The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Talk Show With John Gruber episodes

July 11, 201487: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson
Topics include Samsung getting pinched from Apple on the high end and Xiaomi (at least in China) on the low end, Android and the importance of software differentiation, wearable devices, and more.
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Xiaomi M3 phone
Ron Amadeo's review of Android Wear for Ars Technica
Khosla interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Ben Thompson on Samsung's demise
2 hr 4 min
June 30, 201486: ‘Diddling Your Feeds’ With Dave Wiskus
Topics include the new look and feel in OS X Yosemite (10.10), Google’s new “Material Design” look and feel for Android, smartwatches (including the new ones Google showed at I/O last week), and Dave’s new behind-the-scenes role at The Talk Show.
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Tobias Frere-Jones on Helvetica Neue as the new system font in Yosemite.
"Google Design" — Google shows and describes its new design language.
The LG G and Samsung Gear Live watches, running Android Wear.
The Moto 320, er, 360.
2 hr 28 min
June 25, 201485: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis
Topics include the ongoing World Cup and the sport of soccer, Google Glass, mockups of devices in rumor reports, Amazon's Fire Phone, the New York Times's profile of Tim Cook last week, Apple's growth, and the agonizingly slow death of Blackberry. Lastly, Paul brings up a devilishly tricky question regarding whether Apple will support a particular new addition to the Emoji specification.
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Paul Kafasis: ‘The Rise of Emoji’
FIFA anti-“match manipulation” TV ad
New York Times profile of Tim Cook
Ars Technica: ‘FAA Grounds Amazon’s Drone Delivery Plans’
1 hr 53 min
June 16, 201484: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largely behind-the-scenes role in many of the new features for iOS and OS X. The new much-improved WebKit API (which brings third-party apps the faster Nitro JavaScript engine), third-party keyboards, Sharing menu extensions, and Notification Center widgets — all these things are built on XPC. Other topics include Apple TV, Swift, and the apparent happiness not just of third-party developers, but Apple employees, too.
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Sean Heber on Apple TV and gaming
1 hr 52 min
June 06, 201483: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson
Recorded in front of a live audience of 500 people on Tuesday, 2 June 2014 at Mezzanine in San Francisco. John Gruber is joined by the ATP trio — Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa — to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.10 Yosemite, iOS 8, Swift, and more.
Then, Scott Simpson joins the show to discuss theme songs and the future of higher education. No nudity or violence, but the second half of the show does have some explicit language.
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Patrick Gibson’s photos from the show
Ted Todorov’s photos from the show
Carlos Gomez’s photos from the show
1 hr 49 min
May 27, 201482: ‘We're Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It's a Podcast’ With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include Dan’s new gig as senior tech editor at Quartz, tablets as a form factor for full-featured PCs (and the now-aging design of the MacBook Air), WWDC rumors, the rumored iOS-style redesign of Mac OS X, previous Mac OS visual designs, and more — including ticket information for next week’s live WWDC show in San Francisco.

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Henry Norr on the Mac OS 8.5 Appearance Manager and its missing themes

Dan Frommer on Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 3 tablet

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1 hr 51 min
May 22, 201481: ‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz joins the show for a discussion regarding Apple's still-only-rumored acquisition of Beats, WWDC rumors, the ringer switch on the iPhone, the ZTE Open C Firefox OS phone (spoiler: it's a turd), and the transition of The Talk Show from Mule Radio to its new home here at Daring Fireball.
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Turning This Car Around
1 hr 35 min
May 12, 2014 80: Beats by Tim
Mule Radio honcho Mike Monteiro joins John Gruber for a very special episode. Topics include the nature of podcasting and the future of The Talk Show; design legend Massimo Vignelli; ComiXology's abandonment of in-app purchasing now that they're owned by Amazon; and more.
1 hr 49 min
April 21, 2014 79: Whatever Jobs Had His Pants on Fire For
Special guest Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac joins John Gruber for a discussion of Mac journalism, rumors surrounding upcoming Apple products, and UI design chief Greg Christie’s retirement from Apple later this year.
1 hr 53 min
April 08, 2014 78: Live From Build 2014
Special guest Ed Bott joins John Gruber in an episode recorded in front of a live audience at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco. Topics include last week’s news out of the conference — including Windows Phone 8.1 — and a broader look at the new Microsoft and its position in the industry.
1 hr 27 min