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    The Talk Show With John Gruber

    The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.

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    245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie Feb 28, 2019
    Show notes

    Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include, but are not limited to, privacy concerns with apps from the App Store, Google’s payments to Apple to keep Google Search the default in Safari, Apple’s Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple’s purported March 25 media event.

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    Links:

    • These Apps Are Stealing Your Most Private Data and It Should Be a Crime.
    • Objective Development’s Internet Access Policy.
    • The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America.
    • Samsung Galaxy Fold vs. Huawei Mate X.
    • Shot on iPhone Challenge winners.
    • Should Apple Remove Google as Default Search?.
    • Twitter thread on new MacBooks with keyboard problems.
    • Adam Lashinsky on Steve Jobs’s parable of the difference between a janitor and a VP.
    • LG’s answer to the foldable mania is a second screen.
    • Google Blames Bug for Apple Music Appearing on Home Speakers.
    • Teleprompt+.
    • Panasonic GH5.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman Feb 22, 2019
    Show notes

    Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include: rumors of new Mac hardware and Marzipan at WWDC, Samsung’s new phones unveiled at their “Unpacked” event, 5G networks, Apple’s purported foray into the credit card business, and more — including Glenn’s “Tiny Type Museum” Kickstarter project.

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    Links

    • Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule — Glenn’s latest project on Kickstarter.
    • “The Old Guard of Mac Indie Apps Has Thrived for More Than 25 Years”.
    • WSJ report on Apple teaming With Goldman Sachs to issue a credit card.
    • Costco’s remarkable low-fee exclusivity deal with Visa.
    • “Gurman on WWDC 2019: Marzipan Marches Forward and the New Mac Pro”.
    • “Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?”
    • Glenn’s story on Erik Spiekermann marrying digital design with letterpress printing.
    • Jack Dorsey on The Bill Simmons Podcast.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    243: ‘The God Awful Truth’ With Rich Mogull Feb 15, 2019
    Show notes

    Special guest Rich Mogull joins the show. Topics cover a range of security and privacy-related issues: the Jeff Bezos/National Enquirer saga, laptop webcams, abuse of Apple's enterprise developer program to enable sideloading of iOS apps, Amazon's acquisition of Eero, and more.

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    Links

    • Securosis — Rich’s security consultancy and blog.
    • Enterprise apps as de facto sideloading.
    • Daring Fireball: “On Covering Webcams”.
    • Micro Snitch: Objective Development’s utility for notifying you of access to your Mac’s camera or microphone.
    • Patrick Wardle’s Oversight.
    • The 2005 TJX data breach.
    • Cliff Sims’s Team of Vipers tell-all on working in the Trump administration.
    242: ‘The Butts Incident’ With John Moltz Jan 31, 2019
    Show notes

    John Moltz makes his long-awaited return to the show. Three big topics this week: the Facebook VPN app fiasco (and the company’s pattern of ethical violations), the Group FaceTime bug that allowed callers to listen to audio before the call was answered, and Apple’s quarterly results.

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    Links:

    • Bugs in Group FaceTime Allow Callers to See and Hear Recipients’ End Without Them Answering.
    • TechCrunch: Facebook Pays Teenagers to Install VPN That Spies on Them.
    • Google Was Doing Something Similar.
    • Apple’s Q1 2019 Financial Results.
    • Lisa Brennan-Jobs on Craig Mod’s “On Margins” podcast.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    241: ‘More Smarter’ With Joanna Stern Jan 23, 2019
    Show notes

    Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the iPhone XR (and the argument that it might be the best phone in Apple’s current lineup), Apple’s new Smart Battery Cases, Apple Watch, and, of course, the new MacBook Air.

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    Links:

    • New York Magazine in 2016: “Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?”.
    • Last Month: “Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement”.
    • Joanna’s iPhone XR review.
    • Joanna’s MacBook Air review — from a hot air balloon.
    • “Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested by a Hollywood Stunt Double” .
    240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson Jan 14, 2019
    Show notes

    Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's horrible no good very bad earnings warning, the Chinese market, Apple's push toward services for revenue growth, antitrust issues regarding the App Store, and more.

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    Links:

    • “Apple’s Errors” — Ben’s take on Apple’s earnings warning.
    • “Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning” — my take.
    • “Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”.
    • Exponent — Ben’s podcast cohosted by James Allworth — is back.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    239: ‘Proprioceptive Lie’ With Rene Ritchie Dec 31, 2018
    Show notes

    Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a year-in-review look back at Apple’s 2018: the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Siri and services, and more.

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    Links:

    • The C64 Mini.
    • Raspberry Pi.
    • Vortex Race 3 mechanical keyboard.
    • The other “Vortex”.
    • The MacBook ARM — video from Rene laying out the similarities between Apple’s 2005 transition from PowerPC to Intel and the seemingly inevitable coming transition from Intel to in-house ARM chips.
    • Apple Watch Series 4 detects man’s potentially deadly heart condition.
    • John Giannandrea, Siri, and AI/ML.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    238: ‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’ With Jason Snell Dec 24, 2018
    Show notes

    Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include BBEdit’s 25th anniversary, the saga of Word 6 for Mac in the 1990s, Mac iOS user interface differences (including an extensive discussion of Mojave’s craptacular “Marzipan” apps, and a few varying theories on what those apps portend), Photos on Mac and iOS, and, of course, keyboards.

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    Links:

    • Take Control of Photos by Jason Snell.
    • Jason’s current keyboard: the Vortex Race 3.
    • Apple hardware SVP Dan Riccio on reports of bent iPad Pros.
    • Studio Neat’s Canopy case/iPad stand for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
    • Fintie Carry Case for Apple Magic Keyboard.
    • Jason’s favorite iPad stand.
    • John’s favorite iPad stand.
    • Microsoft’s Rick Schaut on the saga of Word 6 for Mac.
    • My recent take on the Word 6 saga, in the context of the rise of Electron apps.
    • Federico Viticci’s top iOS apps of the year.
    • HomeBridge — open source utility for connecting non-HomeKit devices to HomeKit.
    • BBEdit 25th anniversary merchandise and amusing press release.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    237: ‘Out on Home Video’ With Matthew Panzarino Dec 15, 2018
    Show notes

    Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include recent blockbuster movies, motion smoothing on TVs, iPhone demand rumors, Apple’s Made For iPhone (MFi) program, and more. Recorded live from The Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado.

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    Links:

    • Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie’s PSA on the evils of motion smoothing.
    • Walt Hickey: “Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Might Be the Best Collaboration in Hollywood”.
    • Comcast Xfinity mobile service.
    • My review of Apple’s $39 iPhone XR clear case.
    • Guilherme Rambo finds clues suggesting new Smart Battery Cases from Apple.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

    236: ‘A Vivid Nightmarescape’ With Dieter Bohn Nov 30, 2018
    Show notes

    Special guest Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about Google’s new Pixel Slate Chrome OS tablet/laptop, the Pixel 3, Google’s fascinating new Night Sight camera mode, speculation on how Apple might move the Mac to ARM chips, and more.

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    Links:

    • The late great 12-inch PowerBook G4.
    • Dieter's rather scathing review of the Pixel Slate.
    • The Verge's review of Google's Night Sight camera feature.

    This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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