120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/23/15
•138m
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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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Links:
- 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.
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119: ‘Workin’ in Pajamas’ With Guest David Sparks
May 15, 2015
•152m
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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- Photos for Mac Field Guide.
- 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.
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121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
May 31, 2015
•138m
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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Links:
- 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.
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