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

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.

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

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