333: ‘Schrödinger’s Feature’, With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/31/21
•165m
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Apple’s 2021 year in review, with special guest Rene Ritchie.
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- January:
- February:
- iOS 14.5 and unlocking with Apple Watch while wearing a mask.
- March:
- April:
- May:
- Epic v. Apple court case.
- App Store: The Schiller Cut.
- New Apple TV 4K and Siri Remote.
- M1 iPad Pros.
- 24-inch M1 iMacs.
- June:
- August:
- September:
- “California Streaming” event.
- iPhones 13
- iPad Mini
- iOS 15 and WatchOS 8.
- Kevin Lynch takes over “TitanOS”.
- October:
- Apple Watch Series 7
- M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros
- MacOS 12 Monterey
- Shortcuts.
- November:
- December:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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332: ‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern
December 23, 2021
•119m
Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new iCloud “legacy contact” feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.
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Links:
- Joanna on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week. (Really fun!)
- Gita Mini by Piaggio — the follow-along robot demoed on The Tonight Show.
- “Stuck in the Metaverse for 24 hours” — Joanna spends 24 hours alone in a hotel room wearing an Oculus Quest 2.
- “E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever” — Joanna’s Emmy-winning documentary.
- Joanna’s “new roommate”.
- iOS 15.2’s “Legacy Contact” feature.
- “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone”.
- “General Magic: The Movie.”
- Joanna Stern interviews Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit — video and transcript.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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334: ‘High-Margin Candy Bar’, With Dieter Bohn
January 8, 2022
•99m
Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about his excellent new documentary, Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone -- a history of Handspring and the creators of the original PalmPilot.
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- “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone” — the full 30-minute documentary.
- (That same link has Dieter’s bonus material, too, including his corrected version of Ed Colligan’s infamous December 2006 quip about the then-imminent iPhone.)
- “The Zen of Palm” (PDF) — Palm’s HIG and design philosophy.
- Palm OS’s Graffiti handwriting system, including an illustrated cheatsheet of the gestures.
- PalmOS devices:
- The Palm Pre — Palm’s answer to the iPhone in 2009.
- TreoCentral and VisorCentral — both sites long defunct, but still available online.
- BlackBerry-esque prototype Android devices from before Google saw the iPhone.
- HTC’s G1 — The first commercial Android phone (a real turd).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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