146: ‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’ With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/12/16
•56m
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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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145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson
February 10, 2016
•109m
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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147: ‘iTools or Whatever’ With Jim Dalrymple
February 21, 2016
•118m
Special guest Jim Dalrymple joins the show to talk about the Apple/FBI legal showdown, the debate over Apple software quality, and more.
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Links:
- Walt Mossberg: "Apple's Apps Need Work"
- Jim Dalrymple: "About Walt Mossberg and Apple’s App Problem"
- Yours truly: "Apple's App Problem"
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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