336: ‘He Looked Like a Fred’, With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/31/22
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Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Apple’s record-breaking but somehow yawn-inducing quarterly results, new features in the upcoming releases of MacOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4, the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify saga, and more.
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Links:
- Apple Quarterly Results:
- MacOS 12.3 is dropping kernel extension APIs used by Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive:
- New emojis in iOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.3.
- MacRumors: "Hands-On With Universal Control in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3".
- Other new features in iOS 15.3 and MacOS 12.3, including Face ID while wearing a mask.
- Steve Jobs's backdated stock options.
- Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
- East India Company.
- They are, in fact, still a concern.
- Joe Isuzu.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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335: ‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English
January 26, 2022
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Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the Heat, and the state of streaming video services.
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Links:
- “Heat 2”:
- “Heat”.
- Michael Mann’s tweet announcing “Heat 2”.
- I almost plotzed.
- Michael Mann on The Rewatchables in November 2021, talking about “Heat”.
- Roger Ebert in 2010: “Video Games Can Never Be Art”.
- Me, in 2014: “I really wish [Ebert] had lived to see ‘Firewatch’.”
- “The Making of N64 Goldeneye: A 90s Video Game Masterpiece”.
- Rogue Amoeba: Audio Hijack.
- Yours truly speaking at XOXO 2014, on how Google Reader shutting down gave me the idea that has funded Daring Fireball ever since.
- BeOS screenshots — were those just-wide-enough-for-the-title window title bars a good idea or a gimmick?
- Netflix Chicken Littles.
- “Biff” podcast on The Incomparable — “Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English discuss superhero TV shows and movies in the inimitable style that their loyal readers have come to love.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell
February 14, 2022
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Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.
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Links:
- Apple in 2021: The Six Colors Report Card.
- Breaking down the results with charts and graphs, thanks to Kieran Healy.
- “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction” — Healy’s outstanding introduction to the R programming language and ggplot visualization library.
- Healy’s also-excellent website.
- My personal 2021 Apple report card.
- Keychron Q2 mechanical USB keyboard. My son bought this and swapped out the switches for a set of Zealio V2 62g switches.
- Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource and Audio Hijack — two great Mac utilities that can’t exist on iPadOS.
- Clipboard managers (which also can’t exist on iPadOS):
- Jason Snell: “Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?”
- Upgrade: One of Jason’s plethora of podcasts, this one co-hosted with Myke Hurley.
- Floppy Emu: “a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.” Amazing work from Steve Chamberlin.
- Moltz’s “The Terminator” t-shirt design. (It will not be back.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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