I remember where I was 16 years ago today. Do you? Having considered a podcast since late 2004 and worked on “Inside Mac” for about a year… Macworld 2006 was the first time I thought of doing daily Apple news on my own - mad props to Frank Petrie, Daniel East, and Laura Burstein for the support. About three weeks later, on 26 January 2006, an angel of the lord announced this podcast that I thought would last… maybe six months.
Since then, we’ve seen the introduction and rise of iPhone, the slow fade of iPod, the introduction of the App Store, iPhone adding 3G, then 4G, then 5G - what’ll they think of next? iPad followed iPad after iPad - Apple said goodbye to Macworld, then we all had to say goodbye. We saw the passing of Steve Jobs, the rise of Tim Cook… the Mothership built a space ship from which design king Jony Ive disembarked… Apple Retail remade retail, then got remade itself under Angela Ahrendts.
Apple killed the wristwatch with iPhone, then brought it back with Apple Watch. The company spent billions on Beats, which led to Apple Music. And now look at ‘em. They’re making TV shows and movies, including a surprise hit about a soccer coach based on commercial made years earlier. I’m sure making “Ted Lasso” is exactly what Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne had in mind in that garage 45 years earlier.
COVID-19 - that’s been a bummer. More lawsuits for Apple than I care to count, and more podcasts for me than I care to remember. Technocracy Radio, Mac OS Ken: Day 6, Mac OS Ken: Live, EYE Chart Radio, Mission Log, Mission Log Live, The Checklist by SecureMac, In a Few Minutes (Currently on some sort of hiatus) Mac OS Ken: Live (again)… Feels like I might be forgetting one or two…
Some of you followed me from “Inside Mac,” which is humbling. I know almost none of you, but I’m grateful for every one of you. For the emails… for the voicemails… for the Patreon support, the shout-outs on Twitter, for supporting the sponsors that support this show… If I think too much about everything we’ve seen and talked about and everything you’ve helped me do, it kind of makes me teary.
And so we go into year 17. Because… why the bleep not.