175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/10/16
•118m
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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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174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern
November 30, 2016
•121m
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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176: ‘Frolic’ With Craig Hockenberry
December 16, 2016
•122m
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show with his gigantic fleshy palms. Topics include Donald Trump's highly publicized meeting with a handful of U.S. tech company leaders (including Tim Cook), the release of Nintendo's Super Mario Run for iPhone, Uber's autonomous car that was caught cruising straight through a red light in San Francisco, and Craig's excellent new book, Making Sense of Color Management.
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Links:
- Craig's excellent new book, with a foreword by yours truly, Making Sense of Color Management, from A Book Apart.
- More from Craig on the story behind the book.
- Uber's carefully-worded PR spin on their autonomous car that was captured on video running a red light.
- Trump's tech summit meeting, and the look on Tim Cook's face.
- Poll shows U.S. Republicans rate Vladimir Putin 67 percent more favorably than Hillary Clinton, and 54 percent more favorably than Barack Obama. (Source.)
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