103: ‘Robotitize the Assembly’ With Guest Dan Frommer
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/16/14
•115m
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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.
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102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus
December 5, 2014
•176m
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
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104: ‘2014 Year in Review’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
December 26, 2014
•138m
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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