387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky
The Talk Show With John Gruber
10/27/23
•122m
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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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386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz
September 30, 2023
•90m
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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Links:
- 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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388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren
October 31, 2023
•131m
Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.
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Links:
- Apple’s “Scary Fast” keynote event video.
- The Verge: "All the News From Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Mac Event".
- Behind the scenes of the "Scary Fast" keynote film, shot on iPhone.
- Stu Maschwitz: "Log Is the 'Pro' in iPhone 15 Pro".
- Matthew Perry’s drunken night out with M. Night Shyamalan -- hilarious anecdote on The Graham Norton Show.
- GitHub Universe 2023.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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