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:
“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.

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