For the plus 20 years, Apple has manufactured the vast majority of their stuff in China. Obviously they haven’t been alone in doing this, most major tech companies and many smaller ones have either moved their factories to China or gotten started there. The pandemic showed that this was a risky move as China essentially shut their entire country down for a long time, disrupting supply chains everywhere. Apple and now many others are beginning to rethink this strategy and have begun diversifying ...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min
News on this podcast is serious business…no matter how many times we laugh at it. It can be hard to take some news seriously and other times it just lends itself to hyperbole and ridicule, but we approach these topics with much thought and insight….or that’s what we tell ourselves anyway.
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Sometimes it’s hard to know what features an OS is offering that might be to your liking? If really any at all. So we’re going to talk about some of the main features of macOS Ventura and whether or not we’ve tried them and if we’ll use them on a daily basis. Then, make up your own mind about it.
Dec 30, 2022•54 min
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the podcast, not a creature was stirring but you know it won’t last. Gaz and Guy have family coming from afar. Through wind, snow, and rain, but quite comfy in their car. You heard them exclaim as the present wrappings flew, “You didn’t get Apple Care? You fool you fool!”
Dec 24, 2022•58 min
Two weeks away and the GMen are getting into the spirit of the season! That season being "Why the heck is it so cold and windy?" Also, it's looking more and more like Apple is going to be forced in the EU to allow 3rd party app stores and other alternative means to procuring and installing iOS iPadOS apps outside of Apple's own app store.
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 22 min
We have just jumped into the holiday season with black Friday and all kinds of deals that really aren’t all that impressive. However, Guy has scoured the internet (at least 25 minutes of hard core searching!) and found a bunch of deals that REALLY made him want to buy stuff….but he didn’t
Nov 27, 2022•56 min
There seems to be little common ground around Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. It’s either the greatest thing EVAH (freedom fries for murica) or a house burning down around an oven with a chicken left in at 300 celsius. What actually is happening is mostly up for debate and your opinion is just as valid as someone else. Even if those two opinions are 180 degrees out of sync.
Nov 21, 2022•49 min
You would think Apple was in dire straits based on what analysts are saying. Some of it true and some false, all overblown or inconsequential long term. AirPods and AirPods Pros assembly lines being shut down for an unnamed new product just before the holiday season buying rush (because THAT makes sense), iPhone 14 lines shut down due to dystopian COVID-19 authoritarian demands (might be somewhat true), and M2 laptops that only measure 13 inches at best (currently true), Apple surely MUST be doo...
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Do you know what happens when you throw a podcast together without a topic or show notes and things just seem more disorganised than usual? Funny you should ask.
Nov 06, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Remember all those times the GMen have told you NOT to immediately update to a new version of the macOS? Remember those times? Well, both of them decided to completely ignore that advice and throw common sense out the window because they did it anyway. So far so good which means disaster is likely right around the corner.
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Busy day for Guy yesterday with a 3 hour drive each way to Philadelphia to see a Dracula exhibit at the Mutter Museum. Much Muttering was done as it was less spectacular than anticipated. Also Apple apparently updated some tablet thingies.
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Guy is back from Zombie-land but it turns out he never went to the dead people place...for now. All the drama that happened in Long Island is explained and saying we have wood might not mean what it sometimes means otherwise.
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Guy is away enjoy seeing dead people in a museum so hopefully his zombie fetich for this year will be sorted. I decide to go solo and madness nearly ensues.
Oct 13, 2022•27 min
The GMen are back in studio after Gaz was off doing a lot of fun stuff. However Guy will show him. Instead of a private plane, yacht, Spanish destinations, and a 10 course meal, Guy will have a rental car that will be driven to Long Island to see a comedian and go to a museum filled with dead things. So pretty much the same thing.
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Gaz is off doing luxury things on luxury planes and drinking luxury drinks, eating luxury food, dancing to luxury songs, and presumably using luxury toilets while on a luxury ya-cht. Don’t blame us for saying ya-cht. That’s how it’s spelled. Meanwhile on planet earth with us dirt beings NOT doing luxury stuff, we’re doing a podcast while not much is going on in the Apple world other than order backlogs, OS issues, and vibrating phones.
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr 18 min
A lot of the stuff from the Apple event is now available or WAS available because it’s now mostly on backorder. To be expected in the current climate. Fortunately neither of the GMen want to buy anything new…or do we? Might take a little bit of convincing one way or the other.
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min
The Apple event has come and gone and there were very few surprises. iPhone 14, new watches, new iPod Pros. The GMen will go over what did (and didn’t) impress them. Also condolences to all affected by the death of Queen Elizabeth the second. A wonderful lady in every sense of the word who served and represented her country in a positive way for over 70 years. God bless you Mum.
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 16 min
THOUGHT he might save by recording with Audio Hijack utterly failed to manifest itself. Big Apple event on Wednesday (Guy still hates the date) for some Apple-ly stuff so everything is mostly quiet this week…except for the GMen.
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Apple announced their September event is scheduled for the 7th which is a Wednesday and has Guy’s OCD greatly disturbed because it’s SUPPOSED to be on a Tuesday…according to Guy.
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 15 min
It’s being said that the iPhone 14 will have the same look and processor as its predecessor and in order to get the best full featured specs, you’ll need to jump to the 14 Pro. If this is true, is there really a need for iPhone 12 or 13 users to jump to a new phone?
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 11 min
While Tim Cook (Mr. Excitement) has been the CEO of Apple for over 10 years, he’s now getting closer to mid-60s and is probably looking past where he’ll be running things. His legacy is pretty firmly set and there’s not much more at this point he could do, so who will be next in line to run Apple? We’ll look at some of the likely candidates in the second section.
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Apple just released their Q3 earnings for 2022 and while the company met expectations, that’s about the long and short of it. Mac sales in particular were way down by 20 year over year and the biggest problem seems to be supply constraints and a lot of China’s capacity out due to lockdowns enforced by the government. Guest host Karl Madden from the Mac Forth podcast comes in for Gaz (who's been walking Wilf for a REALLY long time now) and they talk a bit about just how many Macs Apple sells per ...
Jul 31, 2022•59 min
What happens when you pout 4 previous and current hosts of the MyMac Podcast into the same video call? A REALLY long podcast! Tim Robertson, David Cohen, Gary "GazMaz" Malpas, and Guy Serle discuss the history of the MyMac Podcast, what everyone is doing now, and a whole bunch of other unrelated things. Because we can!
Jul 17, 2022•1 hr 49 min
So Guy used to do this thing called the Dashboard Minute when he still had hair on top of his head…kidding…wasn’t happening even then, He thought they were gone forever when Apple pushed it out with OS X 10.14 Mojave. Turned out they were just bidding their time to put them on an even smaller screen, namely iPhones.
Jun 27, 2022•58 min
Neither Guy nor Gaz are made out of money which is a good thing since random pieces of coloured paper can't do podcasts, but we can afford a few luxuries or items to replace current luxuries. So in the section part 2 we're going to talk about what we have, what we'd replace it with, and why.
Jun 19, 2022•1 hr 19 min
We made a lot of predictions for the keynote of WWDC, and I'm proud to say that we got everything right...which is a lie. Other than the date, not too much was correct.
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr 30 min
So many sales going on right now on Apple products from Walmart with its Walmart Plus Weekend sales or Amazon’s Amazon Prime Day events with HUGE discounts off Apple Products. Many pendants are saying, “Hey Apple, why don’t YOU do some of those discounts and get those shoppers on YOUR website!”. Except they’ve forgotten one important fact. Both Amazon and Walmart are still buying those products from Apple so without even cutting margins to near nothing, Apple still gets paid. Also apparently the...
Jun 05, 2022•1 hr 3 min
One of the GMen has been predicting for a long time that what the iPad needs isn’t half-hearted multitasking that requires more moves than a rugby player in the - line-out, but a full fledged floating window experience. Kinda like every operating systems on any large screen currently uses. Maybe…JUST maybe that’s coming true in the next version of iPadOS.
May 29, 2022•1 hr 27 min
So, is this the world’s longest segue? Having Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth show on last week was fun, but it did break up our discussion about Apple devices. Somehow I think we’ll live through the experience, but we say that optimistically every time Karl is on the show. However we only have to wrong once for tragedy to strike.
May 15, 2022•1 hr 27 min
It seems redundant these days to report on Apple’s finances when you could record it once with a “Apple made record revenue and profits this year blah blah blah” and call it a day. There’s a nugget there though while not new, continues to astound the once hardware-heavy tech giant and that’s Services. This quarter, that’s where nearly 25% of all revenue Apple generated came from.
May 08, 2022•1 hr 12 min
