195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/26/17
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Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include more follow-up from WWDC 2017, the iPad Pro models and ProMotion, Scott Forstall's interview with John Markoff regarding the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone, the ongoing shitshow at Uber, quick thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, and more. Also: guess which John enjoys throwing babies into the air.
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- Michael Hagain at Lead Fast on the Chinese-made Dixon Ticonderoga pencils.
- Chris Pirillo on iPad Pro, Promotion, and iOS.
- Museum Historian John Markoff moderates a discussion with former iPhone team members Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra and Scott Herz, followed by a conversation with Scott Forstall.
- Episodes of Guy English and Rene Ritchie’s Debug podcast with Nitin Gunatra and Don “No Fucks Left to Give” Melton:
- Navistone — the creepy company that sells a JavaScript library for collecting form data as soon as you type it.
- Chris Lattner leaves Tesla.
- The Outline: “Apple’s War on Leakers”.
- Brian Merchant’s The One Device and the excerpt that ran in The Verge.
- Evidence in High Sierra betas suggests iMac Pro might come with Secure Enclave ARM chip.
- Donors Choose — a great way to contribute money to help teachers buy supplies for their classrooms.
- The Osborne Effect.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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194: ‘Egg Freckles’ With Serenity Caldwell
June 19, 2017
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Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about WWDC 2017 — iOS 11, the new iPad Pro models, MacOS 10.13 “High Sierra”, updated Mac hardware and a tease at the upcoming iMac Pro, where Apple might go with VR and AR, San Jose as the venue for the event itself, and more.
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Links:
- WWDC 2017 keynote.
- Last week's live episode of The Talk Show, with special guests Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi.
- Doonesbury on the Newton back in 1993.
- Serenity Caldwell: 'WWDC 2017 in Review: The Community Evolves'.
- Lytro’s light field camera: the focus-after-the-fact camera referenced during the show.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie
July 21, 2017
•126m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
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Links:
- Mexican Coke.
- Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones”.
- Rene Ritchie: “iPhones of Future Past: Understanding iPhone 8”.
- Essential, Andy Rubin’s new company, with an upcoming edge-to-edge Android phone.
- Neil Cybart’s Above Avalon newsletter.
- Yours truly predicting an “edge-to-edge display” in a 2017 iPhone back in May 2016.
- “How Apple vs. Samsung Became a Smartphone Beauty Contest” — Wall Street Journal “news” article by Timothy W. Martin and Tripp Mickle positing that Samsung is a company that values design and Apple is not.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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