155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/28/16
•142m
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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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Links:
- 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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154: ‘Facebook on Your Face’ With Rene Ritchie
May 21, 2016
•131m
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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- Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code thetalkshow for $50 toward your mattress.
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- Wealthfront: An automated investment service with over $3 billion in client assets under management.
Links:
- 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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156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann
June 4, 2016
•118m
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.
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Links:
- Eddy Cue celebrating on court with Stephen Curry after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Western Conference finals.
- Apple’s purported upcoming standalone Siri device might have a camera.
- The Talk Show in iTunes. Reviews are much appreciated.
- The AI Effect: “It’s part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something — play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems — there was chorus of critics to say, ‘That’s not thinking’.”
- System 7 Macintosh Basics Demo.
- Canary: Real-time streaming video camera for your home. Merlin’s got one and likes it.
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