157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/11/16
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Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.
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Links:
- Full video of Walt Mossberg’s interview with Jeff Bezos at Recode’s Code 2016 last week.
- Full video of Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s interview with Elon Musk.
- MacDailyNews: “Apple to Deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC”.
- Motion Stills: new iPhone app from Google that makes Live Photos way better.
- Mark Bergen’s report for Recode on Mercedes-Benz’s advanced self-driving car initiative.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann
June 4, 2016
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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.
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Recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: WatchOS 3, MacOS 10.12 Sierra, iOS 10, and more.
Video of the show, and a complete transcript, is available here.
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Links:
- Yours truly: "Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s WWDC 2016 Keynote".
- Apple Previews iOS 10.
- Apple Previews MacOS Sierra.
- Apple Previews WatchOS 3.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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