121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/31/15
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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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120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer
May 23, 2015
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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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122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
June 7, 2015
•142m
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.
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Links:
- Gurman’s WWDC expectation roundup at 9to5Mac.
- That hack to use San Francisco as the system font on Yosemite.
- Eddy Cue at game 1 of the NBA Finals.
- Gurman’s 2014 feature on Apple PR.
- Techmeme’s “leaderboard”, and their FAQ explaining how it works.
- Ross Floate: ‘Your Next Project Needs a White-Hat Jerk’.
- Last year’s Slack flaw that let you see the team names from any company.
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