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The Talk Show With John Gruber

Daring Fireball / John Gruber•daringfireball.net
Technology
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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Episodes

238: ‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’ With Jason Snell

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include BBEdit’s 25th anniversary, the saga of Word 6 for Mac in the 1990s, Mac iOS user interface differences (including an extensive discussion of Mojave’s craptacular “Marzipan” apps, and a few varying theories on what those apps portend), Photos on Mac and iOS, and, of course, keyboards.

Dec 24, 2018•3 hr 1 min

237: ‘Out on Home Video’ With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include recent blockbuster movies, motion smoothing on TVs, iPhone demand rumors, Apple’s Made For iPhone (MFi) program, and more. Recorded live from The Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado.

Dec 15, 2018•2 hr 7 min

236: ‘A Vivid Nightmarescape’ With Dieter Bohn

Special guest Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about Google’s new Pixel Slate Chrome OS tablet/laptop, the Pixel 3, Google’s fascinating new Night Sight camera mode, speculation on how Apple might move the Mac to ARM chips, and more.

Dec 01, 2018•3 hr 33 min

235: ‘Jony White’s Universe of Objective Purity’ With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about iPad Pro — the new Pencil, the new amazing new hardware, keyboard options, and the OS that in many ways still feels meant for a phone. Also: the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup, and a plea to Apple to please — *please* — make the small Magic Keyboard in space gray.

Nov 22, 2018•3 hr 34 min

233: ‘North Korean USB Fan’ With John Moltz

You wanted more Moltz, you get more Moltz. Our thoughts and observations on Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the products they announced: new MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, iPad Pros, and Apple Pencil.

Nov 01, 2018•2 hr 43 min

232: ‘I’ll Eat My Hat’ With John Moltz

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week's Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.

Oct 28, 2018•3 hr 35 min

231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.

Oct 17, 2018•2 hr 28 min

230: ‘Flabbergasting’ With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about the iPhone XS and XS Max. We got so caught up talking about cameras, we never even mention headphone jacks.

Sep 24, 2018•2 hr 54 min

229: ‘iPhone 🍸’ With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a deep dive into what was revealed (and what wasn’t) by Guilherme Rambo’s release last week of product marketing images of the apparently-named iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch.

Sep 05, 2018•2 hr 51 min

228: ‘Smallen Up the Bezels’ With Jason Snell

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics do include mechanical keyboards, but do not -- I swear -- include baseball. Also: speculation on what Apple might do with the non-Pro MacBook lineup.

Aug 24, 2018•3 hr 37 min

225: ‘Resources Up the Yang’ With Matthew Panzarino

Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the new maps coming to Apple Maps, Google’s project Duplex, and the MacBook keyboard repair program.

Jul 01, 2018•2 hr 43 min

224: ‘AirPower, What’s That?’ With Serenity Caldwell

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show for a post-WWDC wrap-up discussion. Topics include iOS 12, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Apple Books, MacOS 10.14 Mojave, dark mode, UIKit apps on the Mac, and more.

Jun 15, 2018•2 hr 9 min

223: Live From WWDC 2018 With Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell to discuss the news from WWDC: ARKit 2, the new USDZ file format, iOS 12, MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”, UIKit apps on MacOS, and more.

Jun 06, 2018•1 hr 20 min

222: ‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’ With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include MacBook keyboard failures, iOS passcode security, Google’s odd Duplex “demo”, Steam Link’s curious rejection from the App Store, AirPlay 2, and, of course, conjecture about next week’s WWDC.

May 31, 2018•2 hr 33 min

220: ‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’ With Jim Dalrymple

Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include the litany of problems with MacBook keyboards, speculation regarding why Apple’s AirPower multi-device charging mat still isn’t shipping, Google’s proposal to replace SMS with a new protocol that isn’t encrypted, and more.

Apr 27, 2018•2 hr 59 min

219: ‘Top Men’ With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes profile with Apple’s Pro Workflow Team and state of Apple’s professional Mac hardware and software.

Apr 12, 2018•2 hr 14 min

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•3 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•4 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

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