197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
08/06/17
•159m
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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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- 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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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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- 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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198: ‘Prison Oreos’ With Jason Snell
August 25, 2017
•160m
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Daring Fireball's 15th anniversary, fruit fly infestations, clicky keyboards, sandwich cookies, the birth of Markdown, iOS 11's new "cop mode", favicons in Safari, Apple's Project Titan, last week's total solar eclipse, and Jerry Lewis.
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- Justin Scott's "upstream/downstream" advice.
- Wireless Emergency AMBER Alerts have supposedly saved 40 kids.
- Steven Troughton-Smith's new Apple Extended Keyboard II inspired keyboard.
- WASD keyboards.
- Leopold keyboards.
- WASD tester.
- Newman-O’s vs. Oreos.
- DF turns 15.
- This Is How Apple Rolls.
- Cop Mode on iOS 11.
- Mark Gurman’s embarrassing article positing that Apple follows its competitors.
- Safari should show favicons in tabs.
- Project Titan.
- iMessage as an unheralded social networking Goliath.
- Jason’s road trip.
- Letterman to return with Netflix series.
- Jerry Lewis and ‘The King of Comedy’.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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