Federico Viticci is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, the Italy-based Apple publication he started in 2009 at age 21. He is best known for his book-length annual iOS and iPadOS reviews, his pioneering, almost evangelical insistence on using the iPad as his primary computer, and his deep work on Apple's Shortcuts automation. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast and several Relay FM shows including Connected, and runs the membership community Club MacStories.
James Thomson is an independent iOS and Mac developer in Glasgow, Scotland, best known for PCalc, the scientific calculator he started in 1992 and has been refining ever since. He runs the two-person studio TLA Systems with his wife, having earlier worked at Apple on the Mac OS X Finder and Dock. A fixture of the Apple developer community, he is also a podcast pundit on Relay FM and The Incomparable, a conference speaker, and a Dungeons & Dragons player who photographs squirrels on the side.
Jason Snell is the founder and editor of Six Colors, the Apple-obsessed publication he launched in 2014 after 17 years at Macworld, where he served as lead editor for over a decade. A relentless podcaster, he hosts Upgrade and co-hosts MacBreak Weekly, runs The Incomparable network of geek-culture shows, and built the annual Six Colors Apple Report Card into a fixture of the Apple commentariat. Snell has covered every major Apple launch since the 1990s, once interviewed Steve Jobs, and turns a spreadsheet of survey scores into some of the most-cited charts in tech.

Myke Hurley is a British podcaster, network co-founder, and product creator based in London. He co-founded Relay FM in 2014 with Stephen Hackett, growing it into one of the most respected independent podcast networks covering Apple and technology. He hosts Cortex (with CGP Grey), Upgrade (with Jason Snell), Connected, and more. In 2019 he co-founded Cortex Brand with CGP Grey, producing the Theme System Journal. He launched his independent newsletter The Enthusiast in 2025. Business Insider dubbed him the 'Podcasting Don' of UK tech.

Stephen Hackett is a Memphis-based writer, podcaster, and co-founder of Relay FM - one of the most respected independent podcast networks in the Apple world. Through his blog 512 Pixels (running since 2008), his flagship podcast Connected, and co-hosting Mac Power Users, he has built a career at the intersection of Apple history, hardware archaeology, and independent publishing. He is also the driving force behind Relay FM's annual St. Jude Children's Research Hospital fundraiser, which has raised nearly $5 million - a cause deeply personal to him after his son Josiah survived pediatric brain cancer treated at St. Jude.