122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/07/15
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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.
Previous Episode
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.
Next Episode
123: Live From WWDC 2015 With Guest Phil Schiller
June 10, 2015
•68m
Recorded in front of a live audience at Mezzanine in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.11 El Capitan, iOS 9, the new native app SDK for Apple Watch, Apple Music, and the 2004 American League Championship series.
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