The Talk Show With John Gruber

Rene Ritchie joins the show to discuss last week's blockbuster Apple Event and the products that were announced: Apple Watch updates, the iPad Pro (and Smart Keyboard, and Apple Pencil), the all-new Apple TV, and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Also: iOS 9. Sponsored by: Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Get 10% off your first purchase with promo code "CrappyOldPhone". Backblaze: Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Mac. Risk-free no-credit-card-required trial. Igloo: The intranet you'll actually like. Try it for free. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Save $50 with promo code "thetalkshow". Links: Rene's comprehensive review of iOS 9 at iMore. The e-book version of Rene's iOS 9 and WatchOS 2.0 reviews. My thoughts and observations on last week's Apple event. Linda Dong on the differences between Apple Pencil and a Wacom Cintiq. Doug Litowitz: "Why Apple's Launch Event Was Creepy as Hell".

Special guest John Moltz is back. Topics include Google’s new logo, the Tacoma Tahomas, and our speculation regarding what to expect at this week’s Apple event in San Francisco. Sponsored by: Fracture: Your pictures, printed directly on glass. Photo, frame, and mount, all in one. Save with code “DARINGFIREBALL”. Automatic: Cool connected-car adapter (a.k.a. “dongle”). Save $20 with this link. Harry's: High-quality shaving products. Use the promo code “talkshow” to save $5 off your first purchase. Backblaze: Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Macs. Links: The original logo for Apple Computer Co. Another great look at some obscure variations of the Apple logo we know and love. Jose Canseco getting hit on the head by a deep fly ball. Jose Canseco getting knocked out by Vai Sikahema in a charity boxing match. Moltz: “The Watch Face Wars”. Samsung’s new decent-looking Gear S2 watches. Unbox Therapy guy bend-tests a leaked iPhone 6S 7000-grade aluminum frame. The evolution of Google’s logo.

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include: our top complaints about Apple Watch, Apple making a car, the New York Times's profile of Amazon's work culture, and more. Sponsored by: Harry's: High-quality shaving products. Use the promo code "talkshow" to save $5 off your first purchase. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Save $50 off any mattress with promo code "thetalkshow". Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a revolutionary price point. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Save 10 percent off first purchase with code “ThreeStarPodcast”. Links: The NYT: "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace". Julia Cheiffetz: "I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon". Me, back 2010, writing for Macworld: "This Is How Apple Rolls".

Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether their declining stock price makes them an acquisition target), the end of Google Plus, why the new Photos app for Mac is inadequate as a replacement for Lightroom for us, Apple's new San Jose real estate acquisition, Apple Car speculation, and Apple's spree of hiring writers from the Apple media. Sponsored by: Lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Fracture: Your pictures, printed directly on glass. Photo, frame, and mount, all in one. Save with code “DARINGFIREBALL”. Automatic: Cool connected-car adapter (a.k.a. “dingus”). Save $20 with this link. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10 percent off for the life of your account. Links: This American Life episode on the NUMMI automobile plant in Fremont California -- a joint venture between GM and Toyota that wound up in the hands of Tesla Motors. Gizmodo's jacktastic "obituary" for iTunes. Evan Williams on why "monthly active users" is a poor metric. Chris Sacca endorsing Jack Dorsey to return as Twitter CEO.. Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton's book about Twitter. Funny-because-it's-true Dilbert cartoon about management consultants. Great Vanity Fair feature by Richard Lawson: "The VidCon Revolution Isn’t Coming. It’s Here." Apple's $138 million purchase of a 43-acre site in north San Jose. Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine talk to USA Today about Apple Music, which now has 11 million trial subscribers.

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include bluetooth headphones, Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library, phone sizes (including speculation on the lineup of new iPhones in September), El Chapo’s social media intern, Apple’s stock price, Alex Gibney’s upcoming Steve Jobs documentary, and the new trailer for Spectre. Sponsored by: Casper: Just the right sink, just the right bounce. Save $50 on any Casper mattress. Hullo: Your favorite pillow. Guaranteed. Fracture: Your photos printed directly on pure glass. Use code “daringfireball” and save 15 percent off your first order. Igloo: The intranet you’ll actually like. Links: Mackie Onyx 1620i 16-channel Premium FireWire Recording Mixer. The somewhat less-complicated mixer I actually bought. Jason Snell’s “Bezos Chart” showing Apple Watch sales figures. The new trailer for Spectre. Reddit thread on Auric Goldfinger appearing as a sort of Easter egg in Casino Royale. Another Easter egg in Casino Royale: Daniel Craig using his Omega Seamaster as a knuckleduster in the climactic fight. Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs documentary, The Man in the Machine. El Chapo threatening Donald Trump on Twitter. Inside El Chapo’s purported escape tunnel.

Jason Snell returns to the show, with a lot to talk about: Pebble's new Pebble Time smartwatch, the "Safari is the New IE" argument, the state of web advertising (and its adverse effects on performance and privacy) and monetization, and more. Sponsored by: Harry’s: High quality razors and blades for a fraction of the price. Save $5 off first purchase with code “TALKSHOW”. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Save 10 percent off first purchase with code “ELEPHANTMARCO”. Fracture: Your photos printed directly on pure glass. Use code “daringfireball” and save 15 percent off your first order. Backblaze: Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Macs. Links: Adam Lisagor guest-posting on Kottke.org back in 2007. And Jason Kottke’s introduction. Ben Thompson on how web advertising works today. It’s gross. Mary Meeker’s slide on mobile’s share of attention vs. advertising revenue in the U.S. in 2015. Jason on MLB’s experimental native Mac app for watching games. Jason: “Web Developers Are Grumpy About Safari”. Rene Ritchie: “Safari Isn’t the New IE: It’s the User-Centric Web”. My wife’s photo of me and Phil Schiller on stage last month. Spark — excellent new iOS email app from Readdle that Jason is using.

Special guest Horace Dediu joins The Talk Show for the first time. Topics include the state of the maps industry, Apple’s functional organizational structure, what the WWDC keynote said about the state of the company today, and more. Sponsored by: Backblaze: Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Macs. Fracture: Your photos printed directly on pure glass. Use code “daringfireball” and save 15 percent off your first order. Casper: An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Save $50 on any order using code “thetalkshow”. Links: Hybrid Events Group, who handled the live streaming video for The Talk Show’s live episode two weeks ago. Horace’s analysis of the state of the maps market. New York Times feature on the curated nature of Apple Music’s streaming music. Horace’s transcript of Tim Cook’s poetic description of Apple’s doctrine, from a 2009 quarterly analyst call. Horace’s podcast: The Critical Path.

Guy English returns to the show, and we make a valiant but failed effort to cover all of the technical/developer news from last week’s WWDC. Among the topics we did hit: app thinning, Bitcode, WatchKit 2.0, CloudKit (and opening it up to web developers), Swift 2.0, Metal coming to the Mac, accessibility and low-level support for right-to-left languages, iOS 9’s new low-power mode, and more. Sponsored by: Harry’s: High quality razors and blades for a fraction of the price. Save $5 off first purchase with code “TALKSHOW”. Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Save 10 percent off first purchase with code “ELCAPITAN”. Igloo: The intranet you’ll actually like. Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code “GRUBER” for 10% off your first order. Links: Napkin: A great Mac imagine annotation app from Guy’s company, Aged & Distilled. Guy English on Twitter. “Inertial Lemon“‘s take on Bitcode, which Guy and I think is probably incorrect in several ways. Chris Lattner. Becoming Steve Jobs, the new biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. WWDC 2015 session videos, all of which are viewable without an ADC account. Video of last week’s live episode of The Talk Show, with special guest Phil Schiller.

Recorded in front of a live audience at Mezzanine in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.11 El Capitan, iOS 9, the new native app SDK for Apple Watch, Apple Music, and the 2004 American League Championship series. Sponsored by: MailChimp: Send better email. Fracture: Your pictures printed directly on glass. Save 15% with code "WWDC". Microsoft: Tools and services for any developer, any app, any OS. Really.

Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code "GRUBER" and save 10 percent. Igloo: The intranet you'll actually like. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for a 10 percent discount for the life of your account. Harvest: A beautiful business tool for tracking time spent on client projects. Use code "THETALKSHOW" at checkout and save 50% off your first month. Links: Gurman’s WWDC expectation roundup at 9to5Mac. That hack to use San Francisco as the system font on Yosemite. Eddy Cue at game 1 of the NBA Finals. Gurman’s 2014 feature on Apple PR. Techmeme’s “leaderboard”, and their FAQ explaining how it works. Ross Floate: ‘Your Next Project Needs a White-Hat Jerk’. Last year’s Slack flaw that let you see the team names from any company.