232: ‘I’ll Eat My Hat’ With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
10/27/18
•155m
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Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week's Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.
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- My iPhone XR review and follow-up.
- Strategic Conquest.
- Bolo — networked Mac game from 1987.
- The Secret History of Mac Gaming, by Richard Moss.
- Joanna Stern: “Ugh, Green Bubbles! Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard”.
- Vlad Savov on Google’s imminent Night Sight feature for Pixel phones.
- Research paper and video showing Night-Sight-like results.
- Sam Byford on Chinese phone OSes based on Android.
- Totallee super thin iPhone cases.
- Jason Snell on building a Hackintosh (or as Moltz put it, a Macinstein).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton, who insists he’s going to the grave with a tiny phone.
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231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer
October 16, 2018
•147m
Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.
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- Points Party — Dan’s email newsletter on credit card and airline rewards programs.
- Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack”.
- Custom watch faces by Steven Troughton-Smith.
- David “Underscore” Smith’s retro watch face.
- The Verge hands-on with on Photoshop for iPad.
- The new “Palm” phone.
- Punkt’s minimal MP02 phone.
- Panic’s late great Status Board app for iPad.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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233: ‘North Korean USB Fan’ With John Moltz
October 31, 2018
•103m
You wanted more Moltz, you get more Moltz. Our thoughts and observations on Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the products they announced: new MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, iPad Pros, and Apple Pencil.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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