The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Talk Show With John Gruber episodes

October 10, 201497: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show to talk about iOS 8 quality concerns, and whether Apple’s annual software cycle is stretching the company too thin. Then things devolve into a bitter argument over the merits of file name extensions.
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iOS 8 adoption rate lags behind iOS 7 and 6
“Note to Self: It’s the Storage Space, Stupid”
Businessweek’s unflattering portrait of Gene Munster
From the DF Archive: “The Good, the Bad, and the Avie”
Donnie Baseball grabs some popcorn
2 hr 46 min
September 28, 201496: ‘The Edition Edition’ With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson
Special guest Ben Thompson joins the show for an Apple Watch discussion: what it’ll cost, what it’ll do, how it will be sold, and more. Other topics include “Bend-gate”, Apple’s growing prowess in mobile chip design, and Derek Jeter.
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Apple Spotlight: A Brief History of iPhonegates
Derek Jeter’s 2001 “flip play”
AnandTech benchmarks show year-old iPhone 5S is still a top-five phone
2 hr 51 min
September 19, 201495: ‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’ With Rene Ritchie
What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
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Rene's epic review of iOS 8.
1 hr 56 min
September 08, 201494: ‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show on the cusp of Apple’s September 9 event, where the company will purportedly introduce two new iPhones and a breakthrough wearable device. Topics include the purpose and advantages of a 5.5-inch iPhone, why only the 5.5-inch iPhone will (I think) get an @3x retina display, speculation on the nature and purpose of an Apple wearable/watch, the intrigue surrounding the event’s venue, and more.
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2 hr 27 min
August 29, 201493: ‘Toner-Perfect Design’ With Craig Hockenberry
Speculation on the purportedly-imminent new 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones, and the rise of adaptive user interface layout and design on iOS. @3x, here we come.
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Craig mocking up the big displays.
2 hr 24 min
August 21, 201492: ‘That New Laptop Smell’ With Joanna Stern
Topics include Joanna’s recent review of over 20 laptops; the HTC One M8 for Windows Phone; why Windows Phone is still struggling to gain traction; the role of Microsoft Office in today’s world; and speculation on Apple’s upcoming iPhone event.
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Joanna’s epic laptop roundup
“HTC One for Windows: Another Great Phone You Probably Won’t Buy”
1 hr 55 min
August 12, 201491: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer
Topics include speculation — seriously, just speculation — on Apple’s purported upcoming wrist wearable thing, Apple’s fall event schedule, polarized sunglasses, market share in the post-PC era, and Beats’s integration into Apple (including a clever idea from Dan about the potential for a Beats Music channel on Apple TV).
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Google is stealing Microsoft’s future corporate customers
Which apps use the most cellular data?
2 hr 18 min
July 28, 201490: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz
Topics include Apple's quarterly results, how much Apple's cable and peripheral prices contribute to the popular conception that their products are "expensive", presbyopia and large-screen phones, and more.
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2 hr
July 19, 201489: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2)
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.
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Marco’s Overcast announcement
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1 hr 40 min
July 19, 201488: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 1)
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.
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Overcast
Marco’s Overcast announcement
Matthew Butterick’s Concourse typeface
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Pacific Helm
1 hr 46 min