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8 statements about MacOS, every show

Siegler: Adapting macOS for touch input is Apple's primary MacBook challenge
“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? Of like why they weren't going to do a touch screen Mac in the past. It's like, it's just a different beast. There's different…”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 34:34 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Burazin: Apple is shooting itself in the foot with macOS licensing restrictions
“And from, if anyone in Apple is listening, I very much feel that they are shooting itself in the foot of the scale of the revenue of compute or licensing they could get if they would just enable A concurrency model similar to what you can get on a Windows and …”
Ivan Burazin May 21, 2026 ▶ 40:52 AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
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Rieseberg: Claude's VM takes less than 10 gigabytes on macOS disk
“A lot of people write me like, hey, how, how come Cloud is taking up 10 gigabytes? I could say on that point, it's not actually taking up 10 gigabytes. It's just like a way that Mac OS displays bytes is like wrong, but the way we actually write it to disk is b…”
Felix Rieseberg Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 1:03:27 Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
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Kuyda: AI chatbots are in their MS-DOS era before a Mac OS moment
“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.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 3:44 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
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Raycast is expanding to Windows and iOS as an AI-native OS layer
“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.”
Thomas Paul Mann Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 18:36 Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
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Steve Jobs considered a free, ad-supported version of Mac OS
“And he's like, Hey, what if we gave it away for free? And we just did an ad supported version of Mac OS. And instead of buying them, you can get it for free, but you have to watch an ad every time before you use your computer.”
David Senra Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 22:42 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
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Stephen Sinofsky: Legacy desktop OSs cannot retroactively add mobile architecture features
“All the things about power management and security and reliability this whole sealed case notion of the phone and the tablet OS's, these modern OS's, these are huge, huge benefits. And there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to the existing…”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:50 a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
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Benedict Evans: Consumers will converge on owning two main device screens
“You're just going to have this endless proliferation of screens, and people will have two, probably. They'll have one that they put in their pocket and carry everywhere. They will have, they may or may not have a much bigger one that allows them to do more stu…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:08 a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?

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