This is, we had a good run. Nice knowing you. Okay,

0:56.2

thanks for coming everybody today. See you next time.

1:00.9

Before we get in talking with David about his work at the Verge and how much RAM you should have

1:08.3

in your Mac and so many other things. A little housekeeping.

1:12.6

WBDC has been announced for the week of June 9th.

1:16.3

So we, of course, will be covering all of the stuff coming out of WDC, iOS, MacOS, redesigned, hardware.

1:24.5

Who knows what's going to happen, but we're looking forward to that.

1:28.6

And on more power users, the ad-free longer version of the show that we do each and every week,

1:33.4

we're going to be talking about how AI and search are on a bit of a collision course.

1:40.2

Pierce wrote this great thing at The Verge several months ago about that. And David Sparks, already confusing, has been playing with some of these tools.

1:50.2

And so we're going to get into that for members.

1:53.0

I think, Stephen, for WWC this year, the big announcement, write this down.

1:58.1

So, you know, everybody knows, I said it first.

2:00.6

Hover, IMac. Just think about it.

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