125: ‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’ With Guest Horace Dediu
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/28/15
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Special guest Horace Dediu joins The Talk Show for the first time. Topics include the state of the maps industry, Apple’s functional organizational structure, what the WWDC keynote said about the state of the company today, and more.
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Links:
- Hybrid Events Group, who handled the live streaming video for The Talk Show’s live episode two weeks ago.
- Horace’s analysis of the state of the maps market.
- New York Times feature on the curated nature of Apple Music’s streaming music.
- Horace’s transcript of Tim Cook’s poetic description of Apple’s doctrine, from a 2009 quarterly analyst call.
- Horace’s podcast: The Critical Path.
Previous Episode
Guy English returns to the show, and we make a valiant but failed effort to cover all of the technical/developer news from last week’s WWDC. Among the topics we did hit: app thinning, Bitcode, WatchKit 2.0, CloudKit (and opening it up to web developers), Swift 2.0, Metal coming to the Mac, accessibility and low-level support for right-to-left languages, iOS 9’s new low-power mode, and more.
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Links:
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- Guy English on Twitter.
- “Inertial Lemon“‘s take on Bitcode, which Guy and I think is probably incorrect in several ways.
- Chris Lattner.
- Becoming Steve Jobs, the new biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli.
- WWDC 2015 session videos, all of which are viewable without an ADC account.
- Video of last week’s live episode of The Talk Show, with special guest Phil Schiller.
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126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell
July 20, 2015
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Jason Snell returns to the show, with a lot to talk about: Pebble's new Pebble Time smartwatch, the "Safari is the New IE" argument, the state of web advertising (and its adverse effects on performance and privacy) and monetization, and more.
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Links:
- Adam Lisagor guest-posting on Kottke.org back in 2007. And Jason Kottke’s introduction.
- Ben Thompson on how web advertising works today. It’s gross.
- Mary Meeker’s slide on mobile’s share of attention vs. advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015.
- Jason on MLB’s experimental native Mac app for watching games.
- Jason: “Web Developers Are Grumpy About Safari”.
- Rene Ritchie: “Safari Isn’t the New IE: It’s the User-Centric Web”.
- My wife’s photo of me and Phil Schiller on stage last month.
- Spark — excellent new iOS email app from Readdle that Jason is using.
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