I’m a long time listener and I really appreciate their varied systems coverage as I am fully intrenched in the Apple ecosystem. While it is easy to be critical, I enjoy the content and especially David’s ability to personalize and connect. I can just flat tell that he’s a good dude.
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I get it, but I also recognize that Apple is not just a Mac company. They have a whole ecosystem of products that work well together. Even back in the Katie days, I remember them talking about if they should rename the podcast, but ultimately stuck with MPU, because nothing else sounds as good.
Personally, I find the balance of Mac-specific content to other iOS/iPadOS/visionOS/etc content about right for my taste. But YMMV, as they say.
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The Mac accounted for approximately 8.1% of Apple’s FY 2025 total revenue. I’d bet a shiny new quarter that Mac coverage was a much larger percent of the discussions than that on MPU last year 
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Every website I visit or podcast I listen to or had listened to with “Mac” in the title also covers iPhone and iPad. I would expect that almost every Mac user has an iPhone as well, while the opposite is not true. So the shift is really expected.
I’d be very happy if there were websites and podcasts that were exclusively Mac, but I don’t expect that to happen. My recent “Mac” resources:
Mac Power Users website and podcast
Mac Break Weekly podcast
Mac OS Ken daily podcast
Mac Geek Gab podcast
Mac Rumors website
The MacCast former podcast
Let’s not forget the app MacTracker, and I occasionally look at Macworld magazine.
These are all at least partly if not mostly iPhone/iPad these days even if they didn’t start out that way.
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Although I’m primarily into MPU for Mac stuff too, and this might sound strange, but I can get more than one listen out of each episode. I’ve gotten quite accustomed to the mellifluous tones of @MacSparky and I’m so familiar with all of his and @ismh86 's particular ways of speaking (e.g., Steven’s “cerdint” 
) that I use it for comfortable background audio. So often I finish a podcast without remembering a thing from it. Now, that’s not an insult - I’ll be working in the shop or on my truck or something, maybe focusing on a challenging issue, and those old familiar voices in my headphones (especially when it’s not an interview) somehow makes it feel more comfortable. Hard to explain. The bonus is that when I have the bandwidth to pay attention, I can relisten to the same episode and actually get something out of it. But even when it is a topic/episode that doesn’t apply to me (AppleTV, iPad power use, and like half the interviews) it’s still worth the listen for the friendly voices… and no politics! (though I wouldn’t say inscrutable 
.) Regardless, they do a great job of not alienating anyone, and managing to maintain the same listenabliity in their production that they achieved a long time ago. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for all the other nerd podcasts that I listen to.
Magazines? I remember those. I still have some from way back, although on the platform I was using back then…
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