Apple's Transformation: From Brand Rehabilitation to Cash Flow Generation

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.