240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/14/19
•167m
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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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239: ‘Proprioceptive Lie’ With Rene Ritchie
December 31, 2018
•146m
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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241: ‘More Smarter’ With Joanna Stern
January 23, 2019
•107m
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the iPhone XR (and the argument that it might be the best phone in Apple’s current lineup), Apple’s new Smart Battery Cases, Apple Watch, and, of course, the new MacBook Air.
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Links:
- New York Magazine in 2016: “Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?”.
- Last Month: “Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement”.
- Joanna’s iPhone XR review.
- Joanna’s MacBook Air review — from a hot air balloon.
- “Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested by a Hollywood Stunt Double” .
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