314: ‘Obviously Tier One’, With Marco Arment
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/25/21
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Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)
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Links:
- Accidental Tech Podcast.
- Casey Liss, who really does do a good job as de facto host of ATP, and to whom I probably owe a beer now.
- Overcast — the app you’re probably using to listen to this show.
- My reviews of the new 24-inch M1 iMac, M1 iPad Pro, and Apple TV remote and the hardware set-top box it optionally comes with.
- Marco’s Ratio coffee maker.
- “Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire” — excellent 1996 video game for Nintendo 64.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman
April 30, 2021
•178m
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.
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Links:
- My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
- Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
- Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
- Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
- Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
- MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
- Apple Platform Security Guide.
- Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
- “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
- Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
- Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
- “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
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315: ‘I Don’t Know How to Read’, With Joanna Stern
May 29, 2021
•117m
Special guest: the one and only Joanna Stern. Topics: new iMacs, Touch ID vs. Face ID, remote controls, surveillance advertising, and people who want to make everything a video call when a good old-fashioned voice call would do.
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Links:
- Function101 Remote Control for Apple TV.
- Robert G. Reeves's tweet thread about getting Twitter ads for the brand of toothpaste his mother uses after spending a week at her house.
- "Apple declined to comment on if this is just an elaborate troll at this point.".
- Joanna's latest: "Stop With the Video Chats Already. Just Make a Voice Call.".
- Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi About ATT and 'Superman'.
- Joanna on AirTags vs. Tile.
- Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: "Apple’s New iPad Pro vs. MacBook Air".
- Apple Platform Security Guide: "Secure Intent and Connections to the Secure Enclave".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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