129: ‘90 Minutes or Bust’ With Guest Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
08/29/15
•116m
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Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include: our top complaints about Apple Watch, Apple making a car, the New York Times's profile of Amazon's work culture, and more.
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- The NYT: "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace".
- Julia Cheiffetz: "I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon".
- Me, back 2010, writing for Macworld: "This Is How Apple Rolls".
Previous Episode
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.
Next Episode
130: ‘A Full Canseco’ With Guest John Moltz
September 7, 2015
•160m
Special guest John Moltz is back. Topics include Google’s new logo, the Tacoma Tahomas, and our speculation regarding what to expect at this week’s Apple event in San Francisco.
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Links:
- The original logo for Apple Computer Co.
- Another great look at some obscure variations of the Apple logo we know and love.
- Jose Canseco getting hit on the head by a deep fly ball.
- Jose Canseco getting knocked out by Vai Sikahema in a charity boxing match.
- Moltz: “The Watch Face Wars”.
- Samsung’s new decent-looking Gear S2 watches.
- Unbox Therapy guy bend-tests a leaked iPhone 6S 7000-grade aluminum frame.
- The evolution of Google’s logo.
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