239: ‘Proprioceptive Lie’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/31/18
•146m
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Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a year-in-review look back at Apple’s 2018: the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Siri and services, and more.
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Links:
- The C64 Mini.
- Raspberry Pi.
- Vortex Race 3 mechanical keyboard.
- The other “Vortex”.
- The MacBook ARM — video from Rene laying out the similarities between Apple’s 2005 transition from PowerPC to Intel and the seemingly inevitable coming transition from Intel to in-house ARM chips.
- Apple Watch Series 4 detects man’s potentially deadly heart condition.
- John Giannandrea, Siri, and AI/ML.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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238: ‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’ With Jason Snell
December 24, 2018
•180m
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include BBEdit’s 25th anniversary, the saga of Word 6 for Mac in the 1990s, Mac iOS user interface differences (including an extensive discussion of Mojave’s craptacular “Marzipan” apps, and a few varying theories on what those apps portend), Photos on Mac and iOS, and, of course, keyboards.
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Links:
- Take Control of Photos by Jason Snell.
- Jason’s current keyboard: the Vortex Race 3.
- Apple hardware SVP Dan Riccio on reports of bent iPad Pros.
- Studio Neat’s Canopy case/iPad stand for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
- Fintie Carry Case for Apple Magic Keyboard.
- Jason’s favorite iPad stand.
- John’s favorite iPad stand.
- Microsoft’s Rick Schaut on the saga of Word 6 for Mac.
- My recent take on the Word 6 saga, in the context of the rise of Electron apps.
- Federico Viticci’s top iOS apps of the year.
- HomeBridge — open source utility for connecting non-HomeKit devices to HomeKit.
- BBEdit 25th anniversary merchandise and amusing press release.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson
January 14, 2019
•167m
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's horrible no good very bad earnings warning, the Chinese market, Apple's push toward services for revenue growth, antitrust issues regarding the App Store, and more.
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Links:
- “Apple’s Errors” — Ben’s take on Apple’s earnings warning.
- “Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning” — my take.
- “Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”.
- Exponent — Ben’s podcast cohosted by James Allworth — is back.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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