386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz
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09/30/23
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Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.
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- OverheatGate:
- David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating.
- Ming-Chi Kuo’s one-paragraph Medium post that seemingly but wrongly suggests that Apple will have to throttle the CPU.
- MacRumors.
- “iPhonedo” on YouTube, showing Instagram heating up both an iPhone 15 Pro and year-old 14 Pro, simply sitting idle on a profile screen.
- FineWovenGate:
- Chance Miller: “Apple Weaved Itself Into a Fine Mess With the Awful iPhone 15 FineWoven Case”.
- “Apple Pens Memo to Retail Teams on How to Manage FineWoven Complaints: ‘A Luxurious Microtwill’”.
- Verge story on the high-pressure world of iPhone casemakers.
- Google’s very-textured fabric cases for the Pixel 4.
- USB-C Gate:
- LoveFrom and OpenAI rumored to be in talks on AI device:
- Mr. Do:
- Uber shamelessly breaking App Store rules in 2015, including geofencing Cupertino to offer different functionality to App Store reviewers.
- Evans Hankey’s wonderfully-weathered original iPhone, as pictured in Designed by Apple in California. Proof that you shouldn’t use a case.
- Quora AI thinks you can melt an egg.
- “Linda Yaccarino’s Excruciatingly Uncomfortable Interview With Julia Boorstin at the Code Conference”.
- The iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference, minus the Q&A, alas.
- Jason Snell on the Q&A, where Jobs was joined by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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385: ‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino
September 28, 2023
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Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.
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Links:
- My thoughts on Apple’s event.
- My review of the iPhones 15 Pro.
- Matthew’s photo-centric review from Disneyland.
- My interview with Phil Schiller at WWDC 2015: “THE top camera company.”.
- Matthew’s interview with Niley Patel on Decoder, looking back at his 10 years at TechCrunch.
- Lisa Jackson on The Talk Show, back in April 2017.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide, Spectre, and Orion) and speculate about next week’s “Scary Fast” Apple event.
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Links:
- Lux Optics Incorporated:
- Jelmar Geertsma -- type designer who's collaborated with Lux.
- Baratza's Virtuoso coffee grinder -- I own an older model, but it has the same gross logo.
- Camera+ app pulled from App Store back in 2010 for using the hardware volume buttons as shutter buttons.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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