The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Talk Show With John Gruber episodes

July 28, 2024405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas
Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike fiasco, and the closing of the iconic Mirage resort in Las Vegas.
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Vegas Mate.
Hunter Hillegas on Mastodon.
Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last”
Leonard Rosenthol.
OSA Menu.
Unsanity Haxies.
Marco Arment talking about Overcast’s big new version on ATP.
Under the Radar.
2009 “60 Minutes” profile of Steve Wynn.
1991 in-room video for Mirage guests, narrated by Steve Wynn.
Steve Wynn’s daughter’s kidnapping in 1993. Would make for a great movie.
How the kidnapper was caught, trying to buy a Ferrari with cash.
“The Conjuring of The Mirage” — terrific feature for Vegas Seven by David G. Schwartz marking the 25th anniversary of The Mirage in 2014.
Inside The Villas at The Mirage.
The renovated Linai at The Mirage.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 57 min
June 30, 2024404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.
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Godzilla Minus One
“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”
“Counterpart” — The best show you’ve maybe never heard of
“Dark Matter”
“Severance”
“Foundation”
“Presumed Innocent”
“Palm Royale”
“Masters of the Air”
“Sugar”
“For All Mankind”
“Silo”
“Shrinking”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 18 min
June 26, 2024403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson
Quinn Nelson, esteemed host of Snazzy Labs, returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.
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Quinn tries to open a second window from the same app with Stage Manager on iPadOS.
Federico Viticci: “If Stage Manager for iPad exists, what’s the point of leaving it in this state for two years?”
Quinn’s take on the WWDC 2024 keynote.
Quinn’s review of the new M4 iPad Pros.
Quinn’s “animoji karaoke” viral iPhone X video from 2017.
My M4 iPad Pro review from last month.
DaVinci Resolve for iPad.
2013 acquisition news: Dropbox acquired Mailbox.
The late Larry Tesler, rightfully credited as the inventor of cut-copy-paste, and who was so opposed to modal UIs that both his license plate and domain name were “NOMODES”.
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 35 min
June 11, 2024402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak
Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.
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WWDC 2024 Keynote.
Live audio engineering, and post-production audio editing by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 4 min
May 31, 2024401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.
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Daylight’s DC-1 “new kind of computer”.
Om Malik’s DC-1 experience and thoughts.
My thoughts on Night Shift and its purported sleep/health benefits.
The wrap-around-your-neck Glocusent Bendable Book Light, $20 at Amazon.
Quinn Nelson on using iPadOS: “Maybe I’m just an idiot, but I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to manage multiple window instances from within Stage Manager.” Baffling.
Also from Quinn Nelson: the subtle photorealistic reflection of an Apple Pencil on the new iPad Pros. Delightful.
Jason Snell’s 2022 post about his deconstructed Magic Keyboard Touch ID button.
The Iconfactory:
Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketchpad for your iPad”.
Wallaroo — fun new wallpapers every week, for iOS and Mac.
Tot — we didn’t mention this brilliant little notes app on the show, but I use it every day.
iPulse — a nerdy system monitor, with Iconfactory fit and finish. Runs in the background even on iOS.
Project Tapestry: Iconfactory’s Kickstarter-funded project to build “a universal timeline for the Internet”.
Loren Brichter’s 2020 “Chrome Is Bad” website, documenting genuinely mysterious Mac system performance issues that went away simply by uninstalling Chrome.
Kotoba — “the best iOS dictionary app you’ve never heard of”, from Craig Hockenberry, Will Hains, and yours truly.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 22 min
May 24, 2024 400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler
Special guest M.G. Siegler returns to the show to talk about the new iPad Pros, the iPadOS/MacOS functional gulf, the OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson controversy, and M.G.'s new blog [Spyglass](https://spyglass.org/).
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+ [Spyglass](https://spyglass.org/), M.G.'s excellent new blog.
+ "[The Problem is Safari for iPad](https://spyglass.org/ipados-safari/)"
+ "[Microsoft Kicks x86 to the Curb](https://spyglass.org/microsoft-knifes-intel/)"
+ "[Who Is She in 'Her'?](https://spyglass.org/samantha-sky-scarlett-ai-voice/)"
+ On letting iPads run MacOS, somehow: "[These Are Not Two Separate Devices...](https://spyglass.org/the-ipad-pro-macos/)"
+ "[Ovation Inflation](https://spyglass.org/ovation-inflation-at-cannes/)"
+ [Yours truly's review of the new iPad Pro, Magic Keyboard, and Pencil Pro](https://daringfireball.net/2024/05/the_m4_ipad_pros).
+ "[Unfrosted](https://www.netflix.com/title/81481606)" -- Jerry Seinfeld's zany new movie for Netflix.
*This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.*
2 hr 28 min
April 29, 2024399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci
Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.
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Federico's "MacPad" -- the "hybrid mac-ipad laptop and tablet that apple won’t make".
Samsung DeX -- use your phone as a desktop computer.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 28 min
March 30, 2024398: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz
The one and only John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the relative dearth of original content for Vision Pro, WWDC rumors and guesses, and, yes, a wee bit about Apple's regulatory/antitrust tribulations.
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MacRumors: "Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid".
Foldable iPhone: Maybe in 2027, or maybe never.
Moltz's "This Week in Apple" column at Six Colors.
Joz's "It's going to be Absolutely Incredible" tweet hinting at AI-related WWDC announcements.
Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 34 min
March 26, 2024397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.
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Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction”.
Yours truly:
“The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue”.
“European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta”.
Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
“Thoughts on Music”.
“Thoughts on Flash”.
Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022.
Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging.
ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline”.
Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter.
Calcaterra’s breakdown of the Ohtani gambling scandal.
The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
3 hr 29 min
February 29, 2024396: ‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard
Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.
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Weather Up.
On the App Store.
Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.
RevenueCat.
Sub Club Podcast.
“How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.
Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).
March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
Apple Newsroom post.
WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
Apple Newsroom post.
Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.
Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.
Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.
City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
David, in a blog post from 2011: "Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products".
David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta's average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple's €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
3 hr 39 min