154: ‘Facebook on Your Face’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/21/16
•131m
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Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new flagship retail store in San Francisco, recent improvements to App Store approval times, and Google’s announcements at I/O this week — Google Home and Google Assistant, Allo and Duo, and Android “N” and Android Instant Apps.
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- Rene’s preview of the new SF Apple Store.
- Apple Talk — iMore’s new podcast, with yours truly as their first guest.
- App Store review times.
- Privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian on Twitter.
- Google I/O 2016 Keynote on YouTube.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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153: ‘Chock Full of Whimsy’ With Ben Thompson
May 6, 2016
•178m
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Apple’s recent quarterly results, what we think is going on with iPhone sales, Tim Cook’s misleading guidance, Apple Music, and a lot more.
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Links:
- Yours truly, last week: “Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales”.
- Ben, two weeks ago: “Apple’s Organizational Crossroads”.
- Neil Cybart: “iPhone Warning Signs”.
- Due, an iPhone reminder app that I’ve been using daily for years.
- Gary Allen, now-deceased writer behind IFO Apple Store.
- Mini Microsoft.
- Dodger Trayce Thompson, brother of Golden State Warrior star Klay Thompson, hit a run in Tampa that never came down from the rafters.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
May 28, 2016
•142m
Special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. (Finally.) Topics include rumors of an upcoming Siri SDK and an Amazon Echo-like device from Apple, the future of the MacBook lineup, Peter Thiel's secretive role as the financial backer of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, and my hatred of Roman numerals.
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- Wealthfront: An automated investment service with over $3 billion in client assets under management.
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- Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code thetalkshow for $50 toward your mattress.
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- 500ish Words -- the new home for MG's writing.
- Why do movie studios use Roman numerals for the copyright year in end credits?
- Felix Salmon on the strategy behind Peter Thiel's heretofore secret campaign to bankrupt Gawker.
- 9to5Mac on purported upcoming MacBook Pros that replace the function keys with an LED touchscreen.
- The Optimus Popularis -- a humongous $1500 keyboard where each key cap is a small LED.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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