217: ‘Our Name Is Our Address’ With Jason Kottke
Finally. Jason Kottke is on the show to talk about 20 years of writing his eponymous website.
Mar 24, 2018•2 hr 19 min
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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216: ‘Podcast Amnesia’ With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Apple and China, the 10th anniversary of the iPhone SDK, the future of the MacBook Air, and more. No baseball talk, except a little.
Mar 09, 2018•2 hr 31 min
215: ‘The “Press Real Hard” Era’ With Marco Arment
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion. Topics include Apple’s OS development strategy, HomePod and Siri, the sad state of Apple TV apps, where to get a good cheesesteak, how to boil water, and more.
Feb 18, 2018•3 hr 54 min
214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, [Farrago](https://rogueamoeba.com/farrago/) (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.
Feb 09, 2018•2 hr 10 min
213: ‘Don’t Tap the Monkey’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. We talk about the HomePod, the “cancellation” of iPhone X, Steve Jobs and the orange button, and Super Bowl 52. And a surprising amount of talk about dates.
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 23 min
212: ‘Arbiter of Finallys’ With Rene Ritchie
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about HomePod, clickbait, the Spectre/Meltdown security exploits, and a look back at Apple’s 2017 in review.
Jan 26, 2018•2 hr 28 min
211: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa
As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and John Siracusa.
Jan 01, 2018•2 hr 55 min
210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns for the penultimate episode of 2017. Topics include the iPhone battery performance-throttling saga, Google Maps vs. Apple Maps, new versions of iOS running slow on older iPhones, the new iMac Pro, iOS file management, and more.
Dec 30, 2017•2 hr 24 min
209: ‘Blaming a Platypus’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple’s new iMac Pro lineup: gaming, VR, medical use, software development video, and more. Also: a spoiler-free preamble on “Star Wars Ep. 8: The Last Jedi”.
Dec 19, 2017•2 hr 7 min
208: ‘Disgusting Inception’ With John Moltz
John “With an H” Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the ongoing deluge of sexual harassment scandals, our beloved SodaStreams, the Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra root login fiasco, *App: The Human Story*, and more.
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 34 min
207: ‘Christmas Mitzvah’ With Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show for a Thanksgiving-week holiday spectacular. Topics include the history of Markdown, nerding out with Keyboard Maestro, kids today and the computers they want to use, caring about idiomatic native UI design, a look back at last year's election, and more.
Nov 18, 2017•2 hr 24 min
206: ‘Bed Is Where My Problems Are’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
Nov 10, 2017•2 hr 13 min
205: ‘If You Trust Your Twin’ With Jim Dalrymple
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.
Nov 01, 2017•1 hr 40 min
204: ‘Flaunting That Notch’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show on the eve of iPhone X pre-orders opening. Topics include iPhone X (duh), Google’s Pixel 2 and the goofy OLED display on the “XL” version, Face ID FUD, and more.
Oct 27, 2017•1 hr 44 min
203: ‘Unused VIPs’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include watches, the problems with the current MacBook keyboards, iOS 11 battery life, my massive windfall from the iBooks antitrust settlement, and more.
Oct 21, 2017•2 hr 2 min
202: ‘You Tell Me If It’s a Dongle’ With Joanna Stern
Special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 3, our mutual fear of heights, Velcro, and more.
Sep 30, 2017•1 hr 38 min
201: ‘Much More Smarter’ With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino joins the show for an in-depth look at last week’s Apple event in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. We talk about iPhone X, iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3, Apple TV 4K, and the new Apple Park campus and Steve Jobs Theater.
Sep 19, 2017•3 hr 2 min
200: ‘Episode CC’ With Craig Federighi
Very special guest Craig Federighi returns to the show to talk about Face ID, the perils of live demos, Apple’s approach to designing the iPhone X, privacy, security, and more.
Sep 15, 2017•30 min
199: ‘Under Rumored’ With Jim Dalrymple
Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for a preview of next week's Apple event. We speculate (wrongly, it seems to have turned out) on the naming of the new iPhones, facial recognition in lieu of Touch ID, third-generation Apple Watches, Apple TV, HomePod, and more.
Sep 10, 2017•2 hr 27 min
198: ‘Prison Oreos’ With Jason Snell
Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Daring Fireball's 15th anniversary, fruit fly infestations, clicky keyboards, sandwich cookies, the birth of Markdown, iOS 11's new "cop mode", favicons in Safari, Apple's Project Titan, last week's total solar eclipse, and Jerry Lewis.
Aug 25, 2017•2 hr 40 min
197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn's new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.
Aug 06, 2017•2 hr 39 min
196: ‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.
Jul 21, 2017•2 hr 7 min
195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include more follow-up from WWDC 2017, the iPad Pro models and ProMotion, Scott Forstall's interview with John Markoff regarding the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone, the ongoing shitshow at Uber, quick thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, and more. Also: guess which John enjoys throwing babies into the air.
Jun 27, 2017•1 hr 54 min
194: ‘Egg Freckles’ With Serenity Caldwell
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about WWDC 2017 -- iOS 11, the new iPad Pro models, MacOS 10.13 "High Sierra", updated Mac hardware and a tease at the upcoming iMac Pro, where Apple might go with VR and AR, San Jose as the venue for the event itself, and more.
Jun 20, 2017•2 hr 6 min
193: ‘Crack Marketing Team’ — Live From WWDC 2017 With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: new Mac hardware, the new iPad Pro, Mac OS 10.13 “High Sierra”, iOS 11, the upcoming HomePod, and more.
Jun 08, 2017•1 hr 32 min
192: ‘The Original Sin Is XML’ With Special Guests Manton Reece and Brent Simmons
Manton Reece and whisky-soaked baritone Brent Simmons join the show to talk about JSON Feed, the new spec they co-authored for syndicating things like blog posts and podcasts. We talk about their longstanding mutual interest in [Userland Frontier][f] -- Dave Winer’s groundbreaking scripting environment from the early ’90s -- and how that background and their mutual love for publishing on the open web and the democratization of technology ultimately led to the creation of JSON Feed, as well as th...
Jun 01, 2017•1 hr 59 min
191: ‘He Ends Up Fighting Hervé Villechaize’ With Jim Dalrymple
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to speculate about what Apple might announce at the upcoming WWDC 2017: Apple Watch, iPad, iOS, updated MacBooks, Apple TV, and more. Also: a celebration of the great Roger Moore.
May 28, 2017•2 hr 25 min
190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Microsoft's announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon's new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple's WeChat problem in China, and more.
May 13, 2017•3 hr 22 min
189: ‘Long Press on the French Fries’ With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q2 2017 financial results, the iPhone’s decline in China over the past two years, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick getting called to Tim Cook’s office regarding Uber’s surreptitious “fingerprinting” of iPhones, judging Apple Watch’s success, Hulu’s entry into the cord-cutting “live TV” subscription market (and Apple’s conspicuous absence from that same market), and more.
May 07, 2017•2 hr 14 min
188: ‘Apple VP Lisa Jackson’
Special guest Lisa Jackson — Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives — joins the show for an Earth Day discussion of the state of Apple’s environmental efforts: climate change, renewable energy, responsible packaging, and Apple’s new goal to create a “closed-loop supply chain”, wherein the company’s products would be manufactured entirely from recycled materials.
Apr 21, 2017•56 min
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