The Letdown of WWDC

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.