Jason Snell ( Six Colors , The Incomparable , Upgrade ) 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. Sponsored by: Hello Fresh : The meal kit delivery service that makes cooking fun, easy, and convenient. Save $35 off your first wee...
Mar 28, 2016•2 hr 51 min
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. Sponsored by: Casper : A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code thetalkshow for $50 off. Igloo : An intranet you’ll act...
Mar 17, 2016•2 hr 19 min
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 . Sponsored by: Backblaze : Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code GRUBER for 10% off your first order. MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10 percent off for the life...
Mar 03, 2016•2 hr 21 min
Special guest Jim Dalrymple joins the show to talk about the Apple/FBI legal showdown, the debate over Apple software quality, and more. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code GRUBER for 10% off your first order. Fracture : Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Use promo code TALKSHOW10 for 10% off your first order. Harry's : An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. Use code TALKSHOW for $5 off your first purchase. Links: Walt Mossberg: " Apple's Apps Need Wo...
Feb 21, 2016•1 hr 59 min
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. Some scoops too, including: the weekly number of iTunes and App Store transactions, an updated Apple Mus...
Feb 12, 2016•57 min
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. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code GRUBER for 10% off your first order. Igloo : An intranet you’ll actually like. Try Igloo for ...
Feb 11, 2016•1 hr 50 min
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. Sponsored by: Casper : A mattress with just the right sink, just the right bounce, for better nights and brighter days. Use code thetalkshow for $50 off. Audible.com : With over 180,000 audiobooks, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Get a free 30-day trial. Warby Parker : Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired glass...
Feb 01, 2016•2 hr 14 min
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. Sponsored by: Backblaze : Online backup for $5/month. Native. Unlimited. Unthrottled. Uncomplicated. MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10% off for the life of your account. Igloo : An intranet you’ll ...
Jan 24, 2016•2 hr 48 min
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. Brought to you by: Wealthfront : A low-cost, automated investment service that makes it easy to invest your money the right way. Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code “GRUBER” for 10% off your first or...
Jan 14, 2016•2 hr 13 min
A brief holiday chat about Star Wars: The Force Awakens , with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber. Sponsored by: Igloo : The intranet you’ll actually like. Backblaze : Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for your Mac. Wealthfront : An intelligent, automated investing service. They’ll build you a free personalized investment plan in 2 minutes. MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10 percent off for the entire lifetime of ...
Jan 01, 2016•2 hr 29 min
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. Sponsored by: uBar and the Brawer Mirage A4 : Use promo code “RETINAGRUBER” and save 50% on a great Mac taskba...
Dec 30, 2015•3 hr 8 min
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 possibl...
Dec 15, 2015•3 hr 21 min
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. Sponsored by: Wealthfront : A low-cost, automated investment service that makes it easy to invest your money the right way. MailRoute : A secure, hosted email filtering service that you can have up and running in m...
Dec 08, 2015•2 hr 19 min
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. Brought to you by: Harry’s : High-quality shaving products; great gift ideas. Use promo code “talkshow” to save $5 off your first purchase. Casper : Obsessively engineered mattresses at shockingly fair prices. Wealthfront : An intelligent, automated investing ser...
Dec 01, 2015•1 hr 46 min
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 . Sponsored by: Harry’s : High-quality shaving products. Use the promo code “talkshow” to save $5 off your first purchase. Warby Parker : Boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a revoluti...
Nov 21, 2015•2 hr 14 min
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”. Sponsored by: Automatic : The cool, clever connected-car dingus. Save $20 with this link. Backblaze : Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Mac. 30-day free trial. Fracture : Your photos, printed directly on glass. Awesome gift idea. Use promo code “DARINGFIREBALL” and save 15 percent. Wealthfron...
Nov 07, 2015•2 hr 35 min
Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV. Sponsored by: Hullo : Your favorite pillow, guaranteed. Casper : Obsessively engineered mattresses at shockingly fair prices. Save $50 with promo code “THETALKSHOW”. MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10 percent off for the life of your account. Harry’s : High-quality shaving products and the official partner of the Movember Foundation. Save $5 off your first or...
Oct 31, 2015•2 hr 29 min
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. Sponsored by: Harvest : A beautiful business tool for tracking time spent on client projects, from the web, desktop, or mobile. After your 30-day free trial, use promo code “TH...
Oct 17, 2015•2 hr 33 min
Marco Arment joins the show for a brief chat on ad blockers, advertising in general, and the new iPhones 6S. Sponsored by: uBar and the Brawer Mirage A4 : Use promo code “RETINAGRUBER” and save 50% on a great Mac taskbar utility or 40% on an elegant handmade automatic watch. Justworks : Payroll, benefits, compliance and HR — let Justworks handle these for your business. Save 10% for a year with code “TTS”. Fracture : Your pictures, printed directly on glass. Photo, frame, and mount, all in one. ...
Oct 03, 2015•3 hr 14 min
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. Sponsored by: Hover : The best way to buy and manage domain names. Get 10% off your first purchase with promo code "CrappyOldPhone". Backblaze : Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Mac. Risk-free no-credit-card-required trial. Igloo : The int...
Sep 18, 2015•2 hr 39 min
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. Sponsored by: Fracture : Your pictures, printed directly on glass. Photo, frame, and mount, all in one. Save with code “DARINGFIREBALL”. Automatic : Cool connected-car adapter (a.k.a. “dongle”). Save $20 with this link. Harry's : High-quality shaving products. Use the promo code “talkshow” to save $5 off your first purch...
Sep 08, 2015•2 hr 40 min
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. Sponsored by: Harry's : High-quality shaving products. Use the promo code "talkshow" to save $5 off your first purchase. Casper : An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Save $50 off any mattress with promo code "thetalkshow". Warby Parker : Boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at...
Aug 29, 2015•1 hr 56 min
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. Sponsored by: Lynda.com : Learn at your own pace from e...
Aug 09, 2015•2 hr 26 min
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 . Sponsored by: Casper : Just the right sink, just the right bounce. Save $50 on any Casper mattress. Hullo : Your favorite pillow. Guaranteed. Fracture : Your photos p...
Jul 30, 2015•2 hr
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. Sponsored by: Harry’s : High quality razors and blades for a fraction of the price. Save $5 off first purchase with code “TALKSHOW”. Hover : The best way to buy and manage domain names. Save 10 percent off first purchase with code “ELEPHANTMARCO”. Fracture ...
Jul 21, 2015•2 hr 53 min
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. Sponsored by: Backblaze : Unlimited, unthrottled online backup for Macs. Fracture : Your photos printed directly on pure glass. Use code “daringfireball” and save 15 percent off your first order. Casper : An obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price...
Jun 28, 2015•1 hr 56 min
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. Sponsored by: Harry’s : High quality razors and blades for a fraction of the price. Save $5 off first purc...
Jun 20, 2015•2 hr 19 min
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. Sponsored by: MailChimp : Send better email. Fracture : Your pictures printed directly on glass. Save 15% with code "WWDC". Microsoft : Tools and services for any developer, any app, any OS. Really....
Jun 10, 2015•1 hr 9 min
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Build it beautiful. Use code "GRUBER" and save 10 percent. Igloo : The intranet you'll actually like. MailRoute : Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for a 10 percent discount for the life of your account. Harvest : A beautiful business tool for tracking time spent on client projects. Use code "THETALKSHOW" at ...
Jun 07, 2015•2 hr 22 min
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; ...
Jun 01, 2015•2 hr 18 min
