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

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




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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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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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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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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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390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.




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391: ‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa

Special holiday guest: John Siracusa. Special holiday topics: the Apple/Masimo patent dispute over the blood oxygen sensors in Apple Watches, the ongoing Beeper Mini/iMessage saga, iOS 17.3’s upcoming Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple’s new Journal app. Also, an ode to big-ass tower desktops.




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392: ‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss

Apple’s 2023 year in review, with Casey Liss.




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393: ‘An Asterisk on the Bento Box’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include the Apple-Masimo patent dispute over Apple Watch blood oxygen sensors, the new External Payment Links entitlement for the App Store, and more.




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395: ‘I’m a Real-World Man’, With Adam Lisagor

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.




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397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.




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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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399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci

Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.




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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.




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401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.




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402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.




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403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson

Quinn Nelson, renowned host of [Snazzy Labs](https://www.youtube.com/@snazzy), returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.




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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.