The Talk Show With John Gruber
Episodes
143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann
24 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include Winter Storm Jonas, the politics of sick kids, sweating out a fever, people going insane over the rumo...
142: ‘They Sherlocked F.lux’ With Dan Frommer
14 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show to deliver his first-hand report from last week’s CES in Las Vegas. Other topics include Periscope, Pe...
141: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More
01 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A brief holiday chat about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
140: ‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’ With Rene Ritchie
30 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look back at the Apple year that was: the new one-port MacBook, Apple Watch's launch, WWDC and Apple Music, the...
139: ‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’ With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa
15 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi joins the show for a wide-ranging half-hour discussion about Swift -- Apple's new ...
138: ‘I’ve Been Using Mine More in Bed’ With Joanna Stern
08 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the iPad Pro, Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, what's going on with Yahoo (spoiler: not much...
137: ‘Peak Rumor Season’ With John Moltz
01 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss rumors that the iPhone 7 might not have a standard headphone jack and that Apple is working on...
136: ‘Fully Charged Pencil’ With Jason Snell
21 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to talk about iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, how iOS still feels like *iPhone OS* at a fundamental level, and Don No...
135: ‘Put a Nipple on It’ With Adam Lisagor
07 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the new Apple TV (why we both love it, despite several 1.0 flaws), 4K video, 3D movies,...
134: ‘Field Sobriety Test’ With Guy English
31 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV.
133: ‘The MacGuffin Tractor’ With Serenity Caldwell
17 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include this week’s new iMacs; the new “Magic” mouse, trackpad, and keyboard; an overview of Apple...
132: ‘Peace, Porn, and Privacy’ With Guest Marco Arment
03 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Arment joins the show for a brief chat on ad blockers, advertising in general, and the new iPhones 6S.
131: ‘If Only the Death Star Had That’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
18 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rene Ritchie joins the show to discuss last week's blockbuster Apple Event and the products that were announced: Apple Watch updates, the iPad Pro (an...
130: ‘A Full Canseco’ With Guest John Moltz
08 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest John Moltz is back. Topics include Google’s new logo, the Tacoma Tahomas, and our speculation regarding what to expect at this week’...
129: ‘90 Minutes or Bust’ With Guest Ben Thompson
29 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include: our top complaints about Apple Watch, Apple making a car, the New York Times's profile...
128: ‘Did You Ever Take a Photograph?’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
09 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether the...
127: ‘A Sack Full of Plucked Feathers’ With Guest John Moltz
30 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include bluetooth headphones, Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library, phone sizes (including specul...
126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell
21 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Snell returns to the show, with a lot to talk about: Pebble's new Pebble Time smartwatch, the "Safari is the New IE" argument, the state of web ...
125: ‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’ With Guest Horace Dediu
28 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Horace Dediu joins The Talk Show for the first time. Topics include the state of the maps industry, Apple's functional organizational st...
124: ‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’ With Guest Guy English
20 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Guy English returns to the show, and we make a valiant but failed effort to cover all of the technical/developer news from last week’s WWDC. Among t...
123: Live From WWDC 2015 With Guest Phil Schiller
10 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in front of a live audience at Mezzanine in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.11 E...
122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
07 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.
121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
01 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics includes Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer and the implications for Apple; the dif...
120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer
23 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include David Letterman, iPhone docks, the space black steel Apple Watch, whatever happened to t...
119: ‘Workin’ in Pajamas’ With Guest David Sparks
16 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo S...
118: ‘Sloppy on the Side’ With Guest Adam Lisagor
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest and longtime friend Adam Lisagor returns to the show. I don’t know anyone who’s more excited about Apple Watch than Adam, except, ma...
117: ‘I Touched Ron Johnson’ With Guest John Moltz
01 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Gruber’s retina, Apple Watch backorders and the watch itself, news from Microsoft’s Build conferenc...
116: ‘Browser Pooped on the Wee-Wee Pad’ With Guest Joanna Stern
16 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal joins the show to talk about Apple Watch and the new MacBook (and her reviews thereof).
115: ‘Turd on the Front Porch’ With Guest Ben Thompson
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Ben Thompson returns, with the intention of not talking about Apple Watch — and so of course we spend two hours talking about Apple Wa...
114: ‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’ With Guest Serenity Caldwell
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Serenity Caldwell joins the show. Topics include last week’s “Spring Forward” Apple media event; the new Force Touch Trackpad for ...
113: ‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’ With Guest Matthew Panzarino
13 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about this week’s “Spring Forward” Apple media event, for the new MacBook and Apple Watch...
112: ‘Retina Quality’ With Guest Paul Kafasis
05 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include the new Pebble Time watch, the imminent arrival of Apple Watch, Paul’s clever new doo...
111: ‘12 Hours a Day’ With Guest John Moltz
24 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch; rumors that Apple is working on a secret car project; our love of old Mac ha...
110: ‘Rats in the Lobby’ With Guest Merlin Mann
13 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.
109: ‘How Many Keys?’ With Guest MG Siegler
05 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
MG Siegler returns to the show, reporting from London. Topics include last week’s blockbuster earnings report from Apple, the increasingly imminent ...
108: ‘Malaprops’ With Guest Ben Thompson
24 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include Apple’s pseudo “sabbaticals” (employees who leave the company but then return after a year or two); Google’s cultural similarit...
107: ‘Now It’s All Floppy’ With Guest Marco Arment
13 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include microphones; Marco’s much-publicized article last week on Apple’s seemingly declini...
106: ‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’ With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English
01 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.
105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell
31 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show for a year-end extravaganza. Topics include Jason’s first three months writing (and podcasting) as an indie...
104: ‘2014 Year in Review’ With Guest Rene Ritchie
27 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a special Apple 2014 year-in-review episode. Just a few of the many topics covered: Apple’s Beats...
103: ‘Robotitize the Assembly’ With Guest Dan Frommer
17 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Dan Frommer joins the show to talk about prop bets in Vegas, more *Star Wars*, some follow-up on James Bond, what Apple should do with i...
102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus
06 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Dave Wiskus joins the show to talk about the new teaser trailer for *Star Wars: The Force Awakens*, and just-announced title and cast fo...
101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan
25 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Christa Mrgan joins the show to talk about Yosemite UI design, Apple TV’s aesthetics (and its shitty IR remote control), Apple Watch s...
100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz
15 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Who else but very special guest John Moltz to ring in The Talk Show’s centurial episode. Topics include iPhone display sizes (and in particular, our...
XCIX: ‘The Smoker Channels’ With Merlin Mann
08 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man (no relation) and his showboatin...
98: ‘Far Less Eloquent as You’ With John Siracusa
25 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest John Siracusa returns to the show to discuss last week’s Apple event (introducing the iPad Air 2), and OS X Yosemite (and his review t...
97: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English
10 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Guy English returns to the show to talk about iOS 8 quality concerns, and whether Apple’s annual software cycle is stretching the comp...
96: ‘The Edition Edition’ With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson
28 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Ben Thompson joins the show for an Apple Watch discussion: what it’ll cost, what it’ll do, how it will be sold, and more. Other topi...
95: ‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’ With Rene Ritchie
20 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest: Rene Ritchie. Topics: What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
94: ‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’ With Jason Snell
08 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show on the cusp of Apple’s September 9 event, where the company will purportedly introduce two new iPhones and ...
93: ‘Toner-Perfect Design’ With Craig Hockenberry
29 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Speculation on the purportedly-imminent new 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones, and the rise of adaptive user interface layout and design on iOS. @3x, here we...
92: ‘That New Laptop Smell’ With Joanna Stern
22 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include Joanna’s recent review of over 20 laptops; the HTC One M8 for Windows Phone; why Windows Phone is still struggling to gain traction; ...
91: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer
12 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include speculation — seriously, just speculation — on Apple’s purported upcoming wrist wearable thing, Apple’s fall event schedule, po...
90: ‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’ With John Moltz
28 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include Apple's quarterly results, how much Apple's cable and peripheral prices contribute to the popular conception that their products are "e...
89: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 2)
20 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programmin...
88: ‘Cat Pictures’ With Marco Arment (Side 1)
20 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programmin...
87: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson
12 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include Samsung getting pinched from Apple on the high end and Xiaomi (at least in China) on the low end, Android and the importance of softwar...
86: ‘Diddling Your Feeds’ With Dave Wiskus
01 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include the new look and feel in OS X Yosemite (10.10), Google’s new “Material Design” look and feel for Android, smartwatches (including...
85: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis
26 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Topics include the ongoing World Cup and the sport of soccer, Google Glass, mockups of devices in rumor reports, Amazon's Fire Phone, the New York Tim...
84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English
17 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largel...
83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson
07 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in front of a live audience of 500 people on Tuesday, 2 June 2014 at Mezzanine in San Francisco. John Gruber is joined by the ATP trio — Ma...
82: ‘We're Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It's a Podcast’ With Dan Frommer
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include Dan’s new gig as senior tech editor at Quartz, tablets as a form factor for full-featured PCs (and the now...
81: ‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’ With John Moltz
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest John Moltz joins the show for a discussion regarding Apple's still-only-rumored acquisition of Beats, WWDC rumors, the ringer switch on ...