The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores. Sponsored by: Retool: Build internal tools 10× faster. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Hello Fresh: America’s #1 meal kit. Links: Michael Steeber’s homepage. The App Store Time Machine. Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually, this one using ARKit last year. Tabletops, Steeber’s newsletter. Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary. A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001. Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so. Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago, with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond. Apple Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore. Just gorgeous. Apple Carnegie Library, in Washington, DC. Apple Tower Theatre, in Los Angeles. Apple Walnut Street, in always-sunny Philadelphia. Walnut Street ransacked and burned during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020. My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG, for posterity after Facebook collapses.) The finished mural. Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit. Trade Coffee: Incredible coffee delivered fresh from the best roasters in the nation. ShipStation: Shipping software for wherever you sell, however you ship. 60-day free trial with code thetalkshow. Hover: Find a domain name for your passion. Get 10% off your first purchase. Links: Hop Wtr. Hoplark. My review of the new M2 MacBook Air. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID and Touch ID, passkeys, and more. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Kolide: Endpoint security for teams that Slack. Try Kolide for free today; no credit card required. Links: Rene’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro. The M2 MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD has slower read and write performance than any M1 Mac, but only the 256 GB config. Daring Fireball: “How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad”. Rene’s deep dive on Passkeys. Glenn Fleishman’s comprehensive piece on Passkeys for TidBITS. Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer). Sponsored by: RevenueCat: In-app subscriptions made easy. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Endpoint Security for teams that Slack. Try Kolide for free today; no credit card required. Links: The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022. Like and subscribe, baby. Twitter thread pondering whether reaction to iPadOS’s M1-or-better requirement for Stage Manager would have gotten a different reaction from owners of older iPads if the feature had debuted with the M1 iPad Pros last year. Jason’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro. Apple’s announcement of its 10-year Major League Soccer streaming deal. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2022, in front of a live audience at the new Apple Developer Center at Apple Park. Sponsored by: MacStadium: Private Mac clouds built by developers, for developers. Atoms: The ideal everyday shoe. Links: This episode, in video, on YouTube. The WWDC 2022 Keynote. “Computers Are Fun and Useful” This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more. Sponsored by: Alex Weinstein: We’re all storytellers. And as a storyteller, you know that music is one of your essential tools. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Endpoint Security for teams that Slack. Try Kolide for free today; no credit card required. Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, After Steve, reporting on the last decade at Apple. Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Kolide: Endpoint Security for teams that Slack. Try Kolide for free today; no credit card required. Links: After Steve. Amazon. Bookshop. Apple Books. “How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple” — excerpt from After Steve that ran in The New York Times on May 1. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords. Transcript. Sponsors Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Kolide: Endpoint Security for teams that Slack. Try Kolide for free today; no credit card required. Links Knotwords. Zach Gage’s portfolio website, with a full list of games. Really Bad Chess, which is actually, of course, really good. SynthPod, Zach’s first iPhone app. HyperStudio — a classic developer tool like HyperCard, but with color support. Apple’s original “Cocoa” — Stagecast Creator/KidSim. Zach Lieberman’s OpenFrameworks project from 2010. Lights Off — the first native iPhone game, nearly a year before the App Store. (I mistakenly called it “Lights Out” during the show.) CandyBar — Mac utility for customizing icons, including, back in the day, the icons for the system itself. Threes, a great puzzle game of iOS from 2014. (App Store link.) 2048, a free Threes knockoff. Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator, and games written for it. PICO-8 fantasy console. Playdate Pulp, and Bitsy, Pulp’s inspiration. Sol LeWitt, conceptual artist. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display’s camera (and this week’s beta firmware update to tweak its quality), how things have gone two years into Flexibits’ move to subscription pricing for Fantastical and Cardhop, and Panic’s now-shipping Playdate. Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit. Retool: Build internal tools 10x faster. Iodyne: Introducing the all-new Pro Data. Links: Flexibits: Fantastical. Cardhop. Daring Fireball: “Fantastical Adds Web-Based Scheduling Features”. Jason Snell: “Fantastical Update Adds Cloud-Based Scheduling Features”. Playdate: Playdate Pulp — fun and surprisingly powerful web-based game IDE. Playdate C and Lua SDKs. Pinball Construction Set. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk's impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple's credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn's new (and much-needed) book, Take Control of Untangling Connections. Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit. Hello Fresh: America’s #1 meal kit. Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing. Links: “Take Control of Untangling Connections” — Glenn’s new $10 book that explains everything there is to know about USB-C connectors and ports and adapters. Glenn’s personal website, with a fun new URL. Elon Musk is probably going to buy Twitter and take it private. Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column/newsletter for Bloomberg. Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, another outstanding email newsletter/column. Apple Newsroom: “Apple TV+ Partners With Idris Elba on New Thriller ‘Hijack’”. My quip. Tim Cook’s speech stating Apple’s opposition to mandatory sideloading. Sam Biddle (of The Intercept)’s response. Matt Stoller’s response, which is even more deeply cynical than Biddle’s. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.