174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/30/16
•121m
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Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros (and their keyboards), stockpiling old MacBook Airs, dongles, Touch ID, SnapChat Spectacles, and more.
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Links:
- Joanna’s review of the new MacBook Pros.
- My review.
- Joanna and Walt Mossberg talking crazy about stockpiling MacBook Airs.
- Joanna’s guide to the adapters and dongles — lots and lots of dongles — you might need for a new MacBook Pro.
- Joanna’s review of SnapChat Spectacles
- Mark Gurman’s reports on Apple getting out of the AirPort base station market and Amazon making a new Echo with a built-in 7-inch display for the kitchen.
- Adam Geitgey: “The New MacBook Pro Is Kind of Great for Hackers”.
- Monoprice.
- Griffin’s Breaksafe, a dongle-plus-nubbin replacement for MagSafe on USB-C equipped MacBooks.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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173: ‘Fork the Universe’ With Jason Snell
November 18, 2016
•161m
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar, and Apple’s new book chronicling the last 20 years of their industrial design, Designed by Apple in California.
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Links:
- Jason’s review of the new MacBook Pros with Touch Bar.
- My review of the same.
- The Glif iPhone tripod mount.
- BBEdit.
- PCalc.
- James Thompson’s Easter egg idea for PCalc’s Touch Bar support.
- Jeffrey Friedl’s Mastering Regular Expressions, the greatest book that ever was or will be written on regular expressions.
- Sal Soghoian’s automation site for AppleScript, Automator, and more.
- My Title Case Script.
- Control Strip from classic Mac OS.
- Bartender utility for today’s MacOS.
- Horace Dediu: “Wherefore art thou Macintosh?”
- Yours truly on Microsoft and the word “compromise” back in 2013.
- Iconic, Jonathan Zufi’s excellent 2013 book on Apple’s design work.
- Designed by Apple in California.
- Taschen, coffee table book publisher extraordinaire.
- Jony Ive’s interview with Wallpaper on Designed by Apple in California.
- “I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman
December 10, 2016
•118m
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include indoor plumbing, a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s excellent “Westworld”, our favorite beverages, Apple’s AirPods launch debacle, Apple TV single sign-on, and more.
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Links:
- HBO’s post-Westworld Easter Egg laden site for Delos Inc..
- Ask Siri about “Westworld”.
- “A History of the World in Six Glasses”, by Tom Standage.
- Interesting New York Times story from January on Donald Trump’s brother Freddy, who drank himself to death in 1981.
- Glenn’s review of NewerTech’s $49 NuPower 60-Watt dual USB-A/USB-C charger — a single charger that can charge both a MacBook and iPhone at the same time.
- Tim Cook purportedly emails customer saying AirPods should ship over the “next few weeks”.
- Yours truly on what’s going on with the AirPods delay: unexpected manufacturing problems.
- Thoroughly Considered: the Studio Neat podcast.
- John Paczkowski summarizing the inauspicious partner list at the launch of Apple’s single sign-on service for TV content.
- Farhad Manjoo explains why he thinks gadgets are dying as a category: smartphones, probably.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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