The Talk Show With John Gruber

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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Links:

• 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.

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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Links:

• 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.

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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Links:

• 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.

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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Links:

• 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.

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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Links:

• 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.

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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Links:

• 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.

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.

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Links:

• My thoughts on Apple’s event.
• My review of the iPhones 15 Pro.
• Matthew’s photo-centric review from Disneyland.
• My interview with Phil Schiller at WWDC 2015: “THE top camera company.”.
• Matthew’s interview with Niley Patel on Decoder, looking back at his 10 years at TechCrunch.
• Lisa Jackson on The Talk Show, back in April 2017.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro, and his enthusiasm for the future of spatial computing.

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Links:

• Inside Apple's Vision Pro developer labs
• Fantastical
• Cardhop

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestant on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.

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Links:

• John Warnock, RIP
  • “Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story” by Pamela Pfiffner
• iPhone charging clickbait nonsense:
  • TheStreet: “Apple issues a surprise iPhone danger warning”
  • Yahoo News: “Apple says don’t sleep next to charging phone”
  • What Apple actually says, which isn’t new
• Apple and Disney:
  • Jason at Macworld: “Apple Buying Disney Isn’t the Fairy Tale It Once Was”
  • Yours truly: “Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree”, and “Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts”
  • “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” by Neal Gabler
• iMac at 25:
  • Jason writing at the Verge: “How the iMac Saved Apple”
  • Me, linking to Jason’s piece
  • Me, linking to Steven Levy’s 1998 Newsweek profile of Jobs and the original iMac
  • Jason’s 20 Macs for 2020 podcast series. You’ll never guess which Mac (rightfully) topped the list.
• iPad as travel computer, or really just a computer:
  • Jason: “Giving Up the iPad-Only Travel Dream”
  • Me on the iPad now
  • Me on the same damn thing back in 2013
  • The iconic “Yum.” poster
• “Perfect Bid” — fun Netflix documentary on the guy who beat The Price Is Right
• Bike: Hog Bay Software’s excellent new(ish) Mac outliner
• “Headless Body in Topless Bar”, the greatest headline ever written

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and our favorite features in iOS 17 now that it’s in public beta.

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Links:

• Craig’s weekend fun: updating Twitter’s “How to Tweet” support document to “How to X”. Surprisingly funny.
• Adam Sandler’s “Ode to My Car”:
  • “Car honk” radio-friendly version, which really is even funnier than the album version.
  • Album version, replete with cuss words.
• The Iconfactory.
  • Triode: “The best way to enjoy all of your favorite Internet radio stations wherever you go.”
  • The rest of their excellent lineup of apps.
• Furbo, Craig’s blog.
• Morton Downey Jr., “trash TV” pioneer.
  • YouTube clips.
• Studio Neat’s Material Docks, perfect for the upcoming Standby mode in iOS 17.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.

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Links:

• Joanna’s Rock ’Em Sock ’Em CEOs, Zuck vs. Musk Edition.
  • Zuck vs. Cook, back in 2021.
• Joanna and Nicole Nguyen’s investigative series for the WSJ on organized thieves stealing Apple IDs after stealing iPhones and gleaning their passcodes:
  • February: “A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life”
  • April: “The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account”
• Me and Joanna trying to figure out whether Facebook should make an iPad app or web app next for Threads. (It’ll probably be the web app.)
• Hillary Clinton joins Threads with a joke, and the top replies are civil and fun.
• Paris Hilton’s collection of old — really old — phones.
• Mark Zuckerberg posting on Threads:
  • Chatting with Sundar Pichai.
  • And Jeff Bezos.
  • Dunking on Elon Musk.
  • And tweeting for the first time in 11 years.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.

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Links:

• Panzarino’s first impressions of Vision Pro.
• Yours truly’s.
• Lenticular lenses and screens.
• James Thomson demoing PCalc running as a native VisionOS app in the SDK simulator.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along with highlights from WWDC 2023.

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Links:

• Craig’s weekend fun: updating Twitter’s “How to Tweet” support document to “How to X”. Surprisingly funny.
• Adam Sandler’s “Ode to My Car”:
  • “Car honk” radio-friendly version, which really is even funnier than the album version.
  • Album version, replete with cuss words.
• The Iconfactory.
  • Triode: “The best way to enjoy all of your favorite Internet radio stations wherever you go.”
  • The rest of their excellent lineup of apps.
• Furbo, Craig’s blog.
• X Corp’s crazy-bright fast-flashing headquarters sign.
• Morton Downey Jr., “trash TV” pioneer.
  • YouTube clips.
• Studio Neat’s Material Docks, perfect for the upcoming Standby mode in iOS 17.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Back in San Jose’s historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2023.

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Links:

• Apple's WWDC 2023 Keynote.
• WWDC 2023 highlights.
• My first impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS.

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Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon and Mac gaming, and Apple’s seemingly imminent XR headset. And definitely not to talk about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

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Links:

• The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2013, with special guests Guy English and Scott Simpson. (Audio only — no video back then.)
• Tickets for this year’s show at WWDC 2023.
• SectorC: A C compiler in 512 bytes.
• Wikipedia’s entry on the original Marathon.
• “How Bungie’s Marathon Connects to the Original Game”.
• Bungie’s teaser site for the new Marathon.
• Apple’s MS-DOS compatible 486 Macintosh from 1995.
• Harman Kardon SoundSticks. (In the show, we erroneously attribute them to Bose. We regret the error.)

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show to talk about email, Mac apps, and indie software development.

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Links:

• Mimestream.
  • Mimestream FAQ.
  • Mimestream: Why subscription licensing?
  • Roadmap.
• Fastmail.
• JMAP.
• Superhuman — $30/month web app front-end to Gmail.
• Hey — 37signals’s email service and app.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM's dumb decision to drop CarPlay.

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Links:

• Will Carroll at Under the Knife, speculating on how Apple could revolutionize sports broadcasting in VR.
• Steve Jobs introducing the original iPhone.
• Jason on the new Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps for iPad.
• Me ranting about GM dropping CarPlay.
• Mac versions of Apple’s iWork apps lost features in 2013 for compatibility with iOS versions.
• ‘Ford CEO Jim Farley Seems Very Happy That GM Is Dropping CarPlay’.
• My wife’s photo from our seats at Celtics-Sixers game 6.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

John Moltz, ace reporter from The Daily Planet, returns to the show. Topics include Apple pushing ads through its own built-in apps, car shopping, and the burgeoning Twitter alternative Bluesky.

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Links:

• “This Week in Apple” — Moltz’s new weekly column at Six Colors.
• My piece on DF re: an unwanted and unnecessary promotion for Apple Arcade in the iOS Settings app.
• Chevy is cancelling the Bolt and really wants your data.
• gruber.com, home of the Gruber Motor Company and other fine subsidiaries of The Gruber Company.
• The saga behind “Superman II” and the Richard Donner cut.
• Bluesky:
  • The waiting list for invitation codes.
  • Bluesky: How to set a custom domain name as your Bluesky handle.
  • NYT: “What Is Bluesky and Why Are People Clamoring to Join It?”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple's rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.

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Links:

• Quinn's video on Apple silicon and the legacy of Gordon Moore.
• Quinn's video on VR headset and rumors regarding Apple's.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss generative AI (and what Apple might soon do with it), iPhone passcodes and iCloud device security, HBO Max turning into just plain Max, and Make Something Wonderful — one more thing from Steve Jobs.

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Links:

• Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen’s “chapter 2” report on the problem of iPhone thieves obtaining your device passcode.
• “Make Something Wonderful”.
  • Print editions for sale on eBay.
• Yours truly on Warner Bros. Discovery’s renamed “Max” streaming service.
• PushPopPress’s “Our Choice”.
  • Daring Fireball: Push Pop Press Acquired by Facebook; Abandons Planned Publishing Platform.
  • Facebook Paper.
• Dr. Seuss’s Star-Belly Sneetches.
• Rene’s YouTube channel.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.

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Links:

• Regarding my oblique reference to Philadelphia’s water quality scare.
• WWDC 2023.
• Petey — AI chat on Apple Watch, and, soon, iOS.
• Bill Gates: “The Age of AI Has Begun”.
• Red Sweater Software.
• Core Intuition podcast.
• Bing AI’s thought process is formatted in Markdown.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.

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Links:

• 0sil8.
• Kottke.org’s 10th anniversary, with a retrospective of site designs.
• Stellar:
  • Jason’s introduction.
  • Miriam Krule’s profile for The Atlantic.
  • Archive.org’s archive of the home page.
  • Jason’s farewell post, upon shutting it down in 2016. (“I’m not good at quitting things.”)
• The Suck.com origin story.
• Jason’s “Ask Me Anything” solicitation for questions.
• Neolithic weblogs:
  • Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom. He coined the term “weblog” and hosted a good FAQ.
  • Justin Hall’s Justin’s Links.
  • Dave Winer’s Davenet, which started in 1994.
• Dean Allen:
  • Cardigan Industries (“At the corner of art and commerce.”)
  • Textism, perhaps the best written, best designed weblog ever. (“Make haste slowly.”)
  • Dean’s bio, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.
  • Favrd.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new HomePod 2; and our favorite electric vehicle maker. Also: coffee.

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Links:

• Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: “A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life”.
• Yours truly, back in 2020, missing the obvious: “Can Thieves Crack 6-Digit iPhone Passcodes?”.
• Advanced Data Protection for iCloud — encrypts more stuff, but won’t protect you from someone with your iPhone and your passcode.
• Marco’s review of the HomePod 2 on ATP.
• Macworld: “This Photo of Lebron’s Record Should Be Apple’s Next ‘Shot on iPhone’ Ad”.
• Marco’s broken (and my own current) coffee grinder: the Baratza Virtuosa, which, alas, has been discontinued.
• Marco’s new coffee grinder: the Ode Brew Grinder Gen 2.
• Kanye West revealing that his iPhone passcode is “000000” on camera, while in the Oval Office talking nonsense with then-President Trump.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.

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Links:

• New M2 Pro/Max MacBook Pros and Mac Minis
  • Techmeme’s review roundup
  • Dan, at Six Colors, on the M2 Mac Mini
  • Jason Snell on the M2 16-inch MBP
  • AppleInsider: “Entry Level M2 Mac Mini, 2023 MacBook Pro Have Slower SSD Than Predecessors”.
• 2nd-gen HomePod review roundup.
• Dan’s “The Galactic Cold War” series of novels and short stories.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

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Links:

• Black Girls Code — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.
• From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
• Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
• My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
• The Iconfactory’s other apps:
  • Wallaroo — delightful iOS wallpapers
  • Tot — text scratchpad for Mac and iOS
  • xScope — screen inspector for Mac designers
  • Linea — excellent drawing app for iPad
  • Frenzic — fun game in Apple Arcade
• Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
• Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
• EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
• Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.

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Links:

• Apple silicon woes:
  • Mark Gurman on the Mac Pro.
  • Wayne Ma at The Information on the graphics capabilities of the iPhone 14 Pro's A16 SoC.
• Jeremi Gosney summarizing the situation with LastPass.
• Seat 31B: "The Great Southwest Meltdown of 2022". Terrific explainer about how Southwest is different from other airlines.
• Rubén Caballero -- formerly head of wireless technology engineering at Apple; now working for Microsoft.
• Glenn's books on security.
• Stochastic screening.
• "Shift Happens" -- the keyboards book Glenn has been working on with Marcin Wichary since 2018.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act) and Apple’s 2022 year in review.

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Links:

• Daring Fireball: “If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?”
• Rene’s YouTube channel.
• Mark Gurman’s report for Bloomberg on Apple’s work complying with the sideloading and third-party app store mandates in the DMA.
• Freeform, Apple’s new collaborative whiteboard app for Mac and iOS.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.

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Links:

• iPhone 14 production hit by Chinese protests.
• Me, on Twitter-Apple drama and Musk baiting Tim Cook.
• The Washington Post: Musk claims Apple threatens to remove Twitter from App Store.
• WSJ: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
• Macstodon: Mastodon Mac client for 68K Macs.
• “Sleep Baseball” podcast.
• Tim Cook’s gag tweet sent minutes before the start of the 2018 event introducing the iPhone XS and XR.
• Fedifinder.
• “The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime.
• “1899” on Netflix.
• “Dark” — from the creators of “1899”.
• “Andor” on Disney+.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell to score Taylor Swift tickets.

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Links:

• Christina Warren on Twitter, a website that still exists at this writing.
• Bob Iger returns to Disney as CEO.
• Yours truly: “Twitter Tumult”.
• Elon Musk asks engineers for weekly emails with code screenshots.
• Vice: “Twitter Employees on Visas Can’t Just Quit”.
• Disney books:
  • Disney War, by James B. Stewart — “The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.”
  • Walt Disney, by Neal Gabler — “The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.”
• Speaking of James B. Stewart, his recent epic story on AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition for The New York Times: “Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?”.
• Puck — excellent new subscription Hollywood/media/Silicon Valley news site.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.

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Links:

• “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
• Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
• Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
• Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
• Glitch.
• The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
• Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
• Anil’s blog.
• Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in the App Store.

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Links:

• Tell us what you really think, Federico: “Stage Manager in iPadOS 16: At the Intersection of Bugs, Missing Features, and Flawed Design”.
• Chris Lawley on Stage Manager.
• Federico on the new iPads.
• Yours truly on the same new iPads.
• Federico on attending his first Apple media event in person, back in 2015.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.

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Links:

• Jason’s review of the new iPads.
• Jason’s take on the iPad announcements: “The iPad’s Erratic Odyssey Continues”.
• Yours truly’s take on the announcements last week: “The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great”.
• New $70 Logitech Crayon.
• Apple’s $9 USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter.
• Apple’s growing array of iPad keyboards.
• Apple’s eMac — an iMac-like Mac with a CRT display for education that was introduced in 2002.
• Joe Rosensteel on the new Apple TV 4K hardware.
• Good explainer on Matter from The Verge.
• Steven Troughton-Smith’s ideas for improving Stage Manager on iPadOS.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).

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Links:

• Stable Diffusion.
  • Diffusion Bee: easily install and run on a Mac.
• Midjourney.
• Merlin’s Wisdom Project.
• Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix.
• The Offer on Paramount+.
• Do By Friday — Merlin’s weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox.
• Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa.
• Seki Edge Nail Clippers, made in Japan.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba's 20th anniversary.

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Links:

• Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary.
  • My link.
• The Design of Audio Hijack 4.
  • My link.
• Rogue Amoeba: “Our Upgrade Philosophy”.
• Custom-engraved AirPods Pro cases show up with the engraving on-screen in iOS.
• Yours truly’s Apple Watch Ultra review.
• Remembering “SportsCenter’s Dick Trickle”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.

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Links:

• Nilay's iPhone 14 Pro review for The Verge.
• Yours truly's iPhone 14 Pro review.
• Nilay: "Welcome to the New Verge".

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Special guest Rosemary Orchard joins the show to talk about her new book, Take Control of Shortcuts, and the state of automation on iOS and MacOS.

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Links:

• Rosemary’s blog.
• Automators — Rosemary’s podcast cohosted with David Sparks.
• Nested Folders — Rosemary’s productivity podcast, cohosted with Scotty Jackson.
• iOS Today at TWiT.
• Author Danny Goodman, whose Complete HyperCard Handbook sold 650,000 copies in the late 1980s.
• “The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case” — yours truly YouTubing back in 2017.
• “Life finds a way” — Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park.
• Pushcut — “Triggers, notifications, and widgets for Shortcuts, Home, and online automation”.
• WidgetPack — “Create your own widgets with Shortcuts.”
• Matthew Cassenelli, Shortcuts expert and author.
• Chris Lawley’s YouTube productivity tips channel.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include a serious discussion about CSAM detection at major cloud storage providers and messaging services. Also, a deep dive regarding the new iOS-UI-style rewrite of System Settings on the still-in-beta MacOS 13 Ventura, and thoughts on SwiftUI in general.

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Links:

• Kashmir Hill's report for the NYT: "A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal."
  • My take on the implications of that story.
• System Settings in MacOS 13 Ventura:
  • Me, at DF: "The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13 Ventura".
  • Jalkut, at his Bitsplitting blog: "Disciplined Innovation".
• MarsEdit 5 will support Markdown syntax coloring. Finally.
• Red Sweater Software.
• Core Intuition, the podcast Jalkut cohosts with Manton Reece.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other stages.

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Links:

• Niki Tonsky on Twitter on MacOS 13 Settings.
• Craig Federighi on Stage Manager at this year's The Talk Show Live From WWDC.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.

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Links:

• Michael Steeber’s homepage.
• The App Store Time Machine.
• Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually, this one using ARKit last year.
• Tabletops, Steeber’s newsletter.
• Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary.
• A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001. Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so.
• Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago, with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond.
• Apple Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore. Just gorgeous.
• Apple Carnegie Library, in Washington, DC.
• Apple Tower Theatre, in Los Angeles.
• Apple Walnut Street, in always-sunny Philadelphia.
  • Walnut Street ransacked and burned during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020.
  • My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG, for posterity after Facebook collapses.)
  • The finished mural.
• Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.

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Links:

• Hop Wtr.
• Hoplark.
• My review of the new M2 MacBook Air.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID and Touch ID, passkeys, and more.

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Links:

• Rene’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
• The M2 MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD has slower read and write performance than any M1 Mac, but only the 256 GB config.
• Daring Fireball: “How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad”.
• Rene’s deep dive on Passkeys.
• Glenn Fleishman’s comprehensive piece on Passkeys for TidBITS.
• Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).

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Links:

• The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022. Like and subscribe, baby.
• Twitter thread pondering whether reaction to iPadOS’s M1-or-better requirement for Stage Manager would have gotten a different reaction from owners of older iPads if the feature had debuted with the M1 iPad Pros last year.
• Jason’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
• Apple’s announcement of its 10-year Major League Soccer streaming deal.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2022, in front of a live audience at the new Apple Developer Center at Apple Park.

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Links:

• This episode, in video, on YouTube.
• The WWDC 2022 Keynote.
• “Computers Are Fun and Useful”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.

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Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, After Steve, reporting on the last decade at Apple.

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Links:

• After Steve.
  • Amazon.
  • Bookshop.
  • Apple Books.
• “How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple” — excerpt from After Steve that ran in The New York Times on May 1.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.

Transcript.

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Links

• Knotwords.
• Zach Gage’s portfolio website, with a full list of games.
• Really Bad Chess, which is actually, of course, really good.
• SynthPod, Zach’s first iPhone app.
• HyperStudio — a classic developer tool like HyperCard, but with color support.
• Apple’s original “Cocoa” — Stagecast Creator/KidSim.
• Zach Lieberman’s OpenFrameworks project from 2010.
• Lights Off — the first native iPhone game, nearly a year before the App Store. (I mistakenly called it “Lights Out” during the show.)
• CandyBar — Mac utility for customizing icons, including, back in the day, the icons for the system itself.
• Threes, a great puzzle game of iOS from 2014. (App Store link.)
• 2048, a free Threes knockoff.
• Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator, and games written for it.
• PICO-8 fantasy console.
• Playdate Pulp, and Bitsy, Pulp’s inspiration.
• Sol LeWitt, conceptual artist.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display’s camera (and this week’s beta firmware update to tweak its quality), how things have gone two years into Flexibits’ move to subscription pricing for Fantastical and Cardhop, and Panic’s now-shipping Playdate.

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Links:

• Flexibits:
  • Fantastical.
  • Cardhop.
  • Daring Fireball: “Fantastical Adds Web-Based Scheduling Features”.
  • Jason Snell: “Fantastical Update Adds Cloud-Based Scheduling Features”.
• Playdate:
  • Playdate Pulp — fun and surprisingly powerful web-based game IDE.
  • Playdate C and Lua SDKs.
• Pinball Construction Set.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk's impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple's credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn's new (and much-needed) book, Take Control of Untangling Connections.

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Links:

• “Take Control of Untangling Connections” — Glenn’s new $10 book that explains everything there is to know about USB-C connectors and ports and adapters.
  • Glenn’s personal website, with a fun new URL.
• Elon Musk is probably going to buy Twitter and take it private.
• Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column/newsletter for Bloomberg.
• Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, another outstanding email newsletter/column.
• Apple Newsroom: “Apple TV+ Partners With Idris Elba on New Thriller ‘Hijack’”.
  • My quip.
• Tim Cook’s speech stating Apple’s opposition to mandatory sideloading.
  • Sam Biddle (of The Intercept)’s response.
  • Matt Stoller’s response, which is even more deeply cynical than Biddle’s.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about Friday Night Baseball, Rogue Amoeba’s new Audio Hijack 4 release, and a bit of speculation on WWDC.

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Links:

• Audio Hijack 4.
• Audio Hijack 4 Scripting Center — documentation, how-tos, and examples.
• Jason Snell’s first impressions of “Friday Night Baseball”.
• “Friday Night Baseball” commentator Chris Young’s Wikipedia page, with details on the sign-stealing-via-Apple-Watch scheme he devised while playing for the Yankees and Red Sox.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new Mac Studio and Studio Display.

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Links:

• Panzarino’s interview with Apple execs Tom Boger, Shelly Goldberg, and Xander Soren, on the thinking behind the Mac Studio and Studio Display.
• TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
• Vin Diesel’s masterpiece, “xXx”.
  • “I want all that, in here.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.

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Links:

• Studio Display:
  • Casey’s summary of the state of external retina displays in December 2021.
  • My Review of the Apple Studio Display.
  • Matthew Panzarino: “Apple Execs on Developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the Other Pros”.
  • TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
• Apple’s $40 0.8m Thunderbolt 3 cable and $160 3m Thunderbolt 4 cable.
• MaskerAid:
  • Announcing MaskerAid.
  • MaskerAid Follow-Up.
  • MaskerAid on the App Store.
• The Martini FAQ, by Brad Gadberry.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.

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Links:

• Glass on the web.
• Glass on the App Store: “No ads, no algorithms.”
  • Special link, just for listeners of the show, for one free month on a yearly subscription.
• Tweet thread between Marques Brownlee and Adam Mosseri on the lack of an iPad app for Instagram.
• Image viewing comparison between Glass and Instagram.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.

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Links:

• Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
• “Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
• Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
• Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
• DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
• Stephen King’s On Writing.
• Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
  • Folklore.org
  • Revolution in the Valley
• Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
• Job openings at Humane.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.

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Links:

• Apple Support: “Set up home theater audio with HomePod mini or HomePod and Apple TV 4K”.
• AirTags and Stalking:
  • Kashmir Hill’s NYT story on tracker accuracy, based on using three brands of trackers to follow her husband.
  • Apple Newsroom: “An Update on AirTag and Unwanted Tracking”.
  • My take.
  • Rene’s take.
• 2016 Cult of Mac story on stalking via location embedded in Instagram photos.
• Apple leaks “realityOS” name, again.
• MacRumors: “Reliable Leaker Known as ‘Kang’ Hit With Warning From Apple”.
• Mark Gurman’s February 20 “Power On” column on Apple’s purported March 8 event.
• Rene on M2 MacBook rumors.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.

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Links:

• Apple in 2021: The Six Colors Report Card.
  • Breaking down the results with charts and graphs, thanks to Kieran Healy.
  • “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction” — Healy’s outstanding introduction to the R programming language and ggplot visualization library.
  • Healy’s also-excellent website.
  • My personal 2021 Apple report card.
• Keychron Q2 mechanical USB keyboard. My son bought this and swapped out the switches for a set of Zealio V2 62g switches.
• Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource and Audio Hijack — two great Mac utilities that can’t exist on iPadOS.
• Clipboard managers (which also can’t exist on iPadOS):
  • Pastebot.
  • Keyboard Maestro.
  • LaunchBar.
• Jason Snell: “Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?”
• Upgrade: One of Jason’s plethora of podcasts, this one co-hosted with Myke Hurley.
  • Last week’s Upgrade, discussing the 2021 Report Card.
• Floppy Emu: “a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.” Amazing work from Steve Chamberlin.
• Moltz’s “The Terminator” t-shirt design. (It will not be back.)

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Apple’s record-breaking but somehow yawn-inducing quarterly results, new features in the upcoming releases of MacOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4, the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify saga, and more.

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• Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing (with lots of warm options for winter).

Links:

• Apple Quarterly Results:
  • Apple Newsroom.
  • My two cents.
  • “This Is Tim.”
• MacOS 12.3 is dropping kernel extension APIs used by Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive:
  • Stephen Hackett.
  • Dropbox passing the buck.
  • Microsoft says OneDrive will soon be ready.
  • Box has been ready since October.
• New emojis in iOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.3.
• MacRumors: "Hands-On With Universal Control in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3".
• Other new features in iOS 15.3 and MacOS 12.3, including Face ID while wearing a mask.
• Steve Jobs's backdated stock options.
• Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
• East India Company.
  • They are, in fact, still a concern.
• Joe Isuzu.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the Heat, and the state of streaming video services.

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Links:

• “Heat 2”:
  • “Heat”.
  • Michael Mann’s tweet announcing “Heat 2”.
  • I almost plotzed.
  • Michael Mann on The Rewatchables in November 2021, talking about “Heat”.
• Roger Ebert in 2010: “Video Games Can Never Be Art”.
  • Me, in 2014: “I really wish [Ebert] had lived to see ‘Firewatch’.”
• “The Making of N64 Goldeneye: A 90s Video Game Masterpiece”.
• Rogue Amoeba: Audio Hijack.
• Yours truly speaking at XOXO 2014, on how Google Reader shutting down gave me the idea that has funded Daring Fireball ever since.
• BeOS screenshots — were those just-wide-enough-for-the-title window title bars a good idea or a gimmick?
• Netflix Chicken Littles.
• “Biff” podcast on The Incomparable — “Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English discuss superhero TV shows and movies in the inimitable style that their loyal readers have come to love.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about his excellent new documentary, Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone -- a history of Handspring and the creators of the original PalmPilot.

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Links:

• “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone” — the full 30-minute documentary.
  • (That same link has Dieter’s bonus material, too, including his corrected version of Ed Colligan’s infamous December 2006 quip about the then-imminent iPhone.)
• “The Zen of Palm” (PDF) — Palm’s HIG and design philosophy.
• Palm OS’s Graffiti handwriting system, including an illustrated cheatsheet of the gestures.
• PalmOS devices:
  • PalmPilot
    • Jeff Hawkins’s wooden prototype for getting the size right
  • Handspring Visor
  • Sony Clié
  • Harry McCracken’s look back at Palm devices for Fast Company in 2018
• The Palm Pre — Palm’s answer to the iPhone in 2009.
• TreoCentral and VisorCentral — both sites long defunct, but still available online.
• BlackBerry-esque prototype Android devices from before Google saw the iPhone.
• HTC’s G1 — The first commercial Android phone (a real turd).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Apple’s 2021 year in review, with special guest Rene Ritchie.

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Links:

• January:
  • John Ternus becomes SVP of hardware; Dan Riccio takes over VR/AR.
• February:
  • iOS 14.5 and unlocking with Apple Watch while wearing a mask.
• March:
  • HomePod canceled.
  • “Intel Goes Long”.
• April:
  • “Spring Loaded” event.
  • Apple Podcasts changes.
• May:
  • Epic v. Apple court case.
  • App Store: The Schiller Cut.
  • New Apple TV 4K and Siri Remote.
  • M1 iPad Pros.
  • 24-inch M1 iMacs.
• June:
  • WWDC 2021.
  • Safari tabs saga.
• August:
  • Child safety initiatives.
• September:
  • “California Streaming” event.
  • iPhones 13
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • iPad Mini
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • iOS 15 and WatchOS 8.
  • Kevin Lynch takes over “TitanOS”.
• October:
  • Apple Watch Series 7
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • MacOS 12 Monterey
  • Shortcuts.
• November:
  • Federighi’s anti-sideloading keynote at Web Summit in Lisbon.
• December:
  • The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new iCloud “legacy contact” feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.

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Links:

• Joanna on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week. (Really fun!)
• Gita Mini by Piaggio — the follow-along robot demoed on The Tonight Show.
• “Stuck in the Metaverse for 24 hours” — Joanna spends 24 hours alone in a hotel room wearing an Oculus Quest 2.
• “E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever” — Joanna’s Emmy-winning documentary.
• Joanna’s “new roommate”.
• iOS 15.2’s “Legacy Contact” feature.
• “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone”.
• “General Magic: The Movie.”
• Joanna Stern interviews Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit — video and transcript.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.

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Links:

• Who’s who in “Get Back”? A guide to the non-Beatles in Peter Jackson’s documentary.
  • “And Your Bird Can Sing” (Take 2) April 20, 1966.
• Amazon.com: iSi Classic MeshSodamaker for Making Carbonating Beverages, 1 Quart, Stainless Steel: Industrial & Scientific.
• American Giant.
  • Farhad Manjoo: “This Is The Greatest Hoodie Ever Made”.
  • YKK Zippers.
• Bern’s Steak House in Tampa.
• Jamie Zawinski.
  • DNA Lounge.
  • “Now you have two problems.”
• The Sharper Image’s Bacon Express Toaster.
• Helen Rosner in The New Yorker: “Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice”.
• Hal’s New York Seltzer Water.
• “What makes Ringo a Great Drummer”.
• “World’s Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr”.
• ‎David Sims, Letterboxd one-sentence reviewer extraordinaire.
  • “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle”.
  • “Free Solo”.
  • “A Quiet Place”.
• RoboCop: Blank Check with Griffin & David.
• Amanda Hess in the NYT: “The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles”.
• “Futura and Wes Anderson: A Love Story”.
• Atkinson Hyperlegible — an accessibility typeface.
• Hop Sing Laundromat:
  • Hop Sing on Twitter.
  • Lê on Twitter.
  • Rare photos from inside.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to discuss the past and future of Apple-centric reporting.

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Links:

• MacCentral circa November 1996, as cached by the Internet Archive. Among the news of the week: the release of BBEdit 4.0.2 and Cyberdog 1.2 beta 2. One of those had a longer shelf life than the other.

Special guest David Smith returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch Series 7 and the state of WatchOS, Apple suing NSO Group, and more.

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Links:

• David's post about wildcamping in Scotland with Apple Watch Series 7.
• David's excellent apps: Widgetsmith, Watchsmith, Pedometer++, Sleep++, and more.
• Problematic Forbes story: "Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue".
• Apple sues NSO Group.
• NYT: "Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking to Block Its Access to iPhones".
• Skyfall Road Pin on Google Maps.
• Under the Radar.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Dithering CEO Ben Thompson returns to the show to go deep on the concept of the metaverse.

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Links:

• Ben’s piece at Stratechery on the metaverse and the enterprise.
• Ben’s interview with Mark Zuckerberg.
• Facebook’s 2021 Connect keynote.
• Steven Levy’s interview with Niantic Labs founder and CEO John Hanke: “AR Is Where the Real Metaverse Is Going to Happen”.
• WALL-E’s dystopian vision of compulsive VR/AR addiction.
• Dithering: Two episodes per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros.

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Links:

• Core Intuition.
• Red Sweater Software.
• Docker.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.

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Links:

• Apple's $19 polishing cloth.
• Whoosh.
• The bizarro 16-pack of SIM card removal tools I bought at Amazon for $7.
• Paprika.
• Text Sniper.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest: Nilay Patel. Special topics: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, kids today and the file system, the Lightning / USB-C debate, and, of course, our speculation about next week’s “Unleashed” Apple event.

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Links:

• Business Insider feature suggesting Apple’s health initiatives are unfocused. (News+ link.)
• Monica Chin at The Verge: “File Not Found” — how kids today don’t understand computer file systems.
• Float — Aundre Larrow’s beautiful short film, shot using iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode.
• Nilay’s excellent interview podcast, Decoder.
• My review of the Apple Watch Series 7.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media day from Basketball Digest’s best NBA reporter.

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Links:

• Garmin Adventure Watches.
• Daring Fireball: “Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?”
• Jason's iPad Mini review.
• My iPad Mini review.
• Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”.
• Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”, which I conflated with Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” during the show, but about which Jason promptly corrected me.
• “Downstream” — Jason’s new podcast with Julia Alexander.
• “This is Dave from Basketball Digest.”
• “My Next Guest Needs no Introduction”.
• “The PosCast” with Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur.
• New Orleans Pelicans.
• Charlotte Hornets.
• Utah Jazz.
• Giants and Dodgers.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13 and their camera systems.

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Links:

• Panzarino’s iPhone 13 review.
• My iPhone 13 review.
• Panzarino’s follow-up feature on Cinematic mode, interviewing Apple’s Kaiann Drance and Johnnie Manzari, and my comments thereupon.
• A typical good dedicated macro lens: Canon’s $1,300 100mm ƒ/2.8 USM.
• ‘Float’ — Aundre Larrow’s beautiful short film, shot on an iPhone 13 Pro using Cinematic mode.
• Austin Mann’s iPhone 13 Pro camera review, from a safari in Tanzania, and my comments, from my home office in Philadelphia.
• From the DF Archive 2007: “iPhone First Impressions”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a recap of this week’s “California Streaming” Apple Event: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and new iPads. Also, last week’s decision in the Apple v. Epic lawsuit.

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Links:

• Apple’s event page for “California Streaming”.
• Yours truly’s thoughts and observations.
• Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s decision in the Apple v. Epic case.
• Stephen Warwick’s humorous summary of the decision.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about last week’s surprise announcement from Apple settling a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. App Store developers, and the various reactions to it. Also, a bit on App Store payment processing, and some speculation on who might succeed Tim Cook.

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Links:

• Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
• Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
• Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
• Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
• Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
• MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
• And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
• Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
• Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
• Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
• The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
• Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s controversial child safety initiatives, the tumultuous summer of Safari 15 beta UI designs, and a bit more on MagSafe battery packs.

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Links:

• Monotype Helvetica Now Variable.
• Quinn Nelson's skewering of Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack.
• Anker's superior $55 MagSafe-compatible battery pack.
• Yours truly on Apple's child safety initiatives.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and Loki.

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Links:

• Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
• Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
• Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
• Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
• Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
• MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
• And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
• Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
• Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
• Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
• The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
• Another post-show correction: there is one MLB team with a friendly bird mascot. (I mistakenly thought they had been relegated to AAA, and regret the error.)
• Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new MagSafe Battery Pack, the Amnesty-International-Led exposé of NSO Group’s state-sponsored phone hacking, Safari 15’s controversial new UI and Apple’s response, and a look back at year one of Apple silicon for Macs. Also: pizza.

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Links:

• Battery Packs:
  • Apple’s $99 MagSafe Battery Pack
  • Anker’s $46 PowerCore Magnetic 5K MagSafe-compatible battery pack
  • Rene Ritchie’s first-look at Apple’s new battery pack
• The Amnesty-International-led exposé of NSO Group’s Pegasus phone-hacking capabilities and abuse:
  • Amnesty’s report
  • Tweet thread from Citizen Lab’s Bill Marczak
  • The Washington Post’s report with a clickbait headline
  • The Guardian’s report
  • Google’s Project Zero on Apple’s “BlastDoor” sandboxing protection for iMessage introduced in iOS 14
• Safari 15’s much-criticized new UIs and Apple’s seeming “we’re listening” reaction:
  • My take on Safari 15 for iOS and Mac
  • And a follow-up
  • Me, on Rene Ritchie’s YouTube show
  • Jason Snell’s take for Macworld: “a self-inflicted wound but first aid may be on the way”
• Miscellaneous:
  • Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck, a Switch-inspired handheld gaming PC
  • Brian Heater on Steam Deck for TechCrunch
  • Moft’s $29 MagSafe credit-card-sized foldable iPhone stand
  • Ooni gas pizza ovens
  • Una Pizza Napoletana — the heavenly formerly-in-San-Francisco pizza restaurant where every single pie was made by owner Anthony Mangieri
  • Una Pizza is now in New Jersey and Mangieri now makes pepperoni pies that sound amazing

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the nuances of sideloading, Apple’s antitrust pressures, and a look back at the announcements from WWDC 2021.

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Links:

• The NOC List (Mission Impossible).
• Rene’s WWDC interview with Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck from Apple.
• The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak.
• Rene on sideloading.
• Yours truly on sideloading.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2021: the all-new multitasking interface in iPadOS 15, on-device Siri, new privacy controls in Safari and Mail, MacOS 12 Monterey, and more.

This episode of The Talk Show is available to watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-SzbucgATjA.

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Links:

• Previous episodes of The Talk Show Live (or Remote) From WWDC: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
• Apple’s WWDC 2021 keynote and Platforms State of the Union.
• iOS 15
• iPadOS 15
• MacOS 12 Monterey
• WatchOS 8
• Shared Health data
• Privacy
• Developer tools

The audio for this episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton. The video was produced and edited by Sandwich.

Special guest: the one and only Joanna Stern. Topics: new iMacs, Touch ID vs. Face ID, remote controls, surveillance advertising, and people who want to make everything a video call when a good old-fashioned voice call would do.

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Links:

• Function101 Remote Control for Apple TV.
• Robert G. Reeves's tweet thread about getting Twitter ads for the brand of toothpaste his mother uses after spending a week at her house.
• "Apple declined to comment on if this is just an elaborate troll at this point.".
• Joanna's latest: "Stop With the Video Chats Already. Just Make a Voice Call.".
• Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi About ATT and 'Superman'.
• Joanna on AirTags vs. Tile.
• Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: "Apple’s New iPad Pro vs. MacBook Air".
• Apple Platform Security Guide: "Secure Intent and Connections to the Secure Enclave".

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)

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Links:

• Accidental Tech Podcast.
• Casey Liss, who really does do a good job as de facto host of ATP, and to whom I probably owe a beer now.
• Overcast — the app you’re probably using to listen to this show.
• My reviews of the new 24-inch M1 iMac, M1 iPad Pro, and Apple TV remote and the hardware set-top box it optionally comes with.
• Marco’s Ratio coffee maker.
• “Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire” — excellent 1996 video game for Nintendo 64.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.

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Links:

• My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
• Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
• Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
• Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
• Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
• MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
• Apple Platform Security Guide.
• Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
• “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
• Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
• Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
• “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.

Craig Mod joins the show to talk about writing, designing, filmmaking, what makes for good software, and building a successful membership program to support independent art. And: pizza toast.

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Links:

• Craig’s annual essays about running a subscription:

  • Year one.
  • Year two.

• “Kissa by Kissa” — Craig’s book documenting, in words and photos, “walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.”

• “Pizza Toast & Coffee” — Craig’s new short film.

• Craigstarter — Craig’s open source project to host your own Kickstarter-like projects.

• Craig’s recent essay for Wired on the pleasure of programming, or as he calls it, “coding”.

• “Fast Software, the Best Software” — Craig’s 2019 essay on the feel of software tools.

• Kevin Kelly’s seminal “1,000 True Fans” essay.

• Author Karl Ove Knausgård, who calls his editors each day to read that day’s work to them.

• Software tools mentioned:

  • Ulyssses.
  • Final Cut Pro, which no longer has an “X”.
  • Lightroom Classic, the “Classic” part of which feels ominous.
  • Robin Sloan’s tweet deleting script.
  • Plausible Analytics.
  • Fathom Analytics.
  • fzf — Command-line fuzzy finder search tool.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to speculate about pending Apple product announcements and events. Lots of guessing, no wagering.

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Links:

• WWDC starts June 7.
• Gurman rumor of a rugged Apple Watch.
• Rene’s YouTube channel.
• Rene’s first year as an indie video maker, by the numbers.
• MacBreak Weekly, which Rene now co-hosts..

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, Apple TV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign.

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Links:

• The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project, now with all three bonus content episodes with yours truly.
• [Apple’s March 21, 2001 press release announcing Mac OS X 10.0’s release, including where to buy it (it came in a box and cost $129)](. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/03/21Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend/).
• Jason in August 2000: “Mac OS X: The Full Story”.
• Jason’s 10.1 story for Macworld.
• Steve Jobs claiming in 2005 — announcing the Mac’s Intel transition — that Mac OS X had set up Apple “for the next 20 years”.
• Jason: “Can Apple Explain Its Home Strategy?”.
• iMac Pro canceled in Friday night announcement.
• HomePod canceled the next Friday night.
• Dan Frakes’s review of the iPod Hi-Fi in 2006.
• Yours truly on Intel’s new “Go PC” campaign with Justin Long: “Intel Goes Long” and “Going Longer”.
• Stickergate.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

The state of the Mac, with special guest John Siracusa.

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Links:

• Siracusa’s Mac OS X reviews:
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
• Mac OS X 10.1
• Mac OS X 10.0
• Mac OS X DP4
• Mac OS X DP3
• Mac OS X DP2
• Siracusa’s entire archive at Ars Technica
• Hypercritical — Siracusa’s seldom-updated website

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about Apple Car, Apple TV, Clubhouse, and Bloomberg hamfistedly revisiting “The Big Hack”.

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Links:

• Daring Fireball posts on Bloomberg’s “Big Hack” update.
• “Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media” by Seth Mnookin.
• Zeynep Tucekci: “Critical Thinking Isn’t Just a Process” — interesting post about reading through the lines of authoritarian doublespeak.
• Marc Newson’s Ikepod watches, ideas which carried through to Apple Watch.
• Rocket — Christina’s podcast with Brianna Wu and Simone De Rochefort.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.

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Links:

• Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman reports on 2021 Macs.
• Mimeographs.
• San Antonio 10 year old who got 10 shares of GameStop stock as a gift from his mom and made $3000.
• Titanium G4 PowerBook.
• Robinhood overview by NYT.
• Philly COVID vaccination fiasco.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, The Collected Angers.

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Links:

• Jack Dorsey’s strange, rambling thread on Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Donald Trump.
• Sheryl Sandberg says Capitol riot planning didn’t happen on Facebook.
• Washington Post story on the travails of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Secret Service trying to find a toilet.
• Sarah Kendzior’s “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America”.
• “The Collected Angers” — Mike’s new book of essays.
• Bayard — the wonderful pitch-perfect typeface on the cover of “The Collected Angers”, from Vocal Type.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

A look back at one hell of a year.

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Links:

• Reuters ignites long simmering Project Titan talk.
• My take on this Apple car rumor.
• Elon Musk off-handedly quips that he tried to sell Tesla to Apple a few years ago and Tim Cook wouldn’t take the meeting.
• Loren Brichter’s “Chome Is Bad” single-serving website.
• Pitch Meeting: “Tenet” (the best review of “Tenet” you’ll see).
• Rene and yours truly debating whether Macs will and/or should support touchscreens on Rene’s YouTube channel, with the full-length version available on Nebula.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about Apple's new AirPods Max headphones and the future of the Mac on Apple Silicon.

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Links:

• Panzarino: “This Is Not a Review of Apple’s New AirPods Max Headphones”.
• Yours truly: “Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max”.
• Panzarino’s M1 MacBook Pro review, with jaw-dropping speed and battery life results from Xcode.
• James Mangold to direct fifth Indiana Jones movie.
• Todd Vaziri on a fun audio Easter egg in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Steve Martin’s “autograph” cards.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Nilay Patel returns to the show and we have nothing to talk about. You know, other than the M1 Macs and entire iPhone 12 lineup.

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Links:

• Decoder — new/relaunched interview podcast hosted by Nilay. (Overcast link.)
• “The Pandemic Work Diary of a Podcasting Tech Editor” — nice feature in the NYT on Nilay’s workday.
• The Verge’s reviews for the M1 MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini.
• Yours truly’s review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
• Patrick Moorhead’s “last honest man” style review of the M1 MacBook Air for Forbes, which, just one week later, is not aging well.
• The Verge’s reviews for the iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Mini. And from a few weeks prior: the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
• Yours truly’s reviews of the iPhone 12/12 Pro and 12 Mini/12 Pro Max.
• “Verizon and AT&T Have Vastly Different Ideas About Phone Cases” — Ashley Carman’s 2018 profile for The Verge of Helena Elicerio, Verizon’s phone case product manager.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.

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Links:

• Joanna Stern in the WSJ: “Apple’s M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Review: The Laptop’s Biggest Leap in Years”.
• And on YouTube: “Goodbye, Fan Noise”.
• My review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
• Joanna’s and my joint appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Alley, which started the webcam-gate scandal.
• Joanna’s epic breakdown of the best available USB-C chargers.
• Aukey’s adorable $50 90-watt 3-port charger, and their even smaller $45 65-watt 2-port charger.
• Joanna, back in July: “Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your Computer.”
• Camo — excellent app that lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a Mac webcam.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Another election. A different result. Let’s talk around it.

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Links:

• Holiday Party (2016).

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS.

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Links:

• The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project.
• Jason’s chart-based speculation on what we might expect from Apple Silicon Macs.
• My review of the new iPad Air.
• Jason’s review of the new iPad Air.
• Jason’s review of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
• My iPhone 12 review, and my event wrap-up with analysis of pricing.
• Dave Itzkoff’s profile of David Letterman for The New York Times, regarding season 3 of his Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”.

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.

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Links:

• MG on Apple Watch Series 6, and why he swapped Graphite stainless steel for blue aluminum.
• MG on App Clips and the Clip demo of the game Phoenix 2.
• “Apple, Influence, and Ive” — Ben Clymer’s 2018 profile of Jony Ive for Hodinkee.
• The seminal 2018 town hall meeting led by John Stankey, the longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO, that foreshadowed HBO’s decline.
• Christopher Nolan’s work on the 2018 50th anniversary “unrestored” print of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Nolan’s ill-advised decision to force Tenet into theaters amidst the COVID pandemic.
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — perhaps the best film in a great series, directed by Brad Bird.
• Cary Joji Fukunaga — director of the astounding first season of True Detective and the upcoming No Time to Die James Bond film.
• Michael Clayton — quietly great movie by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney.
• DisneyQuest, the aborted urban entertainment center in Philly that Disney never built in the late 1990s.
• United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. — 1948 Supreme Court antitrust case that resulted in movie studios being banned from owning theaters.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest “Underscore” David Smith joins the show to talk about iOS 14 widgets, WatchOS complications, sleep tracking, and his App Store chart-topping hit Widgetsmith.

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Underscore’s apps:

• Widgetsmith
• Watchsmith
• Sleep++
• Pedometer++
• And a lot more. Seriously, he makes a lot of apps.

Other links:

• Under the Radar — Underscore’s weekly podcast with Marco Arment.
• Daring Fireball: “‎Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad”.
• National Weather Service.
• Weatherline.
• Michael Ward’s classic 2004 piece for McSweeney’s: “E-Mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Michael Simmons joins the show. Topics include the release of iOS 14, widgets and home screen customization, pricing models for indie apps in the App Store era, and, of course, flying robot cameras.

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Links:

• Fantastical’s iOS 14 update with customizable widgets galore.
• Apple gave developers less than 24 hours notice that iOS 14 was about to ship, despite spending all summer encouraging developers to be ready with iOS 14 features at launch.
• Nova — Panic’s new code editor/IDE for Mac.
• Sketch — excellent Mac design and prototyping tool.
• Agenda — excellent notes/planning app for Mac and iOS.
• @mcharo on Twitter customized all his apps with icons of their company CEOs (or indie creators).
• IEEE Spectrum: “Why You Should Be Very Skeptical of Ring’s Indoor Security Drone”.

Mac desktop customization memory lane with Greg Landweber’s utilities:

• Greg’s Browser — NeXT-style column view file manager for classic Mac, worked wonderfully alongside the classic Finder.
• Greg’s Buttons — Control Panel to customize the interface of System 7, turned flat black-and-white buttons into cool 3D buttons. Now we’ve turned all our cool 3D buttons into boring monochromatic flat buttons.
• Aaron — brought the then-future Platinum appearance to System 7.
• BeView — made your Mac look like BeOS.
• Kaleidoscope — the masterpiece of the genre, from Landweber and Arlo Rose. A full-on custom theme engine for an OS that was not designed with system-wide theming as a feature. The golden age of interface customization hacks.
• Appearance Manager — Apple’s officially supported theming engine that wound up shipping with just one theme.
• Info on Apple’s Hi-Tech, Gizmo, and Drawing Board themes.
• August 2000 ATPM story by Christopher Turner on Kaleidoscope and Appearance Manager.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Peter Kafka returns to the show to discuss the news from Apple's "Time Flies" event -- new Apple Watches, new non-Pro iPads, and particularly the Apple One services bundle.

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Links:

• “Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets” — Mark Singer’s wondrous profile for The New Yorker in 1993. I just burst out laughing when I re-read this snippet I quoted from that piece for DF.
• The complete Ricky Jay archives at DF.
• Spotify’s statement griping that Apple One constitutes anticompetive behavior.
• The latest episode of Peter’s own podcast, Recode Media, with special guest Ben Thompson.
• Apple’s “Time Flies” event video.
• My thoughts and observations on the event and announcements.
• “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — Apple’s new retro style commercial for Apple Watch Family Setup.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

John Moltz returns to the show. Poodles are great dogs. Windows stinks worse than ever. Everyone should watch Ted Lasso.

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Links:

• How to Solve the “Code 43” Nvidia GTX10xx or RTX20xx GPU Problem.
• Me on pricing the “Apple One” services bundle.
• “Ted Lasso” renewed for second season.
• Cabel Sasser’s tweet on kids and software pricing.
• WinToUSB — $30 utility for installing Windows on an external USB drive.
• Avery — the printer label company whose name I couldn’t think of.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Anil Dash joins the show. Topics include the 25th anniversary of Windows 95, and the parallels between the cyber era of computing and today’s App Store controversies.

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Links:

• Anil on Windows 95.
• Jason Snell with the Mac user’s (and MacUser’s) take on Windows 95.
• My take on Snell’s take.
• Microsoft’s Windows 95 “Start Me Up” commercial.
• Francisco Tolmasky’s observation on Apple’s control over iOS stifling innovation.
• Glitch.
• Boscov’s.
• How 728,000 “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” Atari 2600 cartridges wound up in a landfill.
• Vectrex, the vector-display home video game system I nearly pissed my pants to play.
• Classic Mac OS’s curiously-named built-in text editor TeachText and its successor, SimpleText.
• OS/2 Warp.
• OS/2 Frequently Launched Criticisms.
• Michael Sippey demoing TypePad for iPhone at WWDC 2008.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Phil Schiller advancing to Apple Fellow, Microsoft’s simmering spat with Apple over Xbox Game Pass and the App Store’s ban on game streaming services, and Epic’s sizzling spat with Apple over, well, the entire concept of iOS as we know it.

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Links:

• Beats 1 is now Apple Music 1 (and the Beats brand is probably not long for this world).
• Apple Newsroom: Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow.
• The Curious Editing of 'Artemis Fowl'.
• John August’s Arlo Finch series, which is unrelated to Artemis Fowl but very cool nonetheless.
• Rene on Apple’s decision not to allow Xbox game streaming on iOS.
• Epic goes to war with Apple over the App Store.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Nilay Patel returns to the show to discuss this week’s House antitrust hearing featuring testimony from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Links:

• Full 5.5-hour video of the hearing.
• Casey Newton at The Verge: “Overdue, messy, and unsatisfying — but also a necessary part of a hugely important conversation”.
• Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and famed character actor M. Emmet Walsh, who was born to play him.
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) grilling Jeff Bezos on anti-competitive business practices at Amazon.
• Lina M. Khan: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”. Seminal paper published in The Yale Law Journal in 2017.
• The Verge on the 2010 emails between Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and Steve Jobs that set the rules that keep Amazon from selling Kindle books in their iOS app.
• Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Christina Warren joins the show. Topics include the App Store and antitrust, the general crumminess of video streaming service UIs, and historical examples of when Apple gets something wrong.

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Links:

• Steven Levy on the G4 Cube’s 20th anniversary.
• Me on the Cube and lessons learned.
• Report commissioned by Apple comparing the App Store to other “digital marketplaces”.
• Rolling Stone TV Critic Alan Sepinwall: “Who Loses Big in the Great Streaming Wars? The User”.
• Jason Snell pointing out that even the playback UIs stink for a lot of streaming apps.
• Jonathan Mann on Apple (Steve Jobs) deciding to use his “Antennagate Song” to open their emergency press conference.
• From the DF Archive: “Antennagate Bottom Line”.
• “The Innocence Files” — outstanding series on Netflix documenting the work of the Innocence Project, which works to free those convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
• Rocket — Weekly podcast hosted by Christina, Simone de Rochefort, and Brianna Wu.
• Christina on Twitter.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the cinematic and presentation style of Apple’s WWDC keynote, some post-production details on The Talk Show’s WWDC episode, the tribulations of producing professional videos during COVID-19, and the new sounds of MacOS 11 Big Sur.

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Links:

• Big Sur alerts.
• Big Sur system sounds.
• Prank with a loud computer startup chime in a crowded library.
• Sandwich’s conceived/shot/produced in quarantine video for Slack — working from home to make a video about working from home.
• The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020.
• Apple’s video with Craig Federighi introducing the iPad Magic Keyboard back in March, a precursor to the WWDC video style.
• My eve-of-keynote guess that WWDC’s keynote would look like that Magic Keyboard intro video.
• Apple’s old iTunes “Rip Mix Burn” commercial set in an empty theater.
• Steve Jobs introducing the G4 Cube at Macworld New York in 2000.
• Adam’s delightfully thoughtful thread on face masks.
• John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on coronavirus conspiracy theories.
• Mat Honan back in 2012 on how and why he got hacked.
• California King — the reboot of You Look Nice Today.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Dan Frommer returns to the show for more analysis of WWDC 2020, including App Clips and the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon.

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Links:

• Dan at The New Consumer: “Why Apple’s New ‘App Clips’ Matter”.
• WWDC 2020 sessions on App Clips.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about WWDC 2020.

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• Panzarino's interview with Phil Schiller on Hey's rejection from the App Store.
• “The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak”.
• Apple’s WWDC 2020 keynote.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2020: the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon, MacOS 11 Big Sur, iOS and iPadOS 14, and more.

Video of this show is available on YouTube.

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Links:

• The WWDC 2020 Keynote.
• Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon.
• MacOS 11 Big Sur — new UI and all-new Catalyst-based version of Messages.
• iOS 14 — home screen widgets and app clips. And, finally, incoming phone call notifications don’t take over your entire screen.
• iPadOS 14 — new handwriting features with Apple Pencil.
• WatchOS 7 — watch face sharing, sleep tracking, and hand-washing detection.

The audio version of this episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Ben Thompson returns to the show and there’s no sports talk because there’s no sports. Instead: temperature scales, Joe Rogan and Spotify, and Dithering.

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Links:

• Dithering.
• Ben at Stratechery: “Dithering and Open Versus Free.”
• Me at DF: “Dithering” and “More on Dithering”.
• Me at Macworld back in 2010: “It’s the heaviness of the Mac that allows iOS to remain light.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS -- the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.

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Links:

• Adam Engst: “TidBITS Marks Its 30th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic”.
• “Info-Mac is a discussion forum for Apple users as well as an archive of online content dating back to 1984.”
• The Mac compression wars: Raymond Lau’s StuffIt vs. Bill Goodman’s Compact Pro. I was a Compact Pro man, myself.
• The official Compact Pro website is, amazingly, still up.
• TidBITS issue 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars”. That’s right, 1991.
• TidBITS’s coverage of MacHack over the years.
• My 1994 letter to Andy Ihnatko’s Help Desk column in MacUser magazine.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.

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Links:

• Dieter’s review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
• My review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
• Dieter’s review of the iPhone SE.
• My review of the new iPhone SE.
• Dieter’s review of the OnePlus 8 Pro.
• Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Ultra reviews.
• Federico Vittici’s Shortcuts shortcut for jumping to the Hardware Keyboard section of Settings.
• Dr. Drang’s pre-shipping estimates of the iPad Magic Keyboard weights.

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Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing.

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Links:

• Joanna’s “How to Make an iPad Stand” video.
• Joanna’s review of the new Macbook Air, and her video on the state of laptop webcams.
• My review of the new MacBook Air.
• Joanna’s column (and video) on Face ID’s inability to recognize us while wearing face masks.
• Joanna’s iPhone X review from 2017, wherein she tried to fool Face ID with 3D-printed faces.
• Yours truly back in August 2017: “Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs”.
• WWDC 2018: Apple announces favicons in Safari tabs.
• Webcams Have Become Impossible to Find, and Prices Are Skyrocketing”.

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Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about going independent after 11 years at iMore. Topics include the new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and we answer questions sent by listeners.

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Links:

• Rene’s new YouTube channel.
• And his new website. (Great logo.)
• “The Best Is Last”: 2016 piece by Benedict Evans arguing that “a technology often produces its best results just when it’s ready to be replaced — it’s the best it’s ever been, but it’s also the best it could ever be”, using the specific example of propeller-based passenger planes.

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Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include the brand new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and, you know, global pandemics in the internet age.

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Links:

• My dumb handwashing tweet from back in 2009.
• Daniel Jalkut’s beautiful song inspired by that dumb tweet.
• Ronny Chieng’s hilarious Netflix standup special.
• My take on the new MacBook Air.
• My take on the new iPad Pros.
• Panzarino’s take on the new iPad Pros and relying on one as his only travel computer for the last 18 months.
• Also from Panzarino: “Half-Life: Alyx Delivers the Watershed Moment VR Gaming Needs”.
• “Do Not Drink”.

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Jason Snell returns to the show. Life during the COVID-19 pandemic, WWDC going online-only, Apple's in-person on-campus workplace culture, speculation on upcoming Apple product releases, and more.

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Links:

• Don Schaffner’s thread on the safety of takeout.
• From the DF archive back in 2004: “Dashboard vs. Konfabulator”.
• Google pays Apple a fortune to remain the default search engine in Safari.
• MacRumors: Some Apple Employees Say Company’s Culture of Secrecy Makes Working From Home Challenging.
• “Be fast, have no regrets” — pandemic response advice from Dr. Michael J Ryan.
• Panic’s Audion Story
• Panic Podcast: “Audion and On”
• The Incomparable’s Star Wars listen-along commentary special

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First-time guest Federico Viticci joins the show. Topics include how the coronavirus outbreak might affect WWDC, speculation on a possible March Apple event, the state of iPad keyboard (and trackpad) support, and iPadOS multitasking.

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Links:

• The Information: “Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad”.
• Jason Snell: “Nine Questions About the Rumored iPad Smart Keyboard With Trackpad”.
• Brydge Pro+ — upcoming iPad Pro keyboard with integrated trackpad.
• MacStories-commissioned “iOS 10: Wishes and Concept Video” back in 2016.
• Ryan Christoffel’s contextual-menu-based proposal for iPad multitasking.
• Tommy Walton’s deceptively simple concept for a direct manipulation-based iPad multitasking UI.
• iPad apps with excellent keyboard navigation: Agenda, Things, and Unread 2.

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Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Larry Tesler and his “no modes” mantra for UI design, the state of malware on the Mac, third-party default apps on iOS, Apple and the coronavirus outbreak, and a record number of tips and tricks.

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Links:

• Larry Tesler:
  • Tesler’s website.
  • Chris Espinosa on Tesler’s heuristic for smart paste.
  • John Markoff’s NYT obituary.
• Malwarebytes’s “State of Mac Malware in 2020” report:
  • Michael Tsai.
  • Jason Snell.
  • Dan Goodin’s report last month for Ars Technica on scam “Adobe Flash” installers.
• Mark Gurman claims Apple is considering third-party default apps for iOS 14.
• How to enable the startup chime on new Mac hardware.
• On Apple’s attempts to stiff retail employees for time spent waiting in bag-check lines.
• The Keychron K2 mechanical Bluetooth keyboard Jason Snell convinced me to buy. (I got brown switches.)

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPad.

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Links:

• DF: “The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10”.
• Ben: “The Tragic iPad”.
• Tweetie for iPad: Loren Brichter’s iPad masterpiece from 2010.
• Ben in 2013: “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong”.
• Average times to brute-force crack iOS device passcodes.
• The feds got Paul Manafort’s encrypted WhatsApp texts from his iCloud backup.
• Ben’s and my favorite iPad drawing app: The Iconfactory’s Linea.
• Obsessive Astros fan upset by scandal logged 8,200 pitches from 2017.
• Randy Johnson tipped his pitches his entire career.
• Randy Johnson faces John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star game and Kruk wants nothing to do with him.
• Kobe scores 62 in 3 quarters in 2005.
• Kobe scores 81 in 2006.
• Kobe scores 60 in his final game in 2016.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include iPhone encryption, the privacy implications of widely-available reverse image search for faces, deep-learning-powered algorithmically-generated faces, and Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.

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This is Jeopardy:

• Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time Tournament.
• Glenn’s analysis of matches 1–3 for Motherboard.
• Glenn’s archive of articles regarding Jeopardy.
• Prisoner of Trebekistan, by Bob Harris.
• Ken Jennings’s excellent Twitter account.

iPhone encryption:

• Jack Nicas’s New York Times column on how iPhone encryption works.
• My link to Nicas’s column, with a few additional thoughts.

Algorithmically-generated faces:

• The Washington Post: “Dating Apps Need Women. Advertisers Need Diversity. AI Companies Offer a Solution: Fake People”.
• Glenn on deep fake faces, last year for Fast Company .
• Facebook removes profiles with fake pics.

Facial recognition search:

• Kashmir Hill’s stunning report for The Times on Clearview AI, a Peter-Thiel-backed company that supplies law enforcement with facial recognition search, built using a library of billions of photos uploaded to the web.
• Nelson Minar on Yandex’s reverse image search for faces, which is startlingly accurate, and available to anyone.
• Screenshot of Yandex search results for my own face.

Miscellaneous:

• Tiny Type Museum.
• Election Ride Home podcast.
• The intense concentration required by grandmaster-level chess burns thousands of calories per day.
• YubiKey 5Ci — 2FA dongle with Lightning and USB-C jacks ($70 though).
• Loyola Maramount’s 1990 high-scoring men’s basketball team.
• Have I Been Pwned? — Fantastic resource where you can search to see if you have an account that was compromised in a data breach. Spoiler: you probably do.
• Kashmir Hill, writing for Gizmodo last year: “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell”.
• The New York Times: “One Nation, Tracked”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the renewal of U.S. law enforcement officials' disingenuous campaign against iPhone encryption, the Houston Astros cheating scandal, how that cheating scandal relates to the Trump impeachment saga, and Catalyst and the art of Mac software design. But mostly we talk about finding a good pair of slippers.

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Links:

• Trump’s tweet (what else) excoriating Apple for “refus[ing] to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements”.
• Scaring people into supporting backdoors.
• Wired: “Encrypted Messaging Is Essential, But It Isn’t Magic”.
• Merlin on Back to Work, speculating on how many Apple employees today have grown up more on iOS than MacOS, and how that might be starting to shape MacOS:.
• Great video from the always-great CGP Grey: “Should all locks have keys? Phones, Castles, Encryption, and You.”.
• Mack Weldon’s One-Mile Slipper.
• Professional-Grade Crocs.
• Something pretty similar to the coffee filter cone I’ve been using for 20 years (but I only paid like $4-5 for mine).

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It’s the last show of the decade. Special guest: Rene Ritchie.

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• Rene's gadget of the decade: Apple Watch.

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For your holiday listening enjoyment, very special guest Rich Siegel joins the show to talk about BBEdit’s past, present, and future, the state of developing for the Mac, and more.

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Links:

• My “Uses This” interview from 10 years ago.
• Andy Baio’s ten-years-delayed “Uses This” interview.
• Rich Siegel on Twitter.
• BBEdit’s public debut in April 1992.
• BBEdit’s 20th anniversary — nine years ago.

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Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show for a brief chat about the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, which are both — dare I say — finally available for ordering. Also: Ming Chi Kuo’s intriguing rumors on the 2020 and 2021 iPhone lineups.

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Links:

• Jason at Macworld: “The Mac Pro Is an Important Symbol, but You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It”.
• Greg Joswiak and Craig Federighi on stage at this year’s The Talk Show Live From WWDC, on the price of the Mac Pro’s optional wheels.
• The new Mac Pro has unique keyboard, trackpad, and mouse — black keys/glass and silver aluminum bottoms. It even comes with a black USB-C to Lightning cable and black power cable.
• Marques Brownlee’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Pro Display XDR.
• Justine Ezarik’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Behind the scenes.
• MacStories’ roundup of other Mac Pro / Pro Display XDR reviews and first impressions.
• Ming Chi Kuo’s 2020 iPhone roadmap.
• New iPhone “SE” to be called iPhone 9?
• Upgrade 275: “Remove All of the Holes”.
• The Mac IIfx debuted in March 1990 at a price of $9,900. Inflation adjusted, that’s $19,400 — give or take — in today’s dollars.
• Spectre, the greatest Mac game of all time (come at me).
• The language formerly known as “Perl 6” — first announced in July 2000 (!) — is now Raku. And Perl 5 — the one true Perl — is up to version 30.
• “Kotoba: The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Very special guest Matthew Yglesias joins the show to talk about Tim Cook cozying up to Trump for tariff relief and more.

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Links:

• Tim Cook interview with Brian Williams in 2012 announcing Mac Pro would be assembled in USA.
• Tesla Cybertruck.
• New iPhone 11 battery cases.
• Weeds Podcast.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.