352: ‘I’ve Kissed That Mouse’, With Marco Arment
The Talk Show With John Gruber
07/25/22
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Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie
June 30, 2022
•122m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID and Touch ID, passkeys, and more.
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- Rene’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
- The M2 MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD has slower read and write performance than any M1 Mac, but only the 256 GB config.
- Daring Fireball: “How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad”.
- Rene’s deep dive on Passkeys.
- Glenn Fleishman’s comprehensive piece on Passkeys for TidBITS.
- Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber
July 31, 2022
•124m
Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.
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- Michael Steeber’s homepage.
- The App Store Time Machine.
- Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually, this one using ARKit last year.
- Tabletops, Steeber’s newsletter.
- Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary.
- A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001. Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so.
- Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago, with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond.
- Apple Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore. Just gorgeous.
- Apple Carnegie Library, in Washington, DC.
- Apple Tower Theatre, in Los Angeles.
- Apple Walnut Street, in always-sunny Philadelphia.
- Walnut Street ransacked and burned during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020.
- My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG, for posterity after Facebook collapses.)
- The finished mural.
- Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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