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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

269: ‘Maximally Thin’ With Casey Johnston

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.

Nov 19, 20192 hr 50 min

267: ‘Just the Tips’ With John Moltz

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 the undisputed highlight of the 2019 World Series.

Oct 30, 20192 hr 57 min

266: ‘iPhone-Colored Glasses’ With Rene Ritchie

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 10.15 Catalina.

Oct 24, 20192 hr 21 min

265: ‘Thompson’s Razor’ With Ben Thompson

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.

Oct 09, 20192 hr 25 min

255: ‘Zap the PRAM’ With Jason Snell

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.

Jun 25, 20193 hr 47 min

254: Live From WWDC 2019 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

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 new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, MacOS 10.15 Catalina, iOS 13, iPadOS, SwiftUI and Catalyst, and more.

Jun 07, 20192 hr 47 min

249: ‘Better Than Nothing’ With John Moltz

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.

Apr 25, 20192 hr 14 min

248: ‘Equally Confused’ With Peter Kafka

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: Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV Channels and TV+.

Apr 06, 20192 hr 38 min

246: ‘Loan It to Nien Nunb’ With Matthew Panzarino

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 Edge theme park lands.

Mar 17, 20193 hr 21 min

245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie

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 in Safari, Apple's Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple's purported March 25 media event.

Mar 01, 20193 hr 52 min

244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman

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 into the credit card business, and more — including Glenn’s “Tiny Type Museum” Kickstarter project.

Feb 23, 20193 hr 5 min

243: ‘The God Awful Truth’ With Rich Mogull

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 program to enable sideloading of iOS apps, Amazon’s acquisition of Eero, and more.

Feb 15, 20193 hr 42 min

242: ‘The Butts Incident’ With John Moltz

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 callers to listen to audio before the call was answered, and Apple’s quarterly results.

Jan 31, 20192 hr 4 min

241: ‘More Smarter’ With Joanna Stern

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 course, the new MacBook Air.

Jan 23, 20192 hr 48 min

240: ‘Drastically Shakier’ With Ben Thompson

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 issues regarding the App Store, and more.

Jan 14, 20193 hr 48 min