
361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci
The Talk Show With John Gruber
10/31/22
•149m
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Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in the App Store.
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Links:
- Tell us what you really think, Federico: “Stage Manager in iPadOS 16: At the Intersection of Bugs, Missing Features, and Flawed Design”.
- Chris Lawley on Stage Manager.
- Federico on the new iPads.
- Yours truly on the same new iPads.
- Federico on attending his first Apple media event in person, back in 2015.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell
October 25, 2022
•151m
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.
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Links:
- Jason’s review of the new iPads.
- Jason’s take on the iPad announcements: “The iPad’s Erratic Odyssey Continues”.
- Yours truly’s take on the announcements last week: “The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great”.
- New $70 Logitech Crayon.
- Apple’s $9 USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter.
- Apple’s growing array of iPad keyboards.
- Apple’s eMac — an iMac-like Mac with a CRT display for education that was introduced in 2002.
- Joe Rosensteel on the new Apple TV 4K hardware.
- Good explainer on Matter from The Verge.
- Steven Troughton-Smith’s ideas for improving Stage Manager on iPadOS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash
November 18, 2022
•134m
Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.
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Links:
- “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
- Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
- Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
- Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
- Glitch.
- The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
- Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
- Anil’s blog.
- Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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