448: ‘Twins Named John’, With Stephen Hackett
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/31/26
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Stephen Hackett returns to the show to help me make sense of a problem that is hard even to describe, let alone solve, regarding Apple One, family sharing, a separate Media & Purchasing account, and iCloud storage space. Also: what we’re expecting from WWDC 2026.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Cross Forward — David Smith’s suite of iOS apps, where Stephen is now managing director.
- 512 Pixels.
- Connected — The weekly podcast Stephen co-hosts with Myke Hurley and Federico Viticci.
- Apple Support:
- Stephen’s post on the restrictions around Apple Account migration.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Previous Episode
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he's developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Hovercraft — A virtual presentation camera for Mac.
- Theater — Sandwich Vision’s theater experience app for VisionOS.
- Television — Sandwich’s, well, television experience app.
- Cursor — Adam’s preferred coding agent.
- Birdhouse, Adam and Cameron Hunt’s “Notepad for Twitter” from 2009.
- Noir — Delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies.
- Allen Pike.
- Yojimbo.
- The graph I generated, using AppleScript and Numbers, of the new Yojimbo items I’ve created per year.
- Canon’s XL1 digital video camera from 1998.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Next Episode
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Apple’s WWDC keynote and State of the Union videos.
- New Things — Joanna’s new thing.
- I Am Not a Robot — Joanna’s new bestselling book on consumer AI.
- Sandwich — the team behind the video version of this show.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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