
365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/22/22
•165m
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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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364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz
November 30, 2022
•141m
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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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman
December 31, 2022
•153m
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.
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Links:
- Apple silicon woes:
- Jeremi Gosney summarizing the situation with LastPass.
- Seat 31B: "The Great Southwest Meltdown of 2022". Terrific explainer about how Southwest is different from other airlines.
- Rubén Caballero -- formerly head of wireless technology engineering at Apple; now working for Microsoft.
- Glenn's books on security.
- Stochastic screening.
- "Shift Happens" -- the keyboards book Glenn has been working on with Marcin Wichary since 2018.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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