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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• Federico's "MacPad" -- the "hybrid mac-ipad laptop and tablet that apple won’t make".
• Samsung DeX -- use your phone as a desktop computer.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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.

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

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Links:

• Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction”.
• Yours truly:
  • “The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue”.
  • “European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta”.
• Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
  • “Thoughts on Music”.
  • “Thoughts on Flash”.
• Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022.
• Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging.
• ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline”.
• Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter.
  • Calcaterra’s breakdown of the Ohtani gambling scandal.
• The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.

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Links:

• Weather Up.
  • On the App Store.
  • Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.
• RevenueCat.
• Sub Club Podcast.
• “How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.
• Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).
• March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
  • Apple Newsroom post.
• WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
  • Apple Newsroom post.
• Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.
• Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.
• Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.
• City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
• Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.
• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
• David, in a blog post from 2011: "Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products".
• David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta's average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple's €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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

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Links:

• My review of Vision Pro.
• My follow-up: "Simple Tricks and Nonsense".
• Sandwich.
• Newton Connection Kit.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter The Obsessor -- returns to the show to talk about -- what else? -- the Vision Pro.

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Links:

• My review of the Vision Pro.
• Techmeme's roundup of reviews.
• The Obsessor.
• TipTop.
• The Atari 400, with the most craptacular keyboard I've ever used.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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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Links:

• "Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps".
• "Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand".
• "Apple’s Workaround for the ITC’s Import Ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2: Disabling the Blood-Oxygen Sensor in Software".
• "Masimo CEO on Apple Watch Blood-Oxygen Sensor: ‘I Really Feel Wholeheartedly That Consumers Are Better Off Without It’".
• "More on Apple’s Software Workaround for the Apple Watch Import Ban".

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• TMDB: The Movie Database.
• IMDB.
• Callsheet:
  • Announcement.
  • App Store.
• Apple: “Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone”.
• “Capture” button.
• Tyler Stalman:
  • Deconstructing Apple’s “shot on iPhone” keynote.
  • The Stalman Clamp, a hardware clamp for shooting vertical iPhone video.
• “Das Boot”, Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 submarine masterpiece.
  • The 6-episode expanded version for German TV in 1985.
• Multi-plane cameras — pioneering method used in early Disney films to produce a sense of depth and parallax.
• Kotoba: “The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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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Links:

• Derek Sivers: “Ideas are just a multiplier of execution”.
• Imran Chaudhri’s humble home page.
• The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1 for the good of the world — yet insulin remains expensive in the U.S.
• Destiny’s BEAVER/FLATWORM/LEOPARD errors.
• Twelve South’s new ButterFly 2-in-1 MagSafe Charger.
• NZXT gaming PCs.
• Power Macintosh 9600/350.
• Apple’s new Journal app:
  • Apple Newsroom announcement — gives a good overview.
  • The current HIG chapter on progress indicators.
  • Sebastian Ferrari on the use of “floating action buttons” in iOS, including the handful of spots prior to Journal where Apple has used them.
• Accidental Tech Podcast: A Siracusa podcast I always listen to.
• Reconcilable Differences: A Siracusa podcast I sometimes listen to.
• Robot or Not: A Siracusa podcast I’ve never listened to but probably should.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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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Links:

• Barack Fucking Obama on Decoder.
• Matthew Panzarino on Decoder.
• Sports Illustrated’s phony AI writers.
• Horace Dediu back in 2011: “The Cook Doctrine”.
• Searching YouTube for “LG vs. GE refrigerators”.
• Nilay’s Pulitzer-nominated investigation into how many wiper blades are on the Tesla Cybertruck.
• Doug DeMuro’s car-review YouTube channel.
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC.
• Steve Jobs on how most professional managers are bozos.
• Nilay’s AI-written article: “Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine”.
• Amanda Chicago Lewis’s crackerjack feature story at The Verge on SEO “experts”: “The People Who Ruined the Internet”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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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Links:

• Techmeme.
  • Techmeme News -- the company blog.
• Mediagazer -- Techmeme's sibling site focused on media news.
• Memeorandum -- Political news, auto-aggregated.
• Gabe, on Threads, advocating for a much-needed posting API.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.