419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/23/25
•148m
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MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.
Links:
- Daring Fireball posts:
- Posts from MG at Spyglass, which you should subscribe to:
- MG’s March 2011 scoop at TechCrunch, “Legends of the Fall, Apple Style”, which correctly called the iPhone 4S moving from an annual June ship date to the fall (where it’s remained ever since), and the first suggestion that “Siri”, a startup Apple had acquired the year before, would be a big part of iOS 5.
- AI labs that might, maybe, be acquisition targets for Apple:
- Anthropic (Claude)
- Perplexity
- Mistral
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (easily the best / most confident website of the bunch)
- Thinking Machines (their website wishes it were SSI’s)
- Steve Jobs, taking Q&A at WWDC 1997: “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try and sell it.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry
March 8, 2025
•162m
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, Tapestry — a universal timeline for the Internet.
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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.
Links:
- Daring Fireball posts of note:
- “Apple Updates iPad Air (M2→M3) and Regular iPad (A14→A16), and Revamps Magic Keyboard for iPad Air”.
- “Apple Announces, With Little Surprise, M4 MacBook Airs”.
- “Apple Announces, With Much Surprise, Mac Studios With M4 Max and M3 Ultra (!) Chips”.
- From January: “Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr”.
- Tapestry: “Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.”
- Craig, on the Iconfactory blog: “Enter Tapestry”.
- Cheryl Cicha, also on the Iconfactory blog: “Tapestry: Past, Present, and Future”.
- Tapestry Connectors — an open, easy (documented!) extensions API.
- Fefes Blog — you’ll have to listen to the show to understand how this is a Tapestry-related link. But trust me, it’s a good story. It starts with this thread on Mastodon, which begins like a great novel: “It’s becoming clear that XML in RSS is the preferred tool of sociopaths.”
- Molly White: “POSSE” (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”).
- Technology Connections on YouTube: “Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think”.
- The Iconfactory:
- Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketchpad for your iPad”.
- Wallaroo — fun new wallpapers every week, for iOS and Mac.
- Tot — we didn’t mention this brilliant little notes app on the show, but I use it every day.
- iPulse — a nerdy system monitor, with Iconfactory fit and finish. Runs in the background even on iOS.
- Project Tapestry’s year-ago successful Kickstarter campaign.
- Andre Torrez’s Tyke, the inspiration for Tot.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman
April 20, 2025
•128m
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book Six Centuries of Type & Printing.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Pre-order “Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition”.
- My link to Glenn’s Kickstarter page.
- “.BLUE proposes to create an Internet space in which businesses, organizations and individuals can create an Internet identity tied to the color and the concept of blue.”.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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