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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where MacOS comes up on the a16z Podcast, Latent Space, TBPN, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, Top Founders
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 22:56 M.G. Siegler Of the new OS, uh, iOS and macOS and all the other, uh, products, and they're, they're stable.
- ▶ 34:34 M.G. Siegler I think the bigger issue is how they do Mac OS to deal with this touch element, because that's been part of the talking point, right? 2 times in the scene
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:09 Boris Cherny My first question was, hey, tag, do you have access to a macOS runner on GitHub? 3 times in the scene
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 40:00 Ryan Carson The, the, the, the Mac app is so beautiful, like, and there's, and they are subsidizing the token so much that if you want an agent on your machine to just to do really cool, helpful stuff, the open browser tabs and,
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:32:56 Brian Armstrong You know, it's like, um, having Mac OS or something like that, you know, versus an open source that didn't, it, the, I'm glad Mac OS exists, you know, these kinds of things. 2 times in the scene
Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:32 John Coogan On iOS, integrating to Codex or ChatGPT app on Mac.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 30:54 M.G. Siegler And so you just saw Mike Rockwell, the new, the executive who took over that group and, and sort of rebuilt it, um, just doing these demos where it's as simple as holding down the button and speaking to your iPhone and it being talking to… 2 times in the scene
WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:11 unnamed speaker Mac operating system being like too, too bright or too dark or something like some contrast issue.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 6:58 Alex Kantrowitz To a do-it-all companion, letting users handle tasks across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS through the day.
Hermes Agent Desktop: Full Setup + Real Use Cases
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 19:44 Walden Yan Have you had customers where they needed like Mac OS specific VMs or like Windows specific VMs? 2 times in the scene
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 35:38 Ivan Burazin So computer use, um, either Mac or Windows or Linux. 9 times in the scene
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 47:34 Jason Calacanis As we all know, two years ago, Apple and OpenAI announced ChatGPT would integrate into Siri, iOS, MacOS, but according to Bloomberg, the deal has gone so poorly for OpenAI that they might sue Apple for breach of contract.
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 13:55 Ivan Borzin And then it does have to fire up a, you know, Windows, a Mac, a Linux sort of desktop or a browser to go through the thing.
- ▶ 45:27 Ivan Borzin It could be a windows, a Mac, an Android.
Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
- ▶ 7:19 unnamed speaker And if you're on Linux, Mac OS, or even windows subsystem for Linux, it's just this one line command.
Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor x XAI, Netflix Stock Sinks | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:21 unnamed speaker Uh, with computer use on Mac OS, Codex can 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 46:05 Felix Rieseberg So it's a way to build applications that more or less work and look the same on both windows and Mac OS.
How I use iMessage and AI to run my life
- ▶ 17:29 unnamed speaker I really compare it to, like, Linux versus macOS. 3 times in the scene
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:41 Tyler Cosgrove They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
- ▶ 4:33 unnamed speaker They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
- ▶ 49:50 Andrej Karpathy So for example, in operating systems, you have like closed, so like, you know, windows and macOS, these are large software projects, kind of like what LLMs are going to become and there's Linux, but Linux is very easy.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 2:24 Benedict Evans And so that, what happened with Windows and Mac OS and Google and so, iOS, not Mac OS and Google and so on. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 56:53 Felix Rieseberg But I did see, I don't know if you were okay with me saying that, but I did see briefly that you do have like a, like an automate macOS MCB server installed, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:35 Felix Rieseberg It's just like a way that Mac OS displays bytes is like wrong, but the way we actually write it to disk is by we collapse the empty space in the image.
- ▶ 1:05:39 Felix Rieseberg Uh, macOS, we use the, um, Apple virtualization framework, which is pretty solidly optimized.
ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 25:53 Nick Turley I look up to Mac OS, for example, as an example, where it really works for people who don't understand technology at all. 2 times in the scene
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:50 John Coogan Apple's five software platforms, M-Dash, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and TVOS, M-Dash, provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services like the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and…
OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker Durya says, I ran the same prompt on GPT, 5.4 high fast and Claude Opus four six for an eight phase coding project for a Mac OS app.
Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:42 Raphael Schaad This whole trend, uh, that maybe like kind of like macOS kind of started to over the years, get more and more into kind of like very clean interfaces, get the functionality and the tools and the buttons all out of the way.
AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:00 unnamed speaker You're not gonna have a problem, but also because it's running Mac OS, you get I message integration so far.
I got a private lesson on Claude Cowork & Claude Code
- ▶ 3:33 unnamed speaker Um, it co-work is only available for Mac OS.
How I Built a $13K/Month SaaS
- ▶ 1:20 unnamed speaker Uh, it's a simple AI Mac app that has gone from zero to a 150 K over the last three years. 4 times in the scene
How does OpenAI compete?
- ▶ 6:47 Benedict Evans That doesn't mean it's you, it's easy for you to switch to GCP, but AWS does not have the kind of lock-in that Windows has or Mac OS has. 2 times in the scene
I Tested Gemini 3 as a Designer. It’s Terrifyingly Good.
- ▶ 8:44 Greg Isenberg The icons that you chose for the applications, like about Greg and Greg's letter, et cetera, they don't feel like real Windows or Mac app icons.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 3:44 Eugenia Kuyda And so we started thinking, we got obsessed with this metaphor that the current chatbots are really the Microsoft DOS era for AI interfaces, and that there will be some sort of a Windows Mac OS moment. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:13:57 David Senra A stream of breakthroughs including the iMac, OSX, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad reflected that focused love.
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 54:25 Jordi Hays As a Mac OS app and is still Mac OS only, although it now includes the ability to view files on the web completely took the category by storm Adobe Adobe eventually responded with Adobe XD, but not until, um, and the product is still in… 2 times in the scene
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 2:15:01 Varun Mohan So we're getting a lot of feedback inside, but I will say like, there's a little bit of Silicon Valley ism in that a lot of us develop on Mac. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 54:11 Balaji Srinivasan If we have enough context, not from LLMs, but from pointer movements and mouse clicks on, you know, iOS or, or, or other, or Mac OS.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:53 Harry Stebbings Will XAI release a Grok macOS app before end of year? 2 times in the scene
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 40:47 Andrew Hsu We will eventually build something like a Mac app.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 11:32 Alessio Fanelli Just the Mac OS?
- ▶ 49:57 Zach Lloyd It's free to try on every platform, Mac, Linux, Windows. 2 times in the scene
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:30 Andrej Karpathy And it's kind of interesting to me that the ecosystem is shaping in a very similar kind of way where you have a few closed source providers like Windows or Mac OS, and then you have an open source alternative like Linux, and I think for,… 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 20:41 John Coogan But overall, my first impression of liquid glass on Mac OS is good too.
- ▶ 28:37 John Coogan The redesign is rumored to be comprehensive, a restyling of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS in the intervening years between iOS seven, iOS seven's announcement.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:48 Jason Lemkin Um, now OpenAI can record our, our, all of our conversations, 24 seven in their Mac OS app already.
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 2:04 Alexander Embiricos Um, okay, so, actually, before working at OpenAI, I was working on a native macOS software called Multi, which is like about, um, like, it was kind of like a pair programming tool, but we thought of ourselves as working on, like, um, like,…
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 5:23 Nathan Sobo Um, but with my approach, it was like, I wanted to go to the raw Mac OS at first APIs.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 42:17 Thomas Dohmke What has won, uh, iPhone or Android, uh, Windows or Linux, um, or Mac OS for that matter.
Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
- ▶ 0:32 Shawn Wang Like, Raycast, in my mind, is kind of like a, a better spotlight for, for Mac, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 Thomas Paul Mann Like our future is basically turning Mac OS and we also now expanding the windows and iOS and really like a AI native operating system.
I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis
- ▶ 35:47 Andrew Wilkinson There's only so many competent Mac OS, iOS, whatever programmers.
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 49:02 comfyanonymous (Comfy) And hopefully Mac.
Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh
- ▶ 9:31 Noland Arbaugh If it worked at all, um, with that Mac OS control.
- ▶ 36:59 Noland Arbaugh Just enjoy surfing the web without, um, having to go through the headache of, like, the Mac OS navigation and things. 2 times in the scene
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 38:08 Varun Mohan But I will say, like, there's a little bit of Silicon Valley-ism in that a lot of us develop on Mac. 2 times in the scene
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 13:54 Eric Simons Visual Studio for Windows, Xcode for Mac.
His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned.... · PMF Show
- ▶ 19:33 Pablo Srugo Is this, and again, this might be a stupid analogy, but can you think of this kind of like an OS for these CPUs for these, these servers, or is that not like, like the same way Mac OS is for a PC or Windows for a PC or whatever?
Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
- ▶ 20:12 Andrew Bosworth Um, and I love those platforms for that, um, including OSX.
3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats
- ▶ 29:42 Shaan Puri I mean, it looks like After Effects and it just says free alternative to editors such as Adobe After Effects, web based, nothing to install works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 22:42 David Senra And we just did an ad supported version of Mac OS.
Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
- ▶ 10:01 Chris Slowe And this is about a, I don't know, I think it was that fall that, um, it was that fall that macOS shipped a, an update where they actually gave you the search bar.
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:06 Aravind Srinivas What's the future of Mac?
pov: you have $10k to build a $1M startup
- ▶ 14:43 Jordan Mix We've got a couple, I've got a couple simple ones, uh, around, uh, productivity, uh, some low-hanging fruit, uh, macOS apps.
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
- ▶ 5:18 Adam D'Angelo So this is things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface,
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
- ▶ 5:10 Steve Ruiz Play's doing like a mobile, um, I guess there now it's like just general iOS, Mac OS, um,
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 25:14 Benedict Evans It's like we put multi-touch and Mac OS on a phone.
Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
- ▶ 15:30 Karri Saarinen Like Mac OS does this well.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:26 Guillermo Rauch Smaller, miniaturized hardware that was portable and concurrently was the strategy of let's retrofit macOS to fit it into the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 1:03:03 David Senra We went over OS X again and again, pixel by pixel, feature by feature, screen by screen.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:36 unnamed speaker Maybe it's, like, maybe I think someone who's better with, like, iPad apps, specific, like, apps that are made for both iOS and macOS, like, could do it better, but I don't like, and then phone, like, disaster.
Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)
- ▶ 49:41 Jeremy Henrickson You're not debating about, you know, whether, you know, Mac or Windows is going to exist in the future.
Why You Should Start a Business For Older Adults
- ▶ 11:29 Greg Isenberg Um, and I love Mac too, but I got a PC to try it out, and I will say that Windows 11 is almost as good as Mac OS.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 40:46 Ben Gilbert I don't know if the Mac OS running on other hardware devices was an initiative that started.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:46 Brendan Eich Custom toolbars, even menu, the native menu bar on the Mac OS at the time, all of that could be integrated through XML.
- ▶ 31:50 Brendan Eich He wrote a lot of code, so he wrote a macOS-only browser to learn the Coco, I think it was, toolkit.
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next
- ▶ 4:57 Jeff Seibert And I became obsessed with crash reporting through my work at box because we were facing our own internal issues with our mobile work and our Mac OS work and ended up building a prototype on the side.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 21:55 Benedict Evans iOS is closed to OEMs and open to developers, but not as open as Windows or Mac.
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 23:20 Christian Reber I use Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Android, iOS.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 4:32 Benedict Evans The arm swings back and forth, another iPhone, another operating system, another version of macOS and iOS, and
NightEye App Lands 2500 Customers Using Unique SEO Fiverr Writing Stratetgy
- ▶ 5:02 Stanislav Dimitrov Um, but, uh, only two of us work on this site project like part-time and we have, uh, the third member is just working on the Safari because it's completely different story there with the Safari extension and the Mac OS app.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:36 Cory Doctorow If you remember, there was the, there were a couple of moments in say the Mac OS's history where adversarial interoperability was totally pivotal, pivotal. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 27:59 Steven Sinofsky It's to the Mac operating system free.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 17:47 Frank Chen On Mac OS. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- ▶ 2:10 Jason Rosenthal As the story goes, Jobs killed them all except for one that became the iMac, and that kind of sort of worked, and then from there came, uh, you know, the new PowerBooks that worked a little bit better, and then OSX, and then the iPod, and…
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 15:11 Steven Sinofsky He says, the beautiful thing about this is it's really just the Mac operating system under the, under the covers.
- ▶ 23:48 Steven Sinofsky You know, the idea that people, the cynical people are saying, oh, this is Apple, like their last ditch effort to refuse to put touch in Mac OS. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 35:11 Fred Benenson But it's actually up to your computer's operating system, whether it's OSX or iOS or Android or whatever, to go fish out a little image and put it on your screen.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 0:26 Kyle Russell iOS on your phone and iPad, Mac OS, renamed from OS X on the desktop and laptop computers they make, and watch OS. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans And so you've got the taskbar in Windows, you've got the expose on the Mac, and then you had the multi-split screen thing in Windows eight.
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 15:58 Benedict Evans So just, you know, sort of, kind of an unfair but relevant comparison, you know, um, the Wintel ecosystem now, as a percentage of total computing, so including tablets and smartphones and everything else, is now sort of 15% of unit sales,…
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 25:49 Benedict Evans So they didn't, like, do a recap of the new version of OSX, which is launching next week.
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 2:34 Benedict Evans Um, rather it was kind of Windows and Mac OS built up all that kind of stuff over the last 30 years.
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 0:13 unnamed speaker So we hear about updates to iOS, to OSX.
- ▶ 0:47 Benedict Evans So we have OSX, which is a platform that has about eighty million users, and there's some good, solid, sensible stuff in there.
- ▶ 8:49 unnamed speaker For the rest of us, fall for OSX, iOS nine, and Apple Watch.
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