MacStories Weekly: Issue 501 - February 20, 2026

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Janko Roettgers writes for The Verge about the way AI-assisted development can lead to utilities that sit on top of existing services like Spotify to enhance users’ experience with them. (Link) Ashley Carman, writing for Bloomberg, considers the implications of Apple’s podcast video streaming announcement for the podcast industry and its advertisers. (Link) A...

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John Voorhees
John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 500 - February 13, 2026

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I’m not really a car person, but it is intriguing to think that elements of this Ferrari interior that Jony Ive and LoveFrom designed might have been part of an Apple EV in a parallel universe. (Link) How big was the Bad Bunny halftime show at the Super Bowl? Big. Very, very big, and...

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John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 499 - February 6, 2026

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In a test of the effectiveness of Apple’s Lockdown Mode, the FBI was unable to get into the seized iPhone of a Washington Post reporter. (Link) Anthropic released its new Opus 4.6 model this week, which in my initial testing is a noticeable improvement over 4.5 for coding tasks. (Link) Not to be outdone,...

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John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.
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