270: ‘Talking About Crimes’ With Matthew Yglesias
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/27/19
•119m
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Very special guest Matthew Yglesias joins the show to talk about Tim Cook cozying up to Trump for tariff relief and more.
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- Tim Cook interview with Brian Williams in 2012 announcing Mac Pro would be assembled in USA.
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- Weeds Podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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269: ‘Maximally Thin’ With Casey Johnston
November 19, 2019
•110m
Very special guest Casey Johnston joins the show to talk about the butterfly MacBook keyboard saga and the just-released 16-inch MacBook Pro, with its all new scissor-switch keyboard design.
Links:
- Casey Johnston on Twitter.
- “Ask a Swole Woman” — Casey’s column for women on fitness and health, now at Vice.
- Marco Arment’s first-look review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a nifty graph illustrating the differences in key travel and spacing of various keyboards.
- Dr. Drang’s gentle improvement of Marco’s graph.
The saga of Casey’s writing regarding MacBook keyboards:
- Oct 2017: “The New MacBook Keyboard Is Ruining My Life”.
- Apr 2018: “Don’t Buy the MacBook Pros Even on Sale, in My Opinion” — Casey sold her MacBook back to Apple.
- May 2018: “Apple Knew Its Computers Were “Defective,” Sold Them Anyway, Suit Alleges”.
- June 2018: “Apple Admits Its Computers Are Broken” — the beginning of the Keyboard Service Program.
- March 2019: Joanna Stern: “Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm”.
- April 2019: “Apple Owes Everyone an Apology and It Should Start With Me, Specifically” — Casey bought a 2018 MacBook Air.
- May 2019: third-generation butterfly design with “material” change.
- Apple’s support document on how to use compressed air to maybe hopefully fix a butterfly-switch MacBook keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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271: ‘A Perfect Wheel’ With Jason Snell
December 12, 2019
•165m
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show for a brief chat about the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, which are both — dare I say — finally available for ordering. Also: Ming Chi Kuo’s intriguing rumors on the 2020 and 2021 iPhone lineups.
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Links:
- Jason at Macworld: “The Mac Pro Is an Important Symbol, but You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It”.
- Greg Joswiak and Craig Federighi on stage at this year’s The Talk Show Live From WWDC, on the price of the Mac Pro’s optional wheels.
- The new Mac Pro has unique keyboard, trackpad, and mouse — black keys/glass and silver aluminum bottoms. It even comes with a black USB-C to Lightning cable and black power cable.
- Marques Brownlee’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Pro Display XDR.
- Justine Ezarik’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Behind the scenes.
- MacStories’ roundup of other Mac Pro / Pro Display XDR reviews and first impressions.
- Ming Chi Kuo’s 2020 iPhone roadmap.
- New iPhone “SE” to be called iPhone 9?
- Upgrade 275: “Remove All of the Holes”.
- The Mac IIfx debuted in March 1990 at a price of $9,900. Inflation adjusted, that’s $19,400 — give or take — in today’s dollars.
- Spectre, the greatest Mac game of all time (come at me).
- The language formerly known as “Perl 6” — first announced in July 2000 (!) — is now Raku. And Perl 5 — the one true Perl — is up to version 30.
- “Kotoba: The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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