
375: ‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/23/23
•131m
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Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM's dumb decision to drop CarPlay.
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Links:
- Will Carroll at Under the Knife, speculating on how Apple could revolutionize sports broadcasting in VR.
- Steve Jobs introducing the original iPhone.
- Jason on the new Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps for iPad.
- Me ranting about GM dropping CarPlay.
- Mac versions of Apple’s iWork apps lost features in 2013 for compatibility with iOS versions.
- ‘Ford CEO Jim Farley Seems Very Happy That GM Is Dropping CarPlay’.
- My wife’s photo from our seats at Celtics-Sixers game 6.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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374: ‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz
April 30, 2023
•108m
John Moltz, ace reporter from The Daily Planet, returns to the show. Topics include Apple pushing ads through its own built-in apps, car shopping, and the burgeoning Twitter alternative Bluesky.
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Links:
- “This Week in Apple” — Moltz’s new weekly column at Six Colors.
- My piece on DF re: an unwanted and unnecessary promotion for Apple Arcade in the iOS Settings app.
- Chevy is cancelling the Bolt and really wants your data.
- gruber.com, home of the Gruber Motor Company and other fine subsidiaries of The Gruber Company.
- The saga behind “Superman II” and the Richard Donner cut.
- Bluesky:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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376: ‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri
May 29, 2023
•103m
Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show to talk about email, Mac apps, and indie software development.
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- Mimestream.
- Fastmail.
- JMAP.
- Superhuman — $30/month web app front-end to Gmail.
- Hey — 37signals’s email service and app.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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