Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display’s camera (and this week’s beta firmware update to tweak its quality), how things have gone two years into Flexibits’ move to subscription pricing for Fantastical and Cardhop, and Panic’s now-shipping Playdate.

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Links:


Flexibits:
Fantastical.
Cardhop.
Daring Fireball: “Fantastical Adds Web-Based Scheduling Features”.
Jason Snell: “Fantastical Update Adds Cloud-Based Scheduling Features”.
Playdate:
Playdate Pulp — fun and surprisingly powerful web-based game IDE.
Playdate C and Lua SDKs.
Pinball Construction Set.


This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons

The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.

Technology

Tech News

Podcasting

Gadgets

Software How-To

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.

Standard video: YouTube.

3D video with spatial audio: Exclusively in Sandwich Vision's Theater on Vision Pro, available on the App Store.

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Links:


WWDC 2024 Keynote.


Live audio engineering, and post-production audio editing by Caleb Sexton.

402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.

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Links:


Daylight’s DC-1 “new kind of computer”.
Om Malik’s DC-1 experience and thoughts.
My thoughts on Night Shift and its purported sleep/health benefits.
The wrap-around-your-neck Glocusent Bendable Book Light, $20 at Amazon.
Quinn Nelson on using iPadOS: “Maybe I’m just an idiot, but I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to manage multiple window instances from within Stage Manager.” Baffling.
Also from Quinn Nelson: the subtle photorealistic reflection of an Apple Pencil on the new iPad Pros. Delightful.
Jason Snell’s 2022 post about his deconstructed Magic Keyboard Touch ID button.
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: Iconfactory’s Kickstarter-funded project to build “a universal timeline for the Internet”.
Loren Brichter’s 2020 “Chrome Is Bad” website, documenting genuinely mysterious Mac system performance issues that went away simply by uninstalling Chrome.
Kotoba — “the best iOS dictionary app you’ve never heard of”, from Craig Hockenberry, Will Hains, and yours truly.


This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry

Special guest M.G. Siegler returns to the show to talk about the new iPad Pros, the iPadOS/MacOS functional gulf, the OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson controversy, and M.G.'s new blog [Spyglass](https://spyglass.org/).

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Links:

+ [Spyglass](https://spyglass.org/), M.G.'s excellent new blog.
	+ "[The Problem is Safari for iPad](https://spyglass.org/ipados-safari/)"
	+ "[Microsoft Kicks x86 to the Curb](https://spyglass.org/microsoft-knifes-intel/)"
	+ "[Who Is She in 'Her'?](https://spyglass.org/samantha-sky-scarlett-ai-voice/)"
	+ On letting iPads run MacOS, somehow: "[These Are Not Two Separate Devices...](https://spyglass.org/the-ipad-pro-macos/)"
	+ "[Ovation Inflation](https://spyglass.org/ovation-inflation-at-cannes/)"
+ [Yours truly's review of the new iPad Pro, Magic Keyboard, and Pencil Pro](https://daringfireball.net/2024/05/the_m4_ipad_pros).
+ "[Unfrosted](https://www.netflix.com/title/81481606)" -- Jerry Seinfeld's zany new movie for Netflix.



*This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.*

400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler

Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.

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Links:


Federico's "MacPad" -- the "hybrid mac-ipad laptop and tablet that apple won’t make".
Samsung DeX -- use your phone as a desktop computer.


This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci

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.

345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons

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