The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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423: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’, With Patrick McGee
Patrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, Apple in China -- one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- “Apple in China”, Patrick’s spectacular new book.
- Patrick on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
- Excerpt from the book in the Sunday Times of London.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett
Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America” iPhones; and Fortnite’s return to the US App Store.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Stephen, at 512 Pixels: “Memphis Chamber of Commerce Claims No New Gas Turbines Will be Placed at Second xAI Location, Despite Documents to the Contrary”.
- Tom’s Hardware: “TSMC’s Labor Practices Draw Serious Concern in Arizona — the Company’s New Chip Plant Allegedly Plagued by Worker Abuses”.
- How Dr. Drang helped build Apple’s retail empire.
- Ars Technica: “Google Adds Veo 2 Video Generation to Gemini App”.
- The “fat” 3rd-gen iPod Nano from 2008.
- Dan Moren’s 2009 review of the no-button iPod Shuffle.
- Jony Ive introducing the first “unibody” MacBook Pros in 2008. Really good.
- Tech specs for the 1984 original Macintosh, whose screen dimensions, believe it or not, I stumped Stephen on.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod
Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, Things Become Other Things. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- “Things Become Other Things”, Craig’s new book from Random House (!):
- Craig’s web page for the book — including tour dates.
- Random House’s page for the book.
- Purchase links:
- Craig’s home page.
- The Good Place — Craig’s write-up on designing and building (with Claude Code) his own custom Twitter-like ephemeral social network for members of his (fun, excellent) Special Projects website.
- Ulysses — Craig’s writing app of choice.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book Six Centuries of Type & Printing.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Pre-order “Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition”.
- My link to Glenn’s Kickstarter page.
- “.BLUE proposes to create an Internet space in which businesses, organizations and individuals can create an Internet identity tied to the color and the concept of blue.”.
- XKCD comic on open source dependencies.
- Pathmark’s “No Frills” Brand.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.
Links:
- Daring Fireball posts:
- Posts from MG at Spyglass, which you should subscribe to:
- MG’s March 2011 scoop at TechCrunch, “Legends of the Fall, Apple Style”, which correctly called the iPhone 4S moving from an annual June ship date to the fall (where it’s remained ever since), and the first suggestion that “Siri”, a startup Apple had acquired the year before, would be a big part of iOS 5.
- AI labs that might, maybe, be acquisition targets for Apple:
- Anthropic (Claude)
- Perplexity
- Mistral
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (easily the best / most confident website of the bunch)
- Thinking Machines (their website wishes it were SSI’s)
- Steve Jobs, taking Q&A at WWDC 1997: “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try and sell it.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, Tapestry — a universal timeline for the Internet.
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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.
Links:
- Daring Fireball posts of note:
- “Apple Updates iPad Air (M2→M3) and Regular iPad (A14→A16), and Revamps Magic Keyboard for iPad Air”.
- “Apple Announces, With Little Surprise, M4 MacBook Airs”.
- “Apple Announces, With Much Surprise, Mac Studios With M4 Max and M3 Ultra (!) Chips”.
- From January: “Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr”.
- Tapestry: “Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.”
- Craig, on the Iconfactory blog: “Enter Tapestry”.
- Cheryl Cicha, also on the Iconfactory blog: “Tapestry: Past, Present, and Future”.
- Tapestry Connectors — an open, easy (documented!) extensions API.
- Fefes Blog — you’ll have to listen to the show to understand how this is a Tapestry-related link. But trust me, it’s a good story. It starts with this thread on Mastodon, which begins like a great novel: “It’s becoming clear that XML in RSS is the preferred tool of sociopaths.”
- Molly White: “POSSE” (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”).
- Technology Connections on YouTube: “Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think”.
- The Iconfactory:
- Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketchpad for your iPad”.
- Wallaroo — fun new wallpapers every week, for iOS and Mac.
- Tot — we didn’t mention this brilliant little notes app on the show, but I use it every day.
- iPulse — a nerdy system monitor, with Iconfactory fit and finish. Runs in the background even on iOS.
- Project Tapestry’s year-ago successful Kickstarter campaign.
- Andre Torrez’s Tyke, the inspiration for Tot.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis
Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.
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Links:
- Super Bowl nonsense:
- Every play featured in the 1977 CBS "NFL Today" opening credits would be a severe penalty for violence in today's NFL. Video on YouTube; story on Awful Announcing.
- Apple in 2017, [encouraged people to ask Siri questions about the Super Bowl]( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/01/hey-siri-whos-going-to-win-the-super-bowl/ ).
- Paul's post at One Foot Tsunami: "Not So Super, Apple".
- My post: "Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber".
- "Gulf of Mexico" nonsense:
- Daring Fireball: "Golfo del Gringo Loco".
- Paul, thoughtfully: "Do Not Obey in Advance".
- "Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 16e Announcement".
- Rogue Amoeba: "The Developers Who Came in From the Cold".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac
Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.
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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.
Links:
- Kagi.
- Kagi Blog.
- Kagi Search Stats.
- Kagi Feedback, the Kagi Search issue tracker.
- Orion — Kagi’s lightweight WebKit-based native browser for Mac and iOS.
- Vladimir Prelovac’s homepage.
- Apple’s 1987 “Knowledge Navigator” concept video, which supposedly took place in the “future” of 2011.
- Wikipedia entry.
- Daring Fireball, 2011: “The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos”.
- Wikipedia: “Essential facilities doctrine”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike
Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.
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Links:
- Allen’s blog.
- Allen’s take on Apple Intelligence, so far: “It’s Good for Apple, and Okay for You”. (Includes the Image-Playground–generated derpy-looking images of Allen that we discuss on the show.)
- Forestwalk Labs — Allen’s new startup.
- Allen’s podcasts:
- CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss how Apple Intelligence message suggestions feel “anti-human” on Cortex ep. 161.
- Cursor — “The AI Code Editor”.
- Rich Sutton’s 2019 essay “The Bitter Lesson” (“The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.”)
- AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire”, which ran four seasons from 2014–2017.
- Ellen Cushing for The Atlantic: “Thanksgiving Should Be in October”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.
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Links:
- Joanna on YouTube: “I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots”.
- Joanna’s excellent interview with Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence, which is also on YouTube.
- My commentary linking to it.
- Ann-Marie Alcántara’s Wall Street Journal piece: “When Did Apple’s Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains?” (also on News+)
- Larry David on Siri.
- Voight-Kampff Test.
- There’s a social media thing where people are posting ChatGPT’s illustrations from the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.”
- Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.
- Here’s Joanna’s: Boy Scouts, basketball, cameras, computers, and lots of bagels.
- Here’s an alternate from Joanna.
- The Gruber and Coudal families, leaving Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann
This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it.
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- Previously on The Talk Show, with Merlin:
- Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one)
- Holiday Party 2020 (the good one)
- Yours truly, on this week: “How It Went”.
- Seki Edge nail clippers:
- Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.
- The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, where Merlin first recommended these to me.
- Get them at Amazon for $16. Buy two pairs.
- Kai scissors. Get a few pairs of these too.
- Merlin’s Wisdom Project. Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good.
- Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”.
- Merlin’s Happy Place — a YouTube playlist, comprised of “Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
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Links:
- Yours Truly: “In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement”.
- “Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM”.
- Dan, in a column for Macworld: “The Truth Behind Apple’s Most Unpopular Decisions: It’s Not About You”.
- M4 iMac:
- M4 Mac Mini, now even mini-er:
- Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.
- Dan Moren: “The M4 Mac Mini: Tricks and Treats”.
- M4 MacBook Pros:
- All Souls Lost — Dan’s latest novel, a modern noir mystery.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman
Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.
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- Tyler Stalman on YouTube:
- Tyler’s recommended Photographic Styles recipe:
- Undertone: Amber
- Tone: -50 to -60
- Color: 20
- Palette: 100
- JPEG XL.
- Steven Soderbergh has shot two feature films on iPhones:
- Robert Rodriguez:
- El Mariachi — his debut feature film, shot for just $7,000 in 1992.
- Desperado — his big-budget 1995 sequel, starring Antonio Banderas and Selma Hayek.
- Rebel Without a Crew — Rodriguez’s book on the making of El Mariachi.
- Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost.
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Links:
- Ten years of Six Colors.
- Take Control of Photos (updated for iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Sequoia).
- KQED: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A’s at Last Game in Oakland.
- A’s fan who was at their first game in Oakland in 1968, and their final game last week.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.
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- Nilay’s review of the iPhone 16 Pro.
- Also from Nilay: “Let’s Compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s Definitions of ‘a Photo’”.
- Yours Truly’s iPhones 16 review.
- Also from truly: “The Things They Carried” (thoughts and observations on Apple’s event).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard
Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.
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Links:
- Political Wire.
- Greymatter — open source blogging software by Noah Grey, released in 2000.
- Mark Pilgrim, back in 2002: “History of the RSS Fork”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller
Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple's DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.
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Links:
- Chance Miller on Threads.
- Apple's August DMA compliance tweaks announcement.
- iOS 18 adding default app controls for messaging, phone calls, navigation, and more in the EU.
- Everthing Chance knows about the iPhone 16 "capture button".
- 9to5Mac report on expected iPhone 16 colors.
- Preview of expected announcements the September Apple event.
- 9to5Mac Happy Hour's 500th episode.
- Becca Farsace's great day-in-the-life profile of iJustine.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren (a.k.a. "Mary Brown") returns to the show. Topics include Apple's new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.
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Links:
- “On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple” by Gil Amelio.
- Steve Jobs introduces the Mac OS X Dock — and the purple “single window mode” button — at MWSF 2000.
- Coverage of zombie TUAW and Christina's AI-generated alter ego:
- Christina, announcing the scam on Threads, and on Mastodon, both of which resulted in interesting threads.
- Karissa Bell at Engadget: "[Apple Blog TUAW Returns as an AI Content Farm](Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm)".
- Jason Koebler at 404 Media: “Hocked TUAW”.
- The Verge: “Early Apple Tech Bloggers Are Shocked to Find Their Name and Work Have Been AI-Zombified”.
- Ernie Smith, deducing that the new owner of TUAW is Haider Ali Khan, and that he also bought the ilounge.com domain name.
- A very much NSFW tweet testing Apple Intelligence's familiarity with current slang.
- MTV News shut down and the jerks at Paramount pulled the plug on their decades-long archive.
- Brett Terpstra.
- Ernie Smith, author of Tedium and creator of udm14.com, a single-serving site that shows you how to make Google's "web" view your default for search.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas
Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike fiasco, and the closing of the iconic Mirage resort in Las Vegas.
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Links:
- Vegas Mate.
- Hunter Hillegas on Mastodon.
- Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last”
- Leonard Rosenthol.
- OSA Menu.
- Unsanity Haxies.
- Marco Arment talking about Overcast’s big new version on ATP.
- 2009 “60 Minutes” profile of Steve Wynn.
- 1991 in-room video for Mirage guests, narrated by Steve Wynn.
- Steve Wynn’s daughter’s kidnapping in 1993. Would make for a great movie.
- How the kidnapper was caught, trying to buy a Ferrari with cash.
- “The Conjuring of The Mirage” — terrific feature for Vegas Seven by David G. Schwartz marking the 25th anniversary of The Mirage in 2014.
- Inside The Villas at The Mirage.
- The renovated Linai at The Mirage.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.
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Links:
- Godzilla Minus One
- “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”
- “Counterpart” — The best show you’ve maybe never heard of
- “Dark Matter”
- “Severance”
- “Foundation”
- “Presumed Innocent”
- “Palm Royale”
- “Masters of the Air”
- “Sugar”
- “For All Mankind”
- “Silo”
- “Shrinking”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson
Quinn Nelson, esteemed host of Snazzy Labs, returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.
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- Quinn tries to open a second window from the same app with Stage Manager on iPadOS.
- Federico Viticci: “If Stage Manager for iPad exists, what’s the point of leaving it in this state for two years?”
- Quinn’s take on the WWDC 2024 keynote.
- Quinn’s review of the new M4 iPad Pros.
- Quinn’s “animoji karaoke” viral iPhone X video from 2017.
- My M4 iPad Pro review from last month.
- DaVinci Resolve for iPad.
- 2013 acquisition news: Dropbox acquired Mailbox.
- The late Larry Tesler, rightfully credited as the inventor of cut-copy-paste, and who was so opposed to modal UIs that both his license plate and domain name were “NOMODES”.
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak
Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.
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401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.
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Links:
- Daylight’s DC-1 “new kind of computer”.
- My thoughts on Night Shift and its purported sleep/health benefits.
- The wrap-around-your-neck Glocusent Bendable Book Light, $20 at Amazon.
- Quinn Nelson on using iPadOS: “Maybe I’m just an idiot, but I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to manage multiple window instances from within Stage Manager.” Baffling.
- Also from Quinn Nelson: the subtle photorealistic reflection of an Apple Pencil on the new iPad Pros. Delightful.
- Jason Snell’s 2022 post about his deconstructed Magic Keyboard Touch ID button.
- The Iconfactory:
- Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketchpad for your iPad”.
- Wallaroo — fun new wallpapers every week, for iOS and Mac.
- Tot — we didn’t mention this brilliant little notes app on the show, but I use it every day.
- iPulse — a nerdy system monitor, with Iconfactory fit and finish. Runs in the background even on iOS.
- Project Tapestry: Iconfactory’s Kickstarter-funded project to build “a universal timeline for the Internet”.
- Loren Brichter’s 2020 “Chrome Is Bad” website, documenting genuinely mysterious Mac system performance issues that went away simply by uninstalling Chrome.
- Kotoba — “the best iOS dictionary app you’ve never heard of”, from Craig Hockenberry, Will Hains, and yours truly.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler
399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci
Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.
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Links:
- Federico's "MacPad" -- the "hybrid mac-ipad laptop and tablet that apple won’t make".
- Samsung DeX -- use your phone as a desktop computer.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
398: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz
The one and only John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the relative dearth of original content for Vision Pro, WWDC rumors and guesses, and, yes, a wee bit about Apple's regulatory/antitrust tribulations.
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- MacRumors: "Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid".
- Foldable iPhone: Maybe in 2027, or maybe never.
- Moltz's "This Week in Apple" column at Six Colors.
- Joz's "It's going to be Absolutely Incredible" tweet hinting at AI-related WWDC announcements.
- Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.
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Links:
- Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction”.
- Yours truly:
- Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
- Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022.
- Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging.
- ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline”.
- Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter.
- The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
396: ‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard
Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.
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Links:
- Weather Up.
- On the App Store.
- Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.
- RevenueCat.
- Sub Club Podcast.
- “How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.
- Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).
- March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
- WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
- Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.
- Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.
- Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.
- City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
- Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
- David, in a blog post from 2011: "Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products".
- David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta's average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple's €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
395: ‘I’m a Real-World Man’, With Adam Lisagor
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.
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Links:
- My review of Vision Pro.
- My follow-up: "Simple Tricks and Nonsense".
- Sandwich.
- Newton Connection Kit.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
394: ‘An Impossible Balcony’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter The Obsessor -- returns to the show to talk about -- what else? -- the Vision Pro.
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Links:
- My review of the Vision Pro.
- Techmeme's roundup of reviews.
- The Obsessor.
- TipTop.
- The Atari 400, with the most craptacular keyboard I've ever used.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
393: ‘An Asterisk on the Bento Box’, With Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include the Apple-Masimo patent dispute over Apple Watch blood oxygen sensors, the new External Payment Links entitlement for the App Store, and more.
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Links:
- "Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps".
- "Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand".
- "Apple’s Workaround for the ITC’s Import Ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2: Disabling the Blood-Oxygen Sensor in Software".
- "Masimo CEO on Apple Watch Blood-Oxygen Sensor: ‘I Really Feel Wholeheartedly That Consumers Are Better Off Without It’".
- "More on Apple’s Software Workaround for the Apple Watch Import Ban".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
392: ‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss
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Links:
- TMDB: The Movie Database.
- IMDB.
- Callsheet:
- Apple: “Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone”.
- “Capture” button.
- Tyler Stalman:
- Deconstructing Apple’s “shot on iPhone” keynote.
- The Stalman Clamp, a hardware clamp for shooting vertical iPhone video.
- “Das Boot”, Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 submarine masterpiece.
- Multi-plane cameras — pioneering method used in early Disney films to produce a sense of depth and parallax.
- Kotoba: “The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
391: ‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa
Special holiday guest: John Siracusa. Special holiday topics: the Apple/Masimo patent dispute over the blood oxygen sensors in Apple Watches, the ongoing Beeper Mini/iMessage saga, iOS 17.3’s upcoming Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple’s new Journal app. Also, an ode to big-ass tower desktops.
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Links:
- Derek Sivers: “Ideas are just a multiplier of execution”.
- Imran Chaudhri’s humble home page.
- The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1 for the good of the world — yet insulin remains expensive in the U.S.
- Destiny’s BEAVER/FLATWORM/LEOPARD errors.
- Twelve South’s new ButterFly 2-in-1 MagSafe Charger.
- NZXT gaming PCs.
- Power Macintosh 9600/350.
- Apple’s new Journal app:
- Apple Newsroom announcement — gives a good overview.
- The current HIG chapter on progress indicators.
- Sebastian Ferrari on the use of “floating action buttons” in iOS, including the handful of spots prior to Journal where Apple has used them.
- Accidental Tech Podcast: A Siracusa podcast I always listen to.
- Reconcilable Differences: A Siracusa podcast I sometimes listen to.
- Robot or Not: A Siracusa podcast I’ve never listened to but probably should.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.
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Links:
- Barack Fucking Obama on Decoder.
- Matthew Panzarino on Decoder.
- Sports Illustrated’s phony AI writers.
- Horace Dediu back in 2011: “The Cook Doctrine”.
- Searching YouTube for “LG vs. GE refrigerators”.
- Nilay’s Pulitzer-nominated investigation into how many wiper blades are on the Tesla Cybertruck.
- Doug DeMuro’s car-review YouTube channel.
- Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC.
- Steve Jobs on how most professional managers are bozos.
- Nilay’s AI-written article: “Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine”.
- Amanda Chicago Lewis’s crackerjack feature story at The Verge on SEO “experts”: “The People Who Ruined the Internet”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera
Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.
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Links:
- Techmeme.
- Mediagazer -- Techmeme's sibling site focused on media news.
- Memeorandum -- Political news, auto-aggregated.
- Gabe, on Threads, advocating for a much-needed posting API.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.
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Links:
- Apple’s “Scary Fast” keynote event video.
- The Verge: "All the News From Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Mac Event".
- Behind the scenes of the "Scary Fast" keynote film, shot on iPhone.
- Stu Maschwitz: "Log Is the 'Pro' in iPhone 15 Pro".
- Matthew Perry’s drunken night out with M. Night Shyamalan -- hilarious anecdote on The Graham Norton Show.
- GitHub Universe 2023.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky
Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide, Spectre, and Orion) and speculate about next week’s “Scary Fast” Apple event.
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Links:
- Lux Optics Incorporated:
- Jelmar Geertsma -- type designer who's collaborated with Lux.
- Baratza's Virtuoso coffee grinder -- I own an older model, but it has the same gross logo.
- Camera+ app pulled from App Store back in 2010 for using the hardware volume buttons as shutter buttons.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.
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Links:
- OverheatGate:
- David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating.
- Ming-Chi Kuo’s one-paragraph Medium post that seemingly but wrongly suggests that Apple will have to throttle the CPU.
- MacRumors.
- “iPhonedo” on YouTube, showing Instagram heating up both an iPhone 15 Pro and year-old 14 Pro, simply sitting idle on a profile screen.
- FineWovenGate:
- Chance Miller: “Apple Weaved Itself Into a Fine Mess With the Awful iPhone 15 FineWoven Case”.
- “Apple Pens Memo to Retail Teams on How to Manage FineWoven Complaints: ‘A Luxurious Microtwill’”.
- Verge story on the high-pressure world of iPhone casemakers.
- Google’s very-textured fabric cases for the Pixel 4.
- USB-C Gate:
- LoveFrom and OpenAI rumored to be in talks on AI device:
- Mr. Do:
- Uber shamelessly breaking App Store rules in 2015, including geofencing Cupertino to offer different functionality to App Store reviewers.
- Evans Hankey’s wonderfully-weathered original iPhone, as pictured in Designed by Apple in California. Proof that you shouldn’t use a case.
- Quora AI thinks you can melt an egg.
- “Linda Yaccarino’s Excruciatingly Uncomfortable Interview With Julia Boorstin at the Code Conference”.
- The iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference, minus the Q&A, alas.
- Jason Snell on the Q&A, where Jobs was joined by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
385: ‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.
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Links:
- My thoughts on Apple’s event.
- My review of the iPhones 15 Pro.
- Matthew’s photo-centric review from Disneyland.
- My interview with Phil Schiller at WWDC 2015: “THE top camera company.”.
- Matthew’s interview with Niley Patel on Decoder, looking back at his 10 years at TechCrunch.
- Lisa Jackson on The Talk Show, back in April 2017.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
384: ‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons
Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro, and his enthusiasm for the future of spatial computing.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestant on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.
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Links:
- John Warnock, RIP
- iPhone charging clickbait nonsense:
- Apple and Disney:
- iMac at 25:
- Jason writing at the Verge: “How the iMac Saved Apple”
- Me, linking to Jason’s piece
- Me, linking to Steven Levy’s 1998 Newsweek profile of Jobs and the original iMac
- Jason’s 20 Macs for 2020 podcast series. You’ll never guess which Mac (rightfully) topped the list.
- iPad as travel computer, or really just a computer:
- “Perfect Bid” — fun Netflix documentary on the guy who beat The Price Is Right
- Bike: Hog Bay Software’s excellent new(ish) Mac outliner
- “Headless Body in Topless Bar”, the greatest headline ever written
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and our favorite features in iOS 17 now that it’s in public beta.
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Links:
- Craig’s weekend fun: updating Twitter’s “How to Tweet” support document to “How to X”. Surprisingly funny.
- Adam Sandler’s “Ode to My Car”:
- “Car honk” radio-friendly version, which really is even funnier than the album version.
- Album version, replete with cuss words.
- The Iconfactory.
- Triode: “The best way to enjoy all of your favorite Internet radio stations wherever you go.”
- The rest of their excellent lineup of apps.
- Furbo, Craig’s blog.
- Morton Downey Jr., “trash TV” pioneer.
- Studio Neat’s Material Docks, perfect for the upcoming Standby mode in iOS 17.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.
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Links:
- Joanna’s Rock ’Em Sock ’Em CEOs, Zuck vs. Musk Edition.
- Joanna and Nicole Nguyen’s investigative series for the WSJ on organized thieves stealing Apple IDs after stealing iPhones and gleaning their passcodes:
- Me and Joanna trying to figure out whether Facebook should make an iPad app or web app next for Threads. (It’ll probably be the web app.)
- Hillary Clinton joins Threads with a joke, and the top replies are civil and fun.
- Paris Hilton’s collection of old — really old — phones.
- Mark Zuckerberg posting on Threads:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
380: ‘The M Is for Magnificent’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.
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Links:
- Panzarino’s first impressions of Vision Pro.
- Yours truly’s.
- Lenticular lenses and screens.
- James Thomson demoing PCalc running as a native VisionOS app in the SDK simulator.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig
Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along with highlights from WWDC 2023.
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Links:
- Craig’s weekend fun: updating Twitter’s “How to Tweet” support document to “How to X”. Surprisingly funny.
- Adam Sandler’s “Ode to My Car”:
- “Car honk” radio-friendly version, which really is even funnier than the album version.
- Album version, replete with cuss words.
- The Iconfactory.
- Triode: “The best way to enjoy all of your favorite Internet radio stations wherever you go.”
- The rest of their excellent lineup of apps.
- Furbo, Craig’s blog.
- X Corp’s crazy-bright fast-flashing headquarters sign.
- Morton Downey Jr., “trash TV” pioneer.
- Studio Neat’s Material Docks, perfect for the upcoming Standby mode in iOS 17.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
378: ‘Live From WWDC 2023’, With John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak
Back in San Jose’s historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2023.
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Links:
Audio engineering: Caleb Sexton.
377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English
Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon and Mac gaming, and Apple’s seemingly imminent XR headset. And definitely not to talk about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Links:
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2013, with special guests Guy English and Scott Simpson. (Audio only — no video back then.)
- Tickets for this year’s show at WWDC 2023.
- SectorC: A C compiler in 512 bytes.
- Wikipedia’s entry on the original Marathon.
- “How Bungie’s Marathon Connects to the Original Game”.
- Bungie’s teaser site for the new Marathon.
- Apple’s MS-DOS compatible 486 Macintosh from 1995.
- Harman Kardon SoundSticks. (In the show, we erroneously attribute them to Bose. We regret the error.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
376: ‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri
Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show to talk about email, Mac apps, and indie software development.
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Links:
- Mimestream.
- Fastmail.
- JMAP.
- Superhuman — $30/month web app front-end to Gmail.
- Hey — 37signals’s email service and app.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
375: ‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell
Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM's dumb decision to drop CarPlay.
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Links:
- Will Carroll at Under the Knife, speculating on how Apple could revolutionize sports broadcasting in VR.
- Steve Jobs introducing the original iPhone.
- Jason on the new Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps for iPad.
- Me ranting about GM dropping CarPlay.
- Mac versions of Apple’s iWork apps lost features in 2013 for compatibility with iOS versions.
- ‘Ford CEO Jim Farley Seems Very Happy That GM Is Dropping CarPlay’.
- My wife’s photo from our seats at Celtics-Sixers game 6.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
374: ‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz
John Moltz, ace reporter from The Daily Planet, returns to the show. Topics include Apple pushing ads through its own built-in apps, car shopping, and the burgeoning Twitter alternative Bluesky.
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Links:
- “This Week in Apple” — Moltz’s new weekly column at Six Colors.
- My piece on DF re: an unwanted and unnecessary promotion for Apple Arcade in the iOS Settings app.
- Chevy is cancelling the Bolt and really wants your data.
- gruber.com, home of the Gruber Motor Company and other fine subsidiaries of The Gruber Company.
- The saga behind “Superman II” and the Richard Donner cut.
- Bluesky:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
373: ‘This Guy Reads a Lot Better’, With Quinn Nelson
Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple's rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.
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Links:
- Quinn's video on Apple silicon and the legacy of Gordon Moore.
- Quinn's video on VR headset and rumors regarding Apple's.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
372: ‘$8 Billion in Late Fees’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss generative AI (and what Apple might soon do with it), iPhone passcodes and iCloud device security, HBO Max turning into just plain Max, and Make Something Wonderful — one more thing from Steve Jobs.
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Links:
- Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen’s “chapter 2” report on the problem of iPhone thieves obtaining your device passcode.
- “Make Something Wonderful”.
- Yours truly on Warner Bros. Discovery’s renamed “Max” streaming service.
- PushPopPress’s “Our Choice”.
- Dr. Seuss’s Star-Belly Sneetches.
- Rene’s YouTube channel.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut
Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.
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Links:
- Regarding my oblique reference to Philadelphia’s water quality scare.
- WWDC 2023.
- Petey — AI chat on Apple Watch, and, soon, iOS.
- Bill Gates: “The Age of AI Has Begun”.
- Red Sweater Software.
- Core Intuition podcast.
- Bing AI’s thought process is formatted in Markdown.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke
Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.
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Links:
- 0sil8.
- Kottke.org’s 10th anniversary, with a retrospective of site designs.
- Stellar:
- Jason’s introduction.
- Miriam Krule’s profile for The Atlantic.
- Archive.org’s archive of the home page.
- Jason’s farewell post, upon shutting it down in 2016. (“I’m not good at quitting things.”)
- The Suck.com origin story.
- Jason’s “Ask Me Anything” solicitation for questions.
- Neolithic weblogs:
- Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom. He coined the term “weblog” and hosted a good FAQ.
- Justin Hall’s Justin’s Links.
- Dave Winer’s Davenet, which started in 1994.
- Dean Allen:
- Cardigan Industries (“At the corner of art and commerce.”)
- Textism, perhaps the best written, best designed weblog ever. (“Make haste slowly.”)
- Dean’s bio, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.
- Favrd.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new HomePod 2; and our favorite electric vehicle maker. Also: coffee.
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Links:
- Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: “A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life”.
- Yours truly, back in 2020, missing the obvious: “Can Thieves Crack 6-Digit iPhone Passcodes?”.
- Advanced Data Protection for iCloud — encrypts more stuff, but won’t protect you from someone with your iPhone and your passcode.
- Marco’s review of the HomePod 2 on ATP.
- Macworld: “This Photo of Lebron’s Record Should Be Apple’s Next ‘Shot on iPhone’ Ad”.
- Marco’s broken (and my own current) coffee grinder: the Baratza Virtuosa, which, alas, has been discontinued.
- Marco’s new coffee grinder: the Ode Brew Grinder Gen 2.
- Kanye West revealing that his iPhone passcode is “000000” on camera, while in the Oval Office talking nonsense with then-President Trump.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren
Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.
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Links:
- New M2 Pro/Max MacBook Pros and Mac Minis
- 2nd-gen HomePod review roundup.
- Dan’s “The Galactic Cold War” series of novels and short stories.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.
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Links:
- Black Girls Code — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.
- From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
- Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
- My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
- The Iconfactory’s other apps:
- Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
- Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
- EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
- Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.
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Links:
- Apple silicon woes:
- Jeremi Gosney summarizing the situation with LastPass.
- Seat 31B: "The Great Southwest Meltdown of 2022". Terrific explainer about how Southwest is different from other airlines.
- Rubén Caballero -- formerly head of wireless technology engineering at Apple; now working for Microsoft.
- Glenn's books on security.
- Stochastic screening.
- "Shift Happens" -- the keyboards book Glenn has been working on with Marcin Wichary since 2018.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act) and Apple’s 2022 year in review.
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Links:
- Daring Fireball: “If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?”
- Rene’s YouTube channel.
- Mark Gurman’s report for Bloomberg on Apple’s work complying with the sideloading and third-party app store mandates in the DMA.
- Freeform, Apple’s new collaborative whiteboard app for Mac and iOS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz
Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.
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Links:
- iPhone 14 production hit by Chinese protests.
- Me, on Twitter-Apple drama and Musk baiting Tim Cook.
- The Washington Post: Musk claims Apple threatens to remove Twitter from App Store.
- WSJ: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
- Macstodon: Mastodon Mac client for 68K Macs.
- “Sleep Baseball” podcast.
- Tim Cook’s gag tweet sent minutes before the start of the 2018 event introducing the iPhone XS and XR.
- Fedifinder.
- “The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime.
- “1899” on Netflix.
- “Dark” — from the creators of “1899”.
- “Andor” on Disney+.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell to score Taylor Swift tickets.
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Links:
- Christina Warren on Twitter, a website that still exists at this writing.
- Bob Iger returns to Disney as CEO.
- Yours truly: “Twitter Tumult”.
- Elon Musk asks engineers for weekly emails with code screenshots.
- Vice: “Twitter Employees on Visas Can’t Just Quit”.
- Disney books:
- Disney War, by James B. Stewart — “The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.”
- Walt Disney, by Neal Gabler — “The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.”
- Speaking of James B. Stewart, his recent epic story on AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition for The New York Times: “Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?”.
- Puck — excellent new subscription Hollywood/media/Silicon Valley news site.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash
Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.
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Links:
- “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
- Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
- Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
- Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
- Glitch.
- The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
- Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
- Anil’s blog.
- Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci
Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in the App Store.
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Links:
- Tell us what you really think, Federico: “Stage Manager in iPadOS 16: At the Intersection of Bugs, Missing Features, and Flawed Design”.
- Chris Lawley on Stage Manager.
- Federico on the new iPads.
- Yours truly on the same new iPads.
- Federico on attending his first Apple media event in person, back in 2015.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.
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Links:
- Jason’s review of the new iPads.
- Jason’s take on the iPad announcements: “The iPad’s Erratic Odyssey Continues”.
- Yours truly’s take on the announcements last week: “The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great”.
- New $70 Logitech Crayon.
- Apple’s $9 USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter.
- Apple’s growing array of iPad keyboards.
- Apple’s eMac — an iMac-like Mac with a CRT display for education that was introduced in 2002.
- Joe Rosensteel on the new Apple TV 4K hardware.
- Good explainer on Matter from The Verge.
- Steven Troughton-Smith’s ideas for improving Stage Manager on iPadOS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).
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Links:
- Stable Diffusion.
- Diffusion Bee: easily install and run on a Mac.
- Midjourney.
- Merlin’s Wisdom Project.
- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix.
- The Offer on Paramount+.
- Do By Friday — Merlin’s weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox.
- Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa.
- Seki Edge Nail Clippers, made in Japan.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
358: ‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis
Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba's 20th anniversary.
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Links:
- Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary.
- The Design of Audio Hijack 4.
- Rogue Amoeba: “Our Upgrade Philosophy”.
- Custom-engraved AirPods Pro cases show up with the engraving on-screen in iOS.
- Yours truly’s Apple Watch Ultra review.
- Remembering “SportsCenter’s Dick Trickle”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
357: ‘Fluent Cupertinoese’, With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.
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Links:
- Nilay's iPhone 14 Pro review for The Verge.
- Yours truly's iPhone 14 Pro review.
- Nilay: "Welcome to the New Verge".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
356: ‘An Unranted Rant’, With Rosemary Orchard
Special guest Rosemary Orchard joins the show to talk about her new book, Take Control of Shortcuts, and the state of automation on iOS and MacOS.
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Links:
- Rosemary’s blog.
- Automators — Rosemary’s podcast cohosted with David Sparks.
- Nested Folders — Rosemary’s productivity podcast, cohosted with Scotty Jackson.
- iOS Today at TWiT.
- Author Danny Goodman, whose Complete HyperCard Handbook sold 650,000 copies in the late 1980s.
- “The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case” — yours truly YouTubing back in 2017.
- “Life finds a way” — Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park.
- Pushcut — “Triggers, notifications, and widgets for Shortcuts, Home, and online automation”.
- WidgetPack — “Create your own widgets with Shortcuts.”
- Matthew Cassenelli, Shortcuts expert and author.
- Chris Lawley’s YouTube productivity tips channel.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
355: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut
Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include a serious discussion about CSAM detection at major cloud storage providers and messaging services. Also, a deep dive regarding the new iOS-UI-style rewrite of System Settings on the still-in-beta MacOS 13 Ventura, and thoughts on SwiftUI in general.
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Links:
- Kashmir Hill's report for the NYT: "A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal."
- System Settings in MacOS 13 Ventura:
- Me, at DF: "The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13 Ventura".
- Jalkut, at his Bitsplitting blog: "Disciplined Innovation".
- MarsEdit 5 will support Markdown syntax coloring. Finally.
- Red Sweater Software.
- Core Intuition, the podcast Jalkut cohosts with Manton Reece.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
354: ‘Get Me to the Fainting Couch’, With John Moltz
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other stages.
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Links:
- Niki Tonsky on Twitter on MacOS 13 Settings.
- Craig Federighi on Stage Manager at this year's The Talk Show Live From WWDC.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber
Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.
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Links:
- Michael Steeber’s homepage.
- The App Store Time Machine.
- Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually, this one using ARKit last year.
- Tabletops, Steeber’s newsletter.
- Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary.
- A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001. Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so.
- Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago, with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond.
- Apple Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore. Just gorgeous.
- Apple Carnegie Library, in Washington, DC.
- Apple Tower Theatre, in Los Angeles.
- Apple Walnut Street, in always-sunny Philadelphia.
- Walnut Street ransacked and burned during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020.
- My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG, for posterity after Facebook collapses.)
- The finished mural.
- Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
352: ‘I’ve Kissed That Mouse’, With Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID and Touch ID, passkeys, and more.
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Links:
- Rene’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
- The M2 MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD has slower read and write performance than any M1 Mac, but only the 256 GB config.
- Daring Fireball: “How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad”.
- Rene’s deep dive on Passkeys.
- Glenn Fleishman’s comprehensive piece on Passkeys for TidBITS.
- Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).
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Links:
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022. Like and subscribe, baby.
- Twitter thread pondering whether reaction to iPadOS’s M1-or-better requirement for Stage Manager would have gotten a different reaction from owners of older iPads if the feature had debuted with the M1 iPad Pros last year.
- Jason’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
- Apple’s announcement of its 10-year Major League Soccer streaming deal.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
349: ‘Live From WWDC 2022’, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2022, in front of a live audience at the new Apple Developer Center at Apple Park.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
348: ‘Joe Biden’s Gum’’, With John Moltz
Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.
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- Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
347: ‘After Steve’, With Tripp Mickle
Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, After Steve, reporting on the last decade at Apple.
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Links:
- After Steve.
- “How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple” — excerpt from After Steve that ran in The New York Times on May 1.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage
Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.
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Links
- Knotwords.
- Zach Gage’s portfolio website, with a full list of games.
- Really Bad Chess, which is actually, of course, really good.
- SynthPod, Zach’s first iPhone app.
- HyperStudio — a classic developer tool like HyperCard, but with color support.
- Apple’s original “Cocoa” — Stagecast Creator/KidSim.
- Zach Lieberman’s OpenFrameworks project from 2010.
- Lights Off — the first native iPhone game, nearly a year before the App Store. (I mistakenly called it “Lights Out” during the show.)
- CandyBar — Mac utility for customizing icons, including, back in the day, the icons for the system itself.
- Threes, a great puzzle game of iOS from 2014. (App Store link.)
- 2048, a free Threes knockoff.
- Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator, and games written for it.
- PICO-8 fantasy console.
- Playdate Pulp, and Bitsy, Pulp’s inspiration.
- Sol LeWitt, conceptual artist.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display’s camera (and this week’s beta firmware update to tweak its quality), how things have gone two years into Flexibits’ move to subscription pricing for Fantastical and Cardhop, and Panic’s now-shipping Playdate.
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- Iodyne: Introducing the all-new Pro Data.
Links:
- Flexibits:
- Playdate:
- Pinball Construction Set.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk's impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple's credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn's new (and much-needed) book, Take Control of Untangling Connections.
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- Hello Fresh: America’s #1 meal kit.
- Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing.
Links:
- “Take Control of Untangling Connections” — Glenn’s new $10 book that explains everything there is to know about USB-C connectors and ports and adapters.
- Glenn’s personal website, with a fun new URL.
- Elon Musk is probably going to buy Twitter and take it private.
- Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column/newsletter for Bloomberg.
- Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, another outstanding email newsletter/column.
- Apple Newsroom: “Apple TV+ Partners With Idris Elba on New Thriller ‘Hijack’”.
- Tim Cook’s speech stating Apple’s opposition to mandatory sideloading.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
343: ‘Fussy Typography Improvements’, With Paul Kafasis
Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about Friday Night Baseball, Rogue Amoeba’s new Audio Hijack 4 release, and a bit of speculation on WWDC.
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Links:
- Audio Hijack 4.
- Audio Hijack 4 Scripting Center — documentation, how-tos, and examples.
- Jason Snell’s first impressions of “Friday Night Baseball”.
- “Friday Night Baseball” commentator Chris Young’s Wikipedia page, with details on the sign-stealing-via-Apple-Watch scheme he devised while playing for the Yankees and Red Sox.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
342: ‘Doggy Lake’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new Mac Studio and Studio Display.
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- Panzarino’s interview with Apple execs Tom Boger, Shelly Goldberg, and Xander Soren, on the thinking behind the Mac Studio and Studio Display.
- TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
- Vin Diesel’s masterpiece, “xXx”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
341: ‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss
Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.
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Links:
- Studio Display:
- Apple’s $40 0.8m Thunderbolt 3 cable and $160 3m Thunderbolt 4 cable.
- MaskerAid:
- The Martini FAQ, by Brad Gadberry.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee
Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.
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Links:
- Glass on the web.
- Glass on the App Store: “No ads, no algorithms.”
- Tweet thread between Marques Brownlee and Adam Mosseri on the lack of an iPad app for Instagram.
- Image viewing comparison between Glass and Instagram.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
339: ‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda
Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
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Links:
- Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
- “Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
- Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
- Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
- DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
- Stephen King’s On Writing.
- Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
- Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
- Job openings at Humane.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
338: ‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.
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Links:
- Apple Support: “Set up home theater audio with HomePod mini or HomePod and Apple TV 4K”.
- AirTags and Stalking:
- 2016 Cult of Mac story on stalking via location embedded in Instagram photos.
- Apple leaks “realityOS” name, again.
- MacRumors: “Reliable Leaker Known as ‘Kang’ Hit With Warning From Apple”.
- Mark Gurman’s February 20 “Power On” column on Apple’s purported March 8 event.
- Rene on M2 MacBook rumors.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.
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Links:
- Apple in 2021: The Six Colors Report Card.
- Breaking down the results with charts and graphs, thanks to Kieran Healy.
- “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction” — Healy’s outstanding introduction to the R programming language and ggplot visualization library.
- Healy’s also-excellent website.
- My personal 2021 Apple report card.
- Keychron Q2 mechanical USB keyboard. My son bought this and swapped out the switches for a set of Zealio V2 62g switches.
- Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource and Audio Hijack — two great Mac utilities that can’t exist on iPadOS.
- Clipboard managers (which also can’t exist on iPadOS):
- Jason Snell: “Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?”
- Upgrade: One of Jason’s plethora of podcasts, this one co-hosted with Myke Hurley.
- Floppy Emu: “a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.” Amazing work from Steve Chamberlin.
- Moltz’s “The Terminator” t-shirt design. (It will not be back.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
336: ‘He Looked Like a Fred’, With John Moltz
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Apple’s record-breaking but somehow yawn-inducing quarterly results, new features in the upcoming releases of MacOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4, the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify saga, and more.
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- Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing (with lots of warm options for winter).
Links:
- Apple Quarterly Results:
- MacOS 12.3 is dropping kernel extension APIs used by Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive:
- New emojis in iOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.3.
- MacRumors: "Hands-On With Universal Control in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3".
- Other new features in iOS 15.3 and MacOS 12.3, including Face ID while wearing a mask.
- Steve Jobs's backdated stock options.
- Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
- East India Company.
- They are, in fact, still a concern.
- Joe Isuzu.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
335: ‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English
Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the Heat, and the state of streaming video services.
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Links:
- “Heat 2”:
- “Heat”.
- Michael Mann’s tweet announcing “Heat 2”.
- I almost plotzed.
- Michael Mann on The Rewatchables in November 2021, talking about “Heat”.
- Roger Ebert in 2010: “Video Games Can Never Be Art”.
- Me, in 2014: “I really wish [Ebert] had lived to see ‘Firewatch’.”
- “The Making of N64 Goldeneye: A 90s Video Game Masterpiece”.
- Rogue Amoeba: Audio Hijack.
- Yours truly speaking at XOXO 2014, on how Google Reader shutting down gave me the idea that has funded Daring Fireball ever since.
- BeOS screenshots — were those just-wide-enough-for-the-title window title bars a good idea or a gimmick?
- Netflix Chicken Littles.
- “Biff” podcast on The Incomparable — “Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English discuss superhero TV shows and movies in the inimitable style that their loyal readers have come to love.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
334: ‘High-Margin Candy Bar’, With Dieter Bohn
Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about his excellent new documentary, Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone -- a history of Handspring and the creators of the original PalmPilot.
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Links:
- “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone” — the full 30-minute documentary.
- (That same link has Dieter’s bonus material, too, including his corrected version of Ed Colligan’s infamous December 2006 quip about the then-imminent iPhone.)
- “The Zen of Palm” (PDF) — Palm’s HIG and design philosophy.
- Palm OS’s Graffiti handwriting system, including an illustrated cheatsheet of the gestures.
- PalmOS devices:
- The Palm Pre — Palm’s answer to the iPhone in 2009.
- TreoCentral and VisorCentral — both sites long defunct, but still available online.
- BlackBerry-esque prototype Android devices from before Google saw the iPhone.
- HTC’s G1 — The first commercial Android phone (a real turd).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
333: ‘Schrödinger’s Feature’, With Rene Ritchie
Apple’s 2021 year in review, with special guest Rene Ritchie.
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Links:
- January:
- February:
- iOS 14.5 and unlocking with Apple Watch while wearing a mask.
- March:
- April:
- May:
- Epic v. Apple court case.
- App Store: The Schiller Cut.
- New Apple TV 4K and Siri Remote.
- M1 iPad Pros.
- 24-inch M1 iMacs.
- June:
- August:
- September:
- “California Streaming” event.
- iPhones 13
- iPad Mini
- iOS 15 and WatchOS 8.
- Kevin Lynch takes over “TitanOS”.
- October:
- Apple Watch Series 7
- M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros
- MacOS 12 Monterey
- Shortcuts.
- November:
- December:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
332: ‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern
Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new iCloud “legacy contact” feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.
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Links:
- Joanna on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week. (Really fun!)
- Gita Mini by Piaggio — the follow-along robot demoed on The Tonight Show.
- “Stuck in the Metaverse for 24 hours” — Joanna spends 24 hours alone in a hotel room wearing an Oculus Quest 2.
- “E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever” — Joanna’s Emmy-winning documentary.
- Joanna’s “new roommate”.
- iOS 15.2’s “Legacy Contact” feature.
- “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone”.
- “General Magic: The Movie.”
- Joanna Stern interviews Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit — video and transcript.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
331: ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.
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Links:
- Who’s who in “Get Back”? A guide to the non-Beatles in Peter Jackson’s documentary.
- Amazon.com: iSi Classic MeshSodamaker for Making Carbonating Beverages, 1 Quart, Stainless Steel: Industrial & Scientific.
- American Giant.
- Bern’s Steak House in Tampa.
- Jamie Zawinski.
- The Sharper Image’s Bacon Express Toaster.
- Helen Rosner in The New Yorker: “Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice”.
- Hal’s New York Seltzer Water.
- “What makes Ringo a Great Drummer”.
- “World’s Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr”.
- David Sims, Letterboxd one-sentence reviewer extraordinaire.
- RoboCop: Blank Check with Griffin & David.
- Amanda Hess in the NYT: “The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles”.
- “Futura and Wes Anderson: A Love Story”.
- Atkinson Hyperlegible — an accessibility typeface.
- Hop Sing Laundromat:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
330: ‘Headline Goes Here’, With Jim Dalrymple
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to discuss the past and future of Apple-centric reporting.
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Links:
- MacCentral circa November 1996, as cached by the Internet Archive. Among the news of the week: the release of BBEdit 4.0.2 and Cyberdog 1.2 beta 2. One of those had a longer shelf life than the other.
329: ‘The Scotland Board of Tourism’, With David Smith
Special guest David Smith returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch Series 7 and the state of WatchOS, Apple suing NSO Group, and more.
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Links:
- David's post about wildcamping in Scotland with Apple Watch Series 7.
- David's excellent apps: Widgetsmith, Watchsmith, Pedometer++, Sleep++, and more.
- Problematic Forbes story: "Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue".
- Apple sues NSO Group.
- NYT: "Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking to Block Its Access to iPhones".
- Skyfall Road Pin on Google Maps.
- Under the Radar.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
328: ‘The Warden’s Dilemma’, With Ben Thompson
Dithering CEO Ben Thompson returns to the show to go deep on the concept of the metaverse.
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Links:
- Ben’s piece at Stratechery on the metaverse and the enterprise.
- Ben’s interview with Mark Zuckerberg.
- Facebook’s 2021 Connect keynote.
- Steven Levy’s interview with Niantic Labs founder and CEO John Hanke: “AR Is Where the Real Metaverse Is Going to Happen”.
- WALL-E’s dystopian vision of compulsive VR/AR addiction.
- Dithering: Two episodes per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
327: ‘Giddy With Mac-Ness’, With Daniel Jalkut
Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros.
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- Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
326: ‘A Very Large Nap’, With John Moltz
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.
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Links:
- Apple's $19 polishing cloth.
- Whoosh.
- The bizarro 16-pack of SIM card removal tools I bought at Amazon for $7.
- Paprika.
- Text Sniper.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
325: ‘The Negative Version of Icing on the Cake’, With Nilay Patel
Special guest: Nilay Patel. Special topics: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, kids today and the file system, the Lightning / USB-C debate, and, of course, our speculation about next week’s “Unleashed” Apple event.
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Links:
- Business Insider feature suggesting Apple’s health initiatives are unfocused. (News+ link.)
- Monica Chin at The Verge: “File Not Found” — how kids today don’t understand computer file systems.
- Float — Aundre Larrow’s beautiful short film, shot using iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode.
- Nilay’s excellent interview podcast, Decoder.
- My review of the Apple Watch Series 7.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
324: ‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media day from Basketball Digest’s best NBA reporter.
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Links:
- Garmin Adventure Watches.
- Daring Fireball: “Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?”
- Jason's iPad Mini review.
- My iPad Mini review.
- Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”.
- Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”, which I conflated with Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” during the show, but about which Jason promptly corrected me.
- “Downstream” — Jason’s new podcast with Julia Alexander.
- “This is Dave from Basketball Digest.”
- “My Next Guest Needs no Introduction”.
- “The PosCast” with Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur.
- New Orleans Pelicans.
- Charlotte Hornets.
- Utah Jazz.
- Giants and Dodgers.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
323: ‘Skeptical Not Cynical’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13 and their camera systems.
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- Panzarino’s iPhone 13 review.
- My iPhone 13 review.
- Panzarino’s follow-up feature on Cinematic mode, interviewing Apple’s Kaiann Drance and Johnnie Manzari, and my comments thereupon.
- A typical good dedicated macro lens: Canon’s $1,300 100mm ƒ/2.8 USM.
- ‘Float’ — Aundre Larrow’s beautiful short film, shot on an iPhone 13 Pro using Cinematic mode.
- Austin Mann’s iPhone 13 Pro camera review, from a safari in Tanzania, and my comments, from my home office in Philadelphia.
- From the DF Archive 2007: “iPhone First Impressions”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
322: ‘It Was More Arial Than Helvetica’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a recap of this week’s “California Streaming” Apple Event: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and new iPads. Also, last week’s decision in the Apple v. Epic lawsuit.
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Links:
- Apple’s event page for “California Streaming”.
- Yours truly’s thoughts and observations.
- Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s decision in the Apple v. Epic case.
- Stephen Warwick’s humorous summary of the decision.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
321: ‘Just a Standard Bird’, With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about last week’s surprise announcement from Apple settling a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. App Store developers, and the various reactions to it. Also, a bit on App Store payment processing, and some speculation on who might succeed Tim Cook.
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Links:
- Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
- Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
- Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
- Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
- Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
- MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
- And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
- Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
- Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
- Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
- The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
- Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
320: ‘Paper Floor Mats’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s controversial child safety initiatives, the tumultuous summer of Safari 15 beta UI designs, and a bit more on MagSafe battery packs.
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Links:
- Monotype Helvetica Now Variable.
- Quinn Nelson's skewering of Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack.
- Anker's superior $55 MagSafe-compatible battery pack.
- Yours truly on Apple's child safety initiatives.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
319: ‘You Called Him Pixel Mature’, With John Moltz
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and Loki.
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Links:
- Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
- Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
- Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
- Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
- Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
- MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
- And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
- Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
- Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
- Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
- The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
- Another post-show correction: there is one MLB team with a friendly bird mascot. (I mistakenly thought they had been relegated to AAA, and regret the error.)
- Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
318: ‘Holes in the Blast Door’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new MagSafe Battery Pack, the Amnesty-International-Led exposé of NSO Group’s state-sponsored phone hacking, Safari 15’s controversial new UI and Apple’s response, and a look back at year one of Apple silicon for Macs. Also: pizza.
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Links:
- Battery Packs:
- The Amnesty-International-led exposé of NSO Group’s Pegasus phone-hacking capabilities and abuse:
- Safari 15’s much-criticized new UIs and Apple’s seeming “we’re listening” reaction:
- Miscellaneous:
- Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck, a Switch-inspired handheld gaming PC
- Brian Heater on Steam Deck for TechCrunch
- Moft’s $29 MagSafe credit-card-sized foldable iPhone stand
- Ooni gas pizza ovens
- Una Pizza Napoletana — the heavenly formerly-in-San-Francisco pizza restaurant where every single pie was made by owner Anthony Mangieri
- Una Pizza is now in New Jersey and Mangieri now makes pepperoni pies that sound amazing
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
317: ‘The NOC List’, With Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the nuances of sideloading, Apple’s antitrust pressures, and a look back at the announcements from WWDC 2021.
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Links:
- The NOC List (Mission Impossible).
- Rene’s WWDC interview with Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck from Apple.
- The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak.
- Rene on sideloading.
- Yours truly on sideloading.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
316: Remote From WWDC 2021 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2021: the all-new multitasking interface in iPadOS 15, on-device Siri, new privacy controls in Safari and Mail, MacOS 12 Monterey, and more.
This episode of The Talk Show is available to watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-SzbucgATjA.
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Links:
- Previous episodes of The Talk Show Live (or Remote) From WWDC: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
- Apple’s WWDC 2021 keynote and Platforms State of the Union.
- iOS 15
- iPadOS 15
- MacOS 12 Monterey
- WatchOS 8
- Shared Health data
- Privacy
- Developer tools
The audio for this episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton. The video was produced and edited by Sandwich.
315: ‘I Don’t Know How to Read’, With Joanna Stern
Special guest: the one and only Joanna Stern. Topics: new iMacs, Touch ID vs. Face ID, remote controls, surveillance advertising, and people who want to make everything a video call when a good old-fashioned voice call would do.
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Links:
- Function101 Remote Control for Apple TV.
- Robert G. Reeves's tweet thread about getting Twitter ads for the brand of toothpaste his mother uses after spending a week at her house.
- "Apple declined to comment on if this is just an elaborate troll at this point.".
- Joanna's latest: "Stop With the Video Chats Already. Just Make a Voice Call.".
- Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi About ATT and 'Superman'.
- Joanna on AirTags vs. Tile.
- Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: "Apple’s New iPad Pro vs. MacBook Air".
- Apple Platform Security Guide: "Secure Intent and Connections to the Secure Enclave".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
314: ‘Obviously Tier One’, With Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)
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Links:
- Accidental Tech Podcast.
- Casey Liss, who really does do a good job as de facto host of ATP, and to whom I probably owe a beer now.
- Overcast — the app you’re probably using to listen to this show.
- My reviews of the new 24-inch M1 iMac, M1 iPad Pro, and Apple TV remote and the hardware set-top box it optionally comes with.
- Marco’s Ratio coffee maker.
- “Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire” — excellent 1996 video game for Nintendo 64.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.
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Links:
- My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
- Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
- Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
- Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
- Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
- MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
- Apple Platform Security Guide.
- Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
- “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
- Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
- Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
- “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
312: ‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod
Craig Mod joins the show to talk about writing, designing, filmmaking, what makes for good software, and building a successful membership program to support independent art. And: pizza toast.
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Links:
Craig’s annual essays about running a subscription:
“Kissa by Kissa” — Craig’s book documenting, in words and photos, “walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.”
“Pizza Toast & Coffee” — Craig’s new short film.
Craigstarter — Craig’s open source project to host your own Kickstarter-like projects.
Craig’s recent essay for Wired on the pleasure of programming, or as he calls it, “coding”.
“Fast Software, the Best Software” — Craig’s 2019 essay on the feel of software tools.
Author Karl Ove Knausgård, who calls his editors each day to read that day’s work to them.
Software tools mentioned:
- Ulyssses.
- Final Cut Pro, which no longer has an “X”.
- Lightroom Classic, the “Classic” part of which feels ominous.
- Robin Sloan’s tweet deleting script.
- Plausible Analytics.
- Fathom Analytics.
- fzf — Command-line fuzzy finder search tool.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
311: ‘Toaster Fridgey’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to speculate about pending Apple product announcements and events. Lots of guessing, no wagering.
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Links:
- WWDC starts June 7.
- Gurman rumor of a rugged Apple Watch.
- Rene’s YouTube channel.
- Rene’s first year as an indie video maker, by the numbers.
- MacBreak Weekly, which Rene now co-hosts..
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
310: ‘Russian Nesting Doll Code’, With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, Apple TV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign.
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Links:
- The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project, now with all three bonus content episodes with yours truly.
- [Apple’s March 21, 2001 press release announcing Mac OS X 10.0’s release, including where to buy it (it came in a box and cost $129)](. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/03/21Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend/).
- Jason in August 2000: “Mac OS X: The Full Story”.
- Jason’s 10.1 story for Macworld.
- Steve Jobs claiming in 2005 — announcing the Mac’s Intel transition — that Mac OS X had set up Apple “for the next 20 years”.
- Jason: “Can Apple Explain Its Home Strategy?”.
- iMac Pro canceled in Friday night announcement.
- HomePod canceled the next Friday night.
- Dan Frakes’s review of the iPod Hi-Fi in 2006.
- Yours truly on Intel’s new “Go PC” campaign with Justin Long: “Intel Goes Long” and “Going Longer”.
- Stickergate.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
309: ‘Pinkies on the Semicolon’, With John Siracusa
The state of the Mac, with special guest John Siracusa.
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- Siracusa’s Mac OS X reviews:
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
- Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
- Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X DP4
- Mac OS X DP3
- Mac OS X DP2
- Siracusa’s entire archive at Ars Technica
- Hypercritical — Siracusa’s seldom-updated website
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
308: ‘Peak Hubris’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about Apple Car, Apple TV, Clubhouse, and Bloomberg hamfistedly revisiting “The Big Hack”.
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Links:
- Daring Fireball posts on Bloomberg’s “Big Hack” update.
- “Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media” by Seth Mnookin.
- Zeynep Tucekci: “Critical Thinking Isn’t Just a Process” — interesting post about reading through the lines of authoritarian doublespeak.
- Marc Newson’s Ikepod watches, ideas which carried through to Apple Watch.
- Rocket — Christina’s podcast with Brianna Wu and Simone De Rochefort.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
307: ‘Soviet Toilet Paper’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.
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Links:
- Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman reports on 2021 Macs.
- Mimeographs.
- San Antonio 10 year old who got 10 shares of GameStop stock as a gift from his mom and made $3000.
- Titanium G4 PowerBook.
- Robinhood overview by NYT.
- Philly COVID vaccination fiasco.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
306: ‘A Total Landscaping’, With Mike Monteiro
Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, The Collected Angers.
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Links:
- Jack Dorsey’s strange, rambling thread on Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Donald Trump.
- Sheryl Sandberg says Capitol riot planning didn’t happen on Facebook.
- Washington Post story on the travails of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Secret Service trying to find a toilet.
- Sarah Kendzior’s “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America”.
- “The Collected Angers” — Mike’s new book of essays.
- Bayard — the wonderful pitch-perfect typeface on the cover of “The Collected Angers”, from Vocal Type.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
305: ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa’
304: ‘2020 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
A look back at one hell of a year.
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Links:
- Reuters ignites long simmering Project Titan talk.
- My take on this Apple car rumor.
- Elon Musk off-handedly quips that he tried to sell Tesla to Apple a few years ago and Tim Cook wouldn’t take the meeting.
- Loren Brichter’s “Chome Is Bad” single-serving website.
- Pitch Meeting: “Tenet” (the best review of “Tenet” you’ll see).
- Rene and yours truly debating whether Macs will and/or should support touchscreens on Rene’s YouTube channel, with the full-length version available on Nebula.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
303: ‘Half of the Bikini Emoji’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about Apple's new AirPods Max headphones and the future of the Mac on Apple Silicon.
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Links:
- Panzarino: “This Is Not a Review of Apple’s New AirPods Max Headphones”.
- Yours truly: “Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max”.
- Panzarino’s M1 MacBook Pro review, with jaw-dropping speed and battery life results from Xcode.
- James Mangold to direct fifth Indiana Jones movie.
- Todd Vaziri on a fun audio Easter egg in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Steve Martin’s “autograph” cards.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
302: ‘Camera Beer Belly’, With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show and we have nothing to talk about. You know, other than the M1 Macs and entire iPhone 12 lineup.
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Links:
- Decoder — new/relaunched interview podcast hosted by Nilay. (Overcast link.)
- “The Pandemic Work Diary of a Podcasting Tech Editor” — nice feature in the NYT on Nilay’s workday.
- The Verge’s reviews for the M1 MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini.
- Yours truly’s review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
- Patrick Moorhead’s “last honest man” style review of the M1 MacBook Air for Forbes, which, just one week later, is not aging well.
- The Verge’s reviews for the iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Mini. And from a few weeks prior: the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
- Yours truly’s reviews of the iPhone 12/12 Pro and 12 Mini/12 Pro Max.
- “Verizon and AT&T Have Vastly Different Ideas About Phone Cases” — Ashley Carman’s 2018 profile for The Verge of Helena Elicerio, Verizon’s phone case product manager.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
301: ‘A Craptastic Craptacular’, With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
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Links:
- Joanna Stern in the WSJ: “Apple’s M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Review: The Laptop’s Biggest Leap in Years”.
- And on YouTube: “Goodbye, Fan Noise”.
- My review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
- Joanna’s and my joint appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Alley, which started the webcam-gate scandal.
- Joanna’s epic breakdown of the best available USB-C chargers.
- Aukey’s adorable $50 90-watt 3-port charger, and their even smaller $45 65-watt 2-port charger.
- Joanna, back in July: “Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your Computer.”
- Camo — excellent app that lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a Mac webcam.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
300: ‘Holiday Party 2020’, With Merlin Mann
Another election. A different result. Let’s talk around it.
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299: ‘Sounds Like a Good Red Sauce Place’, With Special Guest Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS.
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Links:
- The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project.
- Jason’s chart-based speculation on what we might expect from Apple Silicon Macs.
- My review of the new iPad Air.
- Jason’s review of the new iPad Air.
- Jason’s review of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
- My iPhone 12 review, and my event wrap-up with analysis of pricing.
- Dave Itzkoff’s profile of David Letterman for The New York Times, regarding season 3 of his Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”.
298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.
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Links:
- MG on Apple Watch Series 6, and why he swapped Graphite stainless steel for blue aluminum.
- MG on App Clips and the Clip demo of the game Phoenix 2.
- “Apple, Influence, and Ive” — Ben Clymer’s 2018 profile of Jony Ive for Hodinkee.
- The seminal 2018 town hall meeting led by John Stankey, the longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO, that foreshadowed HBO’s decline.
- Christopher Nolan’s work on the 2018 50th anniversary “unrestored” print of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Nolan’s ill-advised decision to force Tenet into theaters amidst the COVID pandemic.
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — perhaps the best film in a great series, directed by Brad Bird.
- Cary Joji Fukunaga — director of the astounding first season of True Detective and the upcoming No Time to Die James Bond film.
- Michael Clayton — quietly great movie by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney.
- DisneyQuest, the aborted urban entertainment center in Philly that Disney never built in the late 1990s.
- United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. — 1948 Supreme Court antitrust case that resulted in movie studios being banned from owning theaters.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
297: ‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’, With David Smith
Special guest “Underscore” David Smith joins the show to talk about iOS 14 widgets, WatchOS complications, sleep tracking, and his App Store chart-topping hit Widgetsmith.
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Underscore’s apps:
- Widgetsmith
- Watchsmith
- Sleep++
- Pedometer++
- And a lot more. Seriously, he makes a lot of apps.
Other links:
- Under the Radar — Underscore’s weekly podcast with Marco Arment.
- Daring Fireball: “Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad”.
- National Weather Service.
- Weatherline.
- Michael Ward’s classic 2004 piece for McSweeney’s: “E-Mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
296: ‘Cameras Every Single Where’, With Michael Simmons
Special guest Michael Simmons joins the show. Topics include the release of iOS 14, widgets and home screen customization, pricing models for indie apps in the App Store era, and, of course, flying robot cameras.
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Links:
- Fantastical’s iOS 14 update with customizable widgets galore.
- Apple gave developers less than 24 hours notice that iOS 14 was about to ship, despite spending all summer encouraging developers to be ready with iOS 14 features at launch.
- Nova — Panic’s new code editor/IDE for Mac.
- Sketch — excellent Mac design and prototyping tool.
- Agenda — excellent notes/planning app for Mac and iOS.
- @mcharo on Twitter customized all his apps with icons of their company CEOs (or indie creators).
- IEEE Spectrum: “Why You Should Be Very Skeptical of Ring’s Indoor Security Drone”.
Mac desktop customization memory lane with Greg Landweber’s utilities:
- Greg’s Browser — NeXT-style column view file manager for classic Mac, worked wonderfully alongside the classic Finder.
- Greg’s Buttons — Control Panel to customize the interface of System 7, turned flat black-and-white buttons into cool 3D buttons. Now we’ve turned all our cool 3D buttons into boring monochromatic flat buttons.
- Aaron — brought the then-future Platinum appearance to System 7.
- BeView — made your Mac look like BeOS.
- Kaleidoscope — the masterpiece of the genre, from Landweber and Arlo Rose. A full-on custom theme engine for an OS that was not designed with system-wide theming as a feature. The golden age of interface customization hacks.
- Appearance Manager — Apple’s officially supported theming engine that wound up shipping with just one theme.
- Info on Apple’s Hi-Tech, Gizmo, and Drawing Board themes.
- August 2000 ATPM story by Christopher Turner on Kaleidoscope and Appearance Manager.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
295: ‘Signing Up to Take Some Vitamins’, With Peter Kafka
Peter Kafka returns to the show to discuss the news from Apple's "Time Flies" event -- new Apple Watches, new non-Pro iPads, and particularly the Apple One services bundle.
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Links:
- “Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets” — Mark Singer’s wondrous profile for The New Yorker in 1993. I just burst out laughing when I re-read this snippet I quoted from that piece for DF.
- The complete Ricky Jay archives at DF.
- Spotify’s statement griping that Apple One constitutes anticompetive behavior.
- The latest episode of Peter’s own podcast, Recode Media, with special guest Ben Thompson.
- Apple’s “Time Flies” event video.
- My thoughts and observations on the event and announcements.
- “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — Apple’s new retro style commercial for Apple Watch Family Setup.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
294: ‘DOS Rot’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Poodles are great dogs. Windows stinks worse than ever. Everyone should watch Ted Lasso.
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Links:
- How to Solve the “Code 43” Nvidia GTX10xx or RTX20xx GPU Problem.
- Me on pricing the “Apple One” services bundle.
- “Ted Lasso” renewed for second season.
- Cabel Sasser’s tweet on kids and software pricing.
- WinToUSB — $30 utility for installing Windows on an external USB drive.
- Avery — the printer label company whose name I couldn’t think of.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
293: ‘I’m More of a Porkins Guy’, With Anil Dash
Special guest Anil Dash joins the show. Topics include the 25th anniversary of Windows 95, and the parallels between the cyber era of computing and today’s App Store controversies.
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Links:
- Anil on Windows 95.
- Jason Snell with the Mac user’s (and MacUser’s) take on Windows 95.
- My take on Snell’s take.
- Microsoft’s Windows 95 “Start Me Up” commercial.
- Francisco Tolmasky’s observation on Apple’s control over iOS stifling innovation.
- Glitch.
- Boscov’s.
- How 728,000 “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” Atari 2600 cartridges wound up in a landfill.
- Vectrex, the vector-display home video game system I nearly pissed my pants to play.
- Classic Mac OS’s curiously-named built-in text editor TeachText and its successor, SimpleText.
- OS/2 Warp.
- OS/2 Frequently Launched Criticisms.
- Michael Sippey demoing TypePad for iPhone at WWDC 2008.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
292: ‘Not the Batman We Want or Need’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Phil Schiller advancing to Apple Fellow, Microsoft’s simmering spat with Apple over Xbox Game Pass and the App Store’s ban on game streaming services, and Epic’s sizzling spat with Apple over, well, the entire concept of iOS as we know it.
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Links:
- Beats 1 is now Apple Music 1 (and the Beats brand is probably not long for this world).
- Apple Newsroom: Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow.
- The Curious Editing of 'Artemis Fowl'.
- John August’s Arlo Finch series, which is unrelated to Artemis Fowl but very cool nonetheless.
- Rene on Apple’s decision not to allow Xbox game streaming on iOS.
- Epic goes to war with Apple over the App Store.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
291: ‘Algorithms, How Do They Work?’, With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show to discuss this week’s House antitrust hearing featuring testimony from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Links:
- Full 5.5-hour video of the hearing.
- Casey Newton at The Verge: “Overdue, messy, and unsatisfying — but also a necessary part of a hugely important conversation”.
- Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and famed character actor M. Emmet Walsh, who was born to play him.
- Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) grilling Jeff Bezos on anti-competitive business practices at Amazon.
- Lina M. Khan: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”. Seminal paper published in The Yale Law Journal in 2017.
- The Verge on the 2010 emails between Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and Steve Jobs that set the rules that keep Amazon from selling Kindle books in their iOS app.
- Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
290: ‘The Least Worst’, With Christina Warren
Special guest Christina Warren joins the show. Topics include the App Store and antitrust, the general crumminess of video streaming service UIs, and historical examples of when Apple gets something wrong.
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Links:
- Steven Levy on the G4 Cube’s 20th anniversary.
- Me on the Cube and lessons learned.
- Report commissioned by Apple comparing the App Store to other “digital marketplaces”.
- Rolling Stone TV Critic Alan Sepinwall: “Who Loses Big in the Great Streaming Wars? The User”.
- Jason Snell pointing out that even the playback UIs stink for a lot of streaming apps.
- Jonathan Mann on Apple (Steve Jobs) deciding to use his “Antennagate Song” to open their emergency press conference.
- From the DF Archive: “Antennagate Bottom Line”.
- “The Innocence Files” — outstanding series on Netflix documenting the work of the Innocence Project, which works to free those convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
- Rocket — Weekly podcast hosted by Christina, Simone de Rochefort, and Brianna Wu.
- Christina on Twitter.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
289: ‘I’m Batman. America. Freedom.’ With Adam Lisagor
Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the cinematic and presentation style of Apple’s WWDC keynote, some post-production details on The Talk Show’s WWDC episode, the tribulations of producing professional videos during COVID-19, and the new sounds of MacOS 11 Big Sur.
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Links:
- Big Sur alerts.
- Big Sur system sounds.
- Prank with a loud computer startup chime in a crowded library.
- Sandwich’s conceived/shot/produced in quarantine video for Slack — working from home to make a video about working from home.
- The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020.
- Apple’s video with Craig Federighi introducing the iPad Magic Keyboard back in March, a precursor to the WWDC video style.
- My eve-of-keynote guess that WWDC’s keynote would look like that Magic Keyboard intro video.
- Apple’s old iTunes “Rip Mix Burn” commercial set in an empty theater.
- Steve Jobs introducing the G4 Cube at Macworld New York in 2000.
- Adam’s delightfully thoughtful thread on face masks.
- John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on coronavirus conspiracy theories.
- Mat Honan back in 2012 on how and why he got hacked.
- California King — the reboot of You Look Nice Today.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
288: ‘It Shouldn’t Be Hard to Get a Smoothie’ With Dan Frommer
Dan Frommer returns to the show for more analysis of WWDC 2020, including App Clips and the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon.
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Links:
- Dan at The New Consumer: “Why Apple’s New ‘App Clips’ Matter”.
- WWDC 2020 sessions on App Clips.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
287: ‘Patina of Usefulness’ With Matthew Panzarino
Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about WWDC 2020.
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- Panzarino's interview with Phil Schiller on Hey's rejection from the App Store.
- “The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak”.
- Apple’s WWDC 2020 keynote.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
286: Remote From WWDC 2020 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2020: the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon, MacOS 11 Big Sur, iOS and iPadOS 14, and more.
Video of this show is available on YouTube.
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Links:
- The WWDC 2020 Keynote.
- Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon.
- MacOS 11 Big Sur — new UI and all-new Catalyst-based version of Messages.
- iOS 14 — home screen widgets and app clips. And, finally, incoming phone call notifications don’t take over your entire screen.
- iPadOS 14 — new handwriting features with Apple Pencil.
- WatchOS 7 — watch face sharing, sleep tracking, and hand-washing detection.
The audio version of this episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
285: ‘Fahrenheit Truthers’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show and there’s no sports talk because there’s no sports. Instead: temperature scales, Joe Rogan and Spotify, and Dithering.
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Links:
- Dithering.
- Ben at Stratechery: “Dithering and Open Versus Free.”
- Me at DF: “Dithering” and “More on Dithering”.
- Me at Macworld back in 2010: “It’s the heaviness of the Mac that allows iOS to remain light.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
284: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ With Adam Engst
Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS -- the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.
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Links:
- Adam Engst: “TidBITS Marks Its 30th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic”.
- “Info-Mac is a discussion forum for Apple users as well as an archive of online content dating back to 1984.”
- The Mac compression wars: Raymond Lau’s StuffIt vs. Bill Goodman’s Compact Pro. I was a Compact Pro man, myself.
- The official Compact Pro website is, amazingly, still up.
- TidBITS issue 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars”. That’s right, 1991.
- TidBITS’s coverage of MacHack over the years.
- My 1994 letter to Andy Ihnatko’s Help Desk column in MacUser magazine.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
283: ‘Some Kind of Sandwich’ With Dieter Bohn
Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.
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Links:
- Dieter’s review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
- My review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
- Dieter’s review of the iPhone SE.
- My review of the new iPhone SE.
- Dieter’s review of the OnePlus 8 Pro.
- Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Ultra reviews.
- Federico Vittici’s Shortcuts shortcut for jumping to the Hardware Keyboard section of Settings.
- Dr. Drang’s pre-shipping estimates of the iPad Magic Keyboard weights.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
282: ‘Everybody Is an Expert’ With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing.
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Links:
- Joanna’s “How to Make an iPad Stand” video.
- Joanna’s review of the new Macbook Air, and her video on the state of laptop webcams.
- My review of the new MacBook Air.
- Joanna’s column (and video) on Face ID’s inability to recognize us while wearing face masks.
- Joanna’s iPhone X review from 2017, wherein she tried to fool Face ID with 3D-printed faces.
- Yours truly back in August 2017: “Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs”.
- WWDC 2018: Apple announces favicons in Safari tabs.
- Webcams Have Become Impossible to Find, and Prices Are Skyrocketing”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
281: ‘A Kryptonian Baby’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about going independent after 11 years at iMore. Topics include the new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and we answer questions sent by listeners.
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Links:
- Rene’s new YouTube channel.
- And his new website. (Great logo.)
- “The Best Is Last”: 2016 piece by Benedict Evans arguing that “a technology often produces its best results just when it’s ready to be replaced — it’s the best it’s ever been, but it’s also the best it could ever be”, using the specific example of propeller-based passenger planes.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
280: ‘The Subtle Difference Between Hand Sanitizer and Vodka’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include the brand new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and, you know, global pandemics in the internet age.
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Links:
- My dumb handwashing tweet from back in 2009.
- Daniel Jalkut’s beautiful song inspired by that dumb tweet.
- Ronny Chieng’s hilarious Netflix standup special.
- My take on the new MacBook Air.
- My take on the new iPad Pros.
- Panzarino’s take on the new iPad Pros and relying on one as his only travel computer for the last 18 months.
- Also from Panzarino: “Half-Life: Alyx Delivers the Watershed Moment VR Gaming Needs”.
- “Do Not Drink”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
279: ‘Chain of Precision’ With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show. Life during the COVID-19 pandemic, WWDC going online-only, Apple's in-person on-campus workplace culture, speculation on upcoming Apple product releases, and more.
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Links:
- Don Schaffner’s thread on the safety of takeout.
- From the DF archive back in 2004: “Dashboard vs. Konfabulator”.
- Google pays Apple a fortune to remain the default search engine in Safari.
- MacRumors: Some Apple Employees Say Company’s Culture of Secrecy Makes Working From Home Challenging.
- “Be fast, have no regrets” — pandemic response advice from Dr. Michael J Ryan.
- Panic’s Audion Story
- Panic Podcast: “Audion and On”
- The Incomparable’s Star Wars listen-along commentary special
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
278: ‘Dot Net Party’ With Federico Viticci
First-time guest Federico Viticci joins the show. Topics include how the coronavirus outbreak might affect WWDC, speculation on a possible March Apple event, the state of iPad keyboard (and trackpad) support, and iPadOS multitasking.
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Links:
- The Information: “Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad”.
- Jason Snell: “Nine Questions About the Rumored iPad Smart Keyboard With Trackpad”.
- Brydge Pro+ — upcoming iPad Pro keyboard with integrated trackpad.
- MacStories-commissioned “iOS 10: Wishes and Concept Video” back in 2016.
- Ryan Christoffel’s contextual-menu-based proposal for iPad multitasking.
- Tommy Walton’s deceptively simple concept for a direct manipulation-based iPad multitasking UI.
- iPad apps with excellent keyboard navigation: Agenda, Things, and Unread 2.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
277: ‘Polish Stink Eye’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Larry Tesler and his “no modes” mantra for UI design, the state of malware on the Mac, third-party default apps on iOS, Apple and the coronavirus outbreak, and a record number of tips and tricks.
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- Larry Tesler:
- Malwarebytes’s “State of Mac Malware in 2020” report:
- Mark Gurman claims Apple is considering third-party default apps for iOS 14.
- How to enable the startup chime on new Mac hardware.
- On Apple’s attempts to stiff retail employees for time spent waiting in bag-check lines.
- The Keychron K2 mechanical Bluetooth keyboard Jason Snell convinced me to buy. (I got brown switches.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
276: ‘Bring It On, Haters’ With Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPad.
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Links:
- DF: “The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10”.
- Ben: “The Tragic iPad”.
- Tweetie for iPad: Loren Brichter’s iPad masterpiece from 2010.
- Ben in 2013: “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong”.
- Average times to brute-force crack iOS device passcodes.
- The feds got Paul Manafort’s encrypted WhatsApp texts from his iCloud backup.
- Ben’s and my favorite iPad drawing app: The Iconfactory’s Linea.
- Obsessive Astros fan upset by scandal logged 8,200 pitches from 2017.
- Randy Johnson tipped his pitches his entire career.
- Randy Johnson faces John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star game and Kruk wants nothing to do with him.
- Kobe scores 62 in 3 quarters in 2005.
- Kobe scores 81 in 2006.
- Kobe scores 60 in his final game in 2016.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
275: ‘Fake Faces’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include iPhone encryption, the privacy implications of widely-available reverse image search for faces, deep-learning-powered algorithmically-generated faces, and Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.
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Links:
This is Jeopardy:
- Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time Tournament.
- Glenn’s analysis of matches 1–3 for Motherboard.
- Glenn’s archive of articles regarding Jeopardy.
- Prisoner of Trebekistan, by Bob Harris.
- Ken Jennings’s excellent Twitter account.
iPhone encryption:
- Jack Nicas’s New York Times column on how iPhone encryption works.
- My link to Nicas’s column, with a few additional thoughts.
Algorithmically-generated faces:
- The Washington Post: “Dating Apps Need Women. Advertisers Need Diversity. AI Companies Offer a Solution: Fake People”.
- Glenn on deep fake faces, last year for Fast Company .
- Facebook removes profiles with fake pics.
Facial recognition search:
- Kashmir Hill’s stunning report for The Times on Clearview AI, a Peter-Thiel-backed company that supplies law enforcement with facial recognition search, built using a library of billions of photos uploaded to the web.
- Nelson Minar on Yandex’s reverse image search for faces, which is startlingly accurate, and available to anyone.
- Screenshot of Yandex search results for my own face.
Miscellaneous:
- Tiny Type Museum.
- Election Ride Home podcast.
- The intense concentration required by grandmaster-level chess burns thousands of calories per day.
- YubiKey 5Ci — 2FA dongle with Lightning and USB-C jacks ($70 though).
- Loyola Maramount’s 1990 high-scoring men’s basketball team.
- Have I Been Pwned? — Fantastic resource where you can search to see if you have an account that was compromised in a data breach. Spoiler: you probably do.
- Kashmir Hill, writing for Gizmodo last year: “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell”.
- The New York Times: “One Nation, Tracked”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
274: ‘Sport Mode’ With Merlin Mann
Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the renewal of U.S. law enforcement officials' disingenuous campaign against iPhone encryption, the Houston Astros cheating scandal, how that cheating scandal relates to the Trump impeachment saga, and Catalyst and the art of Mac software design. But mostly we talk about finding a good pair of slippers.
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Links:
- Trump’s tweet (what else) excoriating Apple for “refus[ing] to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements”.
- Scaring people into supporting backdoors.
- Wired: “Encrypted Messaging Is Essential, But It Isn’t Magic”.
- Merlin on Back to Work, speculating on how many Apple employees today have grown up more on iOS than MacOS, and how that might be starting to shape MacOS:.
- Great video from the always-great CGP Grey: “Should all locks have keys? Phones, Castles, Encryption, and You.”.
- Mack Weldon’s One-Mile Slipper.
- Professional-Grade Crocs.
- Something pretty similar to the coffee filter cone I’ve been using for 20 years (but I only paid like $4-5 for mine).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
273: ‘My Cousin Hans’ With Rene Ritchie
It’s the last show of the decade. Special guest: Rene Ritchie.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
272: ‘The Save Twitch’ With Rich Siegel
For your holiday listening enjoyment, very special guest Rich Siegel joins the show to talk about BBEdit’s past, present, and future, the state of developing for the Mac, and more.
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Links:
- My “Uses This” interview from 10 years ago.
- Andy Baio’s ten-years-delayed “Uses This” interview.
- Rich Siegel on Twitter.
- BBEdit’s public debut in April 1992.
- BBEdit’s 20th anniversary — nine years ago.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
271: ‘A Perfect Wheel’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show for a brief chat about the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, which are both — dare I say — finally available for ordering. Also: Ming Chi Kuo’s intriguing rumors on the 2020 and 2021 iPhone lineups.
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Links:
- Jason at Macworld: “The Mac Pro Is an Important Symbol, but You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It”.
- Greg Joswiak and Craig Federighi on stage at this year’s The Talk Show Live From WWDC, on the price of the Mac Pro’s optional wheels.
- The new Mac Pro has unique keyboard, trackpad, and mouse — black keys/glass and silver aluminum bottoms. It even comes with a black USB-C to Lightning cable and black power cable.
- Marques Brownlee’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Pro Display XDR.
- Justine Ezarik’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Behind the scenes.
- MacStories’ roundup of other Mac Pro / Pro Display XDR reviews and first impressions.
- Ming Chi Kuo’s 2020 iPhone roadmap.
- New iPhone “SE” to be called iPhone 9?
- Upgrade 275: “Remove All of the Holes”.
- The Mac IIfx debuted in March 1990 at a price of $9,900. Inflation adjusted, that’s $19,400 — give or take — in today’s dollars.
- Spectre, the greatest Mac game of all time (come at me).
- The language formerly known as “Perl 6” — first announced in July 2000 (!) — is now Raku. And Perl 5 — the one true Perl — is up to version 30.
- “Kotoba: The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
270: ‘Talking About Crimes’ With Matthew Yglesias
Very special guest Matthew Yglesias joins the show to talk about Tim Cook cozying up to Trump for tariff relief and more.
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Links:
- Tim Cook interview with Brian Williams in 2012 announcing Mac Pro would be assembled in USA.
- Tesla Cybertruck.
- New iPhone 11 battery cases.
- Weeds Podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
269: ‘Maximally Thin’ With Casey Johnston
Very special guest Casey Johnston joins the show to talk about the butterfly MacBook keyboard saga and the just-released 16-inch MacBook Pro, with its all new scissor-switch keyboard design.
Links:
- Casey Johnston on Twitter.
- “Ask a Swole Woman” — Casey’s column for women on fitness and health, now at Vice.
- Marco Arment’s first-look review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a nifty graph illustrating the differences in key travel and spacing of various keyboards.
- Dr. Drang’s gentle improvement of Marco’s graph.
The saga of Casey’s writing regarding MacBook keyboards:
- Oct 2017: “The New MacBook Keyboard Is Ruining My Life”.
- Apr 2018: “Don’t Buy the MacBook Pros Even on Sale, in My Opinion” — Casey sold her MacBook back to Apple.
- May 2018: “Apple Knew Its Computers Were “Defective,” Sold Them Anyway, Suit Alleges”.
- June 2018: “Apple Admits Its Computers Are Broken” — the beginning of the Keyboard Service Program.
- March 2019: Joanna Stern: “Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm”.
- April 2019: “Apple Owes Everyone an Apology and It Should Start With Me, Specifically” — Casey bought a 2018 MacBook Air.
- May 2019: third-generation butterfly design with “material” change.
- Apple’s support document on how to use compressed air to maybe hopefully fix a butterfly-switch MacBook keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
268: ‘With Ham I’d Be Better’ With Dave Mark
Special guest Dave Mark joins the show for a discussion mostly about AirPods Pro and partly about the 2019 World Series.
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Links:
- My first impressions using AirPods Pro.
- iFixit’s AirPods Pro teardown.
- $4.99/month Apple Music student subscription now bundles Apple TV+ for free.
- Bullshit interference call against Trea Turner of the Nationals.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
267: ‘Just the Tips’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the just-released AirPods Pro (and the pluralization thereof), the history of remote controls, the impending launch of Apple TV+, and the undisputed highlight of the 2019 World Series.
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Links:
- AirPods Pro.
- Old-school wired remote controls.
- Initial reviews of the first batch of TV+ shows: lukewarm at best.
- UHF TV stations.
- The Fat Nano.
- “A Purple Heart for Gruber”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
266: ‘iPhone-Colored Glasses’ With Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Google's new Pixel 4 phones, Apple's travails in Hong Kong and China, whether there will be another Apple event this year, and MacOS 10.15 Catalina.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
265: ‘Thompson’s Razor’ With Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the latest Surface hardware announcements from Microsoft, the state of the iPhone, and bulk purchases of charcoal.
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Links:
- The Seattle Times: “Whistleblower: Boeing Rejected 737 Max Safety Upgrades Before Fatal Crashes”.
- Matt Stoller on the disastrous leadership at Boeing after merging with McDonnell-Douglas.
- The biggest announcements from Microsoft’s 2019 Surface event.
- Yours Truly: “Apple and Hong Kong”.
- Ben Thompson: “The China Cultural Clash”.
- Microsoft’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard.
- The old Microsoft Courier prototype.
- iPhone “8S” rumors (a.k.a. the new iPhone SE).
- Luna Display — use your iPad as a second Mac display without upgrading to MacOS 10.15 Catalina.
- MacBook Pro displays, circa 2015, with bad anti-reflective coating.
- Steve Jobs making peace with Bill Gates and Microsoft at Macworld Expo New York 1997: “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win Microsoft has to lose.”.
- Microsoft’s 2010 “funeral” for the iPhone on the streets of Redmond.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
264: ‘Apple Is Not a 4-Star Company’ With Joanna Stern
Very special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s event earlier this month, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, iOS 13, and how we go about writing (and shooting) our product reviews.
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Links:
- Joanna’s review of the iPhones 11.
- Joanna’s second review: “An iPhone 11 Review for Owners of Aging iPhones”.
- My reviews of the iPhones 11 and Apple Watch Series 5
- Steve Jobs on stage in 2010, angrily demanding the press turn off their mobile Wi-Fi hotspots.
- What it’s like to demo a game live on stage at an Apple event.
- “Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm” — Joanna’s incredible column on the MacBook butterfly keyboard saga.
- “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — classic commercial for LifeCall.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
263: ‘The Dumbest Thing Possible’ With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show for a preview of this week’s Apple event.
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Links:
- The New Consumer — Dan’s new subscription newsletter.
- “What to Do When SIM-Swapping Happens to You”.
- Gruber and Merlin: Obsession Times Voice at SXSW 2009.
- The Athletic — great subscription site for sports fans.
- Jon Ostrower’s The Air Current.
- The Points Guy.
- Ben Thompson’s Stratechery.
- Neil Cybart’s Above Avalon.
- The “iPhone Math” rumor.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
262: ‘Freakishly Snappy’ With Brent Simmons
Special guest Brent Simmons returns to the show to talk about NetNewsWire 5.0, the state of the Mac, and more.
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Links:
- NetNewsWire 5.0.
- Using Apple Cash to pay your Apple Card balance.
- Don West selling baseball cards on Home Shopping Network.
- Will Ferrell as Don West on SNL.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
261: ‘Contact Heineken’ With Jim Dalrymple
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include Apple Card and the latest rumors on Apple’s upcoming product announcements.
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Links:
- Snap Kitchen Red Pepper Egg Bites.
- NetNewsWire 5.
- Mark Gurman on Apple’s fall products.
- 2005 iPod Nano that scratched easily.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
260: ‘A Clear Eyed Look at Dishwashers’ With John Siracusa
Special guest John Siracusa finally returns to the show. Topics include the Siri voice recording fiasco, Siracusa’s epic Mac OS X reviews, and making good ice.
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Links:
- “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa.
- The Guardian: “Apple Contractors ‘Regularly Hear Confidential Details’ on Siri Recordings”.
- TechCrunch: “Apple Suspends Siri Response Grading in Response to Privacy Concerns”.
- The Verge: “Apple Stops Letting Contractors Listen to Siri Voice Recordings and Will Offer Opt-Out Later”.
- Amazon’s Alexa FAQ.
- Steve Jobs on privacy at the D8 conference in 2010.
- Apple is now cryptographically verifying battery replacements.
- Apple posts ASMR videos to YouTube.
- David Pogue column on software Easter eggs.
- John talks to Merlin Mann about buying a new refrigerator on their podcast, Reconcilable Differences.
- QuarkXPress Easter egg.
- James Thompson’s Easter egg talk.
- Tovolo King Cube ice cube tray.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
259: ‘Start a Bakin’ Timer’ With Marco Arment
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include MacBook Pro rumors, breakfast cereal, Siri frustrations, and more.
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Links:
- Jason Snell on the rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro.
- Mr. T breakfast cereal.
- Craig Mod: ‘Fast Software, the Best Software’.
- Rolls MS111 silence switch.
- Bloomberg report on Apple getting into subscription-based original podcasts.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Marco Arment.
258: ‘Pousse-Café’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show for a mid-summer Q&A episode, answering actual questions from actual listeners.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
257: ‘A Beautiful Sandwich’ With Daniel Jalkut
Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include app notarization, nonconsensual technology (including Zoom, Dropbox, and Superhuman), and more.
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- Yours truly: “Superhuman and Email Privacy”.
- Jalkut: “A Real Gatekeeper”.
- Core Intuition — Jalkut’s podcast with Manton Reese.
- MarsEdit.
- Black Ink.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
256: ‘A Bit Too Thin’ With Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Jony Ive’s departure from Apple.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
255: ‘Zap the PRAM’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include everything announced at WWDC: SwiftUI, Catalyst, and all the new features in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and tvOS.
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Links:
- The Talk Show Live
- SwiftUI and Catalyst
- Jason’s interview with Apple’s Wiley Hodges and Josh Shaffer regarding Catalyst and SwiftUI
- Jason in Macworld: “Apple executes its invisible transition strategy”.
- Ferrite developer thread on how porting via Catalyst won’t be all that easy or quick.
- Federighi on CNET, claiming Apple’s own Catalyst apps will improve.
- Spectre.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
254: Live From WWDC 2019 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theater in San Jose on Tuesday, 4 June 2019, John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2019: the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, MacOS 10.15 Catalina, iOS 13, iPadOS, SwiftUI and Catalyst, and more.
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- Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote
- Crazy Apple Rumors, from 2002: “Mac OS 9 Resuscitated By Quick-Thinking Developers”.
Audio editing by Caleb Sexton. Cover photo by John Siracusa.
253: ‘An Italicized “Finally”’ With Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look at what we expect — and hope — to see from Apple at WWDC next week.
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Links
- The Macalope: “AirPods Are the Bane of All Existence”.
- On the Recyclability of AirPods
- “Understanding Bitcode for iOS Applications”.
- A few leaked iOS 13 screenshots.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
252: ‘The Dustin Egress Problem’ With Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic From Panic
Special guests Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic join the show to talk about Playdate, Panic’s exciting and surprising new handheld gaming system.
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Links
- Playdate’s fun WebGL-backed website.
- The Playdate media site, with ARKit models for iPhone and iPad.
- Edge Magazine’s cover story on Playdate, written by Jen Simpkins and chock full of gorgeous photography.
- Cabel Sasser’s inspiring talk at XOXO 2013.
- Firewatch.
- Untitled Goose Game.
- Faux-retro ’90s website for Captain Marvel.
- Space Jam’s true retro website, still going.
251: ‘Parking Meters in a Dirt Lot’ With Merlin Mann
Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include sleep and sleep-tracking (with Apple Watch), regional fast-casual dining, the nature of podcasting, and, of course, more.
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Links
- Sleep-tracking Apple Watch apps:
- Apple’s list of standard Mac keyboard shortcuts.
- Vox: “How golf explains Donald Trump”.
- Commander-in-Cheat — Rick Reilly’s new book on Trump.
- Gino’s Burgers and Chicken — a fast food chain from the 1970s that served Kentucky Fried Chicken but was not a Kentucky Fried Chicken.
- 1984 NYT story on Massachussetts’s then-new — and still in place — law banning bars and restaurants from offering “Happy Hours”.
- Philadelphia is incinerating half its recycling.
- 99% Invisible episode on where U.S. recycling often went: to China.
- “The Banana Window” — 2011 episode of the old incarnation of The Talk Show where Merlin joined me as co-host while Dan was on paternity leave.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
250: ‘A Couple of Awkward Swipes’ With MG Siegler
Very special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s original content strategy and a general look at the state of the company.
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Links
- 500ish Words — MG’s blog.
- Oprah Winfrey talks Apple with The Hollywood Reporter.
- SteelSeries Nimbus game controller for Apple TV ($50).
- “Talk the Thrones” — The Ringer’s post-Game of Thrones livecast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
249: ‘Better Than Nothing’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include AirPods 2, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold debacle, the trove of iOS 13 and MacOS 10.15 leaks reported by Guilherme Rambo, and the future of iTunes.
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Links
- AirPods battery replacement from Apple.
- ToothFairy — Michael Tsai’s $3 app for easily connecting AirPods to your Mac with a click.
- AirBuddy — Guilherme Rambo’s $5 utility for connecting AirPods to your Mac with a slick iOS-style “just open the case near the Mac” interface.
- The cheap piece of plastic Mark Gurman inadvertently peeled off his Galaxy Fold.
- The peeling plastic layer on Joanna Stern’s Galaxy Fold review unit.
- Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes.
248: ‘Equally Confused’ With Peter Kafka
Special guest Peter Kafka — executive editor at Recode and longtime reporter in the fields of media and technology — joins the show to discuss the announcements at last week’s “Show Time” event: Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV Channels and TV+.
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247: ‘I Have Faith in the Rice’ With Paul Kafasis
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include last week's Apple product releases -- new iPads, iMacs, and AirPods -- and the de-Steve-ification of Wynn Las Vegas.
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246: ‘Loan It to Nien Nunb’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew “Hondo” Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2019, the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Apple and privacy, the Boeing 737 Max, and Disney’s upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park lands.
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Links:
- Panzarino: “How Disney Built Star Wars in Real Life”
- Web browser recreation of Tim Berners-Lee’s original browser — WorldWideWeb on NeXTStep.
- Apple’s new privacy ad.
- Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol recall in 1982.
- “It’s Time to Break Up Amazon, Google, and Facebook”.
- “Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Apple, Too”.
- Spotify’s “Time to Play Fair” campaign against Apple.
- Movies:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include, but are not limited to, privacy concerns with apps from the App Store, Google’s payments to Apple to keep Google Search the default in Safari, Apple’s Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple’s purported March 25 media event.
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Links:
- These Apps Are Stealing Your Most Private Data and It Should Be a Crime.
- Objective Development’s Internet Access Policy.
- The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America.
- Samsung Galaxy Fold vs. Huawei Mate X.
- Shot on iPhone Challenge winners.
- Should Apple Remove Google as Default Search?.
- Twitter thread on new MacBooks with keyboard problems.
- Adam Lashinsky on Steve Jobs’s parable of the difference between a janitor and a VP.
- LG’s answer to the foldable mania is a second screen.
- Google Blames Bug for Apple Music Appearing on Home Speakers.
- Teleprompt+.
- Panasonic GH5.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include: rumors of new Mac hardware and Marzipan at WWDC, Samsung’s new phones unveiled at their “Unpacked” event, 5G networks, Apple’s purported foray into the credit card business, and more — including Glenn’s “Tiny Type Museum” Kickstarter project.
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Links
- Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule — Glenn’s latest project on Kickstarter.
- “The Old Guard of Mac Indie Apps Has Thrived for More Than 25 Years”.
- WSJ report on Apple teaming With Goldman Sachs to issue a credit card.
- Costco’s remarkable low-fee exclusivity deal with Visa.
- “Gurman on WWDC 2019: Marzipan Marches Forward and the New Mac Pro”.
- “Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?”
- Glenn’s story on Erik Spiekermann marrying digital design with letterpress printing.
- Jack Dorsey on The Bill Simmons Podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
243: ‘The God Awful Truth’ With Rich Mogull
Special guest Rich Mogull joins the show. Topics cover a range of security and privacy-related issues: the Jeff Bezos/National Enquirer saga, laptop webcams, abuse of Apple's enterprise developer program to enable sideloading of iOS apps, Amazon's acquisition of Eero, and more.
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Links
- Securosis — Rich’s security consultancy and blog.
- Enterprise apps as de facto sideloading.
- Daring Fireball: “On Covering Webcams”.
- Micro Snitch: Objective Development’s utility for notifying you of access to your Mac’s camera or microphone.
- Patrick Wardle’s Oversight.
- The 2005 TJX data breach.
- Cliff Sims’s Team of Vipers tell-all on working in the Trump administration.
242: ‘The Butts Incident’ With John Moltz
John Moltz makes his long-awaited return to the show. Three big topics this week: the Facebook VPN app fiasco (and the company’s pattern of ethical violations), the Group FaceTime bug that allowed callers to listen to audio before the call was answered, and Apple’s quarterly results.
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Links:
- Bugs in Group FaceTime Allow Callers to See and Hear Recipients’ End Without Them Answering.
- TechCrunch: Facebook Pays Teenagers to Install VPN That Spies on Them.
- Google Was Doing Something Similar.
- Apple’s Q1 2019 Financial Results.
- Lisa Brennan-Jobs on Craig Mod’s “On Margins” podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
241: ‘More Smarter’ With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the iPhone XR (and the argument that it might be the best phone in Apple’s current lineup), Apple’s new Smart Battery Cases, Apple Watch, and, of course, the new MacBook Air.
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Links:
- New York Magazine in 2016: “Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?”.
- Last Month: “Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement”.
- Joanna’s iPhone XR review.
- Joanna’s MacBook Air review — from a hot air balloon.
- “Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested by a Hollywood Stunt Double” .
240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's horrible no good very bad earnings warning, the Chinese market, Apple's push toward services for revenue growth, antitrust issues regarding the App Store, and more.
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Links:
- “Apple’s Errors” — Ben’s take on Apple’s earnings warning.
- “Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning” — my take.
- “Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”.
- Exponent — Ben’s podcast cohosted by James Allworth — is back.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
239: ‘Proprioceptive Lie’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a year-in-review look back at Apple’s 2018: the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Siri and services, and more.
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Links:
- The C64 Mini.
- Raspberry Pi.
- Vortex Race 3 mechanical keyboard.
- The other “Vortex”.
- The MacBook ARM — video from Rene laying out the similarities between Apple’s 2005 transition from PowerPC to Intel and the seemingly inevitable coming transition from Intel to in-house ARM chips.
- Apple Watch Series 4 detects man’s potentially deadly heart condition.
- John Giannandrea, Siri, and AI/ML.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
238: ‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include BBEdit’s 25th anniversary, the saga of Word 6 for Mac in the 1990s, Mac iOS user interface differences (including an extensive discussion of Mojave’s craptacular “Marzipan” apps, and a few varying theories on what those apps portend), Photos on Mac and iOS, and, of course, keyboards.
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Links:
- Take Control of Photos by Jason Snell.
- Jason’s current keyboard: the Vortex Race 3.
- Apple hardware SVP Dan Riccio on reports of bent iPad Pros.
- Studio Neat’s Canopy case/iPad stand for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
- Fintie Carry Case for Apple Magic Keyboard.
- Jason’s favorite iPad stand.
- John’s favorite iPad stand.
- Microsoft’s Rick Schaut on the saga of Word 6 for Mac.
- My recent take on the Word 6 saga, in the context of the rise of Electron apps.
- Federico Viticci’s top iOS apps of the year.
- HomeBridge — open source utility for connecting non-HomeKit devices to HomeKit.
- BBEdit 25th anniversary merchandise and amusing press release.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
237: ‘Out on Home Video’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include recent blockbuster movies, motion smoothing on TVs, iPhone demand rumors, Apple’s Made For iPhone (MFi) program, and more. Recorded live from The Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado.
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Links:
- Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie’s PSA on the evils of motion smoothing.
- Walt Hickey: “Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Might Be the Best Collaboration in Hollywood”.
- Comcast Xfinity mobile service.
- My review of Apple’s $39 iPhone XR clear case.
- Guilherme Rambo finds clues suggesting new Smart Battery Cases from Apple.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
236: ‘A Vivid Nightmarescape’ With Dieter Bohn
Special guest Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about Google’s new Pixel Slate Chrome OS tablet/laptop, the Pixel 3, Google’s fascinating new Night Sight camera mode, speculation on how Apple might move the Mac to ARM chips, and more.
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Links:
- The late great 12-inch PowerBook G4.
- Dieter's rather scathing review of the Pixel Slate.
- The Verge's review of Google's Night Sight camera feature.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
235: ‘Jony White’s Universe of Objective Purity’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about iPad Pro — the new Pencil, the new amazing new hardware, keyboard options, and the OS that in many ways still feels meant for a phone. Also: the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup, and a plea to Apple to please — please — make the small Magic Keyboard in space gray.
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Links:
- Yours truly on the lack of third-party USB-C to Lightning cables and the future of Lightning.
- Rene’s Vector video on Apple Pencil, drawn with Apple Pencil.
- “Eat Up Martha”.
- Logitech’s $70 squishy AF “Keys-to-Go” slim keyboard for iPad and iPhone.
- Studio Neat’s excellent Canopy case for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
- “Thoroughly Considered” — monthly podcast with Studio Neat co-founders Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt.
- Steve Jobs introducing original MacBook Air.
- Bending iPads — fun video from Snazzy Labs.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
234: ‘Welcome to Dongletropolis’ With Merlin Mann
Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the new iPad Pro and the state of iOS as a work platform, the mid-term election results, and holiday parties of yore.
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Links:
- Affinity Designer for iPad.
- Matthew Cassinelli — former Workflow/Shortcuts engineer now posting great Shortcuts stuff.
- Cassinelli’s Twitter account.
- Jason Snell’s setup for writing on an iPad.
- Deliveries — great iOS and Mac app for tracking deliveries.
- Reconcilable Differences.
- Do By Friday.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
233: ‘North Korean USB Fan’ With John Moltz
You wanted more Moltz, you get more Moltz. Our thoughts and observations on Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the products they announced: new MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, iPad Pros, and Apple Pencil.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
232: ‘I’ll Eat My Hat’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week's Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.
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Links:
- My iPhone XR review and follow-up.
- Strategic Conquest.
- Bolo — networked Mac game from 1987.
- The Secret History of Mac Gaming, by Richard Moss.
- Joanna Stern: “Ugh, Green Bubbles! Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard”.
- Vlad Savov on Google’s imminent Night Sight feature for Pixel phones.
- Research paper and video showing Night-Sight-like results.
- Sam Byford on Chinese phone OSes based on Android.
- Totallee super thin iPhone cases.
- Jason Snell on building a Hackintosh (or as Moltz put it, a Macinstein).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton, who insists he’s going to the grave with a tiny phone.
231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer
Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.
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Links:
- Points Party — Dan’s email newsletter on credit card and airline rewards programs.
- Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack”.
- Custom watch faces by Steven Troughton-Smith.
- David “Underscore” Smith’s retro watch face.
- The Verge hands-on with on Photoshop for iPad.
- The new “Palm” phone.
- Punkt’s minimal MP02 phone.
- Panic’s late great Status Board app for iPad.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
230: ‘Flabbergasting’ With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about the iPhone XS and XS Max. We got so caught up talking about cameras, we never even mention headphone jacks.
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Links:
- Nilay’s iPhone XS review.
- My iPhone XS review.
- Apple’s video from the iPhone XS and Series 4 watch event.
- Twitter thread on Steve Jobs’s amazing (in hindsight) introduction of the iPhone 3G in 2008.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
229: ‘iPhone 🍸’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a deep dive into what was revealed (and what wasn’t) by Guilherme Rambo’s release last week of product marketing images of the apparently-named iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch.
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Links:
- 9to5Mac: “This Is iPhone XS”.
- 9to5Mac: “Apple Watch Series 4 Revealed”.
- 9to5Mac back in 2007, with a pre-release product marketing image of the fat iPad Nano.
- Away’s free pop-out assembly for the battery in older versions of their carry-ons.
- Edward Tufte’s extraordinary books on information design.
- Phil Schiller introducing the iPhone 3GS in 2009 while Steve Jobs was on leave.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
228: ‘Smallen Up the Bezels’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics do include mechanical keyboards, but do not — I swear — include baseball. Also: speculation on what Apple might do with the non-Pro MacBook lineup.
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Links:
- Yours truly asking Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, and Bob Mansfield whether they used the bumper cases at the Antennagate press conference.
- Matias Laptop Pro Wireless Keyboard.
- Das Keyboard.
- WASD keyboards.
- My favorite iPad (and iPhone) stand: Anker’s $11 Multi-Angle Stand.
- Keyboard Maestro.
- Jason writing for Macworld back in March: “MacBook Air: Why Won’t It Die?”.
- Phil Schiller deftly shows how the 13-inch MacBook Pro is smaller than the 13-inch MacBook Air in October 2016.
- Daring Fireball: “Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing”.
- Iconic photo of Missouri Journalism School lecture hall filled with students with MacBooks.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
227: ‘Little Q&A’
Answering actual questions from actual listeners.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
226: ‘Cut That Mustache With Scissors’ With Marco Arment
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion about the new MacBook Pro models and the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup.
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Links:
- Gaffer tape.
- The silicon membrane on the new third-generation butterfly keyboards apparently is designed specifically to keep debris out.
- YouTuber John Morrison on real-world performance of the Core i9 15-inch MacBook Pro.
- ATP on "ThrottleGate" last week.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Marco Arment.
225: ‘Resources Up the Yang’ With Matthew Panzarino
Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the new maps coming to Apple Maps, Google’s project Duplex, and the MacBook keyboard repair program.
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Links:
- Panzarino’s exclusive on the new Apple Maps.
- Apple’s keyboard service program for MacBooks.
- Yours truly on Duplex.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
224: ‘AirPower, What’s That?’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show for a post-WWDC wrap-up discussion. Topics include iOS 12, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Apple Books, MacOS 10.14 Mojave, dark mode, UIKit apps on the Mac, and more.
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Links:
- “Serenity, did you really roller skate around WWDC? You were in dress clothes!”
- Agenda interview with Serenity and Rene Ritchie.
- Steven Aquino’s “Accessibility” podcast interview with members of Apple’s accessibility team.
- Louie Mantia’s Memoji take on “Inside Out”.
- Federico Viticci on iOS 12’s Shortcuts.
- Gross iOS-style dialog boxes in Mojave’s UIKit apps: exhibits A and B.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
223: Live From WWDC 2018 With Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
222: ‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include MacBook keyboard failures, iOS passcode security, Google’s odd Duplex “demo”, Steam Link’s curious rejection from the App Store, AirPlay 2, and, of course, conjecture about next week’s WWDC.
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Links:
- My Twitter poll on whether people use the “Erase data after 10 failed passcode attempts” feature.
- Rene’s video on his MacBook Pro keyboard failure.
- AppleInsider on MacBook service problems.
- Google Duplex skepticism, one last time.
- The return of iPhone 6 Bendgate.
- Apple accepts, then rejects, Valve’s Steam Link app.
- Khoi Vinh: “Illustration in the App Store”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
221: ‘Slathered in Incompetence’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's quarterly results, the discontinuation of Apple's AirPort product line, and more.
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- Ben Thompson on the race to a trillion-dollar market cap.
- Ivan Seidenberg’s claim that Bob Iger carried an iPhone in July 2006.
- Dr. Drang’s AirPort EOL tweet.
- Apple LaserWriter II industrial sales training video.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark: “It’s a date, you eat ’em!”.
- Six Colors on Apple’s growing Services division.
- New York Times piece on Fortnite.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Moisés Chiullan.
220: ‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’ With Jim Dalrymple
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include the litany of problems with MacBook keyboards, speculation regarding why Apple’s AirPower multi-device charging mat still isn’t shipping, Google’s proposal to replace SMS with a new protocol that isn’t encrypted, and more.
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Links:
- The greatest end-credits sequence in podcast history, courtesy of sponsor Vox’s Today Explained.
- Jason Snell’s kitchen writing setup.
- Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard.
- Matias Laptop Pro keyboard.
- “Chat” — Google’s proposed successor to SMS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
219: ‘Top Men’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes profile with Apple’s Pro Workflow Team and state of Apple’s professional Mac hardware and software.
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Links:
- Matthew Panzarino: “Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro Will Be Shaped by Workflows”.
- Apple’s 1990 Mac IIfx, which cost $9-12,000 in 1990 dollars.
- Bloomberg’s story last month about Apple using in-house CPUs for Macs by 2020.
- Layers — a design conference concurrent with WWDC in San Jose.
- Apple KBase article on using external GPUs with Macs on High Sierra.
- Sonnet’s eGFX Breakaway Puck portable eGPU.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
218: ‘Spending Tim Cook’s Money’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about Apple's education-focused event last week in Chicago.
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Links:
- Waypoint EDU, impressive AR app by Matt Braun.
- Video of Apple's event in Chicago.
- Apple's 2012 education-focused event, at the Guggenheim.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
217: ‘Our Name Is Our Address’ With Jason Kottke
Finally. Jason Kottke is on the show to talk about 20 years of writing his eponymous website.
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- Dean Allen: “How to Make Soup”
- Kottke on Dean Allen.
- Yours truly on Dean Allen.
- Craig Mod’s “On Margins” podcast.
- Kottke’s 9/11 coverage.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
216: ‘Podcast Amnesia’ With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Apple and China, the 10th anniversary of the iPhone SDK, the future of the MacBook Air, and more. No baseball talk, except a little.
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Links:
- Script Debugger 7.
- BBEdit 12.
- Keyboard Maestro.
- Craig Hockenberry on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone SDK.
- Lights Out — the first iPhone game.
- John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” segment on NRA TV.
- AR-15 church blessing (not a joke).
- Jason’s Macworld column on the weird current state and future of the MacBook Air.
- A 5-minute podcast with Merlin Mann interviewing Jason Snell and yours truly, recorded immediately after the announcement of the original iPhone, wherein Jason predicts the App Store.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
215: ‘The “Press Real Hard” Era’ With Marco Arment
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion. Topics include Apple’s OS development strategy, HomePod and Siri, the sad state of Apple TV apps, where to get a good cheesesteak, how to boil water, and more.
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- Ina Fried on Apple reportedly changing tack to focus more on quality in software.
- Mark Gurman on Apple’s OS development strategy.
- Steven Sinofksy on Apple’s software “problem”.
- The biggest problem with Siri isn’t the list of capabilities but the reliability of what it can do:
- Nick Heer on the new YouTube “app” for Apple TV.
- Baratza Virtuoso coffee grinder.
- The typographically disastrous Medelco 12-cup kettle.
- Cuisinart CPK-17 PerfecTemp 1.7-Liter Stainless Steel Cordless Electric Kettle — Marco’s recommended electric kettle.
- Alexa’s pro-Eagles stance on Super Bowl 52.
- ActBlue’s The Great Slate — 8 first-time progressive candidates for Congress, each with “a clear path to victory in a poor, rural district that is being ignored by the national Democratic Party”.
- Cleavers Philly — good fucking cheesesteaks.
- “The Menu Bar”: Zac Cichy and Andrew Clark’s re-launched podcast on Apple.
- Mark Bramhill’s “Welcome to Macintosh” — minute-for-minute the best Apple podcast in the world.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, [Farrago](https://rogueamoeba.com/farrago/) (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.
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Links:
- You Look Nice Today: “Aunt Nancy”.
- Unofficial You Look Nice Today topic index.
- Video proof, from yours today, that you can’t spear a Mento.
- The Shirley Temple of Doom.
- Rich Siegel’s excellent presentation at Cingleton 2014 on removing BBEdit from the Mac App Store.
- Is the top of the HomePod a “touchscreen”? We decide no, it is not, rendering this Claim Chowder piece from yours truly wrong.
- HomePod reviews:
- Farrago, Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app.
- Designing Farrago.
- Just The Tip: The Fracture Swap.
- buttholevideo.com.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
213: ‘Don’t Tap the Monkey’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. We talk about the HomePod, the “cancellation” of iPhone X, Steve Jobs and the orange button, and Super Bowl 52. And a surprising amount of talk about dates.
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Links:
- Rian Johnson on The Talk Show five years ago.
- “I’m a fucking immigration lawyer.”
- “iPhone X is cancelled” nonsense.
- Tripp “Claim” Chowdhry’s greatest hits.
- Bethany Bongiorno’s story about Steve Jobs, the original iPhone, and an orange button.
- Nuzzel — a clever app that gives you news alerts based on links posted by the people you follow on Twitter.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
212: ‘Arbiter of Finallys’ With Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about HomePod, clickbait, the Spectre/Meltdown security exploits, and a look back at Apple’s 2017 in review.
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Links:
- Rene with Tim Cook at a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
- Joe Cieplinski on HomePod pricing.
- Business Insider: “I Had an Apple Store Experience From Hell — and It’s Clear There Are Larger Problems With Apple’s Retail Presence”.
- Yours truly: “On Rumors of the iPhone X Being Produced for Only One Year ” and “The Scourge of Clickbait”.
- Saved You a Click.
- Vector, Rene’s new daily podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
211: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa
As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and John Siracusa.
Links:
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns for the penultimate episode of 2017. Topics include the iPhone battery performance-throttling saga, Google Maps vs. Apple Maps, new versions of iOS running slow on older iPhones, the new iMac Pro, iOS file management, and more.
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Links:
- Apple: “A Message to Our Customers About iPhone Batteries and Performance”.
- Apple KnowledgeBase: “iPhone Battery and Performance”.
- Jason’s interview with Greg Joswiak back in 2007 on the original iPhone’s battery.
- Jason on transferring files from an SD card to iOS devices.
- Twitter thread on iOS devices and USB storage.
- Reddit thread on Android phones, including reports from people with older devices with failing batteries.
- Jason and Myke Hurley’s Upgrade Holiday Special.
- Apollo 13.
- Justin O’Beirne: “Google’s Maps Moat”.
- iZotope RX 6: de-noising, de-echoing software.
- Jason’s new iMac Pro.
- The Apple IIc from 1984.
- Font/DA Mover — this is how we installed fonts back in the day.
- SteerMouse — third-party mouse driver for MacOS that lets you set incredibly fast mouse speeds. Good for RSI sufferers.
- Samsung’s T5 SSD external USB 3.1 storage drives.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
209: ‘Blaming a Platypus’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new iMac Pro lineup: gaming, VR, medical use, software development video, and more. Also: a spoiler-free preamble on Star Wars Ep. 8: The Last Jedi.
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Links:
- Archive of Rian Johnson’s appearance on episode 21 of The Talk Show.
- My first look at iMac Pro.
- Panzarino’s iMac Pro first look.
- Rene Ritchie’s first look.
- Electronauts.
- Twinmotion.
- Gravity Sketch.
- OsiriX.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
208: ‘Disgusting Inception’ With John Moltz
John “With an H” Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the ongoing deluge of sexual harassment scandals, our beloved SodaStreams, the Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra root login fiasco, App: The Human Story, and more.
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Links:
- TripMode — Mac utility for limiting/controlling network usage on an app-by-app basis.
- [Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JimmySnyder(sports_commentator).
- The comments that got him fired from CBS.
- No joke: Jimmy The Greek on David Letterman in 1987, talking about Donald Trump running for president.
- The root login bug in MacOS 10.13 High Sierra.
- App: The Human Story documentary film is out.
- The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2014, with special guests Marco Arment, John Siracusa, and Casey Liss — shot by Jake Schumacher and Jed Hurt, director and co-director of App: The Human Story.
- James Bridle: “Something Is Wrong on the Internet” — well-researched essay from earlier this month on the disturbing underside of YouTube videos aimed at children.
- Liz Phair’s killer cover of The Banana Splits theme song.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
207: ‘Christmas Mitzvah’ With Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show for a Thanksgiving-week holiday spectacular. Topics include the history of Markdown, nerding out with Keyboard Maestro, kids today and the computers they want to use, caring about idiomatic native UI design, a look back at last year's election, and more.
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- Various apps mentioned during the show:
- Keyboard Maestro
- Drafts
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- Justin Williams’s now-defunct Elements — the first Dropbox-backed text editor for iOS
- Vesper
- Bartender — a Mac utility for managing all those stupid little menu bar apps
- Vanilla — another Mac menu bar app manager
- Apple Support technote documenting standard Mac text editing keyboard shortcuts.
- [Reconcilable Differences #65](https://www.relay.fm/rd/65 “Reconcilable Differences #65: The Mustard of My Father - Relay FM”) — Merlin and John Siracusa talking about Steam.
- The Elements of Eloquence — the book that explains the implicit rules of adjective order in English.
- Dr. Drang on Excel.
- Last year’s day-after-the-election “Holiday Party” episode.
- PredictIt — Website where you can gamble on election and political predictions.
- Max Temkin’s US Politics Twitter list.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
206: ‘Bed Is Where My Problems Are’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
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- My photo of Bernie Sanders and Bill de Blasio on the A train.
- New York Post video of Sanders and de Blasio on the train that shows me in the background around 10 seconds in.
- 2007 NYT story: “Southwest Airlines gains advantage by hedging on long-term oil contracts”.
- Nilay Patel’s video review of the iPhone X for The Verge.
- Those YouTuber “first look” reviews that came out a day before the real reviews: Highsnobriety and Fashion Magazine.
- Raymond Soneira’s review of the iPhone X display at DisplayMate.
- IHS estimates that iPhone X’s components cost $115 more than iPhone 8’s.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
205: ‘If You Trust Your Twin’ With Jim Dalrymple
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X, which is now in the hands of reviewers and just days away from the hands of customers.
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- Matthew Panzarino’s iPHone X review for TechCrunch.
- Nicole Nguyen’s review for BuzzFeed.
- Jim’s initial thoughts and observations.
- Yours truly’s.
- Jason Snell’s considered review this week of the iPhone 8.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
204: ‘Flaunting That Notch’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show on the eve of iPhone X pre-orders opening. Topics include iPhone X (duh), Google’s Pixel 2 and the goofy OLED display on the “XL” version, Face ID FUD, and more.
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- Jeff Williams: “You can not double plan the kind volumes that we do. We want leading edge technology, but we want it at established technology kind of volumes.”
- PCalc — the best calculator app for Mac and iOS.
- The Verge’s Vlad Savov on the Pixel 2 XL’s ‘awful’ display.
- Horace Dediu calling bullshit on claims that iPhone 7 is outselling iPhone 8.
- Rene calling bullshit on Core ML as a privacy hole.
- Yours truly calling bullshit on Face ID FUD.
- The iOS 11 Calculator bug where animation blocks input on the operator buttons.
- Guilherme Rambo confirms: “I can confirm that the iOS Calculator app is written in Swift.””
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
203: ‘Unused VIPs’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include watches, the problems with the current MacBook keyboards, iOS 11 battery life, my massive windfall from the iBooks antitrust settlement, and more.
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Links:
- Serenity on the 38mm Apple Watch and the lack of smaller smartwatches from other companies.
- Casey Johnston on the current MacBook keyboards.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
202: ‘You Tell Me If It’s a Dongle’ With Joanna Stern
Special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 3, our mutual fear of heights, Velcro, and more.
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- Don’t Call It Velcro
- Joanna’s Apple Watch Series 3 review
- Tiny MacBook Air
- John’s customized suitcase from Joanna.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
201: ‘Much More Smarter’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino joins the show for an in-depth look at last week’s Apple event in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. We talk about iPhone X, iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3, Apple TV 4K, and the new Apple Park campus and Steve Jobs Theater.
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Links:
- Video from Apple’s event last week.
- My thoughts on the event:
- Yours truly making the case for “iPhone ex”.
- The elevator button panels in the Apple Park Visitor Center parking garage.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
200: ‘Episode CC’ With Craig Federighi
Very special guest Craig Federighi returns to the show to talk about Face ID, the perils of live demos, Apple’s approach to designing the iPhone X, privacy, security, and more.
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- This week’s keynote address.
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- The previous Roman numerals gag in an episode title.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
199: ‘Under Rumored’ With Jim Dalrymple
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for a preview of next week's Apple event. We speculate on the naming of the new iPhones, facial recognition in lieu of Touch ID, third-generation Apple Watches, Apple TV, HomePod, and more.
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- Steven Sinofsky on the WSJ's report of iPhone production delays: "Anyone who has ever made anything knows this is simply called manufacturing."
- Hacking an iPhone 7 to add a headphone jack.
- Apple bragging about Siri’s improved voice quality.
- Steve Jobs's epic on-stage tirade about "570 Wi-Fi hotspots" interfering with his demos in 2010.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
198: ‘Prison Oreos’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Daring Fireball's 15th anniversary, fruit fly infestations, clicky keyboards, sandwich cookies, the birth of Markdown, iOS 11's new "cop mode", favicons in Safari, Apple's Project Titan, last week's total solar eclipse, and Jerry Lewis.
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- Justin Scott's "upstream/downstream" advice.
- Wireless Emergency AMBER Alerts have supposedly saved 40 kids.
- Steven Troughton-Smith's new Apple Extended Keyboard II inspired keyboard.
- WASD keyboards.
- Leopold keyboards.
- WASD tester.
- Newman-O’s vs. Oreos.
- DF turns 15.
- This Is How Apple Rolls.
- Cop Mode on iOS 11.
- Mark Gurman’s embarrassing article positing that Apple follows its competitors.
- Safari should show favicons in tabs.
- Project Titan.
- iMessage as an unheralded social networking Goliath.
- Jason’s road trip.
- Letterman to return with Netflix series.
- Jerry Lewis and ‘The King of Comedy’.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn’s new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.
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Links:
- Hands On: The Original Digital — Glenn’s new book on type, printing, and punctuation.
- Vic Gundotra is now a staunch iPhone proponent.
- Apple inadvertently leaks HomePod OS, spilling many beans.
- Apple Removes VPN apps from Chinese App Store.
- Apple Park is mostly open workspaces.
- XKCD: Wi-Fi vs. Cellular.
- Soulver — a terrific app for Mac and iOS that’s sort of a cross between a spreadsheet and calculator.
- Rebecca Slatkin on Twitter.
- Studio Neat Frameographer.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
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- Mexican Coke.
- Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones”.
- Rene Ritchie: “iPhones of Future Past: Understanding iPhone 8”.
- Essential, Andy Rubin’s new company, with an upcoming edge-to-edge Android phone.
- Neil Cybart’s Above Avalon newsletter.
- Yours truly predicting an “edge-to-edge display” in a 2017 iPhone back in May 2016.
- “How Apple vs. Samsung Became a Smartphone Beauty Contest” — Wall Street Journal “news” article by Timothy W. Martin and Tripp Mickle positing that Samsung is a company that values design and Apple is not.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include more follow-up from WWDC 2017, the iPad Pro models and ProMotion, Scott Forstall's interview with John Markoff regarding the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone, the ongoing shitshow at Uber, quick thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, and more. Also: guess which John enjoys throwing babies into the air.
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- Michael Hagain at Lead Fast on the Chinese-made Dixon Ticonderoga pencils.
- Chris Pirillo on iPad Pro, Promotion, and iOS.
- Museum Historian John Markoff moderates a discussion with former iPhone team members Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra and Scott Herz, followed by a conversation with Scott Forstall.
- Episodes of Guy English and Rene Ritchie’s Debug podcast with Nitin Gunatra and Don “No Fucks Left to Give” Melton:
- Navistone — the creepy company that sells a JavaScript library for collecting form data as soon as you type it.
- Chris Lattner leaves Tesla.
- The Outline: “Apple’s War on Leakers”.
- Brian Merchant’s The One Device and the excerpt that ran in The Verge.
- Evidence in High Sierra betas suggests iMac Pro might come with Secure Enclave ARM chip.
- Donors Choose — a great way to contribute money to help teachers buy supplies for their classrooms.
- The Osborne Effect.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
194: ‘Egg Freckles’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about WWDC 2017 — iOS 11, the new iPad Pro models, MacOS 10.13 “High Sierra”, updated Mac hardware and a tease at the upcoming iMac Pro, where Apple might go with VR and AR, San Jose as the venue for the event itself, and more.
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- WWDC 2017 keynote.
- Last week's live episode of The Talk Show, with special guests Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi.
- Doonesbury on the Newton back in 1993.
- Serenity Caldwell: 'WWDC 2017 in Review: The Community Evolves'.
- Lytro’s light field camera: the focus-after-the-fact camera referenced during the show.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
193: ‘Crack Marketing Team’ — Live From WWDC 2017 With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: new Mac hardware, the new iPad Pro, Mac OS 10.13 “High Sierra”, iOS 11, the upcoming HomePod, and more.
A full text transcript is available, by Serenity Caldwell.
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- The WWDC 2017 keynote.
- The new iOS App Store.
- New iMacs.
- The upcoming iMac Pro.
- MacOS 10.13 High Sierra.
- New iPad Pro models.
- iOS 11
- HomePod.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
192: ‘The Original Sin Is XML’ With Special Guests Manton Reece and Brent Simmons
Manton Reece and whisky-soaked baritone Brent Simmons join the show to talk about JSON Feed, the new spec they co-authored for syndicating things like blog posts and podcasts. We talk about their longstanding mutual interest in [Userland Frontier][f] -- Dave Winer’s groundbreaking scripting environment from the early ’90s -- and how that background and their mutual love for publishing on the open web and the democratization of technology ultimately led to the creation of JSON Feed, as well as their other new projects: Manton’s [Micro.blog][m] publishing platform, and Brent’s new open source Mac app, announced for the first time right here on the show. And of course a brief look ahead to next week’s WWDC 2017.
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- JSON Feed
- Micro.blog — Manton’s new publishing platform.
- Evergreen — Brent’s new open source Mac app.
- Userland Frontier.
- Workflow.
- IFTTT.
- Feedbin.
- Seneca: “The Shortness of Life”.
- Yours truly back in 2009: “Twitter Apps Are a UI Playground”.
- Manton’s old Tweet Library app.
- “App: The Human Story” screening and panel discussion at WWDC 2017
- xkcd’s “We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases!” comic.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
191: ‘He Ends Up Fighting Hervé Villechaize’ With Jim Dalrymple
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to speculate about what Apple might announce at the upcoming WWDC 2017: Apple Watch, iPad, iOS, updated MacBooks, Apple TV, and more. Also: a celebration of the great Roger Moore.
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Links:
- Car reviewer Nick Murray on Alcantara, the synthetic leather Microsoft is using for their new Surface Laptops.
- CNBC: Tim Cook spotted testing Apple Watch glucose monitor.
- Marc Haynes on meeting Roger Moore as a 7-year-old in 1983.
- Fred Brooks’s “The Mythical Man Month”.
- Seth Weintraub’s preview of iOS 7 a few days before it was announced at WWDC 2013.
- Bozoma Saint John on Instagram.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Microsoft's announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon's new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple's WeChat problem in China, and more.
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Links:
- Microsoft's Build 2017 Keynote.
- Fish Shell.
- Surface Laptop "luxury" treatment.
- 2007 Apple iPhone commercial.
- Bob Borcher's iPhone guided tours.
- Phil Schiller dumping Instagram in 2012.
- WeChat and the iPhone in China.
- When a ReadWriteWeb article became Google’s top result for “Facebook login”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
189: ‘Long Press on the French Fries’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q2 2017 financial results, the iPhone’s decline in China over the past two years, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick getting called to Tim Cook’s office regarding Uber’s surreptitious “fingerprinting” of iPhones, judging Apple Watch’s success, Hulu’s entry into the cord-cutting “live TV” subscription market (and Apple’s conspicuous absence from that same market), and more.
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- Apple Q2 2017 results:
- Is WeChat a problem for Apple in China?
- Ben Thompson: “Apple’s China Problem”.
- John Gruber: “Apple’s China Problem: WeChat”.
- Connie Chan: “When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China”.
- Other events in San Jose during WWDC week:
- Layers design conference (save $100 with code “martini” or “🍸”).
- AltConf.
- CocoaConf.
- Apple’s “Beyond WWDC” page.
- Scandal of the week at Uber:
- App Store economics:
- Matt Gemmell: “No company has done as much damage to the perceived value of software, and the sustainability of being an independent developer, as Apple.”
- Rene Ritchie: “Indie Development in the Age of the App Store”.
- Hulu’s new $40/month live TV service.
- It sucks that you can’t type common characters like tab and π, ¶, and © on an iOS software keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
188: ‘Apple VP Lisa Jackson’
Special guest Lisa Jackson — Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives — joins the show for an Earth Day discussion of the state of Apple’s environmental efforts: climate change, renewable energy, responsible packaging, and Apple’s new goal to create a “closed-loop supply chain”, wherein the company’s products would be manufactured entirely from recycled materials.
Full transcript of this episode.
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- Lisa Jackson’s bio.
- Apple’s 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report (PDF).
- Recycle your old Apple products.
- Apple’s charming series of animated spots on the environment by filmmaker James Blagden:
187: ‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’ With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics includes Virgin America's sad fate as a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros, "doing work" on an iPad Pro, Walt Mossberg, the absurd bloat of iOS apps, Clips, Netflix and Amazon's spending on video, and more.
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- MG: The Great Laptop Stagnation.
- MG: Death of a Virgin.
- MG: The Squid.
- Columbia Journalism Review's interview with Walt Mossberg.
- Mark Gurman's new weekly video show for Bloomberg.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
186: ‘Good News, My House Burned Down’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for an in-depth discussion of last week's "future of the Mac Pro" round table discussion between a handful of Apple executives and journalists who cover the company. We talk about what went wrong with the 2013 Mac Pro design, speculate on the timeline of when Apple made this decision, why touchscreen Macs are almost certainly a bad idea even though a lot of people think they want one, and more.
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- Matthew’s story for TechCrunch on the Mac Pro meeting.
- Yours truly’s story for Daring Fireball.
- Apple CFO Luca Maestri on using Circle With Disney with his family. (In Italian.)
- Longtime Mac developer Dan Counsell on building a hackintosh.
- Jonathan Hoefler’s posted-to-Twitter critique of a work-in-progress typeface design from Louie Mantia.
- Notability, the app Hoefler & Co. use for annotating typeface designs on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
185: ‘Warmest Regards’ With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the end of The Deck ad network, my weird story about getting kicked out of Amazon’s affiliate program, Apple’s new products announced last week (Red iPhone 7 models, larger-capacity iPhone SEs, the new 9.7-inch just-plain iPad, and Apple’s excellent new Clips app), Samsung’s new Galaxy S8, Twitter’s new reply system, CarPlay getting its ass kicked in a head-to-head comparison with Android Auto, ISPs and Privacy, and more.
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Links:
- Jim Coudal announces the end of The Deck.
- My farewell to The Deck.
- Clips.
- Dan Frommer on the Galaxy S8 taking a bit of the piss out Apple's purported edge-to-edge iPhone coming later this year.
- Dan Seifert’s report on the Galaxy S8, from Samsung’s headquarters in South Korea.
- Viv, the Samsung-acquired voice-AI system from the creators of Siri.
- The 12-year old Daring Fireball post that apparently got me kicked out of Amazon's affiliate program.
- Andy Rubin's teaser tweet.
- Eric Schmidt's tweet promoting Rubin's teaser, on the day of Samsung's S8 announcement.
- Android Auto vs. CarPlay head-to-head.
- Sam Biddle tries to get a telecom PR rep to make sense of their official position on “protecting user privacy”.
- The iPhone Math, Dan’s favorite busted-ass rumor.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
184: ‘Hubbo Is in Decline’ With Merlin Mann
The one and only Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include modern plumbing technology and product marketing, the intricate ordeal of switching from iCloud’s old two-step authentication to the modern two-factor authentication, and the future of voice-driven UI/AI. Also, a wee bit of follow-up on our post-election November 9 Holiday Party.
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- Michael Heilemann: “When did Siri figure out to not activate two iCloud connected devices with ‘Hey Siri’ at the same time?”
- My YouTube video showing how best to remove AirPods from their case.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
183: ‘A Very Masculine Bark’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the Best Picture fiasco at last week’s Academy Awards, Tim Cook speaking vaguely of “the pro area” at Apple’s shareholders meeting, the conflict between Apple’s culture of secrecy and the glaring embarrassment that is the 1,100-day-old Mac Pro lineup, new iPad Pro rumors and our ruminations on tablet vs. notebook hardware form factors, The Wall Street Journal’s seemingly goofy report on new iPhones replacing Lightning with USB-C ports, and the garbage fire that is Uber’s corporate culture.
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- The Best Picture Oscars fiasco:
- Vulture’s deep dive on the Best Picture envelope mixup.
- Variety’s backstage photographic evidence showing how PricewaterhouseCooper accountant Brian Culligan gave Warren Beatty the wrong envelope.
- Andy Ihnatko’s tweet showing the terrible typographic design of the envelopes.
- The terrible design of the “The Winner Is…” cards.
- Tim Cook speaking vaguely of Apple’s commitment to “the pro area” at Apple’s shareholder meeting.
- Curious Wall Street Journal report claiming the next iPhone will replace Lightning port with USB-C.
- Jonathan Hoefler’s Twitter thread critiquing an in-the-works typeface design by Louie Mantia — a great example of how the iPad is great for some forms of work.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
182: ‘AAA Podcast’ With Marco Arment
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include WWDC moving back to San Jose, the latest rumors about this year’s new iPads and iPhones, and the thinking behind the design changes in the just-released Overcast 3.0.
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- WWDC moves back to San Jose.
- Marco on the design details of Overcast 3.0.
- iPhone and iPad rumors:
- FastCo: “Here’s Why Apple’s 10th Anniversary iPhone Will Likely Cost More Than $1,000”.
- KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: “iPhone 8 to Feature 5.8-Inch OLED Display With 5.15-Inch Main Screen and Virtual Buttons Below”. If this is true, this new iPhone (which I do not think will be called “iPhone 8” — I’d guess “iPhone Pro” — will have a radically different aspect ratio.
- 3D facial recognition to replace or supplement TouchID?
- Mac Otakara: Apple to introduce new iPad Pros (7.9-inch (mini), 9.7-inch, 12.9-inch, and a new 10.5-inch with an edge-to-edge display), red iPhone 7’s, and 128 GB iPhone SE at event next month.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
181: ‘Corporate Stiffy’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include: 🐩💨, iPad vs. Mac for productivity (and why the iPad isn’t a self-sufficient platform), nostalgia for System 7, speculation on this year’s upcoming new iPhones, and more.
Alternative title for this episode: 🏢🍆.
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Links:
- DF: “Comparing the First Seven Years of the iPad and Mac”.
- Why isn’t there a version of iBooks Author for iPads?
- Tim Cook, introducing the iPad Pro in September 2015: “The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.”
- Ulysses, a great project-based app for writers, with cross-platform iOS and Mac versions.
- Ken Case’s Omni Group year-in-review post, with a tease at their upcoming cross-platform JavaScript-based automation system.
- Two stories on the same rumor about this year’s new iPhones:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
180: ‘Yay or Nay to Their POV’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q1 2017 financial results (including record iPhone sales and continuing cooling iPad sales), issues with LG’s new 5K UltraFine display (not so fine if you use it near a Wi-Fi router), the tech industry’s response to Trump’s immigration ban, and the highlights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Links:
- Apple’s just-announced Q1 2017 results.
- LG’s new 5K display can have problems if used near a Wi-Fi router.
- Steve Jobs set the goal of 10 million iPhones sold in the first year (1 percent market share).
- Tim Cook’s response to Trump’s immigration ban.
- Google employees rallied against the ban.
- Sergey Brin went to SFO to join the protests.
- Steve Bannon suggested there are too many Asian CEOs in Silicon Valley.
- Movies that debuted at Sundance:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
179: ‘iPhone Is the New Hitler’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the state of the Mac (and our shared belief that it’s death has been greatly exaggerated), the NFL playoffs, Chris Lattner leaving Apple for Tesla (and the general problem of talent retention), ruminating on the origins of the word “podcast”, and more.
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Links:
- “America’s slow but very real decline into a fascist state as told by the Milwaukee Bucks logo.”
- Pittsburgh cab driver says John Elway is the best quarterback in history, not know that Elway was sitting in the back seat.
- Yours truly back in 2005: “Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket?”
- MPW, Apple's classic-era IDE.
- Pastebot, a great new clipboard utility from Tapbots.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
178: ‘Now Banned in China’ With Jim Dalrymple
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for the first episode of 2017. Topics include New Year’s Eve, Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant, Apple’s aging AirPort and Mac Pro lineups, the future of desktop Macs, Apple Watch battery life, and rumors of upcoming new iPads.
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Links:
- Chuq Von Rospach: “Apple’s 2016 Year in Review”.
- My follow-up, specifically on the AirPort and Mac Pro hardware.
- Matt Birchler: “Siri vs. Google Assistant”.
- Dave Mark, on the slew of Alexa-related products at CES this year: “Alexa Is Everywhere”.
- Chris Adamson, on why he just bought a “new” Mac Pro.
- Apple, The New York Times, and China.
- Photos from inside Harry’s razor blade factory in Germany.
- Rumors about upcoming new iPads, including a new bezel-less edge-to-edge design.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
177: ‘Surface Curious’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Siri vs. Alexa, and whether Wynn Las Vegas’s announcement that they’re putting Amazon Echos into their 4,700+ guest rooms is a sign that Amazon is building a meaningful long-term lead in the nascent voice assistant market; Mark Gurman’s week-ago piece for Bloomberg, “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”; Consumer Reports’s bizarre but widely-publicized battery test results for the new MacBook Pros; and a brief year in review look at our favorite new Apple products from 2016.
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- Super Mario Run only needs to be purchased once per iTunes account for use on multiple devices, but can only be played on one device (per iTunes account) at a time.
- Wynn Las Vegas is going to put Amazon Echos in its 4,700+ hotel rooms.
- Wynn has not one but two resorts in Macau — Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace — neither of which can use Amazon Echo until Amazon adds support for Chinese.
- Digital Trends: “A Holographic Virtual Girl Lives Inside Japan’s Answer to the Amazon Echo.
- Tim Cook, in a company-wide Q&A: “Some folks in the media have raised the question about whether we’re committed to desktops. If there’s any doubt about that with our teams, let me be very clear: we have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that.”
- Bret Victor: Touch Bar development started at Apple eight years ago. Follow-up tweets here, here, and here.
- Mark Gurman, writing for Bloomberg: “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”.
- Consumer Reports: “New MacBook Pros Fail to Earn Consumer Reports Recommendation”
- Me: “That’s absolutely bonkers.”
- Rene Ritchie: “Consumer Reports Fails to Earn MacBook Pro Credibility”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
176: ‘Frolic’ With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show with his gigantic fleshy palms. Topics include Donald Trump's highly publicized meeting with a handful of U.S. tech company leaders (including Tim Cook), the release of Nintendo's Super Mario Run for iPhone, Uber's autonomous car that was caught cruising straight through a red light in San Francisco, and Craig's excellent new book, Making Sense of Color Management.
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- Craig's excellent new book, with a foreword by yours truly, Making Sense of Color Management, from A Book Apart.
- More from Craig on the story behind the book.
- Uber's carefully-worded PR spin on their autonomous car that was captured on video running a red light.
- Trump's tech summit meeting, and the look on Tim Cook's face.
- Poll shows U.S. Republicans rate Vladimir Putin 67 percent more favorably than Hillary Clinton, and 54 percent more favorably than Barack Obama. (Source.)
175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include indoor plumbing, a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s excellent “Westworld”, our favorite beverages, Apple’s AirPods launch debacle, Apple TV single sign-on, and more.
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Links:
- HBO’s post-Westworld Easter Egg laden site for Delos Inc..
- Ask Siri about “Westworld”.
- “A History of the World in Six Glasses”, by Tom Standage.
- Interesting New York Times story from January on Donald Trump’s brother Freddy, who drank himself to death in 1981.
- Glenn’s review of NewerTech’s $49 NuPower 60-Watt dual USB-A/USB-C charger — a single charger that can charge both a MacBook and iPhone at the same time.
- Tim Cook purportedly emails customer saying AirPods should ship over the “next few weeks”.
- Yours truly on what’s going on with the AirPods delay: unexpected manufacturing problems.
- Thoroughly Considered: the Studio Neat podcast.
- John Paczkowski summarizing the inauspicious partner list at the launch of Apple’s single sign-on service for TV content.
- Farhad Manjoo explains why he thinks gadgets are dying as a category: smartphones, probably.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros (and their keyboards), stockpiling old MacBook Airs, dongles, Touch ID, SnapChat Spectacles, and more.
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Links:
- Joanna’s review of the new MacBook Pros.
- My review.
- Joanna and Walt Mossberg talking crazy about stockpiling MacBook Airs.
- Joanna’s guide to the adapters and dongles — lots and lots of dongles — you might need for a new MacBook Pro.
- Joanna’s review of SnapChat Spectacles
- Mark Gurman’s reports on Apple getting out of the AirPort base station market and Amazon making a new Echo with a built-in 7-inch display for the kitchen.
- Adam Geitgey: “The New MacBook Pro Is Kind of Great for Hackers”.
- Monoprice.
- Griffin’s Breaksafe, a dongle-plus-nubbin replacement for MagSafe on USB-C equipped MacBooks.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
173: ‘Fork the Universe’ With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar, and Apple’s new book chronicling the last 20 years of their industrial design, Designed by Apple in California.
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- Jason’s review of the new MacBook Pros with Touch Bar.
- My review of the same.
- The Glif iPhone tripod mount.
- BBEdit.
- PCalc.
- James Thompson’s Easter egg idea for PCalc’s Touch Bar support.
- Jeffrey Friedl’s Mastering Regular Expressions, the greatest book that ever was or will be written on regular expressions.
- Sal Soghoian’s automation site for AppleScript, Automator, and more.
- My Title Case Script.
- Control Strip from classic Mac OS.
- Bartender utility for today’s MacOS.
- Horace Dediu: “Wherefore art thou Macintosh?”
- Yours truly on Microsoft and the word “compromise” back in 2013.
- Iconic, Jonathan Zufi’s excellent 2013 book on Apple’s design work.
- Designed by Apple in California.
- Taschen, coffee table book publisher extraordinaire.
- Jony Ive’s interview with Wallpaper on Designed by Apple in California.
- “I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
172: ‘Holiday Party’ With Merlin Mann
171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include what we expect from this week’s Apple Event for new Mac hardware, and my impressions of the Google Pixel phone after a week using one.
This week’s show introduces labeled chapter marks for subject matter. If you use a podcast player that supports them, such as Overcast, let me know what you think.
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Links:
- Ars Technica on the Mirai botnet that uses insecure Internet of Things devices.
- Brian Krebs on the Internet of Things botnet.
- Images of the new MacBook Pro Magic Toolbar that leaked from Apple itself as resources in MacOS 10.12.1.
- Darth on the Magic Toolbar and Esc-less hardware keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
170: ‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’ With Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include voice control with AirPods, how to get your entire music library onto an iPhone while using iCloud Music Library, Apple Watch durability, the Dash/App Store controversy, the disappointing and frustrating state of Siri and voice-driven AI assistants, Google's new Pixel phones and the strategy behind them, Snap's (née Snapchat) Spectacles (and why they're nothing like Google's ill-fated Glass), and more.
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Links:
- How to download your entire music library to a device using iCloud Music Library.
- 1991 TidBITS story on NowMenus, a classic Mac OS utility.
- BetterSnapTool, a Mac window management utility Ben uses.
- Clipboard history managers for Mac:
- Draft: web app that’s Ben’s preferred writing tool.
- Fluid: longstanding utility that let’s you turn any website into a standalone Mac app.
- Me on Twitter, posting a photo of my wife’s Apple Watch that fell apart coming off the charger. And then cracking wise.
- Me on the the Dash/App Store controversy.
- Phil Stokes on Dropbox’s abuse of admin privileges and Accessibility permissions on MacOS: part 1 and part 2.
- John Hempton of Bronte Capital on Twitter:
- Walt Mossberg: “Why Does Siri Seem So Dumb?”
- Ben Thompson: “Chat and the Consumerization of It”.
- Charlie Warzel, writing for BuzzFeed last year — “Apple’s Junk Drawer Problem” — under the premise that most people replace Apple’s apps on the iPhone with Google’s.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
169: ‘A Murder of Eeros’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Google’s “Made by Google” hardware announcements (the Pixel phones, Google Wi-Fi routers, their Amazon Echo competitor Google Home), mobile photography, Samsung’s acquisition of Viv, and more.
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Links:
- TechCrunch: “Samsung Acquires Viv, a Next-Gen AI Assistant Built by Creators of Apple’s Siri”.
- Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane.
- Video of Google’s “Made by Google” event.
- Pixel phone specs.
- The DxO One camera peripheral for iPhone.
- Matthew’s 2012 “Hardware + Software Epiphany” tweet.
- The Here One in-ear “wireless listening system”.
- Steve Jobs meets ESPN president George Bodenheimer. Classic story.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
168: ‘You’ve Got the Nubbin’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s new stuff: the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2 (and the semi-new Series 1), iOS 10, MacOS Sierra, and more.
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Links:
- Mat Honan story of getting hacked back in 2012.
- The pain-in-the-ass, don’t-do-it-in-the-wrong-order process of backing up and restoring an Apple Watch.
- iMore: “What You Need to Know About Backing Up Your Apple Watch”.
- Sena cases for iPhone 7. (Serenity mentioned using one.)
- “Who needs a slider?” Example video from Serenity showing how slo-mo video from iPhone 7 can create a smooth tracking product hero shot.
- More slo-mo on iPhone 7.
- Austin Mann’s stunning iPhone 7 camera review in Rwanda.
- Great use of iPhone 7 Plus’s Portrait mode for product photography, by Ayaka Nonaka. This is the “pair of boots” photo.
- My Flickr album of iPhone 7 Plus Portrait mode comparison shots, including this one of a whisky bottle mentioned during the show.
- Serenity’s camera test between iPhone 7 Plus Portrait mode and a Canon DSLR.
- Serenity’s just-released review of Apple Watch Series 2, including a terrific video shot entirely with iPhone 7.
- Noise: iOS piano keyboard app with 3D Touch haptic feedback.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
167: ‘Hey Bruh You Bumped Muh Hat’ With Jim Dalrymple
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show, to discuss last week’s Apple event in San Francisco, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2, and more.
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Links:
- The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders and Johnson & Johnson’s handling thereof.
- Jony Ive says “aluminium”.
- My Periscope broadcast from the hands-on area at the event. Lots of special guest stars.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
166: ‘Way of the Future’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss what we expect to see at Apple’s upcoming event in San Francisco: new iPhones (without headphone jacks, and with a radical new two-lens camera on the Plus-sized model), Apple Watch 2 (and a new fall lineup of watch bands). We also discuss Samsung’s recall of the Galaxy Note 7 (because of exploding batteries), when we’ll see new Mac hardware and new iPads, and more.
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- Apple’s event invitation, suggesting depth-of-field camera effects.
- Rene Ritchie: “How Apple Does Camera”.
- Ming-Chi Kuo on what he expects from the iPhone 7 based on supply-chain sources.
- Tim Cook’s possibly intriguing slip of the tongue regarding Apple Pencil working with iPhones.
- Jason Snell on new Mac hardware: “If Not September 7, Then When?”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.
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Links:
- WASD 6-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester.
- Tim Cook's excellent interview in The Washington Post.
- Jan Dawson: "Five Years of Tim Cook's Apple in Charts".
- Steven Levy: "An Exclusive Inside Look at How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Work at Apple".
- Levy's excellent books, The Perfect Thing (about the iPod) and In the Plex (about Google's inner workings).
- Andy Hertzfeld's book on the development of the original Macintosh, Revolution in the Valley, and the website with much of the same source material, Folklore.org.
- Yours truly: "Vesper, Adieu".
- Brent Simmons: "Last Vesper Update", "More Notes on Vesper", and "Why Vesper Didn’t Start as a Web App".
- Yours truly: "Apple and the Pistol Emoji".
- Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
- “The High and the Flighty” — classic Looney Tunes Foghorn Leghorn short.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
164: ‘Enjoyably Clicky’ With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include the latest rumors regarding the upcoming new iPhones and MacBook Pros, Rick Tetzeli’s cover story for Fast Company on Tim Cook’s Apple, and the connection between baseball and mechanical keyboards.
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Links:
- Six Colors.
- Upgrade episode 101: "It Works Great in California".
- Mark Gurman's report for Bloomberg on this year's new iPhones.
- Gurman on new MacBook Pros.
- UX Magazine: "The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover" -- why Bloomberg terminals have an inscrutable UI that they won't change.
- WASD Keyboards.
- The Apple IIgs keyboard.
- Leopold keyboards.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
163: ‘Low Grade Scam’ With Joanna Stern
Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include media gossip on Eddy Cue negotiations with cable TV companies, Apple’s aging notebook lineup, Apple’s upcoming product announcement event, the Windows 10 upgrade fiasco, and our sweaty feet.
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- Joanna on the $50 (with lock-screen ads) Blu R1 HD phone from Amazon.
- Joanna on the Windows 10 upgrade.
- The WSJ on Apple’s “hard-charging” negotiations with TV networks (and Eddy Cue’s apparel).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
162: ‘Special Bullying Venue’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include security vulnerabilities on MacOS and iOS, ransomware, counterfeit products and outright fraud on Amazon, and online harassment and “free speech”.
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- Glenn Fleishman, writing for Macworld on recent image processing bugs in MacOS and iOS.
- Motherboard: “How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law”.
- New Ransomware Takes Your Money, Deletes Files Anyway.
- John Norstad, developer of the fantastic early-1990s Mac anti-virus utility Disinfectant.
- F-Secure tests the customer service of ransomware pirates.
- isbn.nu: Glenn’s long-standing book search and price comparison site.
- Glenn’s two new books on Slack: Take Control of Slack Basics and Take Control of Slack Admin.
- Randi Harper’s Good Game Auto Blocker utility for Twitter.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
161: ‘Mumbles and Grunts’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include parenting thoughts on controlling the amount of time our kids spend playing games and watching YouTube and Netflix, why Google's apps for iOS are better than their apps for Android, Chromebooks in schools, Windows Phone's bright future, Pokemon Go, and more. We also insult the driving abilities of people from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Canada.
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Links:
- Ingress -- Niantec's augmented-reality mobile game that preceded Pokemon Go.
- Tim Bray on Ingress.
- Dieter Bohn: "Google Is Making Better Apps for the iPhone Than for Android"
- Yours truly on Peter Kafka's Recode Media podcast.
- Samantha Bee's appearance on Recode Media.
- Spark — excellent third-party email client for iOS.
- Analyst in 2011 predicts Windows Phone will eclipse Android by 2013.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
160: ‘Fresh Out of Prison’ With Nilay Patel
Special guest Nilay Patel joins the show. Topics include The Verge and Recode (and the state of the media industry at large), what’s going on with the lack of updates to professional Mac hardware, and, of course, Apple’s purported removal of the headphone jack on the upcoming new iPhones.
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- Nilay Patel: “Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid”.
- Cory Doctorow: “Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Phones With DRM for Audio”.
- Yours truly: “Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives”.
- Jason Snell: “Searching for a Good Reason to Remove the Headphone Jack”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
159: ‘Phil Z’ With Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2016, Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi's appearance on the live episode of this show during WWDC, the purported removal of the standard headphone jack from the upcoming new iPhones, and more.
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Links:
- The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2016.
- Diagram comparing USB-C to Lightning.
- Apple Insider: "Apple Pulls Legacy Non-Retina MacBook Pro From Retail Store Displays".
- Apple discontinues the Thunderbolt display.
- Lil Wayne pours two bottles of champagne on his Samsung Galaxy S7.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
158: Live From WWDC 2016 With Guests Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
Recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: WatchOS 3, MacOS 10.12 Sierra, iOS 10, and more.
Video of the show, and a complete transcript, is available here.
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- Yours truly: "Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s WWDC 2016 Keynote".
- Apple Previews iOS 10.
- Apple Previews MacOS Sierra.
- Apple Previews WatchOS 3.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer
Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.
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- Full video of Walt Mossberg’s interview with Jeff Bezos at Recode’s Code 2016 last week.
- Full video of Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s interview with Elon Musk.
- MacDailyNews: “Apple to Deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC”.
- Motion Stills: new iPhone app from Google that makes Live Photos way better.
- Mark Bergen’s report for Recode on Mercedes-Benz’s advanced self-driving car initiative.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.
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Links:
- Eddy Cue celebrating on court with Stephen Curry after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Western Conference finals.
- Apple’s purported upcoming standalone Siri device might have a camera.
- The Talk Show in iTunes. Reviews are much appreciated.
- The AI Effect: “It’s part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something — play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems — there was chorus of critics to say, ‘That’s not thinking’.”
- System 7 Macintosh Basics Demo.
- Canary: Real-time streaming video camera for your home. Merlin’s got one and likes it.
155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
Special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. (Finally.) Topics include rumors of an upcoming Siri SDK and an Amazon Echo-like device from Apple, the future of the MacBook lineup, Peter Thiel's secretive role as the financial backer of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, and my hatred of Roman numerals.
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- 500ish Words -- the new home for MG's writing.
- Why do movie studios use Roman numerals for the copyright year in end credits?
- Felix Salmon on the strategy behind Peter Thiel's heretofore secret campaign to bankrupt Gawker.
- 9to5Mac on purported upcoming MacBook Pros that replace the function keys with an LED touchscreen.
- The Optimus Popularis -- a humongous $1500 keyboard where each key cap is a small LED.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
154: ‘Facebook on Your Face’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new flagship retail store in San Francisco, recent improvements to App Store approval times, and Google’s announcements at I/O this week — Google Home and Google Assistant, Allo and Duo, and Android “N” and Android Instant Apps.
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- Rene’s preview of the new SF Apple Store.
- Apple Talk — iMore’s new podcast, with yours truly as their first guest.
- App Store review times.
- Privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian on Twitter.
- Google I/O 2016 Keynote on YouTube.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
153: ‘Chock Full of Whimsy’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Apple’s recent quarterly results, what we think is going on with iPhone sales, Tim Cook’s misleading guidance, Apple Music, and a lot more.
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Links:
- Yours truly, last week: “Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales”.
- Ben, two weeks ago: “Apple’s Organizational Crossroads”.
- Neil Cybart: “iPhone Warning Signs”.
- Due, an iPhone reminder app that I’ve been using daily for years.
- Gary Allen, now-deceased writer behind IFO Apple Store.
- Mini Microsoft.
- Dodger Trayce Thompson, brother of Golden State Warrior star Klay Thompson, hit a run in Tampa that never came down from the rafters.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
152: ‘The Greatest Mic Drop I’ve Ever Seen’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Ben Thompson’s argument that Apple’s functional organizational structure is hindering their efforts in online services, recalling our first Apple computers and the elegance of the classic Mac OS’s conceptual design, Prince (and his early use of Macs for creating music), emoji and exclamation marks, WWDC 2016, and yours truly’s youthful foray into on-the-job vandalism.
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Links:
- Great article by Ben Thompson: “Apple’s Organizational Crossroads”
- BeOS developers tossing CRT monitors off the roof of their office building, circa 2000.
- Interesting study on differing interpretations of emoji across platforms.
- Napkin — a terrific Mac image annotation app from Guy and Chris Parrish.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
151: ‘Option P’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, using an iPad for “work”, podcasting microphones, the damn Siri Remote for the new Apple TV, the Star Wars: Rogue One teaser, and more.
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- iFontMaker — iPad app for creating and editing fonts.
- Apogee MiC Digital Microphone — a good (but $230) Lightning port microphone for iOS devices.
- Serenity: “Some Day, I Would Like to Stop Losing My Siri Remote”.
- Jared Newman attached a Tile tracker to his Siri Remote.
- The first trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
150: ‘Strict Robot Definer’ With Jason Snell
Jason Snell (Six Colors, The Incomparable, Upgrade) returns to the show for an in-depth look at last week's Apple Event, and the two products that were introduced: the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Other topics include the ongoing FBI/Apple encryption soap opera, what's wrong with the Apple Watch -- and our appreciation for the late great Garry Shandling.
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- Great article by Ben Thompson: “Apple’s Organizational Crossroads”
- BeOS developers tossing CRT monitors off the roof of their office building, circa 2000.
- Interesting study on differing interpretations of emoji across platforms.
- Napkin — a terrific Mac image annotation app from Guy and Chris Parrish.
- Walt Disney World’s “Philly Cheesesteak” hot dog. (You can get it with apple slices to keep it healthy.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
149: ‘With Apologies to Hamilton’ With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman joins the show. The primary topic: Apple’s legal battle against the FBI regarding the iPhone and encryption. Other topics include Aaron Burr’s resurgence in popularity, the U.S. founding fathers’ use of cyphers and codes in their correspondance, next week’s Apple event, USB battery packs, and more.
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Links:
- Free chapters of Glenn Fleishman’s upcoming book, Take Control of Slack Basics.
- Graydon Carter: “Why Donald Trump Will Always Be a ‘Short-Fingered Vulgarian’”.
- Political action committee changes name from “Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC” to “Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands”.
- Donald Trump back in October 2013: “As an addition, Apple must go to a larger screen now—asap! They’re losing their standing in the market!”.
- Wordnik.
- Low self-discharged (LSD) nickel–metal hydride batteries.
- Walt Mossberg’s review of the modular Eero home Wi-Fi system.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
148: ‘Occupy Portland’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the Apple/FBI encryption fight, Apple's upcoming event and the products they're expected to announce. And Campo Santo's fantastic new video game Firewatch.
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Links:
- L. Gordon Crovitz’s jacktastic op-ed piece on the Apple/FBI fight.
- Firewatch.
- Olly Moss’s Star Wars trilogy posters.
- Geek Remix’s excellent video analyzing the plot of Firewatch. Spoilers galore — do not watch this unless you’ve finished the game. You don’t even want to look at the title of the video.
- The cast of Firewatch.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
147: ‘iTools or Whatever’ With Jim Dalrymple
Special guest Jim Dalrymple joins the show to talk about the Apple/FBI legal showdown, the debate over Apple software quality, and more.
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Links:
- Walt Mossberg: "Apple's Apps Need Work"
- Jim Dalrymple: "About Walt Mossberg and Apple’s App Problem"
- Yours truly: "Apple's App Problem"
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
146: ‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’ With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi
Very special guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi join the show. Topics include: the new features in Apple's upcoming OS releases (iOS 9.3 and tvOS 9.2); why Apple is expanding its public beta program for OS releases; iTunes's monolithic design; how personally involved Eddy and Craig are in using, testing, and installing beta software; the sad decline of Duke's men's basketball team; and more.
Some scoops too, including: the weekly number of iTunes and App Store transactions, an updated Apple Music subscriber count, peak iMessage traffic per second, and the number of iCloud account holders.
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Links:
- Apple’s iOS beta preview page.
- Apple Insider on the new features in tvOS 9.2.
- Walt Mossberg: “Apple’s Apps Need Work”.
- Yours truly, following up on Mossberg’s column.
- Duke falls out of AP Top 25 for the first time in more than eight years.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.
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- Tim Cook, Super Bowl photographer.
- The New Yorker advertising Josh Topolsky’s “The End of Twitter” article — on Twitter.
- Concussions suffered in this year’s Super Bowl.
- How we used to finger our friends in college.
- Dustin Curtis computed the 2015 revenue and profit per employee for Yahoo, Twitter, MSFT, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
- Xifaxan’s Super Bowl 50 commercial, starring a diarrhea-stricken human bowel.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Moisés Chiullan.
144: ‘Hopped Up on Holiday Juice’ With Matthew Panzarino
Special Guest Matthew Panzarino. Topics include Apple's quarterly financial results, rumors of Apple working on VR handsets and "wireless" charging for iPhones, Bezos charts, and more.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include Winter Storm Jonas, the politics of sick kids, sweating out a fever, people going insane over the rumors that the next iPhones will omit the standard headphone jack, the seven-hour The Godfather Epic, and more.
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- Backblaze’s online speed test.
- 2007 New Yorker story on commuters in Atlanta.
- The original 2007–2009 run of The Talk Show.
- Merlin Mann and John Gruber’s 2009 talk at SXSW.
- Clever fake “FIFA corruption scandal” Twitter account, which seemingly predicted World Cup matches before they were played.
- Online petition asking Apple not to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from new iPhones.
- Team Negative One’s new samizdat restoration of a 35mm print of the 1977 theatrical release of Star Wars.
- The Atlantic: “Milk, Bread, and Eggs: The Trinity of Winter-Storm Panic-Shopping”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
142: ‘They Sherlocked F.lux’ With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show to deliver his first-hand report from last week’s CES in Las Vegas. Other topics include Periscope, Peach, why Apple never participated at CES, El Chapo’s re-capture, iOS 9.3, Apple Watch, Apple’s finances (and stock price), and self-driving cars.
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- Dan Frommer’s report on Rupert Murdoch’s private super-conference held at the Wynn Las Vegas during CES.
- Frommer: “Fitbit’s Long-Term Future Sales Curve Revealed”.
- Frommer on Apple Watch, six months in.
- The re-launched City Notes.
- U.S. marshalls raid hovercraft booth at CES.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt: “Why So Much Apple Commentary Is So Clueless”.
- The Boeing Dreamlifter (inspiration for Apple’s iPhone Smart Battery Case).
- Sean Penn’s remarkable story for Rolling Stone on meeting with El Chapo.
- Dave Winer on the El Chapo story, and the objection from some journalists regarding the disclosed concessions they made to create it.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
141: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More
A brief holiday chat about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
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Links:
- Writers Guild panel discussion between Lawrence Kasdan, JJ Abrams, and Michael Arndt, writers of The Force Awakens.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
140: ‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look back at the Apple year that was: the new one-port MacBook, Apple Watch's launch, WWDC and Apple Music, the iPhones 6S, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, iPad Mini 4, iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11, and, of course, the most important new product of the year, the Smart Battery Case.
This episode contains absolutely no Star Wars talk, except for a little.
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- Debug episode 76 (iTunes, Overcast): "Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about managing teams, managing up, retention, rivalry, and more", with hosts Rene Ritchie and Guy English.
- The Art of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
- "Obsession Times Voice": John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW 2009. "A pretty good stab at a simple formula for doing it right."
- Princess Leia wearing what looks like an Apple Watch in Return of the Jedi.
- Jennifer Bailey, Apple's VP of Apple Pay.
- uMake -- innovative iOS 3D drawing app with rich support for Apple Pencil.
- Gizmodo: "Everything Apple Introduced This Year Kinda Sucked".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
139: ‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’ With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa
Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi joins the show for a wide-ranging half-hour discussion about Swift — Apple’s new programming language that just went open source.
Next, John Siracusa returns to the show to follow up on Federighi’s segment on Swift. Other topics include Apple’s new Smart Battery Case for the iPhone 6/6S, and our mutual (and perhaps futile) desire to head into this week’s premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens knowing as few spoilers as possible.
Transcript of Craig Federighi’s interview.
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- Craig Federighi talking about Swift going open source with Ars Technica, TheNextWeb, and Mashable.
- Siracusa’s explanation of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) in his Mac OS X 10.7 review in 2011.
- Siracusa’s excellent introduction to Swift from his Mac OS X 10.10 review last year.
- Glyn Williams post on Quora regarding how iOS devices need less RAM than equivalent Android devices, because Android’s virtual machine uses garbage collection and iOS doesn’t.
- “The Curious Case of the Curious Case” — my review of Apple’s new Smart Battery Case.
- Michael Tsai’s link roundup on Sketch leaving the Mac App Store.
- Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie’s The C Programming Language, first published in 1978.
- Android’s Dalvik (old) and ART (new) runtimes, both of which use garbage collection.
- “Don’t Drink the Bacta Tea” — spoiler-free episode of The Incomparable last week, with Siracusa, Jason Snell, Serenity Caldwell, and Dan Moren talking about The Force Awakens.
- Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki
- Sci-Fi Corridor Archive. Start here, of course.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
138: ‘I’ve Been Using Mine More in Bed’ With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the iPad Pro, Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, what's going on with Yahoo (spoiler: not much), how best to sell old iPhones when upgrading, and Mark Zuckerberg promising to donate 99 percent of his fortune to charitable causes.
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- Joanna’s reviews of the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, and the iPad Pro.
- Browser in Your Browser (built with Squarespace).
- Joanna, from back in May: “Forget Social Media! Build Your Very Own Website”.
- Swappa — an online marketplace for buying and selling used devices.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
137: ‘Peak Rumor Season’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss rumors that the iPhone 7 might not have a standard headphone jack and that Apple is working on new MacBook Airs. Also: a parenting guide to the Star Wars and James Bond franchises.
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Links:
- Rumor: “Apple May Replace 3.5mm Headphone Jack on iPhone 7 With All-in-One Lightning Connector”.
- Rumor: “Thinner MacBook Air in 13” and 15” Sizes Coming at WWDC 2016?”.
- The 5.9mm-thick Samsung Galaxy A8.
- Apple’s $29 Lightning-to-30-pin adapter.
- Amazon’s video showing their latest prototype delivery drone, narrated by Jeremy Clarkson.
- Fraser Speirs: “Can the MacBook Pro Replace Your iPad?”
- A Tesla Owner reviews a petrol-powered car.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
136: ‘Fully Charged Pencil’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to talk about iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, how iOS still feels like *iPhone OS* at a fundamental level, and Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini’s overwrought “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name” article for Fast Company. Also: the new membership program at Six Colors.
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- Jason, writing at Macworld, on the iPad Pro’s keyboard shortcomings.
- Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini, writing at Fast Company: “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name”.
- Ferrite Recording Studio: a full-fledged iOS audio editing app.
135: ‘Put a Nipple on It’ With Adam Lisagor
Special guest Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the new Apple TV (why we both love it, despite several 1.0 flaws), 4K video, 3D movies, and Adam’s excellent new series “Computer Show”.
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- The photo I sent to Adam at the start of the show.
- FireCore aTV Flash.
- Computer Show.
- The Computer Chronicles.
- Pako — the silly little car chase game I’m digging on Apple TV.
- Faces of Death.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
134: ‘Field Sobriety Test’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV.
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- Christina Warren’s review of the Apple TV for Mashable.
- Serenity Caldwell’s list of six ways the new Apple TV could be improved.
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- Scriptnotes — John August and Craig Mazin’s excellent podcast about screenwriting and things interesting to creative people.
- Manticore — Ambitious 3D space shooter for Apple TV.
- NetNewsWire Today for Apple TV.
- VentureBeat: “Storehouse’s Apple TV app turns your television into a slideshow screen”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
133: ‘The MacGuffin Tractor’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include this week’s new iMacs; the new “Magic” mouse, trackpad, and keyboard; an overview of Apple Music and iCloud Photos; Facebook’s outrageous background battery usage on iOS; Elon Musk’s gibes on Apple getting into the car industry; and my take on the new Steve Jobs movie.
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- The Incomparable Radio Theater — “a series of original radio plays that pay homage to the classic radio serials of the 20th century, along with nods to modern pop culture”. Really fun, and Serenity is one of the players.
- “Exploring Apple’s 3D Touch” — interesting look at Apple’s new pressure-sensitive touch APIs by R. Kevin Nelson.
- Apple's new @AppleMusicHelp Twitter account.
- Federico Viticci on Facebook's atrocious background behavior on iOS.
- Elon Musk on Apple getting into the car game.
- Elon Musk on nuking Mars.
- Zane Lowe on being unsure whether Apple Music needs Beats 1.
- A photo of my trusty, beloved old Logitech mouse.
132: ‘Peace, Porn, and Privacy’ With Guest Marco Arment
Marco Arment joins the show for a brief chat on ad blockers, advertising in general, and the new iPhones 6S.
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- Marco on pulling his content blocker, Peace, from the App Store.
- “Underscore” David Smith on the available free space of 16 GB iPhones in actual usage.
- The New York Times measures the real-world benefits of iOS ad-blocking on 50 top news sites.
- Hello Internet.
- Episode 56 of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s Upgrade, wherein they discuss just how much of a pain in the ass it is to upgrade to a new iPhone.
131: ‘If Only the Death Star Had That’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie joins the show to discuss last week's blockbuster Apple Event and the products that were announced: Apple Watch updates, the iPad Pro (and Smart Keyboard, and Apple Pencil), the all-new Apple TV, and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Also: iOS 9.
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130: ‘A Full Canseco’ With Guest John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz is back. Topics include Google’s new logo, the Tacoma Tahomas, and our speculation regarding what to expect at this week’s Apple event in San Francisco.
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- The original logo for Apple Computer Co.
- Another great look at some obscure variations of the Apple logo we know and love.
- Jose Canseco getting hit on the head by a deep fly ball.
- Jose Canseco getting knocked out by Vai Sikahema in a charity boxing match.
- Moltz: “The Watch Face Wars”.
- Samsung’s new decent-looking Gear S2 watches.
- Unbox Therapy guy bend-tests a leaked iPhone 6S 7000-grade aluminum frame.
- The evolution of Google’s logo.
129: ‘90 Minutes or Bust’ With Guest Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include: our top complaints about Apple Watch, Apple making a car, the New York Times's profile of Amazon's work culture, and more.
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Links:
- The NYT: "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace".
- Julia Cheiffetz: "I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon".
- Me, back 2010, writing for Macworld: "This Is How Apple Rolls".
128: ‘Did You Ever Take a Photograph?’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether their declining stock price makes them an acquisition target), the end of Google Plus, why the new Photos app for Mac is inadequate as a replacement for Lightroom for us, Apple's new San Jose real estate acquisition, Apple Car speculation, and Apple's spree of hiring writers from the Apple media.
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- This American Life episode on the NUMMI automobile plant in Fremont California -- a joint venture between GM and Toyota that wound up in the hands of Tesla Motors.
- Gizmodo's jacktastic "obituary" for iTunes.
- Evan Williams on why "monthly active users" is a poor metric.
- Chris Sacca endorsing Jack Dorsey to return as Twitter CEO..
- Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton's book about Twitter.
- Funny-because-it's-true Dilbert cartoon about management consultants.
- Great Vanity Fair feature by Richard Lawson: "The VidCon Revolution Isn’t Coming. It’s Here."
- Apple's $138 million purchase of a 43-acre site in north San Jose.
- Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine talk to USA Today about Apple Music, which now has 11 million trial subscribers.
127: ‘A Sack Full of Plucked Feathers’ With Guest John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include bluetooth headphones, Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library, phone sizes (including speculation on the lineup of new iPhones in September), El Chapo’s social media intern, Apple’s stock price, Alex Gibney’s upcoming Steve Jobs documentary, and the new trailer for Spectre.
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- Jason Snell’s “Bezos Chart” showing Apple Watch sales figures.
- The new trailer for Spectre.
- Reddit thread on Auric Goldfinger appearing as a sort of Easter egg in Casino Royale.
- Another Easter egg in Casino Royale: Daniel Craig using his Omega Seamaster as a knuckleduster in the climactic fight.
- Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs documentary, The Man in the Machine.
- El Chapo threatening Donald Trump on Twitter.
- Inside El Chapo’s purported escape tunnel.
126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show, with a lot to talk about: Pebble's new Pebble Time smartwatch, the "Safari is the New IE" argument, the state of web advertising (and its adverse effects on performance and privacy) and monetization, and more.
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- Adam Lisagor guest-posting on Kottke.org back in 2007. And Jason Kottke’s introduction.
- Ben Thompson on how web advertising works today. It’s gross.
- Mary Meeker’s slide on mobile’s share of attention vs. advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015.
- Jason on MLB’s experimental native Mac app for watching games.
- Jason: “Web Developers Are Grumpy About Safari”.
- Rene Ritchie: “Safari Isn’t the New IE: It’s the User-Centric Web”.
- My wife’s photo of me and Phil Schiller on stage last month.
- Spark — excellent new iOS email app from Readdle that Jason is using.
125: ‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’ With Guest Horace Dediu
Special guest Horace Dediu joins The Talk Show for the first time. Topics include the state of the maps industry, Apple’s functional organizational structure, what the WWDC keynote said about the state of the company today, and more.
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- Horace’s analysis of the state of the maps market.
- New York Times feature on the curated nature of Apple Music’s streaming music.
- Horace’s transcript of Tim Cook’s poetic description of Apple’s doctrine, from a 2009 quarterly analyst call.
- Horace’s podcast: The Critical Path.
124: ‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’ With Guest Guy English
Guy English returns to the show, and we make a valiant but failed effort to cover all of the technical/developer news from last week’s WWDC. Among the topics we did hit: app thinning, Bitcode, WatchKit 2.0, CloudKit (and opening it up to web developers), Swift 2.0, Metal coming to the Mac, accessibility and low-level support for right-to-left languages, iOS 9’s new low-power mode, and more.
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- Guy English on Twitter.
- “Inertial Lemon“‘s take on Bitcode, which Guy and I think is probably incorrect in several ways.
- Chris Lattner.
- Becoming Steve Jobs, the new biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli.
- WWDC 2015 session videos, all of which are viewable without an ADC account.
- Video of last week’s live episode of The Talk Show, with special guest Phil Schiller.
123: Live From WWDC 2015 With Guest Phil Schiller
Recorded in front of a live audience at Mezzanine in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.11 El Capitan, iOS 9, the new native app SDK for Apple Watch, Apple Music, and the 2004 American League Championship series.
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122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.
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- Gurman’s WWDC expectation roundup at 9to5Mac.
- That hack to use San Francisco as the system font on Yosemite.
- Eddy Cue at game 1 of the NBA Finals.
- Gurman’s 2014 feature on Apple PR.
- Techmeme’s “leaderboard”, and their FAQ explaining how it works.
- Ross Floate: ‘Your Next Project Needs a White-Hat Jerk’.
- Last year’s Slack flaw that let you see the team names from any company.
121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics includes Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer and the implications for Apple; the differences in Apple’s internal design culture now that industrial and user interface design are under one roof; Google’s announcements at their I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, including Google Photos; “machine learning”; Apple replacing the much-maligned discoveryd with good old mDNSResponder in the latest Yosemite developer beta; our thoughts on the space black Apple Watch with link bracelet; and more.
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- Stories on Greg Christie’s departure from Apple last year, from TechCrunch and 9to5Mac.
- “Skankphone” — the purposefully ugly prototype OS that was seen by most of the industrial design team for the original iPhone.
- Rene’s photographs of the actual shipping space black Apple Watch with link bracelet, which really does look black.
- Apple’s promotional photos for the space black Apple Watch from back in September 2014, when it was more like a medium-dark gray.
- News from Google I/O last week: Google Photos, Marques Brownlee on the top new features in Android M, and everything else in one handy list.
- Mark Gurman’s roundup of iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 rumors leading up to WWDC next week.
120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include David Letterman, iPhone docks, the space black steel Apple Watch, whatever happened to the Edition collection, San Francisco as the new system font for iOS and Mac OS X, and more.
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- Letterman profiles in Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
- Apple’s new iPhone dock, and the third-party docks I use.
- Mark Bramhill’s excellent Welcome to Macintosh podcast.
- Marco Arment on the new one-port MacBook.
- Dan’s amazing iPhone stand.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt on getting his Apple Watch review unit.
119: ‘Workin’ in Pajamas’ With Guest David Sparks
Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo Syncing and the new Photos for Mac, WWDC, and wearing slippers as “work” shoes.
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- Mac Power Users, David's podcast co-hosted with Katie Floyd.
- MacSparky, David’s weblog.
- David’s Markdown book.
- Sparks Law.
- Stephen Orth’s suggestions for Apple Watch.
- My Instagram photo of mattresses being removed from the Parker-Spruce Hotel.
- TripAdvisor reviews for the Parker-Spruce.
118: ‘Sloppy on the Side’ With Guest Adam Lisagor
Special guest and longtime friend Adam Lisagor returns to the show. I don’t know anyone who’s more excited about Apple Watch than Adam, except, maybe, my son. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that Apple just released a brand-new thing, and they don’t do that very often. This episode, we just had fun. Some keen observations about the future of the platform, too.
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117: ‘I Touched Ron Johnson’ With Guest John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Gruber’s retina, Apple Watch backorders and the watch itself, news from Microsoft’s Build conference, how to introduce yourself to people you’ve publicly branded a “jackass”, and more.
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- Sony makes $20 per iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 from image sensors.
- Sony loses money on its own phone handsets.
- Ben Bajarin on Xiaomi slump in phone sales in China. (And Apple’s rise.)
- Microsoft’s impressive HoloLens demo at Build this week.
- Windows 10 to Run Recompiled Android and iOS Apps.
- VentureBeat and Recode both fall for iSuppli’s claim that Apple Watch Sport costs only $83 to manufacture.
- Tim Cook, earlier this week, on these speculative cost breakdowns: “I’ve never seen one that is anywhere close to being accurate.”
- Mike Rundle argues Apple Watch is too small.
- Dr. Drang visualizes declining iPad sales.
- Local Edition, bar in downtown Frisco.
- Very Nice Website.
- The Pentax K1000. Gorgeous.
116: ‘Browser Pooped on the Wee-Wee Pad’ With Guest Joanna Stern
Special guest Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal joins the show to talk about Apple Watch and the new MacBook (and her reviews thereof).
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- Joanna’s Apple Watch review and video.
- Joanna’s review of the new MacBook.
- Apple’s battery life page for Apple Watch, which states that the 42 mm models get longer battery life.
- Browser.
115: ‘Turd on the Front Porch’ With Guest Ben Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson returns, with the intention of not talking about Apple Watch — and so of course we spend two hours talking about Apple Watch. Other topics include the launch of Jay Z’s streaming music service Tidal, audience ceilings faced by different types of dedicated TV devices, and Meerkat-vs.-Periscope and the nascent revolution of ubiquitous live-streaming video. We make some NCAA men’s basketball Final Four picks, too.
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- Ben’s website: Stratechery.
- David Pierce, writing for Wired: “iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch”.
- Daring Fireball, back in 2013: “Exhibit A in the Case That Newly-Hired Apple Vp of Technology Kevin Lynch Is a Bozo, a Bad Hire”.
- Kevin Lynch’s personal website.
- Billboard: “Jay Z on Competing With Jimmy Iovine: ‘I Don’t Have To Lose…For You Guys To Win’”.
- Steve Jobs unveils Apple’s “Digital Hub” strategy at Macworld Expo in January 2001.
- Panic: “The True Story of Audion”.
- Yahoo Finance: “YouTube’s Highest-Paid Star Is a Woman Who Unboxes Disney Toys”.
- Recode: “Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple’s TV Service”.
114: ‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’ With Guest Serenity Caldwell
Special guest Serenity Caldwell joins the show. Topics include last week’s “Spring Forward” Apple media event; the new Force Touch Trackpad for MacBooks, and the prospects for force touch in future iOS devices; and of course, Apple Watch.
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- Jacqui Cheng’s review of the original 2008 MacBook Air for Ars Technica.
- Christopher Phin fondly remembers the PowerBook Duo.
- Greg Koenig: “How the Apple Watch Is Made”.
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- Serenity’s MacBook Air accident this week.
- The Atari 400 and its craptacular keyboard.
113: ‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show. After some brief chitchat on Meerkat and monocular vision, we get into the obvious topic this week: Apple’s “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco. Sub-topics therein: ResearchKit; FaceTime and open standards; accessibility and Tim Cook’s refusal to measure the ROI of such things; Jeff Williams’s first on-stage appearance at an Apple keynote; Angela Ahrendts; the new single-port MacBook; San Francisco as the new keycap font on the MacBook keyboard; the Taptic trackpad; the timing of this event; and more.
Oh, and something called “Apple Watch”.
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112: ‘Retina Quality’ With Guest Paul Kafasis
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include the new Pebble Time watch, the imminent arrival of Apple Watch, Paul’s clever new doorbell (and unfortunate refrigerator situation), a little bit of baseball, and why I can’t attend next week’s Apple event in San Francisco.
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- MacRumors “speculative pricing” forum posting that social media turned into a “leaked price list from Apple”.
- Ring, Paul’s clever new doorbell.
- Just The Tip, Paul’s podcast with my wife, Amy Jane Gruber.
- Paul, writing at One Foot Tsunami, on Apple’s continued disregard for the Unicode 7 “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended” emoji glyph, arguably the most pressing technical issue facing Apple and its users today.
- Apple’s response to Paul's Radar on the “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended” emoji.
- Audio Hijack 3, Rogue Amoeba’s new update to their excellent audio recording app for Mac.
- Interesting ESPN feature on Alex Rodriguez’s return to baseball.
111: ‘12 Hours a Day’ With Guest John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch; rumors that Apple is working on a secret car project; our love of old Mac hardware; and a long discussion on Ian Parker’s extraordinary New Yorker profile of Jony Ive and his design team at Apple.
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110: ‘Rats in the Lobby’ With Guest Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.
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- The Carson Podcast.
- PBS Masters special on Johnny Carson. If you haven’t seen this, watch it. If you have seen it, watch it again. Trust me.
- Henry Bushkin’s book on Johnny Carson.
- Dustin Curtis: “Privacy vs. User Experience”.
- The Wisdom of Insecurity.
- Kids in Mind.
- Phthalates.
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109: ‘How Many Keys?’ With Guest MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show, reporting from London. Topics include last week’s blockbuster earnings report from Apple, the increasingly imminent Apple Watch, phone display sizes, the impact of China on sales, rethinking the intended purpose and success of the iPhone 5C, speculation on Apple’s 2015 product roadmap, and whether Bluetooth is the future for mass market earbuds and headphones.
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- Red Obsession: Interesting 2011 documentary on the wine industry and China’s growing role in it. Currently available for streaming on Netflix.
- MG Siegler on the iPhone 5C back in April 2014: “The iPhone 5C Billboard Assault”.
- Apple’s outstanding Q1 2015 results.
- Samsung’s not-so-good results.
108: ‘Malaprops’ With Guest Ben Thompson
Topics include Apple’s pseudo “sabbaticals” (employees who leave the company but then return after a year or two); Google’s cultural similarities to Microsoft; the ways that Apple (and iOS users) might miss Scott Forstall; accessibility as a high priority for Apple; Instagram’s success (and how they effectively ate Hipstamatic’s lunch); a debate on just how “simple” Twitter is; Box’s successful IPO, and Dropbox’s support for Yosemite’s official Finder integration for such services; MIT economist Jonathan Gruber pissing in my Google juice; Chromebooks; Amazon’s overall strategy, and the colossal failure of their Fire Phone; and, lastly, a good chunk on Microsoft’s Windows 10/HoloLens event last week.
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- Ben Thompson’s Stratechery website and Exponent podcast.
- Mark Bylok’s The Whiskey Cabinet, an excellent new book.
- Duet Display — iPad app that turns your iPad into a second display for your Mac.
- Box’s IPO.
- Tim Cook’s tweet on Box’s IPO.
- Hipstamatic
- Jibe vs. Jive vs. Gibe
- Michael Jackson’s death.
- Austin Carr’s excellent story for Fast Company on the development of Amazon’s Fire Phone.
- Amazon Echo — the standalone always-listening AI assistant, with a three-month backlog.
- Joanna Stern on Windows 10
- HoloLens.
107: ‘Now It’s All Floppy’ With Guest Marco Arment
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include microphones; Marco’s much-publicized article last week on Apple’s seemingly declining software quality; talking to the press and agreeing to interviews; Apple’s relatively tiny developer relations team (and how that pertains to the aforementioned segment on Apple’s perceived software quality); the purported new 12-inch MacBook Air and its dearth of peripheral ports; and more.
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- Marco’s article: “Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground”.
- My take on the “Functional High Ground” thing.
- Panic’s App Store woes.
- Mark Gurman’s purported scoop on the upcoming new MacBook Air.
- Jason Snell’s Macworld review of the original MacBook Air in 2008.
106: ‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’ With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English
A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.
Update, Monday 5 January 2015: Updated with a new Special Edition edit, including a new introduction, a new editing gag around the 2:20:00 mark, new poster art, and some subtle re-syncing of the audio tracks. No extra Banthas were added, and Siracusa still shoots first.
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- Michael Heilemann’s Kitbashed (highly recommended).
- “Plinkett” reviews The Phantom Menace (sort of kind of not really recommended).
- Original poster for Star Wars.
- Leigh Brackett’s script for The Empire Strikes Back.
- “Star Wars” Episodes of The Incomparable.
- Yes, that was young Greedo in The Phantom Menace.
- The complete Star Wars: Clone Wars cel-animated series from 2003 — pretty fun, worth watching.
105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show for a year-end extravaganza. Topics include Jason’s first three months writing (and podcasting) as an indie at his new Six Colors; a look back at his 20-year career at MacUser and soon thereafter Macworld; tricky edge cases when booking sponsorships, and the whole situation with separating advertising sales from editorial integrity when you’re running a one-person publication; the Sony/North Korea hacking and The Interview, and iTunes’s slightly belated release thereof; and we pour one out for good old Movable Type.
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- McSweeney’s: “Email Addresses It Would Be Really Hard to Give Out Over the Phone” (a classic).
- Jason Snell at Six Colors: “No Other Gatekeeper But Me”
- Power Computing, the leading Mac clone maker.
- Mac clones.
- The 1997 merger of MacUser and Macworld.
- Chandler reading Macworld on Friends
- Daring Fireball piece on software bundles back in 2006: “The Iniquities of the Selfish”.
- Wilfredo Sanchez’s crackerjack whitepaper from 2000: “The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments”.
- Lycos, not dead yet.
- John Gruber, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark on episode 8 of The Incomparable back in 2010.
104: ‘2014 Year in Review’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a special Apple 2014 year-in-review episode. Just a few of the many topics covered: Apple’s Beats acquisition; WWDC 2014 in hindsight; an aside speculating on the alternate universe where Google acquired WebOS instead of Android; the similarities between the “projected UI” nature of AirPlay, CarPlay, and WatchKit; UI fonts (Helvetica Neue in Yosemite, Apple Sans, and the Watch’s San Francisco (a.k.a. “DINvetica”)); Apple’s growing ability to design and bring to market its own hardware internals and components; recent controversies and confusing rejections at the App Store (and the need for a public-facing App Store ombudsman); and what we’re looking forward to in 2015.
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103: ‘Robotitize the Assembly’ With Guest Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer joins the show to talk about prop bets in Vegas, more Star Wars, some follow-up on James Bond, what should Apple do with its mountains of cash?, speculation on why iPad sales growth has stagnated, and more. Also, some in-depth segments on Instagram and the concept of “institutional taste”.
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- Great photo of Dan, recording the show at Quartz’s office.
- Dan’s article, “Ten Things We Learned About Apple in 2014”.
- The Cubs sign ex-Rays manager Joe Madden and pitcher Jon Lester.
- Superbowl 51 will go back to stupid Roman numerals.
- Eric Jackson’s piece for Forbes, “Apple’s $100 Billion Waste: Tim Cook’s Single Biggest Mistake As CEO”, wherein he argues Apple should buy Tesla, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- GT Advanced and their crazy approach to making deals.
- Instagram active user announcement.
- Ev Williams “doesn’t give a shit” about Instagram’s numbers.
- OK Go’s latest video. Seriously, watch this.
- Stephen Colbert on the new Sith lightsaber in The Force Awakens teaser.
102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus
Special guest Dave Wiskus joins the show to talk about the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and just-announced title and cast for the 24th EON Productions Bond movie, Spectre. Other topics include the untapped potential of podcasting and YouTubing, cutting babies in half, turtle copulation, and kangaroo genitalia.
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- Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser
- Spectre, the upcoming 24th EON Productions James Bond film
- Midnight Run
- Original 1976 Star Wars trailer, sans John Williams’s score, with uncolored lightsabers and a Helvetica Bold logotype
- John Brownlee: “In Defense of the New Star Wars Lightsaber”
- BBC’s Fleming miniseries (It’s currently streaming on Netflix.)
- Everything or Nothing — good documentary on the Bond films, also streaming on Netflix currently
- Fantastic re-cut Never Say Never Again intro, including Dionne Warwick’s unused recording of John Barry’s “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” for the opening credits
- Dave Addey: “Typeset in the Future: Alien”
- Unprofessional
- Wiskus’s “Better Elevation” video show, and the recent “Podcast Intervention” and “How to Make a Hit App” episodes
- CGP Grey
101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan
Special guest Christa Mrgan joins the show to talk about Yosemite UI design, Apple TV’s aesthetics (and its shitty IR remote control), Apple Watch speculation (including using it as an Apple TV remote), the Watch’s new San Francisco font, bling in icon design, and more. It’s a Thanksgiving week design-focused spectacular.
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- Christa Mrgan on Twitter.
- Rogue Amoeba software (and Piezo in particular).
- Super Bowl 50.
100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz
Who else but very special guest John Moltz to ring in The Talk Show’s centurial episode. Topics include iPhone display sizes (and in particular, our mutual preference for the old 5S 4-inch size over the 4.7-inch iPhone 6); the new book Moltz co-wrote, The Visual Guide to Minecraft; writing tools, including word processors and Markdown; shopping for gaming PCs as a Mac person; Microsoft Office going free on mobile platforms; Twitter’s stilted strategy statement; President Obama’s statement on Net Neutrality; and Tim Cook’s eloquent essay announcing that he’s gay.
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Links:
- The Visual Guide to Minecraft, co-written by Moltz.
- Twitter’s “strategy statement”.
- Tim Cook: “I’m proud to be gay.”
- David Sparks’s Markdown Field Guide
- Fountain — a Markdown-inspired plain text format for screenplays.
- Highland — A Fountain viewer/editor.
- Slugline — A more WYSIWYG-style Fountain editor.
- Punch-cutting double-density (800 KB) 3.5-inch floppy disks to make them work as high-density (1.4 MB) disks
- The CocoaLove conference in Philadelphia
- President Obama on Net Neutrality
- Paul Lynde
XCIX: ‘The Smoker Channels’ With Merlin Mann
Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man (no relation) and his showboating-spectator predecessors, and the state of podcasting today. Also: daylight saving time and Roman numerals.
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98: ‘Far Less Eloquent as You’ With John Siracusa
Special guest John Siracusa returns to the show to discuss last week’s Apple event (introducing the iPad Air 2), and OS X Yosemite (and his review thereof).
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- Siracusa’s Yosemite review.
- Meta post about his Yosemite review.
- ATP
- Application Enhancer.
- Quora thread on garbage collected systems (like Android) needing more RAM than non-GC systems (like iOS).
- Daniel Jalkut on creating status bar icons that work with Yosemite’s dark menu bar.
- FTL: WebKit’s LLVM based JIT.
- Secrets: A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X.
- Crystal Quest for Xbox.
97: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show to talk about iOS 8 quality concerns, and whether Apple’s annual software cycle is stretching the company too thin. Then things devolve into a bitter argument over the merits of file name extensions.
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96: ‘The Edition Edition’ With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson joins the show for an Apple Watch discussion: what it’ll cost, what it’ll do, how it will be sold, and more. Other topics include “Bend-gate”, Apple’s growing prowess in mobile chip design, and Derek Jeter.
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95: ‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’ With Rene Ritchie
What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
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94: ‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show on the cusp of Apple’s September 9 event, where the company will purportedly introduce two new iPhones and a breakthrough wearable device. Topics include the purpose and advantages of a 5.5-inch iPhone, why only the 5.5-inch iPhone will (I think) get an @3x retina display, speculation on the nature and purpose of an Apple wearable/watch, the intrigue surrounding the event’s venue, and more.
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93: ‘Toner-Perfect Design’ With Craig Hockenberry
Speculation on the purportedly-imminent new 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones, and the rise of adaptive user interface layout and design on iOS. @3x, here we come.
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92: ‘That New Laptop Smell’ With Joanna Stern
Topics include Joanna’s recent review of over 20 laptops; the HTC One M8 for Windows Phone; why Windows Phone is still struggling to gain traction; the role of Microsoft Office in today’s world; and speculation on Apple’s upcoming iPhone event.
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91: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer
Topics include speculation — seriously, just speculation — on Apple’s purported upcoming wrist wearable thing, Apple’s fall event schedule, polarized sunglasses, market share in the post-PC era, and Beats’s integration into Apple (including a clever idea from Dan about the potential for a Beats Music channel on Apple TV).
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90: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz
Topics include Apple's quarterly results, how much Apple's cable and peripheral prices contribute to the popular conception that their products are "expensive", presbyopia and large-screen phones, and more.
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89: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2)
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.
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88: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 1)
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.
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87: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson
Topics include Samsung getting pinched from Apple on the high end and Xiaomi (at least in China) on the low end, Android and the importance of software differentiation, wearable devices, and more.
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86: ‘Diddling Your Feeds’ With Dave Wiskus
Topics include the new look and feel in OS X Yosemite (10.10), Google’s new “Material Design” look and feel for Android, smartwatches (including the new ones Google showed at I/O last week), and Dave’s new behind-the-scenes role at The Talk Show.
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- Tobias Frere-Jones on Helvetica Neue as the new system font in Yosemite.
- "Google Design" — Google shows and describes its new design language.
- The LG G and Samsung Gear Live watches, running Android Wear.
- The Moto 320, er, 360.
85: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis
Topics include the ongoing World Cup and the sport of soccer, Google Glass, mockups of devices in rumor reports, Amazon's Fire Phone, the New York Times's profile of Tim Cook last week, Apple's growth, and the agonizingly slow death of Blackberry. Lastly, Paul brings up a devilishly tricky question regarding whether Apple will support a particular new addition to the Emoji specification.
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- Paul Kafasis: ‘The Rise of Emoji’
- FIFA anti-“match manipulation” TV ad
- New York Times profile of Tim Cook
- Ars Technica: ‘FAA Grounds Amazon’s Drone Delivery Plans’
84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largely behind-the-scenes role in many of the new features for iOS and OS X. The new much-improved WebKit API (which brings third-party apps the faster Nitro JavaScript engine), third-party keyboards, Sharing menu extensions, and Notification Center widgets — all these things are built on XPC. Other topics include Apple TV, Swift, and the apparent happiness not just of third-party developers, but Apple employees, too.
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83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson
Recorded in front of a live audience of 500 people on Tuesday, 2 June 2014 at Mezzanine in San Francisco. John Gruber is joined by the ATP trio — Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa — to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.10 Yosemite, iOS 8, Swift, and more.
Then, Scott Simpson joins the show to discuss theme songs and the future of higher education. No nudity or violence, but the second half of the show does have some explicit language.
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82: ‘We're Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It's a Podcast’ With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include Dan’s new gig as senior tech editor at Quartz, tablets as a form factor for full-featured PCs (and the now-aging design of the MacBook Air), WWDC rumors, the rumored iOS-style redesign of Mac OS X, previous Mac OS visual designs, and more — including ticket information for next week’s live WWDC show in San Francisco.
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81: ‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz joins the show for a discussion regarding Apple's still-only-rumored acquisition of Beats, WWDC rumors, the ringer switch on the iPhone, the ZTE Open C Firefox OS phone (spoiler: it's a turd), and the transition of The Talk Show from Mule Radio to its new home here at Daring Fireball.
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