147: ‘iTools or Whatever’ With Jim Dalrymple
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/21/16
•118m
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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.
Previous Episode
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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148: ‘Occupy Portland’ With John Moltz
March 2, 2016
•140m
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the Apple/FBI encryption fight, Apple's upcoming event and the products they're expected to announce. And Campo Santo's fantastic new video game Firewatch.
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Links:
- L. Gordon Crovitz’s jacktastic op-ed piece on the Apple/FBI fight.
- Firewatch.
- Olly Moss’s Star Wars trilogy posters.
- Geek Remix’s excellent video analyzing the plot of Firewatch. Spoilers galore — do not watch this unless you’ve finished the game. You don’t even want to look at the title of the video.
- The cast of Firewatch.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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