364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/30/22
•141m
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Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.
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Links:
- iPhone 14 production hit by Chinese protests.
- Me, on Twitter-Apple drama and Musk baiting Tim Cook.
- The Washington Post: Musk claims Apple threatens to remove Twitter from App Store.
- WSJ: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
- Macstodon: Mastodon Mac client for 68K Macs.
- “Sleep Baseball” podcast.
- Tim Cook’s gag tweet sent minutes before the start of the 2018 event introducing the iPhone XS and XR.
- Fedifinder.
- “The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime.
- “1899” on Netflix.
- “Dark” — from the creators of “1899”.
- “Andor” on Disney+.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren
November 23, 2022
•135m
Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell to score Taylor Swift tickets.
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Links:
- Christina Warren on Twitter, a website that still exists at this writing.
- Bob Iger returns to Disney as CEO.
- Yours truly: “Twitter Tumult”.
- Elon Musk asks engineers for weekly emails with code screenshots.
- Vice: “Twitter Employees on Visas Can’t Just Quit”.
- Disney books:
- Disney War, by James B. Stewart — “The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.”
- Walt Disney, by Neal Gabler — “The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.”
- Speaking of James B. Stewart, his recent epic story on AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition for The New York Times: “Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?”.
- Puck — excellent new subscription Hollywood/media/Silicon Valley news site.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie
December 22, 2022
•165m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act) and Apple’s 2022 year in review.
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Links:
- Daring Fireball: “If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?”
- Rene’s YouTube channel.
- Mark Gurman’s report for Bloomberg on Apple’s work complying with the sideloading and third-party app store mandates in the DMA.
- Freeform, Apple’s new collaborative whiteboard app for Mac and iOS.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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