189: ‘Long Press on the French Fries’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/07/17
•134m
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Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q2 2017 financial results, the iPhone’s decline in China over the past two years, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick getting called to Tim Cook’s office regarding Uber’s surreptitious “fingerprinting” of iPhones, judging Apple Watch’s success, Hulu’s entry into the cord-cutting “live TV” subscription market (and Apple’s conspicuous absence from that same market), and more.
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Links:
- Apple Q2 2017 results:
- Is WeChat a problem for Apple in China?
- Ben Thompson: “Apple’s China Problem”.
- John Gruber: “Apple’s China Problem: WeChat”.
- Connie Chan: “When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China”.
- Other events in San Jose during WWDC week:
- Layers design conference (save $100 with code “martini” or “🍸”).
- AltConf.
- CocoaConf.
- Apple’s “Beyond WWDC” page.
- Scandal of the week at Uber:
- App Store economics:
- Matt Gemmell: “No company has done as much damage to the perceived value of software, and the sustainability of being an independent developer, as Apple.”
- Rene Ritchie: “Indie Development in the Age of the App Store”.
- Hulu’s new $40/month live TV service.
- It sucks that you can’t type common characters like tab and π, ¶, and © on an iOS software keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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188: ‘Apple VP Lisa Jackson’
April 21, 2017
•56m
Special guest Lisa Jackson — Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives — joins the show for an Earth Day discussion of the state of Apple’s environmental efforts: climate change, renewable energy, responsible packaging, and Apple’s new goal to create a “closed-loop supply chain”, wherein the company’s products would be manufactured entirely from recycled materials.
Full transcript of this episode.
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Links:
- Lisa Jackson’s bio.
- Apple’s 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report (PDF).
- Recycle your old Apple products.
- Apple’s charming series of animated spots on the environment by filmmaker James Blagden:
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190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson
May 13, 2017
•202m
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Microsoft's announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon's new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple's WeChat problem in China, and more.
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Links:
- Microsoft's Build 2017 Keynote.
- Fish Shell.
- Surface Laptop "luxury" treatment.
- 2007 Apple iPhone commercial.
- Bob Borcher's iPhone guided tours.
- Phil Schiller dumping Instagram in 2012.
- WeChat and the iPhone in China.
- When a ReadWriteWeb article became Google’s top result for “Facebook login”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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