164: ‘Enjoyably Clicky’ With Jason Snell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
08/12/16
•144m
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Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include the latest rumors regarding the upcoming new iPhones and MacBook Pros, Rick Tetzeli’s cover story for Fast Company on Tim Cook’s Apple, and the connection between baseball and mechanical keyboards.
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- Six Colors.
- Upgrade episode 101: "It Works Great in California".
- Mark Gurman's report for Bloomberg on this year's new iPhones.
- Gurman on new MacBook Pros.
- UX Magazine: "The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover" -- why Bloomberg terminals have an inscrutable UI that they won't change.
- WASD Keyboards.
- The Apple IIgs keyboard.
- Leopold keyboards.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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163: ‘Low Grade Scam’ With Joanna Stern
July 31, 2016
•85m
Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include media gossip on Eddy Cue negotiations with cable TV companies, Apple’s aging notebook lineup, Apple’s upcoming product announcement event, the Windows 10 upgrade fiasco, and our sweaty feet.
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- Joanna on the $50 (with lock-screen ads) Blu R1 HD phone from Amazon.
- Joanna on the Windows 10 upgrade.
- The WSJ on Apple’s “hard-charging” negotiations with TV networks (and Eddy Cue’s apparel).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English
August 27, 2016
•128m
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.
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Links:
- WASD 6-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester.
- Tim Cook's excellent interview in The Washington Post.
- Jan Dawson: "Five Years of Tim Cook's Apple in Charts".
- Steven Levy: "An Exclusive Inside Look at How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Work at Apple".
- Levy's excellent books, The Perfect Thing (about the iPod) and In the Plex (about Google's inner workings).
- Andy Hertzfeld's book on the development of the original Macintosh, Revolution in the Valley, and the website with much of the same source material, Folklore.org.
- Yours truly: "Vesper, Adieu".
- Brent Simmons: "Last Vesper Update", "More Notes on Vesper", and "Why Vesper Didn’t Start as a Web App".
- Yours truly: "Apple and the Pistol Emoji".
- Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
- “The High and the Flighty” — classic Looney Tunes Foghorn Leghorn short.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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