The Talk Show With John Gruber

By Daring Fireball / John Gruber

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

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July 20, 2015126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show, with a lot to talk about: Pebble's new Pebble Time smartwatch, the "Safari is the New IE" argument, the state of web advertising (and its adverse effects on performance and privacy) and monetization, and more.
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Links:
Adam Lisagor guest-posting on Kottke.org back in 2007. And Jason Kottke’s introduction.
Ben Thompson on how web advertising works today. It’s gross.
Mary Meeker’s slide on mobile’s share of attention vs. advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015.
Jason on MLB’s experimental native Mac app for watching games.
Jason: “Web Developers Are Grumpy About Safari”.
Rene Ritchie: “Safari Isn’t the New IE: It’s the User-Centric Web”.
My wife’s photo of me and Phil Schiller on stage last month.
Spark — excellent new iOS email app from Readdle that Jason is using.
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2h 54min
June 28, 2015125: ‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’ With Guest Horace Dediu
Special guest Horace Dediu joins The Talk Show for the first time. Topics include the state of the maps industry, Apple’s functional organizational structure, what the WWDC keynote said about the state of the company today, and more.
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Horace’s analysis of the state of the maps market.
New York Times feature on the curated nature of Apple Music’s streaming music.
Horace’s transcript of Tim Cook’s poetic description of Apple’s doctrine, from a 2009 quarterly analyst call.
Horace’s podcast: The Critical Path.
...more
1h 57min
June 20, 2015124: ‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’ With Guest Guy English
Guy English returns to the show, and we make a valiant but failed effort to cover all of the technical/developer news from last week’s WWDC. Among the topics we did hit: app thinning, Bitcode, WatchKit 2.0, CloudKit (and opening it up to web developers), Swift 2.0, Metal coming to the Mac, accessibility and low-level support for right-to-left languages, iOS 9’s new low-power mode, and more.
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Links:
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Guy English on Twitter.
“Inertial Lemon“‘s take on Bitcode, which Guy and I think is probably incorrect in several ways.
Chris Lattner.
Becoming Steve Jobs, the new biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli.
WWDC 2015 session videos, all of which are viewable without an ADC account.
Video of last week’s live episode of The Talk Show, with special guest Phil Schiller.
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2h 20min
June 10, 2015123: Live From WWDC 2015 With Guest Phil Schiller
Recorded in front of a live audience at Mezzanine in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.11 El Capitan, iOS 9, the new native app SDK for Apple Watch, Apple Music, and the 2004 American League Championship series.
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1h 9min
June 07, 2015122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.
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Links:
Gurman’s WWDC expectation roundup at 9to5Mac.
That hack to use San Francisco as the system font on Yosemite.
Eddy Cue at game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Gurman’s 2014 feature on Apple PR.
Techmeme’s “leaderboard”, and their FAQ explaining how it works.
Ross Floate: ‘Your Next Project Needs a White-Hat Jerk’.
Last year’s Slack flaw that let you see the team names from any company.
...more
2h 23min
May 31, 2015121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics includes Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer and the implications for Apple; the differences in Apple’s internal design culture now that industrial and user interface design are under one roof; Google’s announcements at their I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, including Google Photos; “machine learning”; Apple replacing the much-maligned discoveryd with good old mDNSResponder in the latest Yosemite developer beta; our thoughts on the space black Apple Watch with link bracelet; and more.
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Links:
Stories on Greg Christie’s departure from Apple last year, from TechCrunch and 9to5Mac.
“Skankphone” — the purposefully ugly prototype OS that was seen by most of the industrial design team for the original iPhone.
Rene’s photographs of the actual shipping space black Apple Watch with link bracelet, which really does look black.
Apple’s promotional photos for the space black Apple Watch from back in September 2014, when it was more like a medium-dark gray.
News from Google I/O last week: Google Photos, Marques Brownlee on the top new features in Android M, and everything else in one handy list.
Mark Gurman’s roundup of iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 rumors leading up to WWDC next week.
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2h 19min
May 23, 2015120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include David Letterman, iPhone docks, the space black steel Apple Watch, whatever happened to the Edition collection, San Francisco as the new system font for iOS and Mac OS X, and more.
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Links:
Letterman profiles in Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
Apple’s new iPhone dock, and the third-party docks I use.
Mark Bramhill’s excellent Welcome to Macintosh podcast.
Marco Arment on the new one-port MacBook.
Dan’s amazing iPhone stand.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt on getting his Apple Watch review unit.
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2h 19min
May 15, 2015119: ‘Workin’ in Pajamas’ With Guest David Sparks
Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo Syncing and the new Photos for Mac, WWDC, and wearing slippers as “work” shoes.
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David’s Markdown book.
Sparks Law.
Stephen Orth’s suggestions for Apple Watch.
My Instagram photo of mattresses being removed from the Parker-Spruce Hotel.
TripAdvisor reviews for the Parker-Spruce.
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2h 33min
May 07, 2015118: ‘Sloppy on the Side’ With Guest Adam Lisagor
Special guest and longtime friend Adam Lisagor returns to the show. I don’t know anyone who’s more excited about Apple Watch than Adam, except, maybe, my son. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that Apple just released a brand-new thing, and they don’t do that very often. This episode, we just had fun. Some keen observations about the future of the platform, too.
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The beloved Transformers watch of Adam’s youth.
The GoBots.
Adam’s dad on TV after returning from a humanitarian aid mission to Nepal.
...more
2h 13min
April 30, 2015117: ‘I Touched Ron Johnson’ With Guest John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Gruber’s retina, Apple Watch backorders and the watch itself, news from Microsoft’s Build conference, how to introduce yourself to people you’ve publicly branded a “jackass”, and more.
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Ben Bajarin on Xiaomi slump in phone sales in China. (And Apple’s rise.)
Microsoft’s impressive HoloLens demo at Build this week.
Windows 10 to Run Recompiled Android and iOS Apps.
VentureBeat and Recode both fall for iSuppli’s claim that Apple Watch Sport costs only $83 to manufacture.
Tim Cook, earlier this week, on these speculative cost breakdowns: “I’ve never seen one that is anywhere close to being accurate.”
Mike Rundle argues Apple Watch is too small.
Dr. Drang visualizes declining iPad sales.
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The Pentax K1000. Gorgeous.
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2h 33min

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