165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English
The Talk Show With John Gruber
08/27/16
•128m
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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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- 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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164: ‘Enjoyably Clicky’ With Jason Snell
August 12, 2016
•144m
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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Links:
- 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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166: ‘Way of the Future’ With Rene Ritchie
September 5, 2016
•111m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss what we expect to see at Apple’s upcoming event in San Francisco: new iPhones (without headphone jacks, and with a radical new two-lens camera on the Plus-sized model), Apple Watch 2 (and a new fall lineup of watch bands). We also discuss Samsung’s recall of the Galaxy Note 7 (because of exploding batteries), when we’ll see new Mac hardware and new iPads, and more.
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Links:
- Apple’s event invitation, suggesting depth-of-field camera effects.
- Rene Ritchie: “How Apple Does Camera”.
- Ming-Chi Kuo on what he expects from the iPhone 7 based on supply-chain sources.
- Tim Cook’s possibly intriguing slip of the tongue regarding Apple Pencil working with iPhones.
- Jason Snell on new Mac hardware: “If Not September 7, Then When?”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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