338: ‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/25/22
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Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.
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Links:
- Apple Support: “Set up home theater audio with HomePod mini or HomePod and Apple TV 4K”.
- AirTags and Stalking:
- 2016 Cult of Mac story on stalking via location embedded in Instagram photos.
- Apple leaks “realityOS” name, again.
- MacRumors: “Reliable Leaker Known as ‘Kang’ Hit With Warning From Apple”.
- Mark Gurman’s February 20 “Power On” column on Apple’s purported March 8 event.
- Rene on M2 MacBook rumors.
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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339: ‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda
February 28, 2022
•143m
Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
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Links:
- Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
- “Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
- Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
- Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
- DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
- Stephen King’s On Writing.
- Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
- Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
- Job openings at Humane.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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