The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Talk Show With John Gruber episodes

October 25456: ‘Lubricate the Inside of the Hinge’, With Joanna Stern
Special guest: Joanna Stern.
Special topic: The iPhone Duo.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
Joanna's Duo review on YouTube and at The New Things.
You should subscribe to The New Things if you haven't already.
Joanna's bonus video and article on the spate of fun Duo-specific apps and games, with clever gimmicks for the fold.
My Duo review.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr
September 25455: ‘I’m Thinking X, Not X’, With Andru Edwards
Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple's big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” keynote.
Andru's YouTube channel:
Andru's iPhone 18 Pro review.
His Duo first impressions.
Andru on Threads.
Yours truly's iPhone 18 Pro review.
My take on the "Surprise and Shine" event and announcements.
Apple's 2020 MagSafe Duo Charger for iPhones and Apple Watches.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 40 min
August 10454: ‘Getting the Snack Right’, With Chance Miller
Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation.
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agents work side by side, with a Developer Platform teams can build on.
Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
“Friday Night Baseball” to Begin Apple Immersive Broadcasts for Vision Pro.
OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
OpenAI Files 28-Page Motion to Dismiss Apple’s Lawsuit.
Kotoba: The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of.
Will Hains: iOS Version History.
Apple Newsroom in November 2022: “Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max”.
European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android & Sharing of Google Search’.
Chance’s regular podcasts: 9to5Mac Daily, and 9to5Mac Happy Hour.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Jim Metzendorf.
1 hr 58 min
July 31453: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’, With Louie Mantia
Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple's platforms, and some speculation on Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
Louie on the squircle: “The Shape of Apps”.
Me, linking to Louie on the squircle.
Louie on Alan Dye: “A Responsibility to the Industry”.
Me: “Bad Dye Job”.
Me, after WWDC 2025, comparing Dye’s introduction of Liquid Glass to Steve Jobs’s introduction of Aqua back in January 2000.
UI designer Chan Karunamuni’s tweet on Steve Lemay: “Steve’s been my manager for my entire 15 year career so far at Apple and I could not be more excited for this new era.”.
Karunamuni’s Twitter/X account, with links regarding Liquid Glass, the Dynamic Island, and the cool Flashlight beam UI.
Louie on The Talk Show last year.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 26 min
July 23452: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’, With Quinn Nelson
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
Quinn’s hilarious but utterly fair review of the Trump T1.
Quinn: “Apple Just Fixed Mac Gaming and Said Nothing”.
John Siracusa on ATP endorsing Quinn’s idea for an Apple gaming console.
Valve founder/CEO Gabe Newell on working with Apple.
“Stupid-Americans are the New Irish-Americans, Trump is Their JFK”, by “tarltontarlton” on Reddit (and posted here on Daring Fireball).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 45 min
June 30451: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John Moltz
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
RAM Doubler and DiskDoubler, which came from two different developers.
StuffIt and Compact Pro.
“Apple in China” by Patrick McGee.
Patrick McGee on The Talk Show last year.
“Go Computer Now!”, Ben Zotto’s book on Sphere Computer Corporation.
Movies:
The Player
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022".
Gnome, Lex Friedman's clever new animated GIF search/library utility for Mac and iOS. (Also: My link to Gnome at DF.)
Biff! -- Moltz's fun superhero TV/movie podcast cohosted with Dan Moren and Guy English.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 52 min
June 23450: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
“Designed in California” — Kickstarter campaign running through the end of June 2026 to fund Jason and Myke Hurley’s 50-episode Apple history podcast. If you don’t back this you’re not hooked up right.
WebKit in Safari 27 changes and notes, from the WebKit blog.
Helium — My favorite Chromium browser for the Mac. Fast, free, no bloat.
Camino — An open source Mac-assed web browser based on the Mozilla engine from the 2000s. Last updated in 2012, but, blessedly, the website still works. When it was discontinued I described it as “like a glass of ice water on a hot day for Mac users who wanted a modern but Mac-like browser in the early years of Mac OS X.”.
Photos of John Ternus and Tim Cook at Apple’s WWDC post-Keynote “Tech Talk”:
Mine.
Federico Viticci’s.
Jason on BBEdit 16, the world’s greatest text editor.
Jason, writing at Macworld, on the foundation of Apple’s OS 27 updates.
Jason, writing at Macworld, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard back in 2009. (The update cost $29 — which we thought was cheap, because previous Mac OS X updates cost $129.)
Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 45 min
June 09449: ‘Live From WWDC 2026’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
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.
Video: This show is available to watch on YouTube.
3D video with spatial audio: Exclusively in Sandwich Vision's Theater on Vision Pro, available on the App Store.
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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.
Joanna’s first take on Apple’s announcements.
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.
2 hr
May 31448: ‘Twins Named John’, With Stephen Hackett
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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Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW.
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:
Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another Apple Account.
What happens to your iCloud storage when you sign up for Apple One.
Stephen’s post on the restrictions around Apple Account migration.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 51 min
May 15447: ‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam Lisagor
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.
Adam’s intro video, on Twitter/X.
Version 1.1 is already out with some cool new features.
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.
The Birdhouse launch video, which launched Sandwich Video.
Daring Fireball: Birdhouse — A Notepad for Twitter.
Noir — Delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies.
Allen Pike.
Allen on The Talk Show, back in December 2024.
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.
2 hr 16 min