127: ‘A Sack Full of Plucked Feathers’ With Guest John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
07/29/15
•119m
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Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include bluetooth headphones, Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library, phone sizes (including speculation on the lineup of new iPhones in September), El Chapo’s social media intern, Apple’s stock price, Alex Gibney’s upcoming Steve Jobs documentary, and the new trailer for Spectre.
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- Jason Snell’s “Bezos Chart” showing Apple Watch sales figures.
- The new trailer for Spectre.
- Reddit thread on Auric Goldfinger appearing as a sort of Easter egg in Casino Royale.
- Another Easter egg in Casino Royale: Daniel Craig using his Omega Seamaster as a knuckleduster in the climactic fight.
- Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs documentary, The Man in the Machine.
- El Chapo threatening Donald Trump on Twitter.
- Inside El Chapo’s purported escape tunnel.
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126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell
July 20, 2015
•173m
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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128: ‘Did You Ever Take a Photograph?’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
August 9, 2015
•146m
Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether their declining stock price makes them an acquisition target), the end of Google Plus, why the new Photos app for Mac is inadequate as a replacement for Lightroom for us, Apple's new San Jose real estate acquisition, Apple Car speculation, and Apple's spree of hiring writers from the Apple media.
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Links:
- This American Life episode on the NUMMI automobile plant in Fremont California -- a joint venture between GM and Toyota that wound up in the hands of Tesla Motors.
- Gizmodo's jacktastic "obituary" for iTunes.
- Evan Williams on why "monthly active users" is a poor metric.
- Chris Sacca endorsing Jack Dorsey to return as Twitter CEO..
- Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton's book about Twitter.
- Funny-because-it's-true Dilbert cartoon about management consultants.
- Great Vanity Fair feature by Richard Lawson: "The VidCon Revolution Isn’t Coming. It’s Here."
- Apple's $138 million purchase of a 43-acre site in north San Jose.
- Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine talk to USA Today about Apple Music, which now has 11 million trial subscribers.
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