The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Jan 10, 2017 • 2h 8min

178: ‘Now Banned in China’ With Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for the first episode of 2017. Topics include New Year’s Eve, Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant, Apple’s aging AirPort and Mac Pro lineups, the future of desktop Macs, Apple Watch battery life, and rumors of upcoming new iPads. Sponsored by: Mailchimp: MailChimp: send better email, sell more stuff. Squarespace: Make your next move. Make your next website. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Harry’s: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code talkshow for $5 off your first purchase. Links: Chuq Von Rospach: “Apple’s 2016 Year in Review”. My follow-up, specifically on the AirPort and Mac Pro hardware. Matt Birchler: “Siri vs. Google Assistant”. Dave Mark, on the slew of Alexa-related products at CES this year: “Alexa Is Everywhere”. Chris Adamson, on why he just bought a “new” Mac Pro. Apple, The New York Times, and China. Photos from inside Harry’s razor blade factory in Germany. Rumors about upcoming new iPads, including a new bezel-less edge-to-edge design. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Dec 28, 2016 • 2h 2min

177: ‘Surface Curious’ With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Siri vs. Alexa, and whether Wynn Las Vegas’s announcement that they’re putting Amazon Echos into their 4,700+ guest rooms is a sign that Amazon is building a meaningful long-term lead in the nascent voice assistant market; Mark Gurman’s week-ago piece for Bloomberg, “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”; Consumer Reports’s bizarre but widely-publicized battery test results for the new MacBook Pros; and a brief year in review look at our favorite new Apple products from 2016. Sponsored by: Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code thetalkshow for $50 toward your mattress. Audible: With Audible, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial. Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired glasses at a revolutionary price. Try up to five pairs at home for free. Links: Super Mario Run only needs to be purchased once per iTunes account for use on multiple devices, but can only be played on one device (per iTunes account) at a time. Wynn Las Vegas is going to put Amazon Echos in its 4,700+ hotel rooms. Wynn has not one but two resorts in Macau — Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace — neither of which can use Amazon Echo until Amazon adds support for Chinese. Digital Trends: “A Holographic Virtual Girl Lives Inside Japan’s Answer to the Amazon Echo. Tim Cook, in a company-wide Q&A: “Some folks in the media have raised the question about whether we’re committed to desktops. If there’s any doubt about that with our teams, let me be very clear: we have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that.” Bret Victor: Touch Bar development started at Apple eight years ago. Follow-up tweets here, here, and here. Mark Gurman, writing for Bloomberg: “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”. Consumer Reports: “New MacBook Pros Fail to Earn Consumer Reports Recommendation” Me: “That’s absolutely bonkers.” Rene Ritchie: “Consumer Reports Fails to Earn MacBook Pro Credibility”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Dec 17, 2016 • 2h 2min

176: ‘Frolic’ With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show with his gigantic fleshy palms. Topics include Donald Trump's highly publicized meeting with a handful of U.S. tech company leaders (including Tim Cook), the release of Nintendo's Super Mario Run for iPhone, Uber's autonomous car that was caught cruising straight through a red light in San Francisco, and Craig's excellent new book, Making Sense of Color Management. Sponsored by: Squarespace: The best way to create your own website. Use code talkshow for 10 percent off your first order. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code talkshow for $5 off your first purchase. Backblaze: Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for your Mac, for just $5 per month. Links: Craig's excellent new book, with a foreword by yours truly, Making Sense of Color Management, from A Book Apart. More from Craig on the story behind the book. Uber's carefully-worded PR spin on their autonomous car that was captured on video running a red light. Trump's tech summit meeting, and the look on Tim Cook's face. Poll shows U.S. Republicans rate Vladimir Putin 67 percent more favorably than Hillary Clinton, and 54 percent more favorably than Barack Obama. (Source.)
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Dec 11, 2016 • 1h 59min

175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include indoor plumbing, a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s excellent “Westworld”, our favorite beverages, Apple’s AirPods launch debacle, Apple TV single sign-on, and more. Sponsored by: Mailchimp: MailChimp: send better email, sell more stuff. Fracture: Your photos, printed directly on glass. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Links: HBO’s post-Westworld Easter Egg laden site for Delos Inc.. Ask Siri about “Westworld”. “A History of the World in Six Glasses”, by Tom Standage. Interesting New York Times story from January on Donald Trump’s brother Freddy, who drank himself to death in 1981. Glenn’s review of NewerTech’s $49 NuPower 60-Watt dual USB-A/USB-C charger — a single charger that can charge both a MacBook and iPhone at the same time. Tim Cook purportedly emails customer saying AirPods should ship over the “next few weeks”. Yours truly on what’s going on with the AirPods delay: unexpected manufacturing problems. Thoroughly Considered: the Studio Neat podcast. John Paczkowski summarizing the inauspicious partner list at the launch of Apple’s single sign-on service for TV content. Farhad Manjoo explains why he thinks gadgets are dying as a category: smartphones, probably. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Dec 1, 2016 • 2h 2min

174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros (and their keyboards), stockpiling old MacBook Airs, dongles, Touch ID, SnapChat Spectacles, and more. Sponsored by: Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code thetalkshow for free expedited shipping. Audible.com: With Audible, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial. Fracture: Your photos, printed directly on glass. Buy now to get them in time for the holidays. Links: Joanna’s review of the new MacBook Pros. My review. Joanna and Walt Mossberg talking crazy about stockpiling MacBook Airs. Joanna’s guide to the adapters and dongles — lots and lots of dongles — you might need for a new MacBook Pro. Joanna’s review of SnapChat Spectacles Mark Gurman’s reports on Apple getting out of the AirPort base station market and Amazon making a new Echo with a built-in 7-inch display for the kitchen. Adam Geitgey: “The New MacBook Pro Is Kind of Great for Hackers”. Monoprice. Griffin’s Breaksafe, a dongle-plus-nubbin replacement for MagSafe on USB-C equipped MacBooks. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Nov 19, 2016 • 2h 41min

173: ‘Fork the Universe’ With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar, and Apple’s new book chronicling the last 20 years of their industrial design, Designed by Apple in California. Sponsored by: Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Harry’s: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code talkshow for $5 off your first purchase. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code thetalkshow for $50 toward your mattress. Links: Jason’s review of the new MacBook Pros with Touch Bar. My review of the same. The Glif iPhone tripod mount. BBEdit. PCalc. James Thompson’s Easter egg idea for PCalc’s Touch Bar support. Jeffrey Friedl’s Mastering Regular Expressions, the greatest book that ever was or will be written on regular expressions. Sal Soghoian’s automation site for AppleScript, Automator, and more. My Title Case Script. Control Strip from classic Mac OS. Bartender utility for today’s MacOS. Horace Dediu: “Wherefore art thou Macintosh?” Yours truly on Microsoft and the word “compromise” back in 2013. Iconic, Jonathan Zufi’s excellent 2013 book on Apple’s design work. Designed by Apple in California. Taschen, coffee table book publisher extraordinaire. Jony Ive’s interview with Wallpaper on Designed by Apple in California. “I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford.” This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Nov 9, 2016 • 2h 7min

172: ‘Holiday Party’ With Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss the election, by which I mean we mostly talk *around* the election. I hope we never do another show again with such heavy hearts, but whatever you think about this election, I think you'll like this show. Sponsored by: * [Squarespace](http://squarespace.com/gruber): Build it beautiful. Use code __talkshow__ for 10 percent off your first order. * [Automatic](http://automatic.com/talkshow): Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off with this link. * [Circle](http://meetcircle.com/): Disney's new way for families to manage content and time across devices. Use code __thetalkshow__ to get free shipping and $10 off. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by [Caleb Sexton](https://twitter.com/calebsexton).
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Oct 26, 2016 • 2h 6min

171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include what we expect from this week’s Apple Event for new Mac hardware, and my impressions of the Google Pixel phone after a week using one. This week’s show introduces labeled chapter marks for subject matter. If you use a podcast player that supports them, such as Overcast, let me know what you think. Sponsored by: Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Use code thetalkshow for $50 toward your mattress. Audible.com: With Audible, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial. MailChimp: MailChimp: send better email, sell more stuff. Links: Ars Technica on the Mirai botnet that uses insecure Internet of Things devices. Brian Krebs on the Internet of Things botnet. Images of the new MacBook Pro Magic Toolbar that leaked from Apple itself as resources in MacOS 10.12.1. Darth on the Magic Toolbar and Esc-less hardware keyboard. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Oct 16, 2016 • 2h 51min

170: ‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’ With Ben Thompson

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include voice control with AirPods, how to get your entire music library onto an iPhone while using iCloud Music Library, Apple Watch durability, the Dash/App Store controversy, the disappointing and frustrating state of Siri and voice-driven AI assistants, Google's new Pixel phones and the strategy behind them, Snap's (née Snapchat) Spectacles (and why they're nothing like Google's ill-fated Glass), and more. Sponsored by: Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Harry's: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code talkshow and get a free bottle of Harry’s post shave balm. Away: First-class luggage at a coach price, including built-in USB chargers. Links: How to download your entire music library to a device using iCloud Music Library. 1991 TidBITS story on NowMenus, a classic Mac OS utility. BetterSnapTool, a Mac window management utility Ben uses. Clipboard history managers for Mac: Copy’em Paste LaunchBar Pastebot Keyboard Maestro Draft: web app that’s Ben’s preferred writing tool. Fluid: longstanding utility that let’s you turn any website into a standalone Mac app. Me on Twitter, posting a photo of my wife’s Apple Watch that fell apart coming off the charger. And then cracking wise. Me on the the Dash/App Store controversy. Dash developer Bogdan Popescu’s “full story”, in a statement to iMore. The circumstances that led Apple to link to the two developer accounts. Phil Stokes on Dropbox’s abuse of admin privileges and Accessibility permissions on MacOS: part 1 and part 2. John Hempton of Bronte Capital on Twitter: “Some Comment on the Twitter Buyout Rumors” “Measuring How Bad Twitter Is” Walt Mossberg: “Why Does Siri Seem So Dumb?” Ben Thompson: “Chat and the Consumerization of It”. Charlie Warzel, writing for BuzzFeed last year — “Apple’s Junk Drawer Problem” — under the premise that most people replace Apple’s apps on the iPhone with Google’s. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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Oct 6, 2016 • 1h 59min

169: ‘A Murder of Eeros’ With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Google’s “Made by Google” hardware announcements (the Pixel phones, Google Wi-Fi routers, their Amazon Echo competitor Google Home), mobile photography, Samsung’s acquisition of Viv, and more. Sponsored by: Fracture: Your pictures, printed directly on glass. Igloo: An intranet you’ll actually like. Try Igloo for free. Eero: Finally, Wi-Fi, that works. Use code thetalkshow for free overnight shipping. Links: TechCrunch: “Samsung Acquires Viv, a Next-Gen AI Assistant Built by Creators of Apple’s Siri”. Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane. Video of Google’s “Made by Google” event. Pixel phone specs. The DxO One camera peripheral for iPhone. Matthew’s 2012 “Hardware + Software Epiphany” tweet. The Here One in-ear “wireless listening system”. Steve Jobs meets ESPN president George Bodenheimer. Classic story. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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