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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Mac comes up on the a16z Podcast, TBPN, Another Podcast, Big Technology, the Startup Ideas Podcast
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 8:15 M.G. Siegler Wall Street has nothing to worry about because, uh, we've got all these new products in and, and people are excited about new Macs and, you know, new Mac minis for, for the AI revolution and all this sort of stuff that's sort of come in.
- ▶ 34:02 M.G. Siegler How Apple also deals with the marketing here will be fascinating because of course, when they've been asked about this ad nauseum over the past several years with lots of windows, uh, you know, units on the market, uh, touch screen… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:41 M.G. Siegler and they've historically not done that, even though they have it on the Mac and, you know, they've had it other places, they haven't done that there.
- ▶ 42:20 M.G. Siegler Fell on their face a little bit, but also took a step back, maybe, you know, not by choice, and was forced to take a step back and realize, like, we still have the hardware advantage that no one else has, and so how do we actually take…
Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI
- ▶ 11:25 unnamed speaker And when they, when you think like apple marketing, you're thinking like Mac versus PC, or you're thinking in.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 37:38 Cliff Weitzman It's when you go lower, not lower, if you go then into the product facing things that we build, for example, the platform team, or the iOS team, or the Mac team, or the Chrome team, or the web team, or the Android team, these are super…
5 GitHub Repos: Kill AI Slop, Go Viral, Make Money
- ▶ 19:38 Greg Isenberg For iPhone, it uses Mac
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:48 unnamed speaker Uh, they are focused on AI devices, and people are really optimistic about the new Mac, uh, M-Six, uh, chip, like, just being really good for AI and being something that continues to, to drive value for the company and creates, like, an AI…
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:17:10 Tara Seshan Ari is just one of the most creative thinkers I've ever seen and is truly the expert on what are all the cool things you can do on a Mac.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:26:50 Harry Stebbings The worst is, nah, for or against, Nike or Adidas, Apple or Mac, Apple or Windows, you feel something.
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 53:04 Ben Thompson The phone is not going to be accessory to the Mac.
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 17:56 Alex Kantrowitz Because they, I think they raise prices on some of these, uh, Mac computers by 20, 30%.
- ▶ 29:11 M.G. Siegler It's also for Mac. 2 times in the scene
“OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
- ▶ 12:25 Thomas Wolf Open source software would like to have, I mean, I'm happy to run on the Mac right now, which is, you know, kind of a mix of both.
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 37:42 Reed Albergotti Are you, I mean, when I use, um, Codex, you know, their, their desktop, their, I guess now it's just ChatGPT, the desktop app on Mac.
How to Speak Better Than 99% of People (5 Frameworks)
- ▶ 2:14 Codie Sanchez Like Guy Kiyosaki, an early Apple employee, his entire job was to convince developers to build software for the map, and he would use 10 to 20 to 30 rules for pitching slide decks.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 36:32 David Senra He starts using a Mac.
Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:42 unnamed speaker IBM computers that filled up entire rooms, um, to, uh, PCs, uh, from Apple and HP, um, in the seventies and eighties, uh, we will see something quite similar happening for the hardware of today, where we're seeing this shift, um, away…
- ▶ 27:25 unnamed speaker Um, and the actual intelligence delivered per joule, and this is primarily driven by better accelerators, and so this is by more memory being placed on, um, consumer GPUs, uh, such as the Apple, um, M four Macs, um, as well as the, um, uh,…
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 33:15 unnamed speaker The other piece of news is that Apple is launching Apple Upgrade next week, then iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch leasing slash subscription program. 2 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 39:29 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I'd been on the Mac for well over 20 years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:20 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I would get a new Mac computer. 3 times in the scene
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 11:05 Ryan Carson Usually what we used to do is we used to all work on our Macs and that's called local development.
- ▶ 20:00 Greg Isenberg and, you know, why your point is why wait until you're in front of your Mac to give feedback?
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 4:34 Rory O'Driscoll Some of the DeepSeq models you can run on your PC, or your Mac, or on a laptop, right?
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 21:07 Ranjan Roy ChatGPT, the new Mac app, they're removing more of the actual chat function, like, the chat experience.
Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 12:18 Amjad Masad Actually, Steve Jobs, um, once did this ad, uh, they, they had a, they had a Mac 3 times in the scene
Token pricing
- ▶ 10:23 Benedict Evans And when the iPhone was taking off, people said, well, the iPhone is closed and the Mac was closed. 2 times in the scene
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 10:00 John Coogan Uh, which is a reference to a, an app for the Mac that allowed you to hit, I think, command space and get a finder window to search everything across your entire desktop.
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:36 John Coogan There's a lot of controversy over the, over the desktop app for Mac. 3 times in the scene
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 18:28 M.G. Siegler Usage, at least on, on a Mac, like, which is what they have right now.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 41:53 Alex Kantrowitz Let's go to our, uh, this, this, our last story, which is that Apple has raised the prices on the max iPads by 200 dollars or more on some models. 3 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 48:33 Ranjan Roy I have been going back and forth because apparently you, if you upgrade to the developer beta on your Mac, you can already install Siri, uh, via the command line, but I've not done it yet.
Claude Fable 5 is BANNED. What to do?
- ▶ 3:18 Greg Isenberg Um, but today a model that runs on a gaming GPU or a decent Mac is good enough for about, I would say, 80% of what most people use things like ChatGPT or Cloud for.
- ▶ 9:33 Greg Isenberg A 27 to thirty five billion model needs a really good Mac with 30 gigabytes or more
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 59:42 Benedict Evans In fact, I'm also doing it with my iPhone, so my iPhone is streaming to my Mac over Wi-Fi streaming video here, and it, like, it just works.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 13:32 M.G. Siegler Like this is a way to access Gemini, um, you know, natively on a Mac right now.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:52 unnamed speaker I have local transcription on my Mac.
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 1:19:54 Kyle Daigle Like, um, you know, a Mac device or a Linux device and you're like, okay, I don't use windows.
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 8:36 Joanna Stern But you can use, I mean, Gemini just came out with a Mac app.
Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:26 unnamed speaker Uh, and so Apple relies on TSMC to make chips for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other devices, and is under pressure to find additional chip suppliers. 2 times in the scene
My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 10:42 M.G. Siegler Various software players, Adobe and everyone else didn't want to make software for the Mac and for other earlier versions of Apple products, and so Apple decided, like, that they needed to ultimately be in charge of that.
- ▶ 17:23 M.G. Siegler Um, I do think that there's a real scenario in which the iPhone ends up being the key device for AI and at the very least max, uh, fall back to, you know, Mac computers, um, with obviously the, the Mac mini and the, and the Mac studio, it…
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:38 Tobi Lütke Like, you know, most of us who use Cloud Code use it through Ghosty on a Mac, or usually Ghosty is like a terminal application, which is like, perfect, right?
Making $$ with AI Agents
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 55:09 Steven Sinofsky Oh, you're looking at my Mac camera, and.
Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
- ▶ 59:25 Riley Brown For this, for now, you still need to have a Mac, and you need to have Xcode downloaded, but it can one-shot mobile apps, like full mobile apps.
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 59:05 David Baszucki They're playing on a phone, a tablet, a computer, iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, MetaQuest.
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 58:49 Aneesh Reddy Uh, so I have an application now where, on my Mac, where anytime it sees me not smiling, I have a smiley which goes red.
Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 2:48 Alex Kantrowitz You thank me for the ways Mac has changed.
- ▶ 6:35 Joanna Stern Like, again, Macs are the best laptops you can use, and yes, it helped sell more laptops.
Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor x XAI, Netflix Stock Sinks | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:09 unnamed speaker Uh, it can use apps on your Mac, connect to more of your tools, create images, learn from previous actions, remember how you like to work and take on ongoing and repeatable tasks.
Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
- ▶ 29:38 Jessie Genet And then, um, you, from a security standpoint, if it is a, if it is a Mac, create a new, um, Apple user profile on that machine.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 22:51 M.G. Siegler Like they're all part of the sort of the same, uh, at least Mac app payload right now.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 33:26 Marc Andreessen Like, so, so, because there were all these different, you know, theories, all these different operating systems and mainframes, and then, you know, all these windows and Mac and all these things, and then there was this, but kind of behind… 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:59 Turner Novak You see this with what's going on with Mac, where a whole bunch of applications have been, have needed to be rewritten for Apple Silicon, because previously you would have an Intel Mac before we got to the M one M two M three M four M five… 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 17:37 Ranjan Roy I'm curious whether the three letter CEO will remain that long, but moving on from that complete speculation, um, I, I found like it's been odd because I don't know if you, did you see Gemini is now launching a Mac app?
I fixed OpenClaw so it actually works (full setup)
- ▶ 33:12 Moritz Kremb So I can, like, I can't share it on the screen now, but it's actually happening here on, on, on this other Mac. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:00 Moritz Kremb To mitigate that, I actually recommend just like set it up on a local Mac.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 22:24 Benedict Evans And the PC, in effect, was commodity infrastructure that you used to access the web, and it became a Chromebook, which is actually what a Mac is now, mostly for most people.
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 5:03 Jeremy Epling We actually racked our own Macs in our own data centers there.
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 1:13:29 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Freaking, 20 years.
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:23 Jordi Hays From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day, M-Dash, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV, M-Dash. 3 times in the scene
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 20:55 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, Apple had some new Macs this week.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 13:08 Nader Khalil So, you know, if you think about it, like if you have a Mac or a PC or whatever, if you have a laptop and you buy this GPU and you want to use it, you should be able to use it.
- ▶ 41:49 Nader Khalil Where for the DGX spark, which has a lot more compute, you can do the pre, the compute hungry pre-fill on a DGX spark and then do the, uh, decode on a, on a Mac.
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:20:40 Doug O'Laughlin I guess I just saw a modal be like, oh, Trico, Trico, I mean, but the, but a modal isn't, and then to be clear, Codex in the, in Mac is great.
The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Vibe Code, and What To Just Buy
- ▶ 46:59 unnamed speaker Sometimes he times out, like, if it's on my Mac, I'm like, what?
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:18 Boris Cherny He wrote some, like, Apple script to script my, my Mac and look up the music in my music player.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 1:04:36 Jason Calacanis The screen looks very Mac conspired, except unlike Tesla, which is, uh, no buttons and removing buttons.
Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:10 John Coogan Somebody said this is a, this is a Windows computer running a, running Mac or something.
Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex
- ▶ 3:03 Morgan Linton So I took some notes and essentially, you know, with five, three codecs, um, I'll be showing that in the desktop app on Mac.
Anthropic’s Trust Nuke, OpenAI’s new releases, Google Claims AI Crown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:07 Jordi Hays So when Mac is like riffing on that, it's like, it's truthful, right? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's secret strategy behind its Super Bowl ad campaign
- ▶ 1:05 Jordi Hays So when Mac is like riffing on that, it's like, it's truthful, right? 2 times in the scene
Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
- ▶ 23:36 Mark Bissell Well, hopefully should be, um, That's too much to run on that Mac.
How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:06 John Coogan Well, yeah, yeah, the I'm a Mac guy. 12 times in the scene
Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
- ▶ 20:41 Matt Van Horn I think you need to run some sort of Mac software, and so Telegram seems to be the default where you, when you don't have that.
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:57 Peter Steinberger So I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to, to Wave.
Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 9:29 Peter Steinberger So I looked at the file header, I found out that it's Opus, so I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to, to Wave, and then I wanted to use Vispa, but didn't have it installed, and there was an install error, but then I looked around and… 2 times in the scene
#2294 He Claude Code: Build Me a YouTube Replacement
Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:19 John Coogan Apple is revamping Siri as a built-in iPhone, Mac, and chatbot to fend off OpenAI, and there's an image here. 2 times in the scene
How I Built a $13K/Month SaaS
- ▶ 12:52 unnamed speaker Like this is an example of an article we wrote, adding best ChatGPT Mac apps, free and paid.
- ▶ 13:54 unnamed speaker Like for us, that was like chat GPT, Mac apps, uh, right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:39 unnamed speaker As well as for marketing, uh, LFS is a native Mac app, so it's built with Swift.
I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:27 John Coogan Siri, because I think the fact that they were on the, on the west coast, was able to get the deepest integration in Apple, sort of win the home button over time, win the Siri button, and eventually they, they teamed up and actually, oh, I…
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