446: ‘Food and Beverage Director’, With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
Apple Newsroom:
“Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO”.
“Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer”.
MG, at Spyglass:
“A Cook’s Tour”.
“John Ternus’s Magic Show”.
Yours truly:
“Another Day Has Come”.
“Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition”.
“The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous”.
Steven Levy:
“Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (paywall-busting Apple News+ link).
2008: “Joe Nocera Gets a Call From Steve Jobs”.
2010, regarding Mark Papermaster, whom Steve Jobs fired just weeks after the iPhone 4 antennagate press conference: “Papermaster and That Damn Antenna.”
“Look at how many blueberries your muffin has, and how many mine has. Yours is falling apart. I have nothing.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.
Links:
Daring Fireball posts:
Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Gurman: Tim Cook Has Put Mike Rockwell in Charge of Siri, Reporting to Craig Federighi
A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting
Posts from MG at Spyglass, which you should subscribe to:
Apple Joins the Navy
Siri’s Quixotic Swim to Hawaii
The Siri Shuffle
MG’s March 2011 scoop at TechCrunch, “Legends of the Fall, Apple Style”, which correctly called the iPhone 4S moving from an annual June ship date to the fall (where it’s remained ever since), and the first suggestion that “Siri”, a startup Apple had acquired the year before, would be a big part of iOS 5.
AI labs that might, maybe, be acquisition targets for Apple:
Anthropic (Claude)
Perplexity
Mistral
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (easily the best / most confident website of the bunch)
Thinking Machines (their website wishes it were SSI’s)
Steve Jobs, taking Q&A at WWDC 1997: “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try and sell it.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
(Bonus) The Rise And Fall Of Blockbuster Video
Why was Blockbuster so successful? Was it the DVD that killed Blockbuster? What was the deal with late fees? Is there any way Blockbuster, not Netflix, could have won out in the end?
Special guest: Venture Capitalist and Writer MG Siegler!
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400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler
Special guest M.G. Siegler returns to the show to talk about the new iPad Pros, the iPadOS/MacOS functional gulf, the OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson controversy, and M.G.'s new blog [Spyglass](https://spyglass.org/).
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Links:
+ [Spyglass](https://spyglass.org/), M.G.'s excellent new blog.
+ "[The Problem is Safari for iPad](https://spyglass.org/ipados-safari/)"
+ "[Microsoft Kicks x86 to the Curb](https://spyglass.org/microsoft-knifes-intel/)"
+ "[Who Is She in 'Her'?](https://spyglass.org/samantha-sky-scarlett-ai-voice/)"
+ On letting iPads run MacOS, somehow: "[These Are Not Two Separate Devices...](https://spyglass.org/the-ipad-pro-macos/)"
+ "[Ovation Inflation](https://spyglass.org/ovation-inflation-at-cannes/)"
+ [Yours truly's review of the new iPad Pro, Magic Keyboard, and Pencil Pro](https://daringfireball.net/2024/05/the_m4_ipad_pros).
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*This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.*
321: ‘Just a Standard Bird’, With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about last week’s surprise announcement from Apple settling a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. App Store developers, and the various reactions to it. Also, a bit on App Store payment processing, and some speculation on who might succeed Tim Cook.
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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.)
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.
298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.
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Links:
MG on Apple Watch Series 6, and why he swapped Graphite stainless steel for blue aluminum.
MG on App Clips and the Clip demo of the game Phoenix 2.
“Apple, Influence, and Ive” — Ben Clymer’s 2018 profile of Jony Ive for Hodinkee.
The seminal 2018 town hall meeting led by John Stankey, the longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO, that foreshadowed HBO’s decline.
Christopher Nolan’s work on the 2018 50th anniversary “unrestored” print of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Nolan’s ill-advised decision to force Tenet into theaters amidst the COVID pandemic.
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — perhaps the best film in a great series, directed by Brad Bird.
Cary Joji Fukunaga — director of the astounding first season of True Detective and the upcoming No Time to Die James Bond film.
Michael Clayton — quietly great movie by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney.
DisneyQuest, the aborted urban entertainment center in Philly that Disney never built in the late 1990s.
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. — 1948 Supreme Court antitrust case that resulted in movie studios being banned from owning theaters.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
250: ‘A Couple of Awkward Swipes’ With MG Siegler
Very special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s original content strategy and a general look at the state of the company.
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Links
500ish Words — MG’s blog.
Oprah Winfrey talks Apple with The Hollywood Reporter.
SteelSeries Nimbus game controller for Apple TV ($50).
“Talk the Thrones” — The Ringer’s post-Game of Thrones livecast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Do I Want A Foldable Phone? With MG Siegler
You know MG Siegler. Once upon a time, he was one of the most prominent tech journalists in the land, when he wrote for TechCrunch. Now-a-days he is a prominent venture capitalist at GV. But he still likes to talk about gadgets. Maybe you’ve heard him do so on Gruber’s podcast. Today’s bonus episode is nothing sophisticated, no deep-dive level of journalism… it’s just two dudes looking at the recent slate of foldable phones and deciding if we want one.
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187: ‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’ With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics includes Virgin America's sad fate as a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros, "doing work" on an iPad Pro, Walt Mossberg, the absurd bloat of iOS apps, Clips, Netflix and Amazon's spending on video, and more.
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Links:
MG: The Great Laptop Stagnation.
MG: Death of a Virgin.
MG: The Squid.
Columbia Journalism Review's interview with Walt Mossberg.
Mark Gurman's new weekly video show for Bloomberg.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
Special guest MG Siegler returns to the show. (Finally.) Topics include rumors of an upcoming Siri SDK and an Amazon Echo-like device from Apple, the future of the MacBook lineup, Peter Thiel's secretive role as the financial backer of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, and my hatred of Roman numerals.
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Links:
500ish Words -- the new home for MG's writing.
Why do movie studios use Roman numerals for the copyright year in end credits?
Felix Salmon on the strategy behind Peter Thiel's heretofore secret campaign to bankrupt Gawker.
9to5Mac on purported upcoming MacBook Pros that replace the function keys with an LED touchscreen.
The Optimus Popularis -- a humongous $1500 keyboard where each key cap is a small LED.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
109: ‘How Many Keys?’ With Guest MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show, reporting from London. Topics include last week’s blockbuster earnings report from Apple, the increasingly imminent Apple Watch, phone display sizes, the impact of China on sales, rethinking the intended purpose and success of the iPhone 5C, speculation on Apple’s 2015 product roadmap, and whether Bluetooth is the future for mass market earbuds and headphones.
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Links:
Red Obsession: Interesting 2011 documentary on the wine industry and China’s growing role in it. Currently available for streaming on Netflix.
MG Siegler on the iPhone 5C back in April 2014: “The iPhone 5C Billboard Assault”.
Apple’s outstanding Q1 2015 results.
Samsung’s not-so-good results.