444: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’, With Christina Warren
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/29/26
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Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- The iPhone 17e.
- Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo.
- My review: The MacBook Neo.
- Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back.
- Yankees-Giants opens MLB season, on Netflix.
- Nomad 65W Slim Power Adapter.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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443: ‘The Pogue Feature’, With David Pogue
March 18
•85m
Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- “Apple: The First 50 Years” official website.
- Hardcover:
- E-book:
- Photo of Sculley and the other white dude in suits on his executive team, circa 1993, from page 251. (My son Jonas quipped that they look like the executives from the company that made Robocop.)
- The “Apple at 50” event David hosted at the Computer History Museum earlier this month.
- The similar event David hosted two years ago, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh.
- Matt Neuberg, back in 1998 (!), reviewing Conflict Catcher for TidBITS, with mention of the user manual.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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445: ‘Apple at 50’, With John Siracusa
April 1
•154m
Who better to join the show to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary than John Siracusa?
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- The Commodore VIC-20.
- Apple’s looks-good-to-this-day “Snow White” hardware design language from the 1980s, created in collaboration with Frog Design.
- The Apple IIc — in my opinion, the epitome of “Snow White”.
- Frog Designed turned 50 back in 2019, and The Verge has some amazing photos from their collection, including a jaw-dropping prototype for the Lisa.
- Star Blazers.
- Yours truly, back in 2014, on the Finder’s “Special” menu.
- Yours truly guesting on The Verge’s Version History podcast, to talk about the original Macintosh.
- Hyperspace — Siracusa’s perfectly-named Mac utility for saving space via APFS magic.
- ATP (a pretty good podcast), and episode 683 in particular (a pretty good episode of that podcast, wherein Marco Arment tells the tale of the Mac Mini server farm he built for Overcast’s now-in-beta generated-transcripts feature).
- Infinite Mac — classic Mac (and NeXTStep) emulators that run in your web browser.
- “Can’t innovate anymore, my ass.”
- ResEdit 2.1 Reference — still hosted at Apple’s website.
- SNL’s “McIntosh Jr.” commercial, the best Apple parody ad ever made.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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