386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz
Show notes
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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. 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.
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