112: ‘Retina Quality’ With Guest Paul Kafasis
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/04/15
•142m
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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.
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•119m
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March 12, 2015
•177m
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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