211: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/31/17
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As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and John Siracusa.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell
December 30, 2017
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Special guest Jason Snell returns for the penultimate episode of 2017. Topics include the iPhone battery performance-throttling saga, Google Maps vs. Apple Maps, new versions of iOS running slow on older iPhones, the new iMac Pro, iOS file management, and more.
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- Apple: “A Message to Our Customers About iPhone Batteries and Performance”.
- Apple KnowledgeBase: “iPhone Battery and Performance”.
- Jason’s interview with Greg Joswiak back in 2007 on the original iPhone’s battery.
- Jason on transferring files from an SD card to iOS devices.
- Twitter thread on iOS devices and USB storage.
- Reddit thread on Android phones, including reports from people with older devices with failing batteries.
- Jason and Myke Hurley’s Upgrade Holiday Special.
- Apollo 13.
- Justin O’Beirne: “Google’s Maps Moat”.
- iZotope RX 6: de-noising, de-echoing software.
- Jason’s new iMac Pro.
- The Apple IIc from 1984.
- Font/DA Mover — this is how we installed fonts back in the day.
- SteerMouse — third-party mouse driver for MacOS that lets you set incredibly fast mouse speeds. Good for RSI sufferers.
- Samsung’s T5 SSD external USB 3.1 storage drives.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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212: ‘Arbiter of Finallys’ With Rene Ritchie
January 25, 2018
•147m
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about HomePod, clickbait, the Spectre/Meltdown security exploits, and a look back at Apple’s 2017 in review.
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- Rene with Tim Cook at a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
- Joe Cieplinski on HomePod pricing.
- Business Insider: “I Had an Apple Store Experience From Hell — and It’s Clear There Are Larger Problems With Apple’s Retail Presence”.
- Yours truly: “On Rumors of the iPhone X Being Produced for Only One Year ” and “The Scourge of Clickbait”.
- Saved You a Click.
- Vector, Rene’s new daily podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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