Podcasts by 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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83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson from 2023-12-12T18:25:00.064368
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 di...
Listen102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.990340
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...
Listen109: ‘How Many Keys?’ With Guest MG Siegler from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.971069
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 C...
Listen112: ‘Retina Quality’ With Guest Paul Kafasis from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.962493
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...
Listen115: ‘Turd on the Front Porch’ With Guest Ben Thompson from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.953395
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 s...
Listen118: ‘Sloppy on the Side’ With Guest Adam Lisagor from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.941260
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 th...
Listen122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.922888
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.
Listen128: ‘Did You Ever Take a Photograph?’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.903612
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 acquisit...
Listen130: ‘A Full Canseco’ With Guest John Moltz from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.896606
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.
Listen132: ‘Peace, Porn, and Privacy’ With Guest Marco Arment from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.888945
Marco Arment joins the show for a brief chat on ad blockers, advertising in general, and the new iPhones 6S.
Listen135: ‘Put a Nipple on It’ With Adam Lisagor from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.877019
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”.
Listen138: ‘I’ve Been Using Mine More in Bed’ With Joanna Stern from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.866126
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,...
Listen148: ‘Occupy Portland’ With John Moltz from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.821598
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 vi...
Listen153: ‘Chock Full of Whimsy’ With Ben Thompson from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.803750
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.
Listen156: ‘Yo, Dingus’ With Merlin Mann from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.790863
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.
Listen160: ‘Fresh Out of Prison’ With Nilay Patel from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.772431
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, ...
Listen166: ‘Way of the Future’ With Rene Ritchie from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.744998
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 Plu...
Listen169: ‘A Murder of Eeros’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.735148
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 pho...
Listen172: ‘Holiday Party’ With Merlin Mann from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.726855
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 a...
Listen178: ‘Now Banned in China’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.707804
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, A...
Listen183: ‘A Very Masculine Bark’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.690686
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 conflic...
Listen189: ‘Long Press on the French Fries’ With Rene Ritchie from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.672950
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 ...
Listen193: ‘Crack Marketing Team’ — Live From WWDC 2017 With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.659098
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 ...
Listen197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.644782
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to theshow. 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, Glen...
Listen199: ‘Under Rumored’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.637990
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...
Listen214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.594961
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 Eag...
Listen216: ‘Podcast Amnesia’ With Jason Snell from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.588119
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.
Listen221: ‘Slathered in Incompetence’ With Ben Thompson from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.574061
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's quarterly results, the discontinuation of Apple's AirPort product line, and more.
Listen223: Live From WWDC 2018 With Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.566376
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,...
Listen229: ‘iPhone 🍸’ With Rene Ritchie from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.549119
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 Se...
Listen234: ‘Welcome to Dongletropolis’ With Merlin Mann from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.530405
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.
Listen248: ‘Equally Confused’ With Peter Kafka from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.482986
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: Ap...
Listen254: Live From WWDC 2019 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.458022
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...
Listen263: ‘The Dumbest Thing Possible’ With Dan Frommer from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.414078
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show for a preview of this week’s Apple event.
Listen265: ‘Thompson’s Razor’ With Ben Thompson from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.406179
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.
Listen284: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ With Adam Engst from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.352788
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.
Listen298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.306139
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.
Listen300: ‘Holiday Party 2020’, With Merlin Mann from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.295707
Another election. A different result. Let’s talk around it.
Listen334: ‘High-Margin Candy Bar’, With Dieter Bohn from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.194891
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 Pal...
Listen340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.171504
Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.
Listen346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.149116
Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.
Listen349: ‘Live From WWDC 2022’, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak from 2023-12-12T18:24:59.136955
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.
Listen378: ‘Live From WWDC 2023’, With John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak from 2023-12-12T18:24:58.993440
Back in San Jose's historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news and announceme...
Listen390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel from 2023-11-30T23:00
Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.
Listen389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera from 2023-11-22T18:23:27
Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.
Listen388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren from 2023-10-31T19:54:02
Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.
Listen387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky from 2023-10-27T20:45:34
Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide, Spectre, and Orion) and speculate about next week’s “Scary Fast” Apple event.
Listen386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz from 2023-09-30T23:00
Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.
Listen385: ‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino from 2023-09-28T10:46:09
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.
Listen384: ‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons from 2023-08-31T23:59
Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro, and his enthusiasm for the future of spatial computing.
Listen383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell from 2023-08-29T22:36:45
Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestent on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.
Listen382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry from 2023-07-31T23:48:58
Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and our favorite features in iOS 17 now that it’s in public beta.
Listen381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern from 2023-07-11T23:45
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.
Listen380: ‘The M Is for Magnificent’, With Matthew Panzarino from 2023-06-30T17:25:42
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.
Listen379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig from 2023-06-17T19:22:55
Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along with highlights from WWDC 2023.
Listen377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English from 2023-05-31T20:00:04
Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon and Mac gaming, and Apple’s seemingly imminent XR headset. And definitely *not* to talk abo...
Listen376: ‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri from 2023-05-29T14:45:40
Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show to talk about email, Mac apps, and indie software development.
Listen375: ‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell from 2023-05-23T17:25:29
Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM's dumb decision to dro...
Listen374: ‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz from 2023-04-30T20:09:56
John Moltz, ace reporter from The Daily Planet, returns to the show. Topics include Apple pushing ads through its own built-in apps, car shopping, and the burgeoning Twitter alternative Bluesky.
Listen373: ‘This Guy Reads a Lot Better’, With Quinn Nelson from 2023-04-26T19:50
Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple’s rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.
Listen372: ‘$8 Billion in Late Fees’, With Rene Ritchie from 2023-04-21T22:56:12
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss generative AI (and what Apple might soon do with it), iPhone passcodes and iCloud device security, HBO Max turning into just plain Max, and *Make Somethi...
Listen371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut from 2023-03-31T22:41:32
Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.
Listen370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke from 2023-03-11T21:46:13
Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.
Listen369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment from 2023-02-28T23:55:43
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.
Listen368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren from 2023-01-31T23:38:06
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.
Listen367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry from 2023-01-19T23:59
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 c...
Listen366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman from 2022-12-31T15:10:56
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 j...
Listen365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie from 2022-12-22T16:11:03
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.
Listen364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz from 2022-11-30T22:58:02
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.
Listen363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren from 2022-11-23T21:06:16
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.
Listen362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash from 2022-11-18T20:31:21
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.
Listen361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci from 2022-10-31T21:40:33
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.
Listen360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell from 2022-10-25T13:20:19
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.
Listen359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann from 2022-10-12T20:21:11
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).
Listen358: ‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis from 2022-09-30T20:26:13
Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba’s 20th anniversary.
Listen357: ‘Fluent Cupertinoese’, With Nilay Patel from 2022-09-20T20:27:46
Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.
Listen356: ‘An Unranted Rant’, With Rosemary Orchard from 2022-08-31T22:28:13
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.
Listen355: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut from 2022-08-26T13:47:50
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...
Listen354: ‘Get Me to the Fainting Couch’, With John Moltz from 2022-08-18T12:13:34
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other stages.
Listen353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber from 2022-07-31T23:40
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.
Listen352: ‘I’ve Kissed That Mouse’, With Marco Arment from 2022-07-25T21:00:38
Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.
Listen351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie from 2022-06-30T23:30
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.
Listen350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell from 2022-06-27T22:25:46
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).
Listen348: ‘Joe Biden’s Gum’’, With John Moltz from 2022-05-31T21:21:39
Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.
Listen347: ‘After Steve’, With Tripp Mickle from 2022-05-15T15:05:03
Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, *After Steve*, reporting on the last decade at Apple.
Listen345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons from 2022-04-30T23:53:36
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 sub...
Listen344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman from 2022-04-26T18:53:01
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 Glen...
Listen343: ‘Fussy Typography Improvements’, With Paul Kafasis from 2022-04-15T18:30
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.
Listen342: ‘Doggy Lake’, With Matthew Panzarino from 2022-03-31T22:50:35
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new Mac Studio and Studio Display.
Listen341: ‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss from 2022-03-26T22:39:43
Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.
Listen339: ‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda from 2022-02-28T23:53:14
Special guest Ken Kocienda joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
Listen338: ‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie from 2022-02-25T22:27:35
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.
Listen337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell from 2022-02-14T21:45:32
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.
Listen336: ‘He Looked Like a Fred’, With John Moltz from 2022-01-31T21:24:42
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 ...
Listen335: ‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English from 2022-01-26T20:50:24
Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the *Heat*, and the state of streaming video services.
Listen333: ‘Schrödinger’s Feature’, With Rene Ritchie from 2021-12-31T14:21:54
Apple’s 2021 year in review, with special guest Rene Ritchie.
Listen332: ‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern from 2021-12-23T20:48:55
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.
Listen331: ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann from 2021-12-11T15:50:52
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”.
Listen330: ‘Headline Goes Here’, With Jim Dalrymple from 2021-11-30T22:13:22
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to discuss the past and future of Apple-centric reporting.
Listen329: ‘The Scotland Board of Tourism’, With David Smith from 2021-11-24T22:41:08
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.
Listen328: ‘The Warden’s Dilemma’, With Ben Thompson from 2021-11-13T12:09:54
Dithering CEO Ben Thompson returns to the show to go deep on the concept of the metaverse.
Listen327: ‘Giddy With Mac-Ness’, With Daniel Jalkut from 2021-10-31T20:52:06
Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros.
Listen326: ‘A Very Large Nap’, With John Moltz from 2021-10-29T16:20:18
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.
Listen325: ‘The Negative Version of Icing on the Cake’, With Nilay Patel from 2021-10-16T12:23:52
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 “Un...
Listen324: ‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’, With Jason Snell from 2021-09-30T23:55
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 d...
Listen323: ‘Skeptical Not Cynical’, With Matthew Panzarino from 2021-09-28T23:30:08
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13 and their camera systems.
Listen322: ‘It Was More Arial Than Helvetica’, With Rene Ritchie from 2021-09-18T14:06:16
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 ...
Listen321: ‘Just a Standard Bird’, With MG Siegler from 2021-08-31T23:56
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 ...
Listen320: ‘Paper Floor Mats’, With Christina Warren from 2021-08-23T15:25:03
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.
Listen319: ‘You Called Him Pixel Mature’, With John Moltz from 2021-07-30T16:41:24
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and “Loki”.
Listen318: ‘Holes in the Blast Door’, With Matthew Panzarino from 2021-07-22T00:38:33
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...
Listen317: ‘The NOC List’, With Rene Ritchie from 2021-06-27T10:55:11
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.
Listen316: Remote From WWDC 2021 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak from 2021-06-11T23:00
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,...
Listen315: ‘I Don’t Know How to Read’, With Joanna Stern from 2021-05-29T18:56:02
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...
Listen314: ‘Obviously Tier One’, With Marco Arment from 2021-05-25T19:18:46
Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)
Listen313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman from 2021-04-30T20:18:26
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 iP...
Listen312: ‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod from 2021-04-11T15:45:39
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.
Listen311: ‘Toaster Fridgey’, With Rene Ritchie from 2021-03-31T22:14:26
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to speculate about pending Apple product announcements and events. Lots of guessing, no wagering.
Listen310: ‘Russian Nesting Doll Code’, With Jason Snell from 2021-03-23T20:41:38
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.
Listen309: ‘Pinkies on the Semicolon’, With John Siracusa from 2021-02-27T16:44:02
The state of the Mac, with special guest John Siracusa.
Listen308: ‘Peak Hubris’, With Christina Warren from 2021-02-19T23:54:35
Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about Apple Car, Apple TV, Clubhouse, and Bloomberg hamfistedly revisiting “The Big Hack”.
Listen307: ‘Soviet Toilet Paper’, With John Moltz from 2021-01-31T21:00:40
John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.
Listen306: ‘A Total Landscaping’, With Mike Monteiro from 2021-01-16T18:47:23
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 ...
Listen305: ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa’ from 2020-12-31T22:04:38
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 Sirac...
Listen304: ‘2020 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie from 2020-12-24T16:05:54
A look back at one hell of a year.
Listen303: ‘Half of the Bikini Emoji’, With Matthew Panzarino from 2020-12-11T23:53:19
Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about Apple's new AirPods Max headphones and the future of the Mac on Apple Silicon.
Listen302: ‘Camera Beer Belly’, With Nilay Patel from 2020-11-30T23:58
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.
Listen301: ‘A Craptastic Craptacular’, With Joanna Stern from 2020-11-23T22:07:46
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Listen299: ‘Sounds Like a Good Red Sauce Place’, With Special Guest Jason Snell from 2020-10-31T21:50:56
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.
Listen297: ‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’, With David Smith from 2020-09-30T16:44:33
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.
Listen296: ‘Cameras Every Single Where’, With Michael Simmons from 2020-09-26T17:39:24
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...
Listen295: ‘Signing Up to Take Some Vitamins’, With Peter Kafka from 2020-09-17T14:55:16
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.
Listen294: ‘DOS Rot’, With John Moltz from 2020-08-31T23:01:37
John Moltz returns to the show. Poodles are great dogs. Windows stinks worse than ever. Everyone should watch “Ted Lasso”.
Listen293: ‘I’m More of a Porkins Guy’, With Anil Dash from 2020-08-27T23:40:43
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.
Listen292: ‘Not the Batman We Want or Need’, With Rene Ritchie from 2020-08-20T23:52:32
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 service...
Listen291: ‘Algorithms, How Do They Work?’, With Nilay Patel from 2020-07-31T23:21:11
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.
Listen290: ‘The Least Worst’, With Christina Warren from 2020-07-28T16:07:54
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 somethin...
Listen289: ‘I’m Batman. America. Freedom.’ With Adam Lisagor from 2020-07-23T17:48:14
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 prod...
Listen288: ‘It Shouldn’t Be Hard to Get a Smoothie’ With Dan Frommer from 2020-06-30T23:53:54
Dan Frommer returns to the show for more analysis of WWDC 2020, including App Clips and the Mac's transition to Apple silicon.
Listen287: ‘Patina of Usefulness’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2020-06-26T23:24:52
Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about WWDC 2020.
Listen286: Remote From WWDC 2020 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak from 2020-06-24T23:59
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.
Listen285: ‘Fahrenheit Truthers’ With Ben Thompson from 2020-05-22T22:43:04
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.
Listen283: ‘Some Kind of Sandwich’ With Dieter Bohn from 2020-04-30T23:54:41
Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.
Listen282: ‘Everybody Is an Expert’ With Joanna Stern from 2020-04-14T18:09:43
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.
Listen281: ‘A Kryptonian Baby’ With Rene Ritchie from 2020-03-31T23:55:26
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.
Listen280: ‘The Subtle Difference Between Hand Sanitizer and Vodka’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2020-03-26T23:56:03
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.
Listen279: ‘Chain of Precision’ With Jason Snell from 2020-03-17T23:54:46
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.
Listen278: ‘Dot Net Party’ With Federico Viticci from 2020-02-29T16:35:51
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 trackpa...
Listen277: ‘Polish Stink Eye’ With John Moltz from 2020-02-24T17:19:37
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 co...
Listen276: ‘Bring It On, Haters’ With Ben Thompson from 2020-01-31T23:57:26
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPad.
Listen275: ‘Fake Faces’ With Glenn Fleishman from 2020-01-23T19:03:35
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 algorithmical...
Listen274: ‘Sport Mode’ With Merlin Mann from 2020-01-18T01:17:20
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, ho...
Listen273: ‘My Cousin Hans’ With Rene Ritchie from 2019-12-31T23:55:31
It’s the last show of the decade. Special guest: Rene Ritchie.
Listen272: ‘The Save Twitch’ With Rich Siegel from 2019-12-24T17:53:46
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.
Listen271: ‘A Perfect Wheel’ With Jason Snell from 2019-12-12T23:42:06
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 intrig...
Listen270: ‘Talking About Crimes’ With Matthew Yglesias from 2019-11-27T22:54
Very special guest Matthew Yglesias joins the show to talk about Tim Cook cozying up to Trump for tariff relief and more.
Listen269: ‘Maximally Thin’ With Casey Johnston from 2019-11-19T12:34:55
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.
Listen268: ‘With Ham I’d Be Better’ With Dave Mark from 2019-10-31T23:49:50
Special guest Dave Mark joins the show, for a discussion mostly about AirPods Pro and partly about the 2019 World Series.
Listen267: ‘Just the Tips’ With John Moltz from 2019-10-29T22:40:55
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 th...
Listen266: ‘iPhone-Colored Glasses’ With Rene Ritchie from 2019-10-24T19:58:06
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 1...
Listen264: ‘Apple Is Not a 4-Star Company’ With Joanna Stern from 2019-09-25T21:35:04
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.
Listen262: ‘Freakishly Snappy’ With Brent Simmons from 2019-08-31T21:18:30
Special guest Brent Simmons returns to
Listen261: ‘Contact Heineken’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2019-08-28T18:39:51
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include Apple Card and the latest rumors on Apple’s upcoming product announcements.
Listen260: ‘A Clear Eyed Look at Dishwashers’ With John Siracusa from 2019-08-10T14:55:33
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.
Listen259: ‘Start a Bakin’ Timer’ With Marco Arment from 2019-07-31T18:17:53
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include MacBook Pro rumors, breakfast cereal, Siri frustrations, and more.
Listen258: ‘Pousse-Café’ With John Moltz from 2019-07-29T17:41:53
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show for a mid-summer Q&A episode, answering actual questions from actual listeners.
Listen257: ‘A Beautiful Sandwich’ With Daniel Jalkut from 2019-07-23T19:31:36
Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include app notarization, nonconsensual technology (including Zoom, Dropbox, and Superhuman), and more.
Listen256: ‘A Bit Too Thin’ With Ben Thompson from 2019-06-30T22:04:43
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Jony Ive’s departure from Apple.
Listen255: ‘Zap the PRAM’ With Jason Snell from 2019-06-25T19:34
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.
Listen253: ‘An Italicized “Finally”’ With Rene Ritchie from 2019-05-31T23:49:56
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.
Listen252: ‘The Dustin Egress Problem’ With Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic From Panic from 2019-05-30T17:10:15
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.
Listen251: ‘Parking Meters in a Dirt Lot’ With Merlin Mann from 2019-05-14T21:29:37
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.
Listen250: ‘A Couple of Awkward Swipes’ With MG Siegler from 2019-04-30T23:00
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.
Listen249: ‘Better Than Nothing’ With John Moltz from 2019-04-24T23:45
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.
Listen247: ‘I Have Faith in the Rice’ With Paul Kafasis from 2019-03-25T16:07:37
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.
Listen246: ‘Loan It to Nien Nunb’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2019-03-16T20:09:32
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...
Listen245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie from 2019-02-28T22:50:28
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 i...
Listen244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman from 2019-02-22T20:45:29
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 i...
Listen243: ‘The God Awful Truth’ With Rich Mogull from 2019-02-15T14:31:17
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 p...
Listen242: ‘The Butts Incident’ With John Moltz from 2019-01-31T19:19:13
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 ...
Listen241: ‘More Smarter’ With Joanna Stern from 2019-01-23T13:16:18
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 co...
Listen240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson from 2019-01-14T19:43:27
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 iss...
Listen239: ‘Proprioceptive Lie’ With Rene Ritchie from 2018-12-31T17:20:58
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.
Listen238: ‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’ With Jason Snell from 2018-12-24T14:35:26
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 discussi...
Listen237: ‘Out on Home Video’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2018-12-15T15:24:46
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 T...
Listen236: ‘A Vivid Nightmarescape’ With Dieter Bohn from 2018-11-30T23:00:15
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 migh...
Listen235: ‘Jony White’s Universe of Objective Purity’ With Rene Ritchie from 2018-11-22T12:35:18
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...
Listen233: ‘North Korean USB Fan’ With John Moltz from 2018-10-31T23:59
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...
Listen232: ‘I’ll Eat My Hat’ With John Moltz from 2018-10-27T23:00
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.
Listen231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer from 2018-10-16T23:02:23
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 d...
Listen230: ‘Flabbergasting’ With Nilay Patel from 2018-09-24T18:26:45
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.
Listen228: ‘Smallen Up the Bezels’ With Jason Snell from 2018-08-24T19:21:23
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 l...
Listen226: ‘Cut That Mustache With Scissors’ With Marco Arment from 2018-07-27T20:15:24
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.
Listen225: ‘Resources Up the Yang’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2018-06-30T23:59
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...
Listen224: ‘AirPower, What’s That?’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2018-06-15T17:46:07
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 M...
Listen222: ‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’ With Rene Ritchie from 2018-05-31T18:48:42
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 ...
Listen220: ‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2018-04-27T19:33:41
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 shipp...
Listen219: ‘Top Men’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2018-04-11T21:28:27
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.
Listen218: ‘Spending Tim Cook’s Money’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2018-03-31T23:59
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about Apple's education-focused event last week in Chicago.
Listen217: ‘Our Name Is Our Address’ With Jason Kottke from 2018-03-24T17:35:12
Finally. Jason Kottke is on the show to talk about 20 years of writing his eponymous website.
Listen215: ‘The “Press Real Hard” Era’ With Marco Arment from 2018-02-18T18:00:48
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 cheesest...
Listen213: ‘Don’t Tap the Monkey’ With John Moltz from 2018-01-31T22:38:49
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.
Listen212: ‘Arbiter of Finallys’ With Rene Ritchie from 2018-01-25T21:12:07
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.
Listen211: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa from 2017-12-31T23:59
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.
Listen210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell from 2017-12-30T16:59:48
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...
Listen209: ‘Blaming a Platypus’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2017-12-18T23:04:32
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: Th...
Listen208: ‘Disgusting Inception’ With John Moltz from 2017-11-30T23:59
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...
Listen207: ‘Christmas Mitzvah’ With Merlin Mann from 2017-11-18T15:31:44
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...
Listen206: ‘Bed Is Where My Problems Are’ With Ben Thompson from 2017-11-10T18:10:25
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
Listen205: ‘If You Trust Your Twin’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2017-10-31T23:45
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
Listen204: ‘Flaunting That Notch’ With Rene Ritchie from 2017-10-26T23:02:19
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.
Listen203: ‘Unused VIPs’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2017-10-21T17:00:13
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.
Listen202: ‘You Tell Me If It’s a Dongle’ With Joanna Stern from 2017-09-30T16:45:24
Special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 3, our mutual fear of heights, Velcro, and more.
Listen201: ‘Much More Smarter’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2017-09-18T23:09:12
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 th...
Listen200: ‘Episode CC’ With Craig Federighi from 2017-09-15T19:24:22
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.
Listen198: ‘Prison Oreos’ With Jason Snell from 2017-08-25T19:40:58
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 "co...
Listen196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie from 2017-07-21T16:54:24
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
Listen195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz from 2017-06-26T20:49:31
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 ann...
Listen194: ‘Egg Freckles’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2017-06-19T20:55:02
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 m...
Listen192: ‘The Original Sin Is XML’ With Special Guests Manton Reece and Brent Simmons from 2017-05-31T23:53:54
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 l...
Listen191: ‘He Ends Up Fighting Hervé Villechaize’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2017-05-27T20:07:47
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 celebra...
Listen190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson from 2017-05-13T16:50:42
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 We...
Listen188: ‘Apple VP Lisa Jackson’ from 2017-04-21T17:05:44
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: climat...
Listen187: ‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’ With MG Siegler from 2017-04-18T22:43:58
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 ...
Listen186: ‘Good News, My House Burned Down’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2017-04-13T18:13:09
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 co...
Listen185: ‘Warmest Regards’ With Dan Frommer from 2017-03-31T23:53:11
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 l...
Listen184: ‘Hubbo Is in Decline’ With Merlin Mann from 2017-03-22T01:22:32
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...
Listen182: ‘AAA Podcast’ With Marco Arment from 2017-02-22T20:20:23
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...
Listen181: ‘Corporate Stiffy’ With John Moltz from 2017-02-10T19:31:30
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 ...
Listen180: ‘Yay or Nay to Their POV’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2017-01-31T23:00
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 ...
Listen179: ‘iPhone Is the New Hitler’ With Ben Thompson from 2017-01-26T18:08:26
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 (a...
Listen177: ‘Surface Curious’ With Rene Ritchie from 2016-12-28T19:44
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 b...
Listen176: ‘Frolic’ With Craig Hockenberry from 2016-12-16T23:00
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 r...
Listen175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman from 2016-12-10T23:07:38
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 si...
Listen174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern from 2016-11-30T23:44:24
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.
Listen173: ‘Fork the Universe’ With Jason Snell from 2016-11-18T21:05:50
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”.
Listen171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz from 2016-10-26T17:34:02
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.
Listen170: ‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’ With Ben Thompson from 2016-10-16T18:25:34
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 durabili...
Listen168: ‘You’ve Got the Nubbin’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2016-09-27T18:26:32
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.
Listen167: ‘Hey Bruh You Bumped Muh Hat’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2016-09-16T20:40:19
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.
Listen165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English from 2016-08-27T20:20:27
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...
Listen164: ‘Enjoyably Clicky’ With Jason Snell from 2016-08-12T15:10:30
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 conne...
Listen163: ‘Low Grade Scam’ With Joanna Stern from 2016-07-31T17:21:18
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...
Listen162: ‘Special Bullying Venue’ With Glenn Fleishman from 2016-07-23T18:18:52
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...
Listen161: ‘Mumbles and Grunts’ With John Moltz from 2016-07-17T17:34:19
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 bett...
Listen159: ‘Phil Z’ With Marco Arment from 2016-06-25T21:24:05
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 headph...
Listen158: Live From WWDC 2016 With Guests Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi from 2016-06-17T23:48:13
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.
Listen157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer from 2016-06-11T17:47:13
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,...
Listen155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler from 2016-05-28T18:40:25
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 sec...
Listen154: ‘Facebook on Your Face’ With Rene Ritchie from 2016-05-21T17:55:18
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 — G...
Listen152: ‘The Greatest Mic Drop I’ve Ever Seen’ With Guy English from 2016-04-25T19:04:45
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 f...
Listen151: ‘Option P’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2016-04-12T21:24:18
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 O...
Listen150: ‘Strict Robot Definer’ With Jason Snell from 2016-03-28T16:58:09
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...
Listen149: ‘With Apologies to Hamilton’ With Glenn Fleishman from 2016-03-17T18:38:50
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. fou...
Listen147: ‘iTools or Whatever’ With Jim Dalrymple from 2016-02-21T18:06:57
Special guest Jim Dalrymple joins the show to talk about the Apple/FBI legal showdown, the debate over Apple software quality, and more.
Listen146: ‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’ With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi from 2016-02-12T12:58:35
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 progr...
Listen145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson from 2016-02-10T22:05:15
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,...
Listen144: ‘Hopped Up on Holiday Juice’ With Matthew Panzarino from 2016-01-31T22:32:47
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.
Listen143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann from 2016-01-24T16:09:41
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...
Listen142: ‘They Sherlocked F.lux’ With Dan Frommer from 2016-01-13T21:25:50
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 Chap...
Listen141: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More from 2015-12-31T23:59
A brief holiday chat about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
Listen140: ‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’ With Rene Ritchie from 2015-12-29T21:51:17
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, ...
Listen139: ‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’ With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa from 2015-12-14T22:35:32
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...
Listen137: ‘Peak Rumor Season’ With John Moltz from 2015-11-30T23:17:23
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 t...
Listen136: ‘Fully Charged Pencil’ With Jason Snell from 2015-11-21T15:14:07
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 Ap...
Listen134: ‘Field Sobriety Test’ With Guy English from 2015-10-31T15:30:20
Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV.
Listen133: ‘The MacGuffin Tractor’ With Serenity Caldwell from 2015-10-17T15:35:01
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 backg...
Listen131: ‘If Only the Death Star Had That’ With Guest Rene Ritchie from 2015-09-18T16:17:53
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-ne...
Listen129: ‘90 Minutes or Bust’ With Guest Ben Thompson from 2015-08-29T12:34:36
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.
Listen127: ‘A Sack Full of Plucked Feathers’ With Guest John Moltz from 2015-07-29T21:08:41
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...
Listen126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell from 2015-07-20T23:53:54
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 perform...
Listen125: ‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’ With Guest Horace Dediu from 2015-06-28T19:45
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 s...
Listen124: ‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’ With Guest Guy English from 2015-06-20T16:42
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, Watc...
Listen123: Live From WWDC 2015 With Guest Phil Schiller from 2015-06-10T18:28:05
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 Ap...
Listen121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie from 2015-05-31T22:22:28
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 t...
Listen120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer from 2015-05-23T13:35:57
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...
Listen119: ‘Workin’ in Pajamas’ With Guest David Sparks from 2015-05-15T23:59
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 wearin...
Listen117: ‘I Touched Ron Johnson’ With Guest John Moltz from 2015-04-30T23:59
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 publi...
Listen116: ‘Browser Pooped on the Wee-Wee Pad’ With Guest Joanna Stern from 2015-04-15T22:18:48
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).
Listen114: ‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’ With Guest Serenity Caldwell from 2015-03-20T18:00
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...
Listen113: ‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino from 2015-03-12T22:51:42
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.
Listen111: ‘12 Hours a Day’ With Guest John Moltz from 2015-02-23T21:43:32
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 e...
Listen110: ‘Rats in the Lobby’ With Guest Merlin Mann from 2015-02-13T16:10:32
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.
Listen108: ‘Malaprops’ With Guest Ben Thompson from 2015-01-24T15:40:20
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) m...
Listen107: ‘Now It’s All Floppy’ With Guest Marco Arment from 2015-01-12T23:57:43
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 agree...
Listen106: ‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’ With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English from 2014-12-31T20:31:39
A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.
Listen105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell from 2014-12-30T20:18:12
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-yea...
Listen104: ‘2014 Year in Review’ With Guest Rene Ritchie from 2014-12-26T20:04:44
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 sp...
Listen103: ‘Robotitize the Assembly’ With Guest Dan Frommer from 2014-12-16T23:00:30
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 sa...
Listen101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan from 2014-11-25T15:32:22
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 rem...
Listen100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz from 2014-11-15T14:41:05
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 ove...
ListenXCIX: ‘The Smoker Channels’ With Merlin Mann from 2014-11-07T20:39:16
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 podc...
Listen98: ‘Far Less Eloquent as You’ With John Siracusa from 2014-10-25T16:20
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).
Listen97: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English from 2014-10-10T11:30
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 a...
Listen96: ‘The Edition Edition’ With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson from 2014-09-28T14:58:03
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 ...
Listen95: ‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’ With Rene Ritchie from 2014-09-19T22:15
Special guest: Rene Ritchie. Topics: What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
Listen94: ‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’ With Jason Snell from 2014-09-08T20:46:10
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 th...
Listen93: ‘Toner-Perfect Design’ With Craig Hockenberry from 2014-08-29T20:28:43
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.
Listen92: ‘That New Laptop Smell’ With Joanna Stern from 2014-08-21T22:00
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; an...
Listen91: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer from 2014-08-12T18:55
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, an...
Listen90: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz from 2014-07-28T12:20
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, ...
Listen89: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2) from 2014-07-19T20:00:01
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...
Listen88: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 1) from 2014-07-19T20:00
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...
Listen87: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson from 2014-07-11T23:40
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.
Listen86: ‘Diddling Your Feeds’ With Dave Wiskus from 2014-06-30T22:44
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 Da...
Listen85: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis from 2014-06-25T22:26
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 gro...
Listen84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English from 2014-06-16T23:30
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 feature...
Listen82: ‘We're Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It's a Podcast’ With Dan Frommer from 2014-05-27T23:59
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, t...
Listen81: ‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’ With John Moltz from 2014-05-22T18:00
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 (sp...
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