Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store

404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists. Our intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content. This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad. EMANUEL: This week we experimented with the podcast format a little bit. We had just finished recording our regular podcast and were just chatting about the fact that Tim Cook stepped down as CEO of Apple. This is exactly the kind of corporate tech news that we don’t normally cover, but we’ve all covered Apple from various angles for the entirety of his tenure. We started talking about what Cook’s influence and legacy was and Jason just pressed record and uploaded the conversation.  People who watched that video seemed to enjoy it. I definitely enjoyed a more casual podcast format so maybe we’ll do more in the future if we can. Please sound off in the comments if it’s something you’re interested in or if there are specific topics/formats you’d like to see in podcast form.  This post is for paid members only Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more. SUBSCRIBE Already have an account? Sign in