Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.

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• Fun Facts with Arik Devens, now complete.

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Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.

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• My commentary linking to it.

• Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.

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This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it.

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• Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one)

• Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.

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Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.

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• David Schaub’s chart of base RAM in Mac desktops since 1984.

• Daring Fireball: “Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals”.

• Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.

• Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils New M4 MacBook Pro Lineup, Including, Hallelujah, a Nano-Texture Display Option”.

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Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.

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• Undertone: Amber

• Unsane -- shot on iPhone 7 in 2018.

• El Mariachi — his debut feature film, shot for just $7,000 in 1992.

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Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost.

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Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.

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Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.

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Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple's DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.

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Christina Warren (a.k.a. "Mary Brown") returns to the show. Topics include Apple's new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.

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• Christina, announcing the scam on Threads, and on Mastodon, both of which resulted in interesting threads.

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