114: ‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’ With Guest Serenity Caldwell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/20/15
•139m
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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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- Christopher Phin fondly remembers the PowerBook Duo.
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113: ‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
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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115: ‘Turd on the Front Porch’ With Guest Ben Thompson
April 3, 2015
•154m
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”.
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- Recode: “Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple’s TV Service”.
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