113: ‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/12/15
•177m
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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
March 4, 2015
•142m
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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114: ‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’ With Guest Serenity Caldwell
March 20, 2015
•139m
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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