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389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera

Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.




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388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.




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387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky

Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide, Spectre, and Orion) and speculate about next week’s “Scary Fast” Apple event.




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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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385: ‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.




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384: ‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons

Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro, and his enthusiasm for the future of spatial computing.




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383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestent on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.




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382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and our favorite features in iOS 17 now that it’s in public beta.




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381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.




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380: ‘The M Is for Magnificent’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.




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379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig

Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along with highlights from WWDC 2023.




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378: ‘Live From WWDC 2023’, With John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Back in San Jose's historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2023.




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377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English

Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon and Mac gaming, and Apple’s seemingly imminent XR headset. And definitely *not* to talk about *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker*.




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376: ‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri

Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show to talk about email, Mac apps, and indie software development.




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375: ‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell

Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM's dumb decision to drop CarPlay.




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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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373: ‘This Guy Reads a Lot Better’, With Quinn Nelson

Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple’s rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.




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372: ‘$8 Billion in Late Fees’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss generative AI (and what Apple might soon do with it), iPhone passcodes and iCloud device security, HBO Max turning into just plain Max, and *Make Something Wonderful* — one more thing from Steve Jobs.




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371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.




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370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.




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369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new HomePod 2; and our favorite electric vehicle maker. Also: coffee.




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368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren

Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.




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367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.




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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.




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365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act) and Apple’s 2022 year in review.




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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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363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell to score Taylor Swift tickets.




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362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash

Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.




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361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci

Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in the App Store.




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360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.




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359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).




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358: ‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba’s 20th anniversary.




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357: ‘Fluent Cupertinoese’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.




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356: ‘An Unranted Rant’, With Rosemary Orchard

Special guest Rosemary Orchard joins the show to talk about her new book, “Take Control of Shortcuts”, and the state of automation on iOS and MacOS.




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355: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include a serious discussion about CSAM detection at major cloud storage providers and messaging services. Also, a deep dive regarding the new iOS-UI-style rewrite of System Settings on the still-in-beta MacOS 13 Ventura, and thoughts on SwiftUI in general.




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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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353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber

Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.




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352: ‘I’ve Kissed That Mouse’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.




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351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID and Touch ID, passkeys, and more.




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350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).




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349: ‘Live From WWDC 2022’, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2022, in front of a live audience at the new Apple Developer Center at Apple Park.




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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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347: ‘After Steve’, With Tripp Mickle

Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, *After Steve*, reporting on the last decade at Apple.




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346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage

Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.




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345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display's camera (and this week's beta firmware update to tweak its quality), how things have gone two years into Flexibits' move to subscription pricing for Fantastical and Cardhop, and Panic's now-shipping Playdate.




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344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk’s impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple’s credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn’s new (and much-needed) book, “Take Control of Untangling Connections”.




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343: ‘Fussy Typography Improvements’, With Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about Friday Night Baseball, Rogue Amoeba’s new Audio Hijack 4 release, and a bit of speculation on WWDC.




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342: ‘Doggy Lake’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new Mac Studio and Studio Display.




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341: ‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss

Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.




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340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee

Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.