212: ‘Arbiter of Finallys’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/25/18
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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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John Moltz returns to the show. We talk about the HomePod, the “cancellation” of iPhone X, Steve Jobs and the orange button, and Super Bowl 52. And a surprising amount of talk about dates.
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- Rian Johnson on The Talk Show five years ago.
- “I’m a fucking immigration lawyer.”
- “iPhone X is cancelled” nonsense.
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- Bethany Bongiorno’s story about Steve Jobs, the original iPhone, and an orange button.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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