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The Context Machine

Bryan Chaffin and Jeff Gamet

The podcast where Bryan and Jeff talk about whatever they want.

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Episodes

260 episodes

  1. iOS 27.3 Fixes Safari Tabs, Steve Jobs Hated Touch Screens 34:18
  2. Apple Unveils Touchscreen MacBook Pro, New iPad Mini, and More 39:42
  3. iPhone Duo Reviews Are In & Affinity Comes to iPad 30:54
  4. Apple Goes All In on the Smart Home with HomeView 44:23
  5. Apple Is Betting on LG for the Smart Home & Full Disk Access Changes 34:05
  6. What John Ternus Could Fix at Apple 36:35
  7. Hands-On with iPhone 18 Pro Camera and New iPhone Setup Tips 33:41
  8. 10 Awesome iOS 27 Features 32:44
  9. iPhone 18 Pro vs. iPhone Duo vs. Your Old iPhone 40:57
  10. John Ternus Takes Over as Apple CEO 35:25
  11. Apple’s New Mac mini and Studio: More Power, Higher Prices 41:26
  12. Bryan and Jeff’s Mac and iPad Text Editor Showdown 29:56
  13. iPad Pro vs. MacBook Neo, AI Dominates Black Hat Conference 36:02
  14. Apple OS 27 Updates: Genmoji Autoprompts and Getting Ready for Makers 27:11
  15. Apple’s New iPhone Lease Program and $5T Valuation, Plus a Must-Have Mac Utility 25:17
  16. OpenAI’s Sandbox Goes Awry & the EC Dictates OS Design 32:16
  17. Apple Sues OpenAI, Apple Robots, Jeff’s AirPods Hearing Aids, and More 37:22
  18. A Major Gesture Change in iOS 27 and Fun Lunar Rover News 33:28
  19. AI Forces Apple’s Security Hand and Price Hikes, Too 33:21
  20. Foldable iPhone Rumors, Meta’s Don Quixote Smartglasses 42:06
  21. AI Slop: Cost Enters the Chat, and How AI Slop has Changed Choosing Books 38:45
  22. Apple’s Hardware Choices for Siri AI, AI Doing Real Stuff, Favorite WWDC Things 32:08
  23. Apple Posters, So Long British Tech Network, and Bill Splitting with Apple Pay Cash 31:36
  24. Apple’s Accessible AI, Touch Screen MacBook Pro 28:20
  25. Monarch’s Crown Slips, Bartender for Mac Makes a Comeback 29:17
  26. Mac Locations, Handoff Tip, and a System Settings Shortcut 26:14
  27. Ram Shortages Cause Apple to Pull Low End and High End Mac mini/Studio 28:06
  28. Search for the Ultimate Remote, App Store Subscription Update 30:14
  29. A Tale of Two Pens and Another Tale of Two Apple CEOs 44:26
  30. Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto Still Unidentified, Folding iPhone Rumors, and Kindle’s Gonna Amazon 30:52
  31. A Look Back at Steve Jobs’s Days at NeXT 44:43
  32. Salute for John, Listener Feedback, Kagi, Apple’s 50th + the Next 50 35:31
  33. Animated Firefly, FCC Bumble, and Audiobook Shenanigans 33:47
  34. Tim Cook Says “Psych!” Plus Lil Finder Guy and AirPods Max 2 30:41
  35. Apple Turns 50, Tim Cook Retirement Speculation, and the MacBook Neo 32:55
  36. Jeff Prattles on about The Omni Group and Random Rosetta Issue 32:46
  37. Apple Vision Pro’s Retrocade Is Magical, and John’s CNC Journey 35:58
  38. AirTags 2, Apple Buys Q.ai, Plus Jeff Needs an Ear Horn 29:50
  39. Apple Rumors: a Chatbot and a Wearable Pin? 31:26
  40. Apple’s Creator Studio and an EU App Store Alternative Closes 25:00
  41. Jeff’s Show & Tell: OmniOutliner 6 and AudioEngine HXL Portable DAC 29:17
  42. Jobs and Cook Versus the Tech Bros, Getting Down with Plexamp 44:30
  43. Google Ad Mac Malware, Festivitas, Nebula Awards Shoot Down AI 45:05
  44. Turmoil or Cleaning House at Apple? 34:46
  45. Apple’s Executive Leadership & CNN’s Deep Dive into a New Hole 47:22
  46. Don’t Dismiss Apple Pocket, Canva’s Affinity Gamble 35:25
  47. OmniOutliner 6, Jeff’s First Pen Show, and SPSFC 5 40:59
  48. Slow Horses Season 5 (and New Book), Jeff’s Pen Show Plans 38:33
  49. Apple’s OS 26 Upgrades: What We Like! 42:02
  50. The Power of Quirk, and Apple’s New Watches, AirPods Pro, and Orange iPhones 53:04