176: ‘Frolic’ With Craig Hockenberry
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/16/16
•122m
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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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- 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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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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- 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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177: ‘Surface Curious’ With Rene Ritchie
December 28, 2016
•122m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Siri vs. Alexa, and whether Wynn Las Vegas’s announcement that they’re putting Amazon Echos into their 4,700+ guest rooms is a sign that Amazon is building a meaningful long-term lead in the nascent voice assistant market; Mark Gurman’s week-ago piece for Bloomberg, “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”; Consumer Reports’s bizarre but widely-publicized battery test results for the new MacBook Pros; and a brief year in review look at our favorite new Apple products from 2016.
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- Super Mario Run only needs to be purchased once per iTunes account for use on multiple devices, but can only be played on one device (per iTunes account) at a time.
- Wynn Las Vegas is going to put Amazon Echos in its 4,700+ hotel rooms.
- Wynn has not one but two resorts in Macau — Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace — neither of which can use Amazon Echo until Amazon adds support for Chinese.
- Digital Trends: “A Holographic Virtual Girl Lives Inside Japan’s Answer to the Amazon Echo.
- Tim Cook, in a company-wide Q&A: “Some folks in the media have raised the question about whether we’re committed to desktops. If there’s any doubt about that with our teams, let me be very clear: we have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that.”
- Bret Victor: Touch Bar development started at Apple eight years ago. Follow-up tweets here, here, and here.
- Mark Gurman, writing for Bloomberg: “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”.
- Consumer Reports: “New MacBook Pros Fail to Earn Consumer Reports Recommendation”
- Me: “That’s absolutely bonkers.”
- Rene Ritchie: “Consumer Reports Fails to Earn MacBook Pro Credibility”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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