The Talk Show With John Gruber

422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett


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Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America” iPhones; and Fortnite’s return to the US App Store.

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  • Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

    Links:

    • Stephen, at 512 Pixels: “Memphis Chamber of Commerce Claims No New Gas Turbines Will be Placed at Second xAI Location, Despite Documents to the Contrary”.
    • Tom’s Hardware: “TSMC’s Labor Practices Draw Serious Concern in Arizona — the Company’s New Chip Plant Allegedly Plagued by Worker Abuses”.
    • How Dr. Drang helped build Apple’s retail empire.
    • Ars Technica: “Google Adds Veo 2 Video Generation to Gemini App”.
    • The “fat” 3rd-gen iPod Nano from 2008.
    • Dan Moren’s 2009 review of the no-button iPod Shuffle.
    • Jony Ive introducing the first “unibody” MacBook Pros in 2008. Really good.
    • Tech specs for the 1984 original Macintosh, whose screen dimensions, believe it or not, I stumped Stephen on.
    • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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