397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/26/24
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Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.
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Links:
- Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction”.
- Yours truly:
- Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
- Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022.
- Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging.
- ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline”.
- Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter.
- The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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396: ‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard
February 29, 2024
•218m
Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.
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Links:
- Weather Up.
- On the App Store.
- Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.
- RevenueCat.
- Sub Club Podcast.
- “How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.
- Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).
- March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
- WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
- Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.
- Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.
- Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.
- City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
- Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
- David, in a blog post from 2011: "Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products".
- David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta's average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple's €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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398: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz
March 30, 2024
•93m
The one and only John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the relative dearth of original content for Vision Pro, WWDC rumors and guesses, and, yes, a wee bit about Apple's regulatory/antitrust tribulations.
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Links:
- MacRumors: "Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid".
- Foldable iPhone: Maybe in 2027, or maybe never.
- Moltz's "This Week in Apple" column at Six Colors.
- Joz's "It's going to be Absolutely Incredible" tweet hinting at AI-related WWDC announcements.
- Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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