178: ‘Now Banned in China’ With Jim Dalrymple
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/09/17
•128m
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Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for the first episode of 2017. Topics include New Year’s Eve, Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant, Apple’s aging AirPort and Mac Pro lineups, the future of desktop Macs, Apple Watch battery life, and rumors of upcoming new iPads.
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Links:
- Chuq Von Rospach: “Apple’s 2016 Year in Review”.
- My follow-up, specifically on the AirPort and Mac Pro hardware.
- Matt Birchler: “Siri vs. Google Assistant”.
- Dave Mark, on the slew of Alexa-related products at CES this year: “Alexa Is Everywhere”.
- Chris Adamson, on why he just bought a “new” Mac Pro.
- Apple, The New York Times, and China.
- Photos from inside Harry’s razor blade factory in Germany.
- Rumors about upcoming new iPads, including a new bezel-less edge-to-edge design.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Previous Episode
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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Links:
- 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.
Next Episode
179: ‘iPhone Is the New Hitler’ With Ben Thompson
January 26, 2017
•134m
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the state of the Mac (and our shared belief that it’s death has been greatly exaggerated), the NFL playoffs, Chris Lattner leaving Apple for Tesla (and the general problem of talent retention), ruminating on the origins of the word “podcast”, and more.
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Links:
- “America’s slow but very real decline into a fascist state as told by the Milwaukee Bucks logo.”
- Pittsburgh cab driver says John Elway is the best quarterback in history, not know that Elway was sitting in the back seat.
- Yours truly back in 2005: “Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket?”
- MPW, Apple's classic-era IDE.
- Pastebot, a great new clipboard utility from Tapbots.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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