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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I think they do a great job of covering a range of topics which appeals to different segments of the Apple user community,
I am not a Mac power user, more and more an iPad user. It’s simpler and I tire of complexity but IPad’s have their foibles,
I chose the skim listening approach, If it’s not a topic of interest I simply move on to one that does.
I am just glad they don’t drill into EDC.
I must live in a different world but why there is a need by many (non MPU tech programmes/youtubers) to wax lyrical about a 12” hunting knife as part of their tech EDC, when you live in the suburbs defeats me.
And I live in Australia where every second creature seems to have been given natures gift to kill you (snakes, spiders big sharks etc). Then again our most vicious bears are Koala Bears not brown/black bears but we have a plethora of hungry, aggressive sharks.
A Kangaroo may unintentionally cut your stomach open with a sharp claw trying to protect its young if you threaten it, and a koala may pee on you, but 12” hunting knife isn’t going to help much in those situations nor when a great white shark has removed your arms/leg or half your torso during your casual swim along the beach…
But I digress as usual. Each to there own…
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I have no clue. But I did, for many years, carry a Swiss Army knife named the Tinker.
The screwdrivers opened a lot of computer, etc. cases. And the flat screw driver occasionally doubled as a punch down tool when I needed to connect a wire to a terminal block.
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Those dangerous creatures are nothing. Years ago while in Australia, I was nearly run over by a driver barreling down the wrong side of the street, to say nothing of the horde of pedestrians who almost trampled me to death descending the wrong side of the escalator! 
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The small Swiss arm knives were great! But frequently travel and forgetting to take it out of my carry-on meant it was confiscated by TSA or the national equivalent of airport security/government building security.
Otherwise a small Swiss Army knife with scissors, screw driver, file etc would be great for travel.
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Glad you survived the roads and escalators… we “down under” types do a lot of things backwards…
Must admit to having the same experience in my US trips. Occasionally, finding I had automatically drifted to the wrong side of the road or cursing people under my breath for standing on the wrong side of the escalator, till I realised I was the party at fault and they no doubt were silently cursing me.
Of course, in India there seems to be no correct side to drive on “Mad Max Mumbai”. Amazing place but the road and traffic…wow
Passenger screening didn’t start in the US until 1973. Prior to that we just walked out to the plane. As I recall, a “stewardess” (flight attendant) checked my ticket, on the plane, the first time I flew commercial.
I have not been to India, but I had a similar experience in Beirut, Lebanon, where I was doing some “heavy” consulting work. The concept of a “lane” seemed optional!
I have several vey nice Swiss Army knifes but can’t carry them at school. 
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I hadn’t thought about the toothpick and tweezers in years. Mine wandered off long ago.
It was common for an 11 or 12 year old boy to carry a pocket knife when I was growing up. And loan it to a teacher on occasion.
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“Back in my day” you could carry a pocket knife as long as it didn’t have a locking blade. Also the blade had to be below a certain length (I forget how long, but all pocket knives would pass). Now days while my wife was hospitalized I couldn’t visit her with my Tinker on me. And of course no good on air flights. I haven’t been in any school since I retired, but when I taught (evening college level) pocket knives were fine but guns were not.
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I remember one school where years ago students had hunting rifles in their trucks. They would go deer hunting after school (or before school). No one gave it a second thought.
Yep, I’m that old too. Every boy scout in my class worth his salt would have his official scout knife on him at all times. I don’t recall a single knife-related tragedy that occurred. Of course, we weren’t nearly as medicated back then.
Fast forward to when someone who “felt unsafe” reported me to HR for bringing my bat and other softball gear into the office… the day of a softball game… with the office softball team.
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