245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/28/19
•172m
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Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include, but are not limited to, privacy concerns with apps from the App Store, Google’s payments to Apple to keep Google Search the default in Safari, Apple’s Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple’s purported March 25 media event.
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Links:
- These Apps Are Stealing Your Most Private Data and It Should Be a Crime.
- Objective Development’s Internet Access Policy.
- The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America.
- Samsung Galaxy Fold vs. Huawei Mate X.
- Shot on iPhone Challenge winners.
- Should Apple Remove Google as Default Search?.
- Twitter thread on new MacBooks with keyboard problems.
- Adam Lashinsky on Steve Jobs’s parable of the difference between a janitor and a VP.
- LG’s answer to the foldable mania is a second screen.
- Google Blames Bug for Apple Music Appearing on Home Speakers.
- Teleprompt+.
- Panasonic GH5.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman
February 22, 2019
•184m
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include: rumors of new Mac hardware and Marzipan at WWDC, Samsung’s new phones unveiled at their “Unpacked” event, 5G networks, Apple’s purported foray into the credit card business, and more — including Glenn’s “Tiny Type Museum” Kickstarter project.
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Links
- Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule — Glenn’s latest project on Kickstarter.
- “The Old Guard of Mac Indie Apps Has Thrived for More Than 25 Years”.
- WSJ report on Apple teaming With Goldman Sachs to issue a credit card.
- Costco’s remarkable low-fee exclusivity deal with Visa.
- “Gurman on WWDC 2019: Marzipan Marches Forward and the New Mac Pro”.
- “Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?”
- Glenn’s story on Erik Spiekermann marrying digital design with letterpress printing.
- Jack Dorsey on The Bill Simmons Podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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246: ‘Loan It to Nien Nunb’ With Matthew Panzarino
March 16, 2019
•200m
Matthew “Hondo” Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2019, the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Apple and privacy, the Boeing 737 Max, and Disney’s upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park lands.
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Links:
- Panzarino: “How Disney Built Star Wars in Real Life”
- Web browser recreation of Tim Berners-Lee’s original browser — WorldWideWeb on NeXTStep.
- Apple’s new privacy ad.
- Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol recall in 1982.
- “It’s Time to Break Up Amazon, Google, and Facebook”.
- “Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Apple, Too”.
- Spotify’s “Time to Play Fair” campaign against Apple.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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