The Talk Show With John Gruber

By Daring Fireball / John Gruber

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

Episode Date
370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke
03:12:48
Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.
Mar 12, 2023
369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment
03:11:58
Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new HomePod 2; and our favorite electric vehicle maker. Also: coffee.
Mar 01, 2023
368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren
01:40:00
Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.
Feb 01, 2023
367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
02:50:34
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.
Jan 20, 2023
366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman
02:33:26
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.
Dec 31, 2022
365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie
02:45:12
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act) and Apple’s 2022 year in review.
Dec 22, 2022
364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz
02:21:57
Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.
Dec 01, 2022
363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren
02:15:03
Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell to score Taylor Swift tickets.
Nov 24, 2022
362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash
02:14:29
Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.
Nov 19, 2022
361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci
02:29:53
Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in the App Store.
Nov 01, 2022
360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell
02:31:28
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.
Oct 25, 2022
359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann
01:37:43
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).
Oct 13, 2022
358: ‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis
02:30:40
Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba’s 20th anniversary.
Oct 01, 2022
357: ‘Fluent Cupertinoese’, With Nilay Patel
03:14:11
Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.
Sep 21, 2022
356: ‘An Unranted Rant’, With Rosemary Orchard
02:11:03
Special guest Rosemary Orchard joins the show to talk about her new book, “Take Control of Shortcuts”, and the state of automation on iOS and MacOS.
Sep 01, 2022
355: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut
02:30:06
Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include a serious discussion about CSAM detection at major cloud storage providers and messaging services. Also, a deep dive regarding the new iOS-UI-style rewrite of System Settings on the still-in-beta MacOS 13 Ventura, and thoughts on SwiftUI in general.
Aug 26, 2022
354: ‘Get Me to the Fainting Couch’, With John Moltz
02:30:58
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other stages.
Aug 18, 2022
353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber
02:04:08
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.
Aug 01, 2022
352: ‘I’ve Kissed That Mouse’, With Marco Arment
03:08:48
Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.
Jul 26, 2022
351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie
02:02:29
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.
Jul 01, 2022
350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell
02:33:57
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).
Jun 28, 2022
349: ‘Live From WWDC 2022’, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
01:25:12
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.
Jun 07, 2022
348: ‘Joe Biden’s Gum’’, With John Moltz
01:20:38
Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.
Jun 01, 2022
347: ‘After Steve’, With Tripp Mickle
02:06:47
Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, *After Steve*, reporting on the last decade at Apple.
May 15, 2022
346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage
02:28:20
Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.
May 09, 2022
345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons
01:47:19
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.
May 01, 2022
344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman
01:41:22
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”.
Apr 26, 2022
343: ‘Fussy Typography Improvements’, With Paul Kafasis
02:45:12
Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about Friday Night Baseball, Rogue Amoeba’s new Audio Hijack 4 release, and a bit of speculation on WWDC.
Apr 15, 2022
342: ‘Doggy Lake’, With Matthew Panzarino
02:03:46
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new Mac Studio and Studio Display.
Apr 01, 2022
341: ‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss
02:23:21
Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.
Mar 27, 2022
340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee
01:59:02
Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.
Mar 09, 2022
339: ‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda
02:23:28
Special guest Ken Kocienda joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
Mar 01, 2022
338: ‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie
02:02:01
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.
Feb 26, 2022
337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell
02:46:18
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.
Feb 15, 2022
336: ‘He Looked Like a Fred’, With John Moltz
01:32:22
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Apple’s record-breaking but somehow yawn-inducing quarterly results, new features in the upcoming releases of MacOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4, the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify saga, and more.
Feb 01, 2022
335: ‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English
02:05:53
Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the *Heat*, and the state of streaming video services.
Jan 27, 2022
334: ‘High-Margin Candy Bar’, With Dieter Bohn
01:39:05
Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about his excellent new documentary, *Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone* — a history of Handspring and the creators of the original PalmPilot.
Jan 08, 2022
333: ‘Schrödinger’s Feature’, With Rene Ritchie
02:45:01
Apple’s 2021 year in review, with special guest Rene Ritchie.
Dec 31, 2021
332: ‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern
01:59:09
Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple's new iCloud "legacy contact" feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.
Dec 24, 2021
331: ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann
03:09:47
Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary “Get Back”.
Dec 11, 2021
330: ‘Headline Goes Here’, With Jim Dalrymple
01:16:21
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to discuss the past and future of Apple-centric reporting.
Dec 01, 2021
329: ‘The Scotland Board of Tourism’, With David Smith
01:29:07
Special guest David Smith returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch Series 7 and the state of WatchOS, Apple suing NSO Group, and more.
Nov 25, 2021
328: ‘The Warden’s Dilemma’, With Ben Thompson
01:58:03
Dithering CEO Ben Thompson returns to the show to go deep on the concept of the metaverse.
Nov 13, 2021
327: ‘Giddy With Mac-Ness’, With Daniel Jalkut
01:44:00
Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros.
Nov 01, 2021
326: ‘A Very Large Nap’, With John Moltz
01:38:52
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.
Oct 29, 2021
325: ‘The Negative Version of Icing on the Cake’, With Nilay Patel
02:27:57
Special guest: Nilay Patel. Special topics: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, kids today and the file system, the Lightning / USB-C debate, and, of course, our speculation about next week’s “Unleashed” Apple event.
Oct 16, 2021
324: ‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’, With Jason Snell
02:20:05
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media day from Basketball Digest’s best NBA reporter.
Oct 01, 2021
323: ‘Skeptical Not Cynical’, With Matthew Panzarino
01:39:31
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13 and their camera systems.
Sep 29, 2021
322: ‘It Was More Arial Than Helvetica’, With Rene Ritchie
02:04:29
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a recap of this week’s “California Streaming” Apple Event: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and new iPads. Also, last week’s decision in the Apple v. Epic lawsuit.
Sep 18, 2021
321: ‘Just a Standard Bird’, With MG Siegler
01:57:58
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about last week’s surprise announcement from Apple settling a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. App Store developers, and the various reactions to it. Also, a bit on App Store payment processing, and some speculation on who might succeed Tim Cook.
Sep 01, 2021
320: ‘Paper Floor Mats’, With Christina Warren
02:08:32
Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s controversial child safety initiatives, the tumultuous summer of Safari 15 beta UI designs, and a bit more on MagSafe battery packs.
Aug 23, 2021
319: ‘You Called Him Pixel Mature’, With John Moltz
01:46:33
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and “Loki”.
Jul 30, 2021
318: ‘Holes in the Blast Door’, With Matthew Panzarino
02:06:29
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new MagSafe Battery Pack, the Amnesty-International-Led exposé of NSO Group’s state-sponsored phone hacking, Safari 15’s controversial new UI and Apple’s response, and a look back at year one of Apple silicon for Macs. Also: pizza.
Jul 22, 2021
317: ‘The NOC List’, With Rene Ritchie
01:58:50
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the nuances of sideloading, Apple’s antitrust pressures, and a look back at the announcements from WWDC 2021.
Jun 27, 2021
316: Remote From WWDC 2021 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
01:24:45
Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2021: the all-new multitasking interface in iPadOS 15, on-device Siri, new privacy controls in Safari and Mail, MacOS 12 Monterey, and more.
Jun 12, 2021
315: ‘I Don’t Know How to Read’, With Joanna Stern
01:57:27
Special guest: the one and only Joanna Stern. Topics: new iMacs, Touch ID vs. Face ID, remote controls, surveillance advertising, and people who want to make everything a video call when a good old-fashioned voice call would do.
May 29, 2021
314: ‘Obviously Tier One’, With Marco Arment
02:14:58
Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)
May 25, 2021
313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman
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.
May 01, 2021
312: ‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod
02:36:36
Craig Mod joins the show to talk about writing, designing, filmmaking, what makes for good software, and building a successful membership program to support independent art. And: pizza toast.
Apr 11, 2021
311: ‘Toaster Fridgey’, With Rene Ritchie
01:55:05
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to speculate about pending Apple product announcements and events. Lots of guessing, no wagering.
Apr 01, 2021
310: ‘Russian Nesting Doll Code’, With Jason Snell
02:31:56
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, Apple TV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign.
Mar 24, 2021
309: ‘Pinkies on the Semicolon’, With John Siracusa
02:53:47
The state of the Mac, with special guest John Siracusa.
Feb 27, 2021
308: ‘Peak Hubris’, With Christina Warren
02:26:54
Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about Apple Car, Apple TV, Clubhouse, and Bloomberg hamfistedly revisiting “The Big Hack”.
Feb 20, 2021
307: ‘Soviet Toilet Paper’, With John Moltz
02:37:03
John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.
Feb 01, 2021
306: ‘A Total Landscaping’, With Mike Monteiro
01:45:22
Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, “The Collected Angers”.
Jan 16, 2021
305: ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa’
03:00:41
As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about *Star Wars: The Mandalorian*, with a cavalcade of special guests, including, but not necessarily limited to, Guy English and John Siracusa.
Jan 01, 2021
304: ‘2020 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
02:49:28
A look back at one hell of a year.
Dec 24, 2020
303: ‘Half of the Bikini Emoji’, With Matthew Panzarino
02:01:22
Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about Apple's new AirPods Max headphones and the future of the Mac on Apple Silicon.
Dec 12, 2020
302: ‘Camera Beer Belly’, With Nilay Patel
02:03:40
Nilay Patel returns to the show and we have nothing to talk about. You know, other than the M1 Macs and entire iPhone 12 lineup.
Dec 01, 2020
301: ‘A Craptastic Craptacular’, With Joanna Stern
02:00:08
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Nov 24, 2020
300: ‘Holiday Party 2020’, With Merlin Mann
01:31:34
Another election. A different result. Let’s talk around it.
Nov 07, 2020
299: ‘Sounds Like a Good Red Sauce Place’, With Special Guest Jason Snell
02:31:43
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS.
Nov 01, 2020
298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler
02:24:37
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.
Oct 09, 2020
297: ‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’, With David Smith
02:46:50
Special guest “Underscore” David Smith joins the show to talk about iOS 14 widgets, WatchOS complications, sleep tracking, and his App Store chart-topping hit Widgetsmith.
Sep 30, 2020
296: ‘Cameras Every Single Where’, With Michael Simmons
02:20:39
Special guest Michael Simmons joins the show. Topics include the release of iOS 14, widgets and home screen customization, pricing models for indie apps in the App Store era, and, of course, flying robot cameras.
Sep 26, 2020
295: ‘Signing Up to Take Some Vitamins’, With Peter Kafka
01:19:32
Peter Kafka returns to the show to discuss the news from Apple’s “Time Flies” event — new Apple Watches, new non-Pro iPads, and particularly the Apple One services bundle.
Sep 17, 2020
294: ‘DOS Rot’, With John Moltz
01:33:53
John Moltz returns to the show. Poodles are great dogs. Windows stinks worse than ever. Everyone should watch “Ted Lasso”.
Sep 01, 2020
293: ‘I’m More of a Porkins Guy’, With Anil Dash
02:23:57
Special guest Anil Dash joins the show. Topics include the 25th anniversary of Windows 95, and the parallels between the cyber era of computing and today’s App Store controversies.
Aug 28, 2020
292: ‘Not the Batman We Want or Need’, With Rene Ritchie
02:39:43
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Phil Schiller advancing to Apple Fellow, Microsoft’s simmering spat with Apple over Xbox Game Pass and the App Store’s ban on game streaming services, and Epic’s sizzling spat with Apple over, well, the entire concept of iOS as we know it.
Aug 21, 2020
291: ‘Algorithms, How Do They Work?’, With Nilay Patel
02:21:22
Nilay Patel returns to the show to discuss this week’s House antitrust hearing featuring testimony from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Aug 01, 2020
290: ‘The Least Worst’, With Christina Warren
02:37:36
Special guest Christina Warren joins the show. Topics include the App Store and antitrust, the general crumminess of video streaming service UIs, and historical examples of when Apple gets something wrong.
Jul 28, 2020
289: ‘I’m Batman. America. Freedom.’ With Adam Lisagor
02:39:53
Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the cinematic and presentation style of Apple’s WWDC keynote, some post-production details on The Talk Show’s WWDC episode, the tribulations of producing professional videos during COVID-19, and the new sounds of MacOS 11 Big Sur.
Jul 23, 2020
288: ‘It Shouldn’t Be Hard to Get a Smoothie’ With Dan Frommer
01:24:04
Dan Frommer returns to the show for more analysis of WWDC 2020, including App Clips and the Mac's transition to Apple silicon.
Jul 01, 2020
287: ‘Patina of Usefulness’ With Matthew Panzarino
01:19:40
Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about WWDC 2020.
Jun 27, 2020
286: Remote From WWDC 2020 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
01:35:48
John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2020: the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon, MacOS 11 Big Sur, iOS and iPadOS 14, and more.
Jun 25, 2020
285: ‘Fahrenheit Truthers’ With Ben Thompson
02:24:12
Ben Thompson returns to the show and there’s no sports talk because there’s no sports. Instead: temperature scales, Joe Rogan and Spotify, and Dithering.
May 23, 2020
284: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ With Adam Engst
01:54:06
Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS — the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.
May 09, 2020
283: ‘Some Kind of Sandwich’ With Dieter Bohn
01:50:05
Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.
May 01, 2020
282: ‘Everybody Is an Expert’ With Joanna Stern
02:11:25
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing.
Apr 14, 2020
281: ‘A Kryptonian Baby’ With Rene Ritchie
02:20:37
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about going independent after 11 years at iMore. Topics include the new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and we answer questions sent by listeners.
Apr 01, 2020
280: ‘The Subtle Difference Between Hand Sanitizer and Vodka’ With Matthew Panzarino
02:26:17
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include the brand new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and, you know, global pandemics in the internet age.
Mar 27, 2020
279: ‘Chain of Precision’ With Jason Snell
02:19:00
Jason Snell returns to the show. Life during the COVID-19 pandemic, WWDC going online-only, Apple's in-person on-campus workplace culture, speculation on upcoming Apple product releases, and more.
Mar 18, 2020
278: ‘Dot Net Party’ With Federico Viticci
02:11:22
First-time guest Federico Viticci joins the show. Topics include how the coronavirus outbreak might affect WWDC, speculation on a possible March Apple event, the state of iPad keyboard (and trackpad) support, and iPadOS multitasking.
Feb 29, 2020
277: ‘Polish Stink Eye’ With John Moltz
02:43:06
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Larry Tesler and his “no modes” mantra for UI design, the state of malware on the Mac, third-party default apps on iOS, Apple and the coronavirus outbreak, and a record number of tips and tricks.
Feb 24, 2020
276: ‘Bring It On, Haters’ With Ben Thompson
02:47:59
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPad.
Feb 01, 2020
275: ‘Fake Faces’ With Glenn Fleishman
03:00:57
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include iPhone encryption, the privacy implications of widely-available reverse image search for faces, deep-learning-powered algorithmically-generated faces, and Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.
Jan 23, 2020
274: ‘Sport Mode’ With Merlin Mann
02:01:34
Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the renewal of U.S. law enforcement officials' disingenuous campaign against iPhone encryption, the Houston Astros cheating scandal, how that cheating scandal relates to the Trump impeachment saga, and Catalyst and the art of Mac software design. But mostly we talk about finding a good pair of slippers.
Jan 18, 2020
273: ‘My Cousin Hans’ With Rene Ritchie
01:59:04
It’s the last show of the decade. Special guest: Rene Ritchie.
Jan 01, 2020
272: ‘The Save Twitch’ With Rich Siegel
01:59:04
For your holiday listening enjoyment, very special guest Rich Siegel joins the show to talk about BBEdit's past, present, and future, the state of developing for the Mac, and more.
Dec 24, 2019
271: ‘A Perfect Wheel’ With Jason Snell
02:45:59
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show for a brief chat about the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, which are both — dare I say — *finally* available for ordering. Also: Ming Chi Kuo’s intriguing rumors on the 2020 and 2021 iPhone lineups.
Dec 13, 2019
270: ‘Talking About Crimes’ With Matthew Yglesias
01:59:08
Very special guest Matthew Yglesias joins the show to talk about Tim Cook cozying up to Trump for tariff relief and more.
Nov 28, 2019
269: ‘Maximally Thin’ With Casey Johnston
01:50:28
Very special guest Casey Johnston joins the show to talk about the butterfly MacBook keyboard saga and the just-released 16-inch MacBook Pro, with its all new scissor-switch keyboard design.
Nov 19, 2019
268: ‘With Ham I’d Be Better’ With Dave Mark
02:20:24
Special guest Dave Mark joins the show, for a discussion mostly about AirPods Pro and partly about the 2019 World Series.
Nov 01, 2019
267: ‘Just the Tips’ With John Moltz
01:56:53
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the just-released AirPods Pro (and the pluralization thereof), the history of remote controls, the impending launch of Apple TV+, and the undisputed highlight of the 2019 World Series.
Oct 30, 2019
266: ‘iPhone-Colored Glasses’ With Rene Ritchie
02:21:11
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Google's new Pixel 4 phones, Apple's travails in Hong Kong and China, whether there will be another Apple event this year, and MacOS 10.15 Catalina.
Oct 24, 2019
265: ‘Thompson’s Razor’ With Ben Thompson
02:25:08
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the latest Surface hardware announcements from Microsoft, the state of the iPhone, and bulk purchases of charcoal.
Oct 09, 2019
264: ‘Apple Is Not a 4-Star Company’ With Joanna Stern
02:24:38
Very special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s event earlier this month, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, iOS 13, and how we go about writing (and shooting) our product reviews.
Sep 26, 2019
263: ‘The Dumbest Thing Possible’ With Dan Frommer
02:07:48
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show for a preview of this week’s Apple event.
Sep 10, 2019
262: ‘Freakishly Snappy’ With Brent Simmons
01:50:26
Special guest Brent Simmons returns to
Sep 01, 2019
261: ‘Contact Heineken’ With Jim Dalrymple
03:04:55
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include Apple Card and the latest rumors on Apple’s upcoming product announcements.
Aug 28, 2019
260: ‘A Clear Eyed Look at Dishwashers’ With John Siracusa
02:23:40
Special guest John Siracusa finally returns to the show. Topics include the Siri voice recording fiasco, Siracusa’s epic Mac OS X reviews, and making good ice.
Aug 10, 2019
259: ‘Start a Bakin’ Timer’ With Marco Arment
01:47:31
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include MacBook Pro rumors, breakfast cereal, Siri frustrations, and more.
Jul 31, 2019
258: ‘Pousse-Café’ With John Moltz
02:16:42
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show for a mid-summer Q&A episode, answering actual questions from actual listeners.
Jul 29, 2019
257: ‘A Beautiful Sandwich’ With Daniel Jalkut
02:07:00
Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include app notarization, nonconsensual technology (including Zoom, Dropbox, and Superhuman), and more.
Jul 23, 2019
256: ‘A Bit Too Thin’ With Ben Thompson
01:56:22
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Jony Ive’s departure from Apple.
Jul 01, 2019
255: ‘Zap the PRAM’ With Jason Snell
02:46:33
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include everything announced at WWDC: SwiftUI, Catalyst, and all the new features in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and tvOS.
Jun 25, 2019
254: Live From WWDC 2019 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
01:46:52
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theater in San Jose on Tuesday, 4 June 2019, John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2019: the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, MacOS 10.15 Catalina, iOS 13, iPadOS, SwiftUI and Catalyst, and more.
Jun 07, 2019
253: ‘An Italicized “Finally”’ With Rene Ritchie
02:21:13
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look at what we expect — and hope — to see from Apple at WWDC next week.
Jun 01, 2019
252: ‘The Dustin Egress Problem’ With Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic From Panic
02:10:07
Special guests Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic join the show to talk about Playdate, Panic’s exciting and surprising new handheld gaming system.
May 30, 2019
251: ‘Parking Meters in a Dirt Lot’ With Merlin Mann
01:54:54
Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include sleep and sleep-tracking (with Apple Watch), regional fast-casual dining, the nature of podcasting, and, of course, more.
May 15, 2019
250: ‘A Couple of Awkward Swipes’ With MG Siegler
02:31:20
Very special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s original content strategy and a general look at the state of the company.
May 01, 2019
249: ‘Better Than Nothing’ With John Moltz
02:13:38
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include AirPods 2, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold debacle, the trove of iOS 13 and MacOS 10.15 leaks reported by Guilherme Rambo, and the future of iTunes.
Apr 25, 2019
248: ‘Equally Confused’ With Peter Kafka
01:37:41
Special guest Peter Kafka — executive editor at Recode and longtime reporter in the fields of media and technology — joins the show to discuss the announcements at last week’s “Show Time” event: Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV Channels and TV+.
Apr 06, 2019
247: ‘I Have Faith in the Rice’ With Paul Kafasis
02:14:24
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include last week’s Apple product releases — new iPads, iMacs, and AirPods — and the de-Steve-ification of Wynn Las Vegas.
Mar 25, 2019
246: ‘Loan It to Nien Nunb’ With Matthew Panzarino
03:20:33
Matthew “Hondo” Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2019, the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Apple and privacy, the Boeing 737 Max, and Disney’s upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park lands.
Mar 17, 2019
245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie
02:52:27
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.
Mar 01, 2019
244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman
03:04:31
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.
Feb 23, 2019
243: ‘The God Awful Truth’ With Rich Mogull
02:41:42
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.
Feb 15, 2019
242: ‘The Butts Incident’ With John Moltz
02:03:31
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.
Jan 31, 2019
241: ‘More Smarter’ With Joanna Stern
01:47:33
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.
Jan 23, 2019
240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson
02:47:55
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.
Jan 14, 2019
239: ‘Proprioceptive Lie’ With Rene Ritchie
02:26:36
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.
Dec 31, 2018
238: ‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’ With Jason Snell
03:00:50
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.
Dec 24, 2018
237: ‘Out on Home Video’ With Matthew Panzarino
02:06:52
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.
Dec 15, 2018
236: ‘A Vivid Nightmarescape’ With Dieter Bohn
02:32:52
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.
Dec 01, 2018
235: ‘Jony White’s Universe of Objective Purity’ With Rene Ritchie
02:33:41
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about iPad Pro — the new Pencil, the new amazing new hardware, keyboard options, and the OS that in many ways still feels meant for a phone. Also: the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup, and a plea to Apple to please — *please* — make the small Magic Keyboard in space gray.
Nov 22, 2018
234: ‘Welcome to Dongletropolis’ With Merlin Mann
02:53:19
Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the new iPad Pro and the state of iOS as a work platform, the mid-term election results, and holiday parties of yore.
Nov 10, 2018
233: ‘North Korean USB Fan’ With John Moltz
01:43:17
You wanted more Moltz, you get more Moltz. Our thoughts and observations on Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the products they announced: new MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, iPad Pros, and Apple Pencil.
Nov 01, 2018
232: ‘I’ll Eat My Hat’ With John Moltz
02:35:18
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week's Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.
Oct 28, 2018
231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer
02:27:53
Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.
Oct 17, 2018
230: ‘Flabbergasting’ With Nilay Patel
01:54:08
Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about the iPhone XS and XS Max. We got so caught up talking about cameras, we never even mention headphone jacks.
Sep 24, 2018
229: ‘iPhone 🍸’ With Rene Ritchie
01:51:06
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a deep dive into what was revealed (and what wasn’t) by Guilherme Rambo’s release last week of product marketing images of the apparently-named iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch.
Sep 05, 2018
228: ‘Smallen Up the Bezels’ With Jason Snell
02:36:30
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics do include mechanical keyboards, but do not -- I swear -- include baseball. Also: speculation on what Apple might do with the non-Pro MacBook lineup.
Aug 24, 2018
227: ‘Little Q&A’
01:39:12
Answering actual questions from actual listeners.
Aug 01, 2018
226: ‘Cut That Mustache With Scissors’ With Marco Arment
02:51:02
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion about the new MacBook Pro models and the state of Apple's MacBook lineup.
Jul 28, 2018
225: ‘Resources Up the Yang’ With Matthew Panzarino
01:42:30
Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the new maps coming to Apple Maps, Google’s project Duplex, and the MacBook keyboard repair program.
Jul 01, 2018
224: ‘AirPower, What’s That?’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:08:51
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show for a post-WWDC wrap-up discussion. Topics include iOS 12, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Apple Books, MacOS 10.14 Mojave, dark mode, UIKit apps on the Mac, and more.
Jun 15, 2018
223: Live From WWDC 2018 With Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell
01:20:28
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell to discuss the news from WWDC: ARKit 2, the new USDZ file format, iOS 12, MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”, UIKit apps on MacOS, and more.
Jun 06, 2018
222: ‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’ With Rene Ritchie
01:32:32
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include MacBook keyboard failures, iOS passcode security, Google’s odd Duplex “demo”, Steam Link’s curious rejection from the App Store, AirPlay 2, and, of course, conjecture about next week’s WWDC.
May 31, 2018
221: ‘Slathered in Incompetence’ With Ben Thompson
03:07:18
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's quarterly results, the discontinuation of Apple's AirPort product line, and more.
May 08, 2018
220: ‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’ With Jim Dalrymple
01:58:59
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include the litany of problems with MacBook keyboards, speculation regarding why Apple’s AirPower multi-device charging mat still isn’t shipping, Google’s proposal to replace SMS with a new protocol that isn’t encrypted, and more.
Apr 27, 2018
219: ‘Top Men’ With Matthew Panzarino
02:13:48
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes profile with Apple’s Pro Workflow Team and state of Apple’s professional Mac hardware and software.
Apr 12, 2018
218: ‘Spending Tim Cook’s Money’ With Serenity Caldwell
01:55:38
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about Apple's education-focused event last week in Chicago.
Apr 01, 2018
217: ‘Our Name Is Our Address’ With Jason Kottke
02:19:11
Finally. Jason Kottke is on the show to talk about 20 years of writing his eponymous website.
Mar 24, 2018
216: ‘Podcast Amnesia’ With Jason Snell
02:31:09
Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Apple and China, the 10th anniversary of the iPhone SDK, the future of the MacBook Air, and more. No baseball talk, except a little.
Mar 09, 2018
215: ‘The “Press Real Hard” Era’ With Marco Arment
03:53:44
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion. Topics include Apple’s OS development strategy, HomePod and Siri, the sad state of Apple TV apps, where to get a good cheesesteak, how to boil water, and more.
Feb 18, 2018
214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis
02:10:15
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, [Farrago](https://rogueamoeba.com/farrago/) (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.
Feb 09, 2018
213: ‘Don’t Tap the Monkey’ With John Moltz
01:22:32
John Moltz returns to the show. We talk about the HomePod, the “cancellation” of iPhone X, Steve Jobs and the orange button, and Super Bowl 52. And a surprising amount of talk about dates.
Feb 01, 2018
212: ‘Arbiter of Finallys’ With Rene Ritchie
02:27:52
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about HomePod, clickbait, the Spectre/Meltdown security exploits, and a look back at Apple’s 2017 in review.
Jan 26, 2018
211: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa
02:55:16
As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and John Siracusa.
Jan 01, 2018
210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell
02:24:22
Special guest Jason Snell returns for the penultimate episode of 2017. Topics include the iPhone battery performance-throttling saga, Google Maps vs. Apple Maps, new versions of iOS running slow on older iPhones, the new iMac Pro, iOS file management, and more.
Dec 30, 2017
209: ‘Blaming a Platypus’ With Matthew Panzarino
02:07:04
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple’s new iMac Pro lineup: gaming, VR, medical use, software development video, and more. Also: a spoiler-free preamble on “Star Wars Ep. 8: The Last Jedi”.
Dec 19, 2017
208: ‘Disgusting Inception’ With John Moltz
01:33:41
John “With an H” Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the ongoing deluge of sexual harassment scandals, our beloved SodaStreams, the Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra root login fiasco, *App: The Human Story*, and more.
Dec 01, 2017
207: ‘Christmas Mitzvah’ With Merlin Mann
02:24:06
Merlin Mann returns to the show for a Thanksgiving-week holiday spectacular. Topics include the history of Markdown, nerding out with Keyboard Maestro, kids today and the computers they want to use, caring about idiomatic native UI design, a look back at last year's election, and more.
Nov 18, 2017
206: ‘Bed Is Where My Problems Are’ With Ben Thompson
02:13:14
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
Nov 10, 2017
205: ‘If You Trust Your Twin’ With Jim Dalrymple
01:39:57
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
Nov 01, 2017
204: ‘Flaunting That Notch’ With Rene Ritchie
01:43:44
Rene Ritchie returns to the show on the eve of iPhone X pre-orders opening. Topics include iPhone X (duh), Google’s Pixel 2 and the goofy OLED display on the “XL” version, Face ID FUD, and more.
Oct 27, 2017
203: ‘Unused VIPs’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:02:01
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include watches, the problems with the current MacBook keyboards, iOS 11 battery life, my massive windfall from the iBooks antitrust settlement, and more.
Oct 21, 2017
202: ‘You Tell Me If It’s a Dongle’ With Joanna Stern
01:37:30
Special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 3, our mutual fear of heights, Velcro, and more.
Sep 30, 2017
201: ‘Much More Smarter’ With Matthew Panzarino
03:02:28
Matthew Panzarino joins the show for an in-depth look at last week’s Apple event in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. We talk about iPhone X, iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3, Apple TV 4K, and the new Apple Park campus and Steve Jobs Theater.
Sep 19, 2017
200: ‘Episode CC’ With Craig Federighi
00:30:10
Very special guest Craig Federighi returns to the show to talk about Face ID, the perils of live demos, Apple’s approach to designing the iPhone X, privacy, security, and more.
Sep 15, 2017
199: ‘Under Rumored’ With Jim Dalrymple
02:27:13
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for a preview of next week's Apple event. We speculate (wrongly, it seems to have turned out) on the naming of the new iPhones, facial recognition in lieu of Touch ID, third-generation Apple Watches, Apple TV, HomePod, and more.
Sep 10, 2017
198: ‘Prison Oreos’ With Jason Snell
02:40:04
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Daring Fireball's 15th anniversary, fruit fly infestations, clicky keyboards, sandwich cookies, the birth of Markdown, iOS 11's new "cop mode", favicons in Safari, Apple's Project Titan, last week's total solar eclipse, and Jerry Lewis.
Aug 25, 2017
197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman
02:39:13
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn's new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.
Aug 06, 2017
196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie
02:06:52
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
Jul 21, 2017
195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz
01:53:39
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include more follow-up from WWDC 2017, the iPad Pro models and ProMotion, Scott Forstall's interview with John Markoff regarding the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone, the ongoing shitshow at Uber, quick thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, and more. Also: guess which John enjoys throwing babies into the air.
Jun 27, 2017
194: ‘Egg Freckles’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:06:09
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about WWDC 2017 -- iOS 11, the new iPad Pro models, MacOS 10.13 "High Sierra", updated Mac hardware and a tease at the upcoming iMac Pro, where Apple might go with VR and AR, San Jose as the venue for the event itself, and more.
Jun 20, 2017
193: ‘Crack Marketing Team’ — Live From WWDC 2017 With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
01:31:46
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: new Mac hardware, the new iPad Pro, Mac OS 10.13 “High Sierra”, iOS 11, the upcoming HomePod, and more.
Jun 08, 2017
192: ‘The Original Sin Is XML’ With Special Guests Manton Reece and Brent Simmons
01:58:52
Manton Reece and whisky-soaked baritone Brent Simmons join the show to talk about JSON Feed, the new spec they co-authored for syndicating things like blog posts and podcasts. We talk about their longstanding mutual interest in [Userland Frontier][f] -- Dave Winer’s groundbreaking scripting environment from the early ’90s -- and how that background and their mutual love for publishing on the open web and the democratization of technology ultimately led to the creation of JSON Feed, as well as their other new projects: Manton’s [Micro.blog][m] publishing platform, and Brent’s new open source Mac app, announced for the first time right here on the show. And of course a brief look ahead to next week’s WWDC 2017.
Jun 01, 2017
191: ‘He Ends Up Fighting Hervé Villechaize’ With Jim Dalrymple
02:25:22
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to speculate about what Apple might announce at the upcoming WWDC 2017: Apple Watch, iPad, iOS, updated MacBooks, Apple TV, and more. Also: a celebration of the great Roger Moore.
May 28, 2017
190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson
03:22:16
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Microsoft's announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon's new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple's WeChat problem in China, and more.
May 13, 2017
189: ‘Long Press on the French Fries’ With Rene Ritchie
02:14:13
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q2 2017 financial results, the iPhone’s decline in China over the past two years, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick getting called to Tim Cook’s office regarding Uber’s surreptitious “fingerprinting” of iPhones, judging Apple Watch’s success, Hulu’s entry into the cord-cutting “live TV” subscription market (and Apple’s conspicuous absence from that same market), and more.
May 07, 2017
188: ‘Apple VP Lisa Jackson’
00:56:25
Special guest Lisa Jackson — Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives — joins the show for an Earth Day discussion of the state of Apple’s environmental efforts: climate change, renewable energy, responsible packaging, and Apple’s new goal to create a “closed-loop supply chain”, wherein the company’s products would be manufactured entirely from recycled materials.
Apr 21, 2017
187: ‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’ With MG Siegler
02:26:33
MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics includes Virgin America's sad fate as a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros, "doing work" on an iPad Pro, Walt Mossberg, the absurd bloat of iOS apps, Clips, Netflix and Amazon's spending on video, and more.
Apr 19, 2017
186: ‘Good News, My House Burned Down’ With Matthew Panzarino
02:03:33
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for an in-depth discussion of last week's "future of the Mac Pro" round table discussion between a handful of Apple executives and journalists who cover the company. We talk about what went wrong with the 2013 Mac Pro design, speculate on the timeline of when Apple made this decision, why touchscreen Macs are almost certainly a bad idea even though a lot of people think they want one, and more.
Apr 13, 2017
185: ‘Warmest Regards’ With Dan Frommer
02:21:40
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the end of The Deck ad network, my weird story about getting kicked out of Amazon’s affiliate program, Apple’s new products announced last week (Red iPhone 7 models, larger-capacity iPhone SEs, the new 9.7-inch just-plain iPad, and Apple’s excellent new Clips app), Samsung’s new Galaxy S8, Twitter’s new reply system, CarPlay getting its ass kicked in a head-to-head comparison with Android Auto, ISPs and Privacy, and more.
Apr 01, 2017
184: ‘Hubbo Is in Decline’ With Merlin Mann
01:34:06
The one and only Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include modern plumbing technology and product marketing, the intricate ordeal of switching from iCloud’s old two-step authentication to the modern two-factor authentication, and the future of voice-driven UI/AI. Also, a wee bit of follow-up on our post-election November 9 Holiday Party.
Mar 22, 2017
183: ‘A Very Masculine Bark’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:06:51
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the Best Picture fiasco at last week’s Academy Awards, Tim Cook speaking vaguely of “the pro area” at Apple’s shareholders meeting, the conflict between Apple’s culture of secrecy and the glaring embarrassment that is the 1,100-day-old Mac Pro lineup, new iPad Pro rumors and our ruminations on tablet vs. notebook hardware form factors, The Wall Street Journal’s seemingly goofy report on new iPhones replacing Lightning with USB-C ports, and the garbage fire that is Uber’s corporate culture.
Mar 05, 2017
182: ‘AAA Podcast’ With Marco Arment
02:39:58
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include WWDC moving back to San Jose, the latest rumors about this year’s new iPads and iPhones, and the thinking behind the design changes in the just-released Overcast 3.0.
Feb 23, 2017
181: ‘Corporate Stiffy’ With John Moltz
01:40:37
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include: 🐩💨, iPad vs. Mac for productivity (and why the iPad isn’t a self-sufficient platform), nostalgia for System 7, speculation on this year’s upcoming new iPhones, and more.
Feb 10, 2017
180: ‘Yay or Nay to Their POV’ With Matthew Panzarino
01:48:53
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q1 2017 financial results (including record iPhone sales and continuing cooling iPad sales), issues with LG’s new 5K UltraFine display (not so fine if you use it near a Wi-Fi router), the tech industry’s response to Trump’s immigration ban, and the highlights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Feb 01, 2017
179: ‘iPhone Is the New Hitler’ With Ben Thompson
02:14:29
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the state of the Mac (and our shared belief that its death has been greatly exaggerated), the NFL playoffs, Chris Lattner leaving Apple for Tesla (and the general problem of talent retention), ruminating on the origins of the word “podcast”, and more.
Jan 26, 2017
178: ‘Now Banned in China’ With Jim Dalrymple
02:08:29
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.
Jan 10, 2017
177: ‘Surface Curious’ With Rene Ritchie
02:02:19
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.
Dec 28, 2016
176: ‘Frolic’ With Craig Hockenberry
02:02:26
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](https://abookapart.com/products/making-sense-of-color-management)*.
Dec 17, 2016
175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman
01:58:44
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.
Dec 11, 2016
174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern
02:01:50
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.
Dec 01, 2016
173: ‘Fork the Universe’ With Jason Snell
02:41:03
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”.
Nov 19, 2016
172: ‘Holiday Party’ With Merlin Mann
02:07:03
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.
Nov 09, 2016
171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz
02:06:01
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.
Oct 26, 2016
170: ‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’ With Ben Thompson
02:51:19
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.
Oct 16, 2016
169: ‘A Murder of Eeros’ With Matthew Panzarino
01:59:00
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.
Oct 06, 2016
168: ‘You’ve Got the Nubbin’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:35:10
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s new stuff: the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2 (and the semi-new Series 1), iOS 10, MacOS Sierra, and more.
Sep 27, 2016
167: ‘Hey Bruh You Bumped Muh Hat’ With Jim Dalrymple
02:27:20
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show, to discuss last week's Apple event in San Francisco, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2, and more.
Sep 17, 2016
166: ‘Way of the Future’ With Rene Ritchie
01:51:47
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss what we expect to see at Apple’s upcoming event in San Francisco: new iPhones (without headphone jacks, and with a radical new two-lens camera on the Plus-sized model), Apple Watch 2 (and a new fall lineup of watch bands). We also discuss Samsung’s recall of the Galaxy Note 7 (because of exploding batteries), when we’ll see new Mac hardware and new iPads, and more.
Sep 05, 2016
165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English
02:08:27
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.
Aug 28, 2016
164: ‘Enjoyably Clicky’ With Jason Snell
02:24:24
Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include the latest rumors regarding the upcoming new iPhones and MacBook Pros, Rick Tetzeli’s cover story for Fast Company on Tim Cook’s Apple, and the connection between baseball and mechanical keyboards.
Aug 12, 2016
163: ‘Low Grade Scam’ With Joanna Stern
01:25:28
Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include media gossip on Eddy Cue negotiations with cable TV companies, Apple's aging notebook lineup, Apple's upcoming product announcement event, the Windows 10 upgrade fiasco, and our sweaty feet.
Jul 31, 2016
162: ‘Special Bullying Venue’ With Glenn Fleishman
02:38:40
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include security vulnerabilities on MacOS and iOS, ransomware, counterfeit products and outright fraud on Amazon, and online harassment and “free speech”.
Jul 23, 2016
161: ‘Mumbles and Grunts’ With John Moltz
02:06:01
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include parenting thoughts on controlling the amount of time our kids spend playing games and watching YouTube and Netflix, why Google's apps for iOS are better than their apps for Android, Chromebooks in schools, Windows Phone's bright future, Pokemon Go, and more. We also insult the driving abilities of people from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Canada.
Jul 17, 2016
160: ‘Fresh Out of Prison’ With Nilay Patel
01:47:10
Special guest Nilay Patel joins the show. Topics include The Verge and Recode (and the state of the media industry at large), what’s going on with the lack of updates to professional Mac hardware, and, of course, Apple’s purported removal of the headphone jack on the upcoming new iPhones.
Jul 01, 2016
159: ‘Phil Z’ With Marco Arment
02:44:50
Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2016, Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi's appearance on the live episode of this show during WWDC, the purported removal of the standard headphone jack from the upcoming new iPhones, and more.
Jun 26, 2016
158: Live From WWDC 2016 With Guests Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
01:18:05
Recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: WatchOS 3, MacOS 10.12 Sierra, iOS 10, and more.
Jun 18, 2016
157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer
02:24:52
Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.
Jun 11, 2016
156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann
01:58:35
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.
Jun 04, 2016
155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
02:22:50
Special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. (Finally.) Topics include rumors of an upcoming Siri SDK and an Amazon Echo-like device from Apple, the future of the MacBook lineup, Peter Thiel's secretive role as the financial backer of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, and my hatred of Roman numerals.
May 28, 2016
154: ‘Facebook on Your Face’ With Rene Ritchie
02:11:33
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new flagship retail store in San Francisco, recent improvements to App Store approval times, and Google’s announcements at I/O this week — Google Home and Google Assistant, Allo and Duo, and Android “N” and Android Instant Apps.
May 21, 2016
153: ‘Chock Full of Whimsy’ With Ben Thompson
02:58:42
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Apple’s recent quarterly results, what we think is going on with iPhone sales, Tim Cook’s misleading guidance, Apple Music, and a lot more.
May 07, 2016
152: ‘The Greatest Mic Drop I’ve Ever Seen’ With Guy English
02:44:14
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Ben Thompson’s argument that Apple’s functional organizational structure is hindering their efforts in online services, recalling our first Apple computers and the elegance of the classic Mac OS’s conceptual design, Prince (and his early use of Macs for creating music), emoji and exclamation marks, WWDC 2016, and yours truly’s youthful foray into on-the-job vandalism.
Apr 25, 2016
151: ‘Option P’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:09:28
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, using an iPad for “work”, podcasting microphones, the damn Siri Remote for the new Apple TV, the *Star Wars: Rogue One* teaser, and more.
Apr 13, 2016
150: ‘Strict Robot Definer’ With Jason Snell
02:51:13
Jason Snell returns to the show for an in-depth look at last week's Apple Event, and the two products that were introduced: the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Other topics include the ongoing FBI/Apple encryption soap opera, what's wrong with the Apple Watch -- and our appreciation for the late great Garry Shandling.
Mar 28, 2016
149: ‘With Apologies to Hamilton’ With Glenn Fleishman
02:19:08
Glenn Fleishman joins the show. The primary topic: Apple’s legal battle against the FBI regarding the iPhone and encryption. Other topics include Aaron Burr’s resurgence in popularity, the U.S. founding fathers’ use of cyphers and codes in their correspondance, next week’s Apple event, USB battery packs, and more.
Mar 17, 2016
148: ‘Occupy Portland’ With John Moltz
02:20:55
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the Apple/FBI encryption fight, Apple’s upcoming event and the products they’re expected to announce. And Campo Santo’s fantastic new video game “Firewatch”.
Mar 03, 2016
147: ‘iTools or Whatever’ With Jim Dalrymple
01:58:47
Special guest Jim Dalrymple joins the show to talk about the Apple/FBI legal showdown, the debate over Apple software quality, and more.
Feb 21, 2016
146: ‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’ With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi
00:56:35
Very special guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi join the show. Topics include: the new features in Apple's upcoming OS releases (iOS 9.3 and tvOS 9.2); why Apple is expanding its public beta program for OS releases; iTunes's monolithic design; how personally involved Eddy and Craig are in using, testing, and installing beta software; the sad decline of Duke's men's basketball team; and more.
Feb 12, 2016
145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson
01:49:35
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.
Feb 11, 2016
144: ‘Hopped Up on Holiday Juice’ With Matthew Panzarino
02:14:28
Special Guest Matthew Panzarino. Topics include Apple's quarterly financial results, rumors of Apple working on VR handsets and "wireless" charging for iPhones, Bezos charts, and more.
Feb 01, 2016
143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann
02:48:17
Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include Winter Storm Jonas, the politics of sick kids, sweating out a fever, people going insane over the rumors that the next iPhones will omit the standard headphone jack, the seven-hour *The Godfather Epic*, and more.
Jan 24, 2016
142: ‘They Sherlocked F.lux’ With Dan Frommer
02:13:23
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show to deliver his first-hand report from last week’s CES in Las Vegas. Other topics include Periscope, Peach, why Apple never participated at CES, El Chapo’s re-capture, iOS 9.3, Apple Watch, Apple’s finances (and stock price), and self-driving cars.
Jan 14, 2016
141: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More
02:29:06
A brief holiday chat about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
Jan 01, 2016
140: ‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’ With Rene Ritchie
03:07:33
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look back at the Apple year that was: the new one-port MacBook, Apple Watch's launch, WWDC and Apple Music, the iPhones 6S, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, iPad Mini 4, iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11, and, of course, the most important new product of the year, the Smart Battery Case. (This episode contains absolutely no Star Wars talk, except for a little.)
Dec 30, 2015
139: ‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’ With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa
03:20:33
Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi joins the show for a wide-ranging half-hour discussion about Swift -- Apple's new programming language that just went open source. Next, John Siracusa returns to the show to follow up on Federighi's segment on Swift. Other topics include Apple's new Smart Battery Case for the iPhone 6/6S, and our mutual (and perhaps futile) desire to head into this week's premiere of *Star Wars: The Force Awakens* knowing as few spoilers as possible.
Dec 15, 2015
138: ‘I’ve Been Using Mine More in Bed’ With Joanna Stern
02:19:11
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the iPad Pro, Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, what's going on with Yahoo (spoiler: not much), how best to sell old iPhones when upgrading, and Mark Zuckerberg promising to donate 99 percent of his fortune to charitable causes.
Dec 08, 2015
137: ‘Peak Rumor Season’ With John Moltz
01:46:14
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss rumors that the iPhone 7 might not have a standard headphone jack and that Apple is working on new MacBook Airs. Also: a parenting guide to the Star Wars and James Bond franchises.
Dec 01, 2015
136: ‘Fully Charged Pencil’ With Jason Snell
02:13:55
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to talk about iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, how iOS still feels like *iPhone OS* at a fundamental level, and Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini’s overwrought “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name” article for Fast Company. Also: the new membership program at Six Colors.
Nov 21, 2015
135: ‘Put a Nipple on It’ With Adam Lisagor
02:34:53
Special guest Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the new Apple TV (why we both love it, despite several 1.0 flaws), 4K video, 3D movies, and Adam’s excellent new series “Computer Show”.
Nov 07, 2015
134: ‘Field Sobriety Test’ With Guy English
02:29:02
Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV.
Oct 31, 2015
133: ‘The MacGuffin Tractor’ With Serenity Caldwell
02:33:05
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include this week’s new iMacs; the new “Magic” mouse, trackpad, and keyboard; an overview of Apple Music and iCloud Photos; Facebook’s outrageous background battery usage on iOS; Elon Musk’s gibes on Apple getting into the car industry; and my take on the new *Steve Jobs* movie.
Oct 17, 2015
132: ‘Peace, Porn, and Privacy’ With Guest Marco Arment
03:14:22
Marco Arment joins the show for a brief chat on ad blockers, advertising in general, and the new iPhones 6S.
Oct 03, 2015
131: ‘If Only the Death Star Had That’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
02:39:02
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.
Sep 18, 2015
130: ‘A Full Canseco’ With Guest John Moltz
02:40:02
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.
Sep 08, 2015
129: ‘90 Minutes or Bust’ With Guest Ben Thompson
01:56:00
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.
Aug 29, 2015
128: ‘Did You Ever Take a Photograph?’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
02:26:17
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.
Aug 09, 2015
127: ‘A Sack Full of Plucked Feathers’ With Guest John Moltz
01:59:46
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”.
Jul 30, 2015
126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell
02:53:03
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.
Jul 21, 2015
125: ‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’ With Guest Horace Dediu
01:56:26
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.
Jun 28, 2015
124: ‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’ With Guest Guy English
02:19:03
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.
Jun 20, 2015
123: Live From WWDC 2015 With Guest Phil Schiller
01:08:38
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.
Jun 10, 2015
122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
02:22:21
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.
Jun 07, 2015
121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
02:18:09
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics includes Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer and the implications for Apple; the differences in Apple’s internal design culture now that industrial and user interface design are under one roof; Google’s announcements at their I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, including Google Photos; “machine learning”; Apple replacing the much-maligned discoveryd with good old mDNSResponder in the latest Yosemite developer beta; our thoughts on the space black Apple Watch with link bracelet; and more.
Jun 01, 2015
120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer
02:18:13
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include David Letterman, iPhone docks, the space black steel Apple Watch, whatever happened to the Edition collection, San Francisco as the new system font for iOS and Mac OS X, and more.
May 23, 2015
119: ‘Workin’ in Pajamas’ With Guest David Sparks
02:32:45
Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo Syncing and the new Photos for Mac, WWDC, and wearing slippers as “work” shoes.
May 16, 2015
118: ‘Sloppy on the Side’ With Guest Adam Lisagor
02:12:28
Special guest and longtime friend Adam Lisagor returns to the show. I don’t know anyone who’s more excited about Apple Watch than Adam, except, maybe, my son. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that Apple just released a brand-new thing, and they don’t do that very often. This episode, we just had fun. Some keen observations about the future of the platform, too.
May 08, 2015
117: ‘I Touched Ron Johnson’ With Guest John Moltz
02:32:47
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Gruber’s retina, Apple Watch backorders and the watch itself, news from Microsoft’s Build conference, how to introduce yourself to people you’ve publicly branded a “jackass”, and more.
May 01, 2015
116: ‘Browser Pooped on the Wee-Wee Pad’ With Guest Joanna Stern
02:34:01
Special guest Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal joins the show to talk about Apple Watch and the new MacBook (and her reviews thereof).
Apr 16, 2015
115: ‘Turd on the Front Porch’ With Guest Ben Thompson
02:34:16
Special guest Ben Thompson returns, with the intention of not talking about Apple Watch — and so of course we spend two hours talking about Apple Watch. Other topics include the launch of Jay Z’s streaming music service Tidal, audience ceilings faced by different types of dedicated TV devices, and Meerkat-vs.-Periscope and the nascent revolution of ubiquitous live-streaming video. We make some NCAA men’s basketball Final Four picks, too.
Apr 03, 2015
114: ‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’ With Guest Serenity Caldwell
02:19:58
Special guest Serenity Caldwell joins the show. Topics include last week’s “Spring Forward” Apple media event; the new Force Touch Trackpad for MacBooks, and the prospects for force touch in future iOS devices; and of course, Apple Watch.
Mar 20, 2015
113: ‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
02:57:14
Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about this week’s “Spring Forward” Apple media event, for the new MacBook and Apple Watch.
Mar 13, 2015
112: ‘Retina Quality’ With Guest Paul Kafasis
02:22:15
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include the new Pebble Time watch, the imminent arrival of Apple Watch, Paul’s clever new doorbell (and unfortunate refrigerator situation), a little bit of baseball, and why I can’t attend next week’s Apple event in San Francisco.
Mar 05, 2015
111: ‘12 Hours a Day’ With Guest John Moltz
01:59:02
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch; rumors that Apple is working on a secret car project; our love of old Mac hardware; and a long discussion on Ian Parker’s extraordinary New Yorker profile of Jony Ive and his design team at Apple.
Feb 24, 2015
110: ‘Rats in the Lobby’ With Guest Merlin Mann
02:08:45
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.
Feb 13, 2015
109: ‘How Many Keys?’ With Guest MG Siegler
01:53:37
MG Siegler returns to the show, reporting from London. Topics include last week’s blockbuster earnings report from Apple, the increasingly imminent Apple Watch, phone display sizes, the impact of China on sales, rethinking the intended purpose and success of the iPhone 5C, speculation on Apple’s 2015 product roadmap, and whether Bluetooth is the future for mass market earbuds and headphones.
Feb 05, 2015
108: ‘Malaprops’ With Guest Ben Thompson
03:10:33
Topics include Apple’s pseudo “sabbaticals” (employees who leave the company but then return after a year or two); Google’s cultural similarities to Microsoft; the ways that Apple (and iOS users) might miss Scott Forstall; accessibility as a high priority for Apple; Instagram’s success (and how they effectively ate Hipstamatic’s lunch); a debate on just how “simple” Twitter is; Box’s successful IPO, and Dropbox’s support for Yosemite’s official Finder integration for such services; MIT economist Jonathan Gruber pissing in my Google juice; Chromebooks; Amazon’s overall strategy, and the colossal failure of their Fire Phone; and, lastly, a good chunk on Microsoft’s Windows 10/HoloLens event last week.
Jan 24, 2015
107: ‘Now It’s All Floppy’ With Guest Marco Arment
03:04:49
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include microphones; Marco’s much-publicized article last week on Apple’s seemingly declining software quality; talking to the press and agreeing to interviews; Apple’s relatively tiny developer relations team (and how that pertains to the aforementioned segment on Apple’s perceived software quality); the purported new 12-inch MacBook Air and its dearth of peripheral ports; and more.
Jan 13, 2015
106: ‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’ With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English
03:44:53
A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.
Jan 01, 2015
105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell
02:17:04
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show for a year-end extravaganza. Topics include Jason’s first three months writing (and podcasting) as an indie at his new Six Colors; a look back at his 20-year career at MacUser and soon thereafter Macworld; tricky edge cases when booking sponsorships, and the whole situation with separating advertising sales from editorial integrity when you’re running a one-person publication; the Sony/North Korea hacking and *The Interview*, and iTunes’s slightly belated release thereof; and we pour one out for good old Movable Type.
Dec 31, 2014
104: ‘2014 Year in Review’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
02:18:14
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a special Apple 2014 year-in-review episode. Just a few of the many topics covered: Apple’s Beats acquisition; WWDC 2014 in hindsight; an aside speculating on the alternate universe where Google acquired WebOS instead of Android; the similarities between the “projected UI” nature of AirPlay, CarPlay, and WatchKit; UI fonts (Helvetica Neue in Yosemite, Apple Sans, and the Watch’s San Francisco (a.k.a. “DINvetica”)); Apple’s growing ability to design and bring to market its own hardware internals and components; recent controversies and confusing rejections at the App Store (and the need for a public-facing App Store ombudsman); and what we’re looking forward to in 2015.
Dec 27, 2014
103: ‘Robotitize the Assembly’ With Guest Dan Frommer
01:55:20
Special guest Dan Frommer joins the show to talk about prop bets in Vegas, more *Star Wars*, some follow-up on James Bond, what Apple should do with its mountain of cash, speculation on why iPad sales growth has stagnated, and more. Also, some in-depth segments on Instagram and the concept of “institutional taste”.
Dec 17, 2014
102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus
02:56:34
Special guest Dave Wiskus joins the show to talk about the new teaser trailer for *Star Wars: The Force Awakens*, and just-announced title and cast for the 24th EON Productions Bond movie, *Spectre*. Other topics include the untapped potential of podcasting and YouTubing, cutting babies in half, turtle copulation, and kangaroo genitalia.
Dec 06, 2014
101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan
01:29:57
Special guest Christa Mrgan joins the show to talk about Yosemite UI design, Apple TV’s aesthetics (and its shitty IR remote control), Apple Watch speculation (including using it as an Apple TV remote), the Watch’s new San Francisco font, bling in icon design, and more. It’s a Thanksgiving week design-focused spectacular.
Nov 25, 2014
100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz
02:26:59
Who else but very special guest John Moltz to ring in The Talk Show’s centurial episode. Topics include iPhone display sizes (and in particular, our mutual preference for the old 5S 4-inch size over the 4.7-inch iPhone 6); the new book Moltz co-wrote, “The Visual Guide to Minecraft”; writing tools, including word processors and Markdown; shopping for gaming PCs as a Mac person; Microsoft Office going free on mobile platforms; Twitter’s stilted strategy statement; President Obama’s statement on Net Neutrality; and Tim Cook’s eloquent essay announcing that he’s gay.
Nov 15, 2014
XCIX: ‘The Smoker Channels’ With Merlin Mann
02:39:15
Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man (no relation) and his showboating-spectator predecessors, and the state of podcasting today. Also: daylight saving time and Roman numerals.
Nov 08, 2014
98: ‘Far Less Eloquent as You’ With John Siracusa
03:04:33
Special guest John Siracusa returns to the show to discuss last week’s Apple event (introducing the iPad Air 2), and OS X Yosemite (and his review thereof).
Oct 25, 2014
97: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English
02:45:20
Special guest Guy English returns to the show to talk about iOS 8 quality concerns, and whether Apple’s annual software cycle is stretching the company too thin. Then things devolve into a bitter argument over the merits of file name extensions.
Oct 10, 2014
96: ‘The Edition Edition’ With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson
02:50:10
Special guest Ben Thompson joins the show for an Apple Watch discussion: what it’ll cost, what it’ll do, how it will be sold, and more. Other topics include “Bend-gate”, Apple’s growing prowess in mobile chip design, and Derek Jeter.
Sep 28, 2014
95: ‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’ With Rene Ritchie
01:55:44
Special guest: Rene Ritchie. Topics: What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
Sep 20, 2014
94: ‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’ With Jason Snell
02:26:12
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show on the cusp of Apple’s September 9 event, where the company will purportedly introduce two new iPhones and a breakthrough wearable device. Topics include the purpose and advantages of a 5.5-inch iPhone, why only the 5.5-inch iPhone will (I think) get an @3x retina display, speculation on the nature and purpose of an Apple wearable/watch, the intrigue surrounding the event’s venue, and more.
Sep 08, 2014
93: ‘Toner-Perfect Design’ With Craig Hockenberry
02:23:53
Speculation on the purportedly-imminent new 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones, and the rise of adaptive user interface layout and design on iOS. @3x, here we come.
Aug 29, 2014
92: ‘That New Laptop Smell’ With Joanna Stern
01:54:45
Topics include Joanna’s recent review of over 20 laptops; the HTC One M8 for Windows Phone; why Windows Phone is still struggling to gain traction; the role of Microsoft Office in today’s world; and speculation on Apple’s upcoming iPhone event.
Aug 22, 2014
91: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer
02:17:18
Topics include speculation — seriously, just speculation — on Apple’s purported upcoming wrist wearable thing, Apple’s fall event schedule, polarized sunglasses, market share in the post-PC era, and Beats’s integration into Apple (including a clever idea from Dan about the potential for a Beats Music channel on Apple TV).
Aug 12, 2014
90: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz
01:59:54
Topics include Apple's quarterly results, how much Apple's cable and peripheral prices contribute to the popular conception that their products are "expensive", presbyopia and large-screen phones, and more.
Jul 28, 2014
89: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2)
01:39:23
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.
Jul 20, 2014
88: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 1)
01:45:30
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.
Jul 20, 2014
87: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson
02:03:46
Topics include Samsung getting pinched from Apple on the high end and Xiaomi (at least in China) on the low end, Android and the importance of software differentiation, wearable devices, and more.
Jul 12, 2014
86: ‘Diddling Your Feeds’ With Dave Wiskus
02:27:02
Topics include the new look and feel in OS X Yosemite (10.10), Google’s new “Material Design” look and feel for Android, smartwatches (including the new ones Google showed at I/O last week), and Dave’s new behind-the-scenes role at The Talk Show.
Jul 01, 2014
85: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis
01:52:20
Topics include the ongoing World Cup and the sport of soccer, Google Glass, mockups of devices in rumor reports, Amazon's Fire Phone, the New York Times's profile of Tim Cook last week, Apple's growth, and the agonizingly slow death of Blackberry. Lastly, Paul brings up a devilishly tricky question regarding whether Apple will support a particular new addition to the Emoji specification.
Jun 26, 2014
84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English
01:51:58
Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largely behind-the-scenes role in many of the new features for iOS and OS X. The new much-improved WebKit API (which brings third-party apps the faster Nitro JavaScript engine), third-party keyboards, Sharing menu extensions, and Notification Center widgets — all these things are built on XPC. Other topics include Apple TV, Swift, and the apparent happiness not just of third-party developers, but Apple employees, too.
Jun 17, 2014
83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson
01:48:58
Recorded in front of a live audience of 500 people on Tuesday, 2 June 2014 at Mezzanine in San Francisco. John Gruber is joined by the ATP trio — Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa — to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.10 Yosemite, iOS 8, Swift, and more. Then, Scott Simpson joins the show to discuss theme songs and the future of higher education. No nudity or violence, but the second half of the show does have some explicit language.
Jun 07, 2014
82: ‘We're Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It's a Podcast’ With Dan Frommer
01:50:15
Special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include Dan’s new gig as senior tech editor at Quartz, tablets as a form factor for full-featured PCs (and the now-aging design of the MacBook Air), WWDC rumors, the rumored iOS-style redesign of Mac OS X, previous Mac OS visual designs, and more — including ticket information for next week’s live WWDC show in San Francisco.
May 28, 2014
81: ‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’ With John Moltz
1:34:47
Special guest John Moltz joins the show for a discussion regarding Apple's still-only-rumored acquisition of Beats, WWDC rumors, the ringer switch on the iPhone, the ZTE Open C Firefox OS phone (spoiler: it's a turd), and the transition of The Talk Show from Mule Radio to its new home here at Daring Fireball.
May 22, 2014