The Talk Show With John Gruber 313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman
May 1, 2021
02:58:59
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.