451: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John Moltz
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
RAM Doubler and DiskDoubler, which came from two different developers.
StuffIt and Compact Pro.
“Apple in China” by Patrick McGee.
Patrick McGee on The Talk Show last year.
“Go Computer Now!”, Ben Zotto’s book on Sphere Computer Corporation.
Movies:
The Player
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022".
Gnome, Lex Friedman's clever new animated GIF search/library utility for Mac and iOS. (Also: My link to Gnome at DF.)
Biff! -- Moltz's fun superhero TV/movie podcast cohosted with Dan Moren and Guy English.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
431: ‘Iconic Pig Lipstick’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 17 lineup: the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 17, and the no-number iPhone Air. Not one word about baseball, but some Star Wars talk may or may not have snuck in.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
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Techmeme's roundup of iPhones 17 reviews that actually were published on the embargo date.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.
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Links:
Godzilla Minus One
“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”
“Counterpart” — The best show you’ve maybe never heard of
“Dark Matter”
“Severance”
“Foundation”
“Presumed Innocent”
“Palm Royale”
“Masters of the Air”
“Sugar”
“For All Mankind”
“Silo”
“Shrinking”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
398: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz
The one and only John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the relative dearth of original content for Vision Pro, WWDC rumors and guesses, and, yes, a wee bit about Apple's regulatory/antitrust tribulations.
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Links:
MacRumors: "Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid".
Foldable iPhone: Maybe in 2027, or maybe never.
Moltz's "This Week in Apple" column at Six Colors.
Joz's "It's going to be Absolutely Incredible" tweet hinting at AI-related WWDC announcements.
Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.
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Links:
OverheatGate:
David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating.
Ming-Chi Kuo’s one-paragraph Medium post that seemingly but wrongly suggests that Apple will have to throttle the CPU.
MacRumors.
“iPhonedo” on YouTube, showing Instagram heating up both an iPhone 15 Pro and year-old 14 Pro, simply sitting idle on a profile screen.
FineWovenGate:
Chance Miller: “Apple Weaved Itself Into a Fine Mess With the Awful iPhone 15 FineWoven Case”.
“Apple Pens Memo to Retail Teams on How to Manage FineWoven Complaints: ‘A Luxurious Microtwill’”.
Verge story on the high-pressure world of iPhone casemakers.
Google’s very-textured fabric cases for the Pixel 4.
USB-C Gate:
Crappy USB-C cables vs. CarPlay.
LoveFrom and OpenAI rumored to be in talks on AI device:
The Information: “Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project”.
The Financial Times: “OpenAI and Jony Ive in Talks to Raise $1bn From SoftBank for AI Device Venture”.
Humane pin is unveiled, with no comment on what it does, at Paris Fashion Week.
Mr. Do:
Emulated on the web via the Internet Archive.
Play-through on YouTube.
Uber shamelessly breaking App Store rules in 2015, including geofencing Cupertino to offer different functionality to App Store reviewers.
Evans Hankey’s wonderfully-weathered original iPhone, as pictured in Designed by Apple in California. Proof that you shouldn’t use a case.
Quora AI thinks you can melt an egg.
“Linda Yaccarino’s Excruciatingly Uncomfortable Interview With Julia Boorstin at the Code Conference”.
The iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference, minus the Q&A, alas.
Jason Snell on the Q&A, where Jobs was joined by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
374: ‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz
John Moltz, ace reporter from The Daily Planet, returns to the show. Topics include Apple pushing ads through its own built-in apps, car shopping, and the burgeoning Twitter alternative Bluesky.
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Links:
“This Week in Apple” — Moltz’s new weekly column at Six Colors.
My piece on DF re: an unwanted and unnecessary promotion for Apple Arcade in the iOS Settings app.
Chevy is cancelling the Bolt and really wants your data.
gruber.com, home of the Gruber Motor Company and other fine subsidiaries of The Gruber Company.
The saga behind “Superman II” and the Richard Donner cut.
Bluesky:
The waiting list for invitation codes.
Bluesky: How to set a custom domain name as your Bluesky handle.
NYT: “What Is Bluesky and Why Are People Clamoring to Join It?”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz
Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.
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Links:
iPhone 14 production hit by Chinese protests.
Me, on Twitter-Apple drama and Musk baiting Tim Cook.
The Washington Post: Musk claims Apple threatens to remove Twitter from App Store.
WSJ: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
Macstodon: Mastodon Mac client for 68K Macs.
“Sleep Baseball” podcast.
Tim Cook’s gag tweet sent minutes before the start of the 2018 event introducing the iPhone XS and XR.
Fedifinder.
“The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime.
“1899” on Netflix.
“Dark” — from the creators of “1899”.
“Andor” on Disney+.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
354: ‘Get Me to the Fainting Couch’, With John Moltz
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other stages.
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Niki Tonsky on Twitter on MacOS 13 Settings.
Craig Federighi on Stage Manager at this year's The Talk Show Live From WWDC.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
348: ‘Joe Biden’s Gum’’, With John Moltz
Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
336: ‘He Looked Like a Fred’, With John Moltz
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Apple’s record-breaking but somehow yawn-inducing quarterly results, new features in the upcoming releases of MacOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4, the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify saga, and more.
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Links:
Apple Quarterly Results:
Apple Newsroom.
My two cents.
“This Is Tim.”
MacOS 12.3 is dropping kernel extension APIs used by Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive:
Stephen Hackett.
Dropbox passing the buck.
Microsoft says OneDrive will soon be ready.
Box has been ready since October.
New emojis in iOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.3.
MacRumors: "Hands-On With Universal Control in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3".
Other new features in iOS 15.3 and MacOS 12.3, including Face ID while wearing a mask.
Steve Jobs's backdated stock options.
Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
East India Company.
They are, in fact, still a concern.
Joe Isuzu.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
326: ‘A Very Large Nap’, With John Moltz
Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.
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Apple's $19 polishing cloth.
Whoosh.
The bizarro 16-pack of SIM card removal tools I bought at Amazon for $7.
Paprika.
Text Sniper.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
319: ‘You Called Him Pixel Mature’, With John Moltz
Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and Loki.
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Links:
Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
Another post-show correction: there is one MLB team with a friendly bird mascot. (I mistakenly thought they had been relegated to AAA, and regret the error.)
Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
307: ‘Soviet Toilet Paper’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.
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Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman reports on 2021 Macs.
Mimeographs.
San Antonio 10 year old who got 10 shares of GameStop stock as a gift from his mom and made $3000.
Titanium G4 PowerBook.
Robinhood overview by NYT.
.
Philly COVID vaccination fiasco.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
294: ‘DOS Rot’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Poodles are great dogs. Windows stinks worse than ever. Everyone should watch Ted Lasso.
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How to Solve the “Code 43” Nvidia GTX10xx or RTX20xx GPU Problem.
Me on pricing the “Apple One” services bundle.
“Ted Lasso” renewed for second season.
Cabel Sasser’s tweet on kids and software pricing.
WinToUSB — $30 utility for installing Windows on an external USB drive.
Avery — the printer label company whose name I couldn’t think of.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
277: ‘Polish Stink Eye’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Larry Tesler and his “no modes” mantra for UI design, the state of malware on the Mac, third-party default apps on iOS, Apple and the coronavirus outbreak, and a record number of tips and tricks.
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Links:
Larry Tesler:
Tesler’s website.
Chris Espinosa on Tesler’s heuristic for smart paste.
John Markoff’s NYT obituary.
Malwarebytes’s “State of Mac Malware in 2020” report:
Michael Tsai.
Jason Snell.
Dan Goodin’s report last month for Ars Technica on scam “Adobe Flash” installers.
Mark Gurman claims Apple is considering third-party default apps for iOS 14.
How to enable the startup chime on new Mac hardware.
On Apple’s attempts to stiff retail employees for time spent waiting in bag-check lines.
The Keychron K2 mechanical Bluetooth keyboard Jason Snell convinced me to buy. (I got brown switches.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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.
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Links:
AirPods Pro.
Old-school wired remote controls.
Initial reviews of the first batch of TV+ shows: lukewarm at best.
UHF TV stations.
The Fat Nano.
“A Purple Heart for Gruber”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
258: ‘Pousse-Café’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show for a mid-summer Q&A episode, answering actual questions from actual listeners.
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Merlin Mann interviewing Jason Snell and yours truly from Macworld Expo 2007.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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.
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Links
AirPods battery replacement from Apple.
ToothFairy — Michael Tsai’s $3 app for easily connecting AirPods to your Mac with a click.
AirBuddy — Guilherme Rambo’s $5 utility for connecting AirPods to your Mac with a slick iOS-style “just open the case near the Mac” interface.
The cheap piece of plastic Mark Gurman inadvertently peeled off his Galaxy Fold.
The peeling plastic layer on Joanna Stern’s Galaxy Fold review unit.
Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes.
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.
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Links:
Bugs in Group FaceTime Allow Callers to See and Hear Recipients’ End Without Them Answering.
TechCrunch: Facebook Pays Teenagers to Install VPN That Spies on Them.
Google Was Doing Something Similar.
Apple’s Q1 2019 Financial Results.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs on Craig Mod’s “On Margins” podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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.
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Links:
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RetroPie.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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.
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My iPhone XR review and follow-up.
Strategic Conquest.
Bolo — networked Mac game from 1987.
The Secret History of Mac Gaming, by Richard Moss.
Joanna Stern: “Ugh, Green Bubbles! Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard”.
Vlad Savov on Google’s imminent Night Sight feature for Pixel phones.
Research paper and video showing Night-Sight-like results.
Sam Byford on Chinese phone OSes based on Android.
Totallee super thin iPhone cases.
Jason Snell on building a Hackintosh (or as Moltz put it, a Macinstein).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton, who insists he’s going to the grave with a tiny phone.
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.
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Rian Johnson on The Talk Show five years ago.
“I’m a fucking immigration lawyer.”
“iPhone X is cancelled” nonsense.
Tripp “Claim” Chowdhry’s greatest hits.
Bethany Bongiorno’s story about Steve Jobs, the original iPhone, and an orange button.
Nuzzel — a clever app that gives you news alerts based on links posted by the people you follow on Twitter.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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.
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Links:
TripMode — Mac utility for limiting/controlling network usage on an app-by-app basis.
Jason Snell’s review of TripMode.
[Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JimmySnyder(sports_commentator).
The comments that got him fired from CBS.
No joke: Jimmy The Greek on David Letterman in 1987, talking about Donald Trump running for president.
The root login bug in MacOS 10.13 High Sierra.
App: The Human Story documentary film is out.
The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2014, with special guests Marco Arment, John Siracusa, and Casey Liss — shot by Jake Schumacher and Jed Hurt, director and co-director of App: The Human Story.
James Bridle: “Something Is Wrong on the Internet” — well-researched essay from earlier this month on the disturbing underside of YouTube videos aimed at children.
Some really sick, twisted examples of YouTube videos aimed at kids.
Liz Phair’s killer cover of The Banana Splits theme song.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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.
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Michael Hagain at Lead Fast on the Chinese-made Dixon Ticonderoga pencils.
Chris Pirillo on iPad Pro, Promotion, and iOS.
Museum Historian John Markoff moderates a discussion with former iPhone team members Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra and Scott Herz, followed by a conversation with Scott Forstall.
Episodes of Guy English and Rene Ritchie’s Debug podcast with Nitin Gunatra and Don “No Fucks Left to Give” Melton:
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III
Episode IV
Episode V
Navistone — the creepy company that sells a JavaScript library for collecting form data as soon as you type it.
Chris Lattner leaves Tesla.
The Outline: “Apple’s War on Leakers”.
Brian Merchant’s The One Device and the excerpt that ran in The Verge.
Evidence in High Sierra betas suggests iMac Pro might come with Secure Enclave ARM chip.
Donors Choose — a great way to contribute money to help teachers buy supplies for their classrooms.
The Osborne Effect.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
181: ‘Corporate Stiffy’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include: 🐩💨, iPad vs. Mac for productivity (and why the iPad isn’t a self-sufficient platform), nostalgia for System 7, speculation on this year’s upcoming new iPhones, and more.
Alternative title for this episode: 🏢🍆.
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Links:
DF: “Comparing the First Seven Years of the iPad and Mac”.
Why isn’t there a version of iBooks Author for iPads?
Tim Cook, introducing the iPad Pro in September 2015: “The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.”
Ulysses, a great project-based app for writers, with cross-platform iOS and Mac versions.
Ken Case’s Omni Group year-in-review post, with a tease at their upcoming cross-platform JavaScript-based automation system.
Two stories on the same rumor about this year’s new iPhones:
Mark Sullivan, writing for Fast Company.
KGI analyst Ming Chi Kuo.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include what we expect from this week’s Apple Event for new Mac hardware, and my impressions of the Google Pixel phone after a week using one.
This week’s show introduces labeled chapter marks for subject matter. If you use a podcast player that supports them, such as Overcast, let me know what you think.
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Ars Technica on the Mirai botnet that uses insecure Internet of Things devices.
Brian Krebs on the Internet of Things botnet.
Images of the new MacBook Pro Magic Toolbar that leaked from Apple itself as resources in MacOS 10.12.1.
Darth on the Magic Toolbar and Esc-less hardware keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
161: ‘Mumbles and Grunts’ With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include parenting thoughts on controlling the amount of time our kids spend playing games and watching YouTube and Netflix, why Google's apps for iOS are better than their apps for Android, Chromebooks in schools, Windows Phone's bright future, Pokemon Go, and more. We also insult the driving abilities of people from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Canada.
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Links:
Ingress -- Niantec's augmented-reality mobile game that preceded Pokemon Go.
Tim Bray on Ingress.
Dieter Bohn: "Google Is Making Better Apps for the iPhone Than for Android"
Yours truly on Peter Kafka's Recode Media podcast.
Samantha Bee's appearance on Recode Media.
Spark — excellent third-party email client for iOS.
Analyst in 2011 predicts Windows Phone will eclipse Android by 2013.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
148: ‘Occupy Portland’ With John Moltz
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.
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L. Gordon Crovitz’s jacktastic op-ed piece on the Apple/FBI fight.
Firewatch.
Olly Moss’s Star Wars trilogy posters.
Geek Remix’s excellent video analyzing the plot of Firewatch. Spoilers galore — do not watch this unless you’ve finished the game. You don’t even want to look at the title of the video.
The cast of Firewatch.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
137: ‘Peak Rumor Season’ With John Moltz
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.
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Rumor: “Apple May Replace 3.5mm Headphone Jack on iPhone 7 With All-in-One Lightning Connector”.
Rumor: “Thinner MacBook Air in 13” and 15” Sizes Coming at WWDC 2016?”.
The 5.9mm-thick Samsung Galaxy A8.
Apple’s $29 Lightning-to-30-pin adapter.
Amazon’s video showing their latest prototype delivery drone, narrated by Jeremy Clarkson.
Fraser Speirs: “Can the MacBook Pro Replace Your iPad?”
A Tesla Owner reviews a petrol-powered car.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
130: ‘A Full Canseco’ With Guest John Moltz
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.
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The original logo for Apple Computer Co.
Another great look at some obscure variations of the Apple logo we know and love.
Jose Canseco getting hit on the head by a deep fly ball.
Jose Canseco getting knocked out by Vai Sikahema in a charity boxing match.
Moltz: “The Watch Face Wars”.
Samsung’s new decent-looking Gear S2 watches.
Unbox Therapy guy bend-tests a leaked iPhone 6S 7000-grade aluminum frame.
The evolution of Google’s logo.