141: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/31/15
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A brief holiday chat about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
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- Writers Guild panel discussion between Lawrence Kasdan, JJ Abrams, and Michael Arndt, writers of The Force Awakens.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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140: ‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’ With Rene Ritchie
December 29, 2015
•187m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look back at the Apple year that was: the new one-port MacBook, Apple Watch's launch, WWDC and Apple Music, the iPhones 6S, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, iPad Mini 4, iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11, and, of course, the most important new product of the year, the Smart Battery Case.
This episode contains absolutely no Star Wars talk, except for a little.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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142: ‘They Sherlocked F.lux’ With Dan Frommer
January 13, 2016
•133m
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show to deliver his first-hand report from last week’s CES in Las Vegas. Other topics include Periscope, Peach, why Apple never participated at CES, El Chapo’s re-capture, iOS 9.3, Apple Watch, Apple’s finances (and stock price), and self-driving cars.
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- Dan Frommer’s report on Rupert Murdoch’s private super-conference held at the Wynn Las Vegas during CES.
- Frommer: “Fitbit’s Long-Term Future Sales Curve Revealed”.
- Frommer on Apple Watch, six months in.
- The re-launched City Notes.
- U.S. marshalls raid hovercraft booth at CES.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt: “Why So Much Apple Commentary Is So Clueless”.
- The Boeing Dreamlifter (inspiration for Apple’s iPhone Smart Battery Case).
- Sean Penn’s remarkable story for Rolling Stone on meeting with El Chapo.
- Dave Winer on the El Chapo story, and the objection from some journalists regarding the disclosed concessions they made to create it.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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