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Podcast Rewind: Chatting with Apple Design Award Winners, Favorite WWDC Announcements, and Transatlantic Tea Talk

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts:

AppStories

For their first WWDC 2025 AppStories episode, Federico and John interview finalists and winners of the Apple Design Award.

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Comfort Zone

Comfort Zone does WWDC! Federico Viticci joins the show to talk about our favorite things revealed at Apple’s developer conference.


Ruminate

Snack news dropped just before recording, Robb’s been buying more notebooks, and John and Robb discuss videogame news.


AppStories, Episode 439, ‘WWDC 2025: The AppStories Interviews with Apple Design Award Winners’ Show Notes

Interviews with Apple Design Award Finalists and Winners


Comfort Zone, Episode 53, ‘Touchy Grass’ Show Notes

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Follow the Hosts


Ruminate, Episode 211, ‘Tariffs on Flavour Crystals’ Show Notes

Sprite Drops Refreshing Take on Tea With New LTO – Sprite + Tea

Arizona Iced Tea still costs less than $1 a can, in a move straight out of Costco’s playbook—founder explains why | Fortune

WWDC25 - Apple Developer

Five Months of Journalling • Robb Knight

Blackwing Illegal Pad (2-Pk) - A New Take on the Legal Pad | Blackwing

Field Notes | National Crop 6-Pack Box Set

Field Notes | The Chicago Look

NPC Videogame News — Bluesky

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MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories UnwindMagic Rays of LightRuminateComfort Zone, and NPC: Next Portable Console that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.

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