298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler
The Talk Show With John Gruber
10/09/20
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MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.
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Links:
- MG on Apple Watch Series 6, and why he swapped Graphite stainless steel for blue aluminum.
- MG on App Clips and the Clip demo of the game Phoenix 2.
- “Apple, Influence, and Ive” — Ben Clymer’s 2018 profile of Jony Ive for Hodinkee.
- The seminal 2018 town hall meeting led by John Stankey, the longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO, that foreshadowed HBO’s decline.
- Christopher Nolan’s work on the 2018 50th anniversary “unrestored” print of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Nolan’s ill-advised decision to force Tenet into theaters amidst the COVID pandemic.
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — perhaps the best film in a great series, directed by Brad Bird.
- Cary Joji Fukunaga — director of the astounding first season of True Detective and the upcoming No Time to Die James Bond film.
- Michael Clayton — quietly great movie by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney.
- DisneyQuest, the aborted urban entertainment center in Philly that Disney never built in the late 1990s.
- United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. — 1948 Supreme Court antitrust case that resulted in movie studios being banned from owning theaters.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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297: ‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’, With David Smith
September 30, 2020
•166m
Special guest “Underscore” David Smith joins the show to talk about iOS 14 widgets, WatchOS complications, sleep tracking, and his App Store chart-topping hit Widgetsmith.
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Underscore’s apps:
- Widgetsmith
- Watchsmith
- Sleep++
- Pedometer++
- And a lot more. Seriously, he makes a lot of apps.
Other links:
- Under the Radar — Underscore’s weekly podcast with Marco Arment.
- Daring Fireball: “Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad”.
- National Weather Service.
- Weatherline.
- Michael Ward’s classic 2004 piece for McSweeney’s: “E-Mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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299: ‘Sounds Like a Good Red Sauce Place’, With Special Guest Jason Snell
October 31, 2020
•151m
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS.
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Links:
- The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project.
- Jason’s chart-based speculation on what we might expect from Apple Silicon Macs.
- My review of the new iPad Air.
- Jason’s review of the new iPad Air.
- Jason’s review of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
- My iPhone 12 review, and my event wrap-up with analysis of pricing.
- Dave Itzkoff’s profile of David Letterman for The New York Times, regarding season 3 of his Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”.
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