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The Talk Show With John Gruber

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

Episodes

91: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer

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, 20142 hr 17 min

90: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz

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, 20142 hr

89: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2)

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, 20141 hr 39 min

88: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 1)

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, 20141 hr 46 min

87: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson

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, 20142 hr 4 min

86: ‘Diddling Your Feeds’ With Dave Wiskus

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, 20142 hr 27 min

85: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis

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, 20141 hr 52 min

84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English

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 ...

Jun 17, 20141 hr 52 min

83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson

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, 20141 hr 49 min

82: ‘We're Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It's a Podcast’ With Dan Frommer

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, 20141 hr 50 min

81: ‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’ With John Moltz

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, 20141 hr 35 min
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