The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Talk Show With John Gruber episodes

February 12, 2024395: ‘I’m a Real-World Man’, With Adam Lisagor
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.
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My review of Vision Pro.
My follow-up: "Simple Tricks and Nonsense".
Sandwich.
Newton Connection Kit.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 18 min
January 31, 2024394: ‘An Impossible Balcony’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter The Obsessor -- returns to the show to talk about -- what else? -- the Vision Pro.
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My review of the Vision Pro.
Techmeme's roundup of reviews.
The Obsessor.
TipTop.
The Atari 400, with the most craptacular keyboard I've ever used.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 24 min
January 25, 2024393: ‘An Asterisk on the Bento Box’, With Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include the Apple-Masimo patent dispute over Apple Watch blood oxygen sensors, the new External Payment Links entitlement for the App Store, and more.
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"Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps".
"Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand".
"Apple’s Workaround for the ITC’s Import Ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2: Disabling the Blood-Oxygen Sensor in Software".
"Masimo CEO on Apple Watch Blood-Oxygen Sensor: ‘I Really Feel Wholeheartedly That Consumers Are Better Off Without It’".
"More on Apple’s Software Workaround for the Apple Watch Import Ban".
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
3 hr 10 min
December 31, 2023392: ‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss
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TMDB: The Movie Database.
IMDB.
Callsheet:
Announcement.
App Store.
Apple: “Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone”.
“Capture” button.
Tyler Stalman:
Deconstructing Apple’s “shot on iPhone” keynote.
The Stalman Clamp, a hardware clamp for shooting vertical iPhone video.
“Das Boot”, Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 submarine masterpiece.
The 6-episode expanded version for German TV in 1985.
Multi-plane cameras — pioneering method used in early Disney films to produce a sense of depth and parallax.
Kotoba: “The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
3 hr 13 min
December 23, 2023391: ‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa
Special holiday guest: John Siracusa. Special holiday topics: the Apple/Masimo patent dispute over the blood oxygen sensors in Apple Watches, the ongoing Beeper Mini/iMessage saga, iOS 17.3’s upcoming Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple’s new Journal app. Also, an ode to big-ass tower desktops.
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Derek Sivers: “Ideas are just a multiplier of execution”.
Imran Chaudhri’s humble home page.
The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1 for the good of the world — yet insulin remains expensive in the U.S.
Destiny’s BEAVER/FLATWORM/LEOPARD errors.
Twelve South’s new ButterFly 2-in-1 MagSafe Charger.
NZXT gaming PCs.
Power Macintosh 9600/350.
Apple’s new Journal app:
Apple Newsroom announcement — gives a good overview.
The current HIG chapter on progress indicators.
Sebastian Ferrari on the use of “floating action buttons” in iOS, including the handful of spots prior to Journal where Apple has used them.
Accidental Tech Podcast: A Siracusa podcast I always listen to.
Reconcilable Differences: A Siracusa podcast I sometimes listen to.
Robot or Not: A Siracusa podcast I’ve never listened to but probably should.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 44 min
November 30, 2023390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.
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Barack Fucking Obama on Decoder.
Matthew Panzarino on Decoder.
Sports Illustrated’s phony AI writers.
Horace Dediu back in 2011: “The Cook Doctrine”.
Searching YouTube for “LG vs. GE refrigerators”.
Nilay’s Pulitzer-nominated investigation into how many wiper blades are on the Tesla Cybertruck.
Doug DeMuro’s car-review YouTube channel.
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC.
Steve Jobs on how most professional managers are bozos.
Nilay’s AI-written article: “Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine”.
Amanda Chicago Lewis’s crackerjack feature story at The Verge on SEO “experts”: “The People Who Ruined the Internet”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 3 min
November 22, 2023389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera
Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.
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Techmeme.
Techmeme News -- the company blog.
Mediagazer -- Techmeme's sibling site focused on media news.
Memeorandum -- Political news, auto-aggregated.
Gabe, on Threads, advocating for a much-needed posting API.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 3 min
October 31, 2023388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.
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Apple’s “Scary Fast” keynote event video.
The Verge: "All the News From Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Mac Event".
Behind the scenes of the "Scary Fast" keynote film, shot on iPhone.
Stu Maschwitz: "Log Is the 'Pro' in iPhone 15 Pro".
Matthew Perry’s drunken night out with M. Night Shyamalan -- hilarious anecdote on The Graham Norton Show.
GitHub Universe 2023.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 12 min
October 27, 2023387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky
Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide, Spectre, and Orion) and speculate about next week’s “Scary Fast” Apple event.
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Lux Optics Incorporated:
Halide: "The best pro camera iPhone and iPad".
Spectre: "The AI-powered long exposure camera for everyone".
Orion: "Turn your iPad into an HDMI monitor".
Jelmar Geertsma -- type designer who's collaborated with Lux.
Halide Router, Halide's custom typeface.
Baratza's Virtuoso coffee grinder -- I own an older model, but it has the same gross logo.
Camera+ app pulled from App Store back in 2010 for using the hardware volume buttons as shutter buttons.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 3 min
September 30, 2023386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.
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OverheatGate:
David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating.
Ming-Chi Kuo’s one-paragraph Medium post that seemingly but wrongly suggests that Apple will have to throttle the CPU.
MacRumors.
“iPhonedo” on YouTube, showing Instagram heating up both an iPhone 15 Pro and year-old 14 Pro, simply sitting idle on a profile screen.
FineWovenGate:
Chance Miller: “Apple Weaved Itself Into a Fine Mess With the Awful iPhone 15 FineWoven Case”.
“Apple Pens Memo to Retail Teams on How to Manage FineWoven Complaints: ‘A Luxurious Microtwill’”.
Verge story on the high-pressure world of iPhone casemakers.
Google’s very-textured fabric cases for the Pixel 4.
USB-C Gate:
Crappy USB-C cables vs. CarPlay.
LoveFrom and OpenAI rumored to be in talks on AI device:
The Information: “Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project”.
The Financial Times: “OpenAI and Jony Ive in Talks to Raise $1bn From SoftBank for AI Device Venture”.
Humane pin is unveiled, with no comment on what it does, at Paris Fashion Week.
Mr. Do:
Emulated on the web via the Internet Archive.
Play-through on YouTube.
Uber shamelessly breaking App Store rules in 2015, including geofencing Cupertino to offer different functionality to App Store reviewers.
Evans Hankey’s wonderfully-weathered original iPhone, as pictured in Designed by Apple in California. Proof that you shouldn’t use a case.
Quora AI thinks you can melt an egg.
“Linda Yaccarino’s Excruciatingly Uncomfortable Interview With Julia Boorstin at the Code Conference”.
The iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference, minus the Q&A, alas.
Jason Snell on the Q&A, where Jobs was joined by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 31 min