145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/10/16
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Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.
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Links:
- Tim Cook, Super Bowl photographer.
- The New Yorker advertising Josh Topolsky’s “The End of Twitter” article — on Twitter.
- Concussions suffered in this year’s Super Bowl.
- How we used to finger our friends in college.
- Dustin Curtis computed the 2015 revenue and profit per employee for Yahoo, Twitter, MSFT, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
- Xifaxan’s Super Bowl 50 commercial, starring a diarrhea-stricken human bowel.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Moisés Chiullan.
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Very special guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi join the show. Topics include: the new features in Apple's upcoming OS releases (iOS 9.3 and tvOS 9.2); why Apple is expanding its public beta program for OS releases; iTunes's monolithic design; how personally involved Eddy and Craig are in using, testing, and installing beta software; the sad decline of Duke's men's basketball team; and more.
Some scoops too, including: the weekly number of iTunes and App Store transactions, an updated Apple Music subscriber count, peak iMessage traffic per second, and the number of iCloud account holders.
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Links:
- Apple’s iOS beta preview page.
- Apple Insider on the new features in tvOS 9.2.
- Walt Mossberg: “Apple’s Apps Need Work”.
- Yours truly, following up on Mossberg’s column.
- Duke falls out of AP Top 25 for the first time in more than eight years.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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