196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
07/21/17
•126m
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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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195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz
June 26, 2017
•113m
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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Links:
- 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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197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman
August 6, 2017
•159m
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn’s new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.
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Links:
- Hands On: The Original Digital — Glenn’s new book on type, printing, and punctuation.
- Vic Gundotra is now a staunch iPhone proponent.
- Apple inadvertently leaks HomePod OS, spilling many beans.
- Apple Removes VPN apps from Chinese App Store.
- Apple Park is mostly open workspaces.
- XKCD: Wi-Fi vs. Cellular.
- Soulver — a terrific app for Mac and iOS that’s sort of a cross between a spreadsheet and calculator.
- Rebecca Slatkin on Twitter.
- Studio Neat Frameographer.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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