The Talk Show

‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.

‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman

Monday, 7 October 2024

Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.

‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell

Monday, 30 September 2024

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost.

‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel

Thursday, 26 September 2024

Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.

‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard

Saturday, 31 August 2024

Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.

‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple’s DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.

‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren

Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Christina Warren (a.k.a. “Mary Brown”) returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.

‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas

Sunday, 28 July 2024

Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike fiasco, and the closing of the iconic Mirage resort in Las Vegas.

‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz

Sunday, 30 June 2024

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.

‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Quinn Nelson, renowned host of Snazzy Labs, 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.

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

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

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.

‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry

Friday, 31 May 2024

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.

‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler

Friday, 24 May 2024

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.

‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci

Monday, 29 April 2024

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

‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz

Saturday, 30 March 2024

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.

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

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

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

‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard

Thursday, 29 February 2024

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.

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

Monday, 12 February 2024

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

‘An Impossible Balcony’, With Matthew Panzarino

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

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

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

Thursday, 25 January 2024

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.

‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss

Sunday, 31 December 2023

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

‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa

Saturday, 23 December 2023

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.

‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel

Thursday, 30 November 2023

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.

‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

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

‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren

Tuesday, 31 October 2023

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

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

Friday, 27 October 2023

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.

‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz

Saturday, 30 September 2023

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.

‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 28 September 2023

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

‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons

Thursday, 31 August 2023

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.

‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell

Tuesday, 29 August 2023

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

‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry

Monday, 31 July 2023

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.

‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

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

‘The M Is for Magnificent’, With Matthew Panzarino

Friday, 30 June 2023

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

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

Saturday, 17 June 2023

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.

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

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

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.

‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

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.

‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri

Monday, 29 May 2023

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.

‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

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.

‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz

Sunday, 30 April 2023

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.

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

Wednesday, 26 April 2023

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

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

Friday, 21 April 2023

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.

‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut

Friday, 31 March 2023

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

‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke

Saturday, 11 March 2023

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

‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

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.

‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

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

‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

Thursday, 19 January 2023

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.

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

Saturday, 31 December 2022

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.

‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 22 December 2022

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.

‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

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.

‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren

Wednesday, 23 November 2022

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.

‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash

Friday, 18 November 2022

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.

‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci

Monday, 31 October 2022

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.

‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell

Tuesday, 25 October 2022

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

‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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

‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis

Friday, 30 September 2022

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

‘Fluent Cupertinoese’, With Nilay Patel

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

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

‘An Unranted Rant’, With Rosemary Orchard

Wednesday, 31 August 2022

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.

‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut

Friday, 26 August 2022

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.

‘Get Me to the Fainting Couch’, With John Moltz

Wednesday, 17 August 2022

Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other stages.

‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber

Sunday, 31 July 2022

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.

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

Monday, 25 July 2022

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

‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 30 June 2022

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.

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

Monday, 27 June 2022

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).

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

Tuesday, 7 June 2022

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.

‘Joe Biden’s Gum’’, With John Moltz

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.

‘After Steve’, With Tripp Mickle

Sunday, 15 May 2022

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

‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage

Monday, 9 May 2022

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

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

Saturday, 30 April 2022

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.

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

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

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.

‘Fussy Typography Improvements’, With Paul Kafasis

Friday, 15 April 2022

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.

‘Doggy Lake’, With Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 31 March 2022

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

‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss

Saturday, 26 March 2022

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

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

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

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

‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda

Monday, 28 February 2022

Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.

‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie

Friday, 25 February 2022

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.

‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell

Monday, 14 February 2022

Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.

‘He Looked Like a Fred’, With John Moltz

Monday, 31 January 2022

Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Apple’s record-breaking but somehow yawn-inducing quarterly results, new features in the upcoming releases of MacOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4, the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify saga, and more.

‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the Heat, and the state of streaming video services.

‘High-Margin Candy Bar’, With Dieter Bohn

Saturday, 8 January 2022

Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about his excellent new documentary, Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone — a history of Handspring and the creators of the original PalmPilot.

‘Schrödinger’s Feature’, With Rene Ritchie

Friday, 31 December 2021

Apple’s 2021 year in review, with special guest Rene Ritchie.

‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern

Thursday, 23 December 2021

Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new iCloud “legacy contact” feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.

‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann

Saturday, 11 December 2021

Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.

‘Headline Goes Here’, With Jim Dalrymple

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to discuss the past and future of Apple-centric reporting.

‘The Scotland Board of Tourism’, With David Smith

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Special guest David Smith returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch Series 7 and the state of WatchOS, Apple suing NSO Group, and more.

‘The Warden’s Dilemma’, With Ben Thompson

Saturday, 13 November 2021

Dithering CEO Ben Thompson returns to the show to go deep on the concept of the metaverse.

‘Giddy With Mac-Ness’, With Daniel Jalkut

Sunday, 31 October 2021

Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros.

‘A Very Large Nap’, With John Moltz

Friday, 29 October 2021

Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to discuss the products Apple has released this week.

‘The Negative Version of Icing on the Cake’, With Nilay Patel

Saturday, 16 October 2021

Special guest: Nilay Patel. Special topics: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, kids today and the file system, the Lightning / USB-C debate, and, of course, our speculation about next week’s “Unleashed” Apple event.

‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’, With Jason Snell

Thursday, 30 September 2021

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media day from Basketball Digest’s best NBA reporter.

‘Skeptical Not Cynical’, With Matthew Panzarino

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13 and their camera systems.

‘It Was More Arial Than Helvetica’, With Rene Ritchie

Saturday, 18 September 2021

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a recap of this week’s “California Streaming” Apple Event: the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and new iPads. Also, last week’s decision in the Apple v. Epic lawsuit.

‘Just a Standard Bird’, With MG Siegler

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

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.

‘Paper Floor Mats’, With Christina Warren

Monday, 23 August 2021

Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s controversial child safety initiatives, the tumultuous summer of Safari 15 beta UI designs, and a bit more on MagSafe battery packs.

‘You Called Him Pixel Mature’, With John Moltz

Friday, 30 July 2021

Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and Loki.

‘Holes in the Blast Door’, With Matthew Panzarino

Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new MagSafe Battery Pack, the Amnesty-International-Led exposé of NSO Group’s state-sponsored phone hacking, Safari 15’s controversial new UI and Apple’s response, and a look back at year one of Apple silicon for Macs. Also: pizza.

‘The NOC List’, With Rene Ritchie

Sunday, 27 June 2021

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the nuances of sideloading, Apple’s antitrust pressures, and a look back at the announcements from WWDC 2021.

Remote From WWDC 2021 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Friday, 11 June 2021

Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2021: the all-new multitasking interface in iPadOS 15, on-device Siri, new privacy controls in Safari and Mail, MacOS 12 Monterey, and more.

‘I Don’t Know How to Read’, With Joanna Stern

Saturday, 29 May 2021

Special guest: the one and only Joanna Stern. Topics: new iMacs, Touch ID vs. Face ID, remote controls, surveillance advertising, and people who want to make everything a video call when a good old-fashioned voice call would do.

‘Obviously Tier One’, With Marco Arment

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)

‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman

Friday, 30 April 2021

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.

‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod

Sunday, 11 April 2021

Craig Mod joins the show to talk about writing, designing, filmmaking, what makes for good software, and building a successful membership program to support independent art. And: pizza toast.

‘Toaster Fridgey’, With Rene Ritchie

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to speculate about pending Apple product announcements and events. Lots of guessing, no wagering.

‘Russian Nesting Doll Code’, With Jason Snell

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, Apple TV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign.

‘Pinkies on the Semicolon’, With John Siracusa

Saturday, 27 February 2021

The state of the Mac, with special guest John Siracusa.

‘Peak Hubris’, With Christina Warren

Friday, 19 February 2021

Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about Apple Car, Apple TV, Clubhouse, and Bloomberg hamfistedly revisiting “The Big Hack”.

‘Soviet Toilet Paper’, With John Moltz

Sunday, 31 January 2021

John Moltz returns to the show to give stock market investment advice.

‘A Total Landscaping’, With Mike Monteiro

Saturday, 16 January 2021

Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, The Collected Angers.

‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa

Thursday, 31 December 2020

As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about Star Wars: The Mandalorian, with a cavalcade of special guests, including, but not necessarily limited to, Guy English and John Siracusa.

‘2020 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 24 December 2020

A look back at one hell of a year.

‘Half of the Bikini Emoji’, With Matthew Panzarino

Friday, 11 December 2020

Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about Apple’s new AirPods Max headphones and the future of the Mac on Apple Silicon.

‘Camera Beer Belly’, With Nilay Patel

Monday, 30 November 2020

Nilay Patel returns to the show and we have nothing to talk about. You know, other than the M1 Macs and entire iPhone 12 lineup.

‘A Craptastic Craptacular’, With Joanna Stern

Monday, 23 November 2020

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new M1 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.

‘Holiday Party 2020’, With Merlin Mann

Saturday, 7 November 2020

Another election. A different result. Let’s talk around it.

‘Sounds Like a Good Red Sauce Place’, With Jason Snell

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS.

‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With MG Siegler

Friday, 9 October 2020

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.

‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’, With David Smith

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Special guest “Underscore” David Smith joins the show to talk about iOS 14 widgets, WatchOS complications, sleep tracking, and his App Store chart-topping hit Widgetsmith.

‘Cameras Every Single Where’, With Michael Simmons

Saturday, 26 September 2020

Special guest Michael Simmons joins the show. Topics include the release of iOS 14, widgets and home screen customization, pricing models for indie apps in the App Store era, and, of course, flying robot cameras.

‘Signing Up to Take Some Vitamins’, With Peter Kafka

Thursday, 17 September 2020

Peter Kafka returns to the show to discuss the news from Apple’s “Time Flies” event — new Apple Watches, new non-Pro iPads, and particularly the Apple One services bundle.

‘DOS Rot’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Monday, 31 August 2020

John Moltz returns to the show. Poodles are great dogs. Windows stinks worse than ever. Everyone should watch Ted Lasso.

‘I’m More of a Porkins Guy’, With Anil Dash

Thursday, 27 August 2020

Special guest Anil Dash joins the show. Topics include the 25th anniversary of Windows 95, and the parallels between the cyber era of computing and today’s App Store controversies.

‘Not the Batman We Want or Need’, With Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 20 August 2020

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Phil Schiller advancing to Apple Fellow, Microsoft’s simmering spat with Apple over Xbox Game Pass and the App Store’s ban on game streaming services, and Epic’s sizzling spat with Apple over, well, the entire concept of iOS as we know it.

‘Algorithms, How Do They Work?’, With Nilay Patel

Friday, 31 July 2020

Nilay Patel returns to the show to discuss this week’s House antitrust hearing featuring testimony from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg.

‘The Least Worst’, With Special Guest Christina Warren

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special guest Christina Warren joins the show. Topics include the App Store and antitrust, the general crumminess of video streaming service UIs, and historical examples of when Apple gets something wrong.

‘I’m Batman. America. Freedom.’ With Special Guest Adam Lisagor

Thursday, 23 July 2020

Adam Lisagor returns to the show. Topics include the cinematic and presentation style of Apple’s WWDC keynote, some post-production details on The Talk Show’s WWDC episode, the tribulations of producing professional videos during COVID-19, and the new sounds of MacOS 11 Big Sur.

‘It Shouldn’t Be Hard to Get a Smoothie’, With Special Guest Dan Frommer

Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Dan Frommer returns to the show for more analysis of WWDC 2020, including App Clips and the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon.

‘Patina of Usefulness’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Friday, 26 June 2020

Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show to talk about WWDC 2020.

Remote From WWDC 2020 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2020: the Mac’s transition to Apple Silicon, MacOS 11 Big Sur, iOS and iPadOS 14, and more.

‘Fahrenheit Truthers’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Friday, 22 May 2020

Ben Thompson returns to the show and there’s no sports talk because there’s no sports. Instead: temperature scales, Joe Rogan and Spotify, and Dithering.

‘30 Years of TidBITS’, With Special Guest Adam Engst

Friday, 8 May 2020

Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS — the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.

‘Some Kind of Sandwich’, With Special Guest Dieter Bohn

Thursday, 30 April 2020

Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.

‘Everybody Is an Expert’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing.

‘A Kryptonian Baby’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about going independent after 11 years at iMore. Topics include the new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and we answer questions sent by listeners.

‘The Subtle Difference Between Hand Sanitizer and Vodka’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include the brand new MacBook Air and iPad Pros, and, you know, global pandemics in the internet age.

‘Chain of Precision’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Jason Snell returns to the show. Life during the COVID-19 pandemic, WWDC going online-only, Apple’s in-person on-campus workplace culture, speculation on upcoming Apple product releases, and more.

‘Dot Net Party’, With Special Guest Federico Viticci

Saturday, 29 February 2020

First-time guest Federico Viticci joins the show. Topics include how the coronavirus outbreak might affect WWDC, speculation on a possible March Apple event, the state of iPad keyboard (and trackpad) support, and iPadOS multitasking.

‘Polish Stink Eye’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:05:34 EDT

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Larry Tesler and his “no modes” mantra for UI design, the state of malware on the Mac, third-party default apps on iOS, Apple and the coronavirus outbreak, and a record number of tips and tricks.

‘Bring It On, Haters’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Friday, 31 January 2020

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPad, and pay tribute to Kobe Bryant and Clayton Christensen.

‘Fake Faces’, With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman

Thursday, 23 January 2020

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include iPhone encryption, the privacy implications of widely-available reverse image search for faces, deep-learning-powered algorithmically-generated faces, and Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.

‘Sport Mode’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Friday, 17 January 2020

Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the renewal of U.S. law enforcement officials’ disingenuous campaign against iPhone encryption, the Houston Astros cheating scandal, how that cheating scandal relates to the Trump impeachment saga, and Catalyst and the art of Mac software design. But mostly we talk about finding a good pair of slippers.

‘My Cousin Hans’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Tuesday 31 December 2019

It’s the last show of the decade. Special guest: Rene Ritchie.

‘The Save Twitch’, With Special Guest Rich Siegel

Tuesday, 24 December 2019

For your holiday listening enjoyment, very special guest Rich Siegel joins the show to talk about BBEdit’s past, present, and future, the state of developing for the Mac, and more.

‘A Perfect Wheel’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show for a brief chat about the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, which are both — dare I say — finally available for ordering. Also: Ming Chi Kuo’s intriguing rumors on the 2020 and 2021 iPhone lineups.

‘Talking About Crimes’, With Special Guest Matthew Yglesias

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Very special guest Matthew Yglesias joins the show to talk about Tim Cook cozying up to Trump for tariff relief and more.

‘Maximally Thin’, With Special Guest Casey Johnston

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Very special guest Casey Johnston joins the show to talk about the butterfly MacBook keyboard saga and the just-released 16-inch MacBook Pro, with its all new scissor-switch keyboard design.

‘With Ham I’d Be Better’, With Special Guest Dave Mark

Thursday, 31 October 2019

Special guest Dave Mark joins the show for a discussion mostly about AirPods Pro and partly about the 2019 World Series.

‘Just the Tips’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the just-released AirPods Pro (and the pluralization thereof), the history of remote controls, the impending launch of Apple TV+, and the undisputed highlight of the 2019 World Series.

‘iPhone-Colored Glasses’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Google’s new Pixel 4 phones, Apple’s travails in Hong Kong and China, whether there will be another Apple event this year, and MacOS 10.15 Catalina.

‘Thompson’s Razor’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Tuesday, 8 October 2019

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the latest Surface hardware announcements from Microsoft, the state of the iPhone, and bulk purchases of charcoal.

‘Apple Is Not a 4-Star Company’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Very special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s event earlier this month, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, iOS 13, and how we go about writing (and shooting) our product reviews.

‘The Dumbest Thing Possible’, With Special Guest Dan Frommer

Monday, 9 September 2019

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show for a preview of this week’s Apple event.

‘Freakishly Snappy’, With Special Guest Brent Simmons

Saturday, 31 August 2019

Special guest Brent Simmons returns to the show to talk about NetNewsWire 5.0, the state of the Mac, and more.

‘Contact Heineken’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include Apple Card and the latest rumors on Apple’s upcoming product announcements.

‘A Clear Eyed Look at Dishwashers’, With Special Guest John Siracusa

Saturday, 10 August 2019

Special guest John Siracusa finally returns to the show. Topics include the Siri voice recording fiasco, Siracusa’s epic Mac OS X reviews, and making good ice.

‘Start a Bakin’ Timer’, With Special Guest Marco Arment

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include MacBook Pro rumors, breakfast cereal, Siri frustrations, and more.

‘Pousse-Café’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Monday, 29 July 2019

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show for a mid-summer Q&A episode, answering actual questions from actual listeners.

‘A Beautiful Sandwich’, With Special Guest Daniel Jalkut

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Special guest Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include app notarization, nonconsensual technology (including Zoom, Dropbox, and Superhuman), and more.

‘A Bit Too Thin’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Sunday, 30 June 2019

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Jony Ive’s departure from Apple.

‘Zap the PRAM’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Tuesday, June 25 2019

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include everything announced at WWDC: SwiftUI, Catalyst, and all the new features in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and tvOS.

Live From WWDC 2019 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theater in San Jose on Tuesday, 4 June 2019, John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2019: the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, MacOS 10.15 Catalina, iOS 13, iPadOS, SwiftUI and Catalyst, and more.

‘An Italicized “Finally”’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Friday, 31 May 2019

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look at what we expect — and hope — to see from Apple at WWDC next week.

‘The Dustin Egress Problem’, With Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic From Panic

Thursday, 30 May 2019

Special guests Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic join the show to talk about Playdate, Panic’s exciting and surprising new handheld gaming system.

‘Parking Meters in a Dirt Lot’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include sleep and sleep-tracking (with Apple Watch), regional fast-casual dining, the nature of podcasting, and, of course, more.

‘A Couple of Awkward Swipes’, With Special Guest MG Siegler

Tuesday, 30 April 2019

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.

‘Better Than Nothing’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Wednesday, 24 April 2019

John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include AirPods 2, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold debacle, the trove of iOS 13 and MacOS 10.15 leaks reported by Guilherme Rambo, and the future of iTunes.

‘Equally Confused’, With Special Guest Peter Kafka

Saturday, 6 April 2019

Special guest Peter Kafka — executive editor at Recode and longtime reporter in the fields of media and technology — joins the show to discuss the announcements at last week’s “Show Time” event: Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV Channels and TV+.

‘I Have Faith in the Rice’, With Special Guest Paul Kafasis

Monday, 25 March 2019

Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include last week’s Apple product releases — new iPads, iMacs, and AirPods — and the de-Steve-ification of Wynn Las Vegas.

‘Loan It to Nien Nunb’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 19:43:49 EDT

Matthew “Hondo” Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2019, the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Apple and privacy, the Boeing 737 Max, and Disney’s upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park lands.

‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include, but are not limited to, privacy concerns with apps from the App Store, Google’s payments to Apple to keep Google Search the default in Safari, Apple’s Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple’s purported March 25 media event.

‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’, With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman

Friday, 22 February 2019

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include: rumors of new Mac hardware and Marzipan at WWDC, Samsung’s new phones unveiled at their “Unpacked” event, 5G networks, Apple’s purported foray into the credit card business, and more — including Glenn’s “Tiny Type Museum” Kickstarter project.

‘The God Awful Truth’, With Special Guest Rich Mogull

Friday, 15 February 2019

Special guest Rich Mogull joins the show. Topics cover a range of security and privacy-related issues: the Jeff Bezos/National Enquirer saga, laptop webcams, abuse of Apple’s enterprise developer program to enable sideloading of iOS apps, Amazon’s acquisition of Eero, and more.

‘The Butts Incident’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Thursday, 31 January 2019

John Moltz makes his long-awaited return to the show. Three big topics this week: the Facebook VPN app fiasco (and the company’s pattern of ethical violations), the Group FaceTime bug that allowed callers to listen to audio before the call was answered, and Apple’s quarterly results.

‘More Smarter’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the iPhone XR (and the argument that it might be the best phone in Apple’s current lineup), Apple’s new Smart Battery Cases, Apple Watch, and, of course, the new MacBook Air.

‘Drastically Shakier’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Monday, 14 January 2019

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s horrible no good very bad earnings warning, the Chinese market, Apple’s push toward services for revenue growth, antitrust issues regarding the App Store, and more.

‘Proprioceptive Lie’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Monday, 31 December 2018

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a year-in-review look back at Apple’s 2018: the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Siri and services, and more.

‘Fort Jason Sudeikis’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Monday, 24 December 2018

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include BBEdit’s 25th anniversary, the saga of Word 6 for Mac in the 1990s, Mac iOS user interface differences (including an extensive discussion of Mojave’s craptacular “Marzipan” apps, and a few varying theories on what those apps portend), Photos on Mac and iOS, and, of course, keyboards.

‘Out on Home Video’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Saturday, 15 December 2018

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include recent blockbuster movies, motion smoothing on TVs, iPhone demand rumors, Apple’s Made For iPhone (MFi) program, and more. Recorded live from The Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado.

‘A Vivid Nightmarescape’, With Special Guest Dieter Bohn

Friday, 30 November 2018

Special guest Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about Google’s new Pixel Slate Chrome OS tablet/laptop, the Pixel 3, Google’s fascinating new Night Sight camera mode, speculation on how Apple might move the Mac to ARM chips, and more.

‘Jony White’s Universe of Objective Purity’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about iPad Pro — the new Pencil, the new amazing new hardware, keyboard options, and the OS that in many ways still feels meant for a phone. Also: the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup, and a plea to Apple to please — please — make the small Magic Keyboard in space gray.

‘Welcome to Dongletropolis’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Friday, 9 November 2018

Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the new iPad Pro and the state of iOS as a work platform, the mid-term election results, and holiday parties of yore.

‘North Korean USB Fan’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Wednesday, 31 October 2018

You wanted more Moltz, you get more Moltz. Our thoughts and observations on Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the products they announced: new MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, iPad Pros, and Apple Pencil.

‘I’ll Eat My Hat’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Saturday, 27 October 2018

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week’s Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.

‘It’s a Deep Notch’, With Special Guest Dan Frommer

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.

‘Flabbergasting’, With Special Guest Nilay Patel

Monday, 24 September 2018

Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about the iPhone XS and XS Max. We got so caught up talking about cameras, we never even mention headphone jacks.

‘iPhone 🍸’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Tuesday, 4 September 2018

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a deep dive into what was revealed (and what wasn’t) by Guilherme Rambo’s release last week of product marketing images of the apparently-named iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch.

‘Smallen Up the Bezels’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Friday, 24 August 2018

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics do include mechanical keyboards, but do not — I swear — include baseball. Also: speculation on what Apple might do with the non-Pro MacBook lineup.

‘Little Q&A’

Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Answering actual questions from actual listeners.

‘Cut That Mustache With Scissors’, With Special Guest Marco Arment

Friday, 27 July 2018

Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion about the new MacBook Pro models and the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup.

‘Resources Up the Yang’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Saturday, 30 June 2018

Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the new maps coming to Apple Maps, Google’s project Duplex, and the MacBook keyboard repair program.

‘AirPower, What’s That?’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Friday, 15 June 2018

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show for a post-WWDC wrap-up discussion. Topics include iOS 12, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Apple Books, MacOS 10.14 Mojave, dark mode, UIKit apps on the Mac, and more.

Live From WWDC 2018 With Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Greg Joswiak and Mike Rockwell to discuss the news from WWDC: ARKit 2, the new USDZ file format, iOS 12, MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”, UIKit apps on MacOS, and more.

‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include MacBook keyboard failures, iOS passcode security, Google’s odd Duplex “demo”, Steam Link’s curious rejection from the App Store, AirPlay 2, and, of course, conjecture about next week’s WWDC.

‘Slathered in Incompetence’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s quarterly results, the discontinuation of Apple’s AirPort product line, and more.

‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Friday, 27 April 2018

Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Topics include the litany of problems with MacBook keyboards, speculation regarding why Apple’s AirPower multi-device charging mat still isn’t shipping, Google’s proposal to replace SMS with a new protocol that isn’t encrypted, and more.

‘Top Men’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Wednesday, 11 April 2018

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about his exclusive behind-the-scenes profile with Apple’s Pro Workflow Team and state of Apple’s professional Mac hardware and software.

‘Spending Tim Cook’s Money’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Saturday, 31 March 2018

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about Apple’s education-focused event last week in Chicago.

‘Our Name Is Our Address’, With Special Guest Jason Kottke

Saturday, 24 March 2018

Finally. Jason Kottke is on the show to talk about 20 years of writing his eponymous website.

‘Podcast Amnesia’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Friday, 9 March 2018

Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Apple and China, the 10th anniversary of the iPhone SDK, the future of the MacBook Air, and more. No baseball talk, except a little.

‘The “Press Real Hard” Era’, With Special Guest Marco Arment

Sunday, 18 February 2018

Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show for a brief discussion. Topics include Apple’s OS development strategy, HomePod and Siri, the sad state of Apple TV apps, where to get a good cheesesteak, how to boil water, and more.

‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’, With Special Guest Paul Kafasis

Friday, 9 February 2018

Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, Farrago (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.

‘Don’t Tap the Monkey’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

John Moltz returns to the show. We talk about the HomePod, the “cancellation” of iPhone X, Steve Jobs and the orange button, and Super Bowl 52. And a surprising amount of talk about dates.

‘Arbiter of Finallys’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about HomePod, clickbait, the Spectre/Meltdown security exploits, and a look back at Apple’s 2017 in review.

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa

Sunday, 31 December 2017

As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and John Siracusa.

‘Australian Battery Scam’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Saturday, 30 December 2017

Special guest Jason Snell returns for the penultimate episode of 2017. Topics include the iPhone battery performance-throttling saga, Google Maps vs. Apple Maps, new versions of iOS running slow on older iPhones, the new iMac Pro, iOS file management, and more.

‘Blaming a Platypus’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Monday, 18 December 2017

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple’s new iMac Pro lineup: gaming, VR, medical use, software development video, and more. Also: a spoiler-free preamble on Star Wars Ep. 8: The Last Jedi.

‘Disgusting Inception’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Thursday, 30 November 2017

John “With an H” Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the ongoing deluge of sexual harassment scandals, our beloved SodaStreams, the Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra root login fiasco, App: The Human Story, and more.

‘Christmas Mitzvah’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Saturday, 18 November 2017

Merlin Mann returns to the show for a Thanksgiving-week holiday spectacular. Topics include the history of Markdown, nerding out with Keyboard Maestro, kids today and the computers they want to use, caring about idiomatic native UI design, a look back at last year’s election, and more.

‘Bed Is Where My Problems Are’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Friday, 10 November 2017

Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X.

‘If You Trust Your Twin’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to talk about the iPhone X, which is now in the hands of reviewers and just days away from the hands of customers.

‘Flaunting That Notch’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Thursday, 26 October 2017

Rene Ritchie returns to the show on the eve of iPhone X pre-orders opening. Topics include iPhone X (duh), Google’s Pixel 2 and the goofy OLED display on the “XL” version, Face ID FUD, and more.

‘Unused VIPs’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include watches, the problems with the current MacBook keyboards, iOS 11 battery life, my massive windfall from the iBooks antitrust settlement, and more.

‘You Tell Me If It’s a Dongle’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Saturday, 30 September 2017

Special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 3, our mutual fear of heights, Velcro, and more.

‘Much More Smarter’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Monday, 18 September 2017

Matthew Panzarino joins the show for an in-depth look at last week’s Apple event in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. We talk about iPhone X, iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3, Apple TV 4K, and the new Apple Park campus and Steve Jobs Theater.

‘200: Episode CC’, With Special Guest Craig Federighi

Friday, 15 September 2017

Very special guest Craig Federighi returns to the show to talk about Face ID, the perils of live demos, Apple’s approach to designing the iPhone X, privacy, security, and more.

‘Under Rumored’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Saturday, 9 September 2017

Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for a preview of next week’s Apple event. We speculate on the naming of the new iPhones, facial recognition in lieu of Touch ID, third-generation Apple Watches, Apple TV, HomePod, and more.

‘Prison Oreos’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Friday, 25 August 2017

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Daring Fireball’s 15th anniversary, fruit fly infestations, clicky keyboards, sandwich cookies, the birth of Markdown, iOS 11’s new “cop mode”, favicons in Safari, Apple’s Project Titan, last week’s total solar eclipse, and Jerry Lewis.

‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’, With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman

Sunday, 6 August 2017

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn’s new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.

‘Actually, You Can Buy a Better Coke’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Friday, 21 July 2017

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about the rumors and speculation regarding this year’s upcoming new iPhones.

‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Monday, 26 June 2017

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include more follow-up from WWDC 2017, the iPad Pro models and ProMotion, Scott Forstall’s interview with John Markoff regarding the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone, the ongoing shitshow at Uber, quick thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, and more. Also: guess which John enjoys throwing babies into the air.

‘Egg Freckles’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Monday, 19 June 2017

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to talk about WWDC 2017 — iOS 11, the new iPad Pro models, MacOS 10.13 “High Sierra”, updated Mac hardware and a tease at the upcoming iMac Pro, where Apple might go with VR and AR, San Jose as the venue for the event itself, and more.

‘Crack Marketing Team’ — Live From WWDC 2017 With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: new Mac hardware, the new iPad Pro, Mac OS 10.13 “High Sierra”, iOS 11, the upcoming HomePod, and more.

‘The Original Sin Is XML’, With Special Guests Manton Reece and Brent Simmons

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Manton Reece and whisky-soaked baritone Brent Simmons join the show to talk about JSON Feed, the new spec they co-authored for syndicating things like blog posts and podcasts. We talk about their longstanding mutual interest in Userland Frontier — Dave Winer’s groundbreaking scripting environment from the early ’90s — and how that background and their mutual love for publishing on the open web and the democratization of technology ultimately led to the creation of JSON Feed, as well as their other new projects: Manton’s Micro.blog publishing platform, and Brent’s new open source Mac app, announced for the first time right here on the show. And of course a brief look ahead to next week’s WWDC 2017.

‘He Ends Up Fighting Hervé Villechaize’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Saturday, 27 May 2017

Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to speculate about what Apple might announce at the upcoming WWDC 2017: Apple Watch, iPad, iOS, updated MacBooks, Apple TV, and more. Also: a celebration of the great Roger Moore.

‘Anything Luxury’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Saturday, 13 May 2017

Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Microsoft’s announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon’s new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple’s WeChat problem in China, and more.

‘Long Press on the French Fries’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q2 2017 financial results, the iPhone’s decline in China over the past two years, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick getting called to Tim Cook’s office regarding Uber’s surreptitious “fingerprinting” of iPhones, judging Apple Watch’s success, Hulu’s entry into the cord-cutting “live TV” subscription market (and Apple’s conspicuous absence from that same market), and more.

Apple VP Lisa Jackson

Friday, 21 April 2017

Special guest Lisa Jackson — Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives — joins the show for an Earth Day discussion of the state of Apple’s environmental efforts: climate change, renewable energy, responsible packaging, and Apple’s new goal to create a “closed-loop supply chain”, wherein the company’s products would be manufactured entirely from recycled materials.

‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’, With Special Guest MG Siegler

Tuesday, 18 April 2017

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.

‘Good News, My House Burned Down’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for an in-depth discussion of last week’s “future of the Mac Pro” round table discussion between a handful of Apple executives and journalists who cover the company. We talk about what went wrong with the 2013 Mac Pro design, speculate on the timeline of when Apple made this decision, why touchscreen Macs are almost certainly a bad idea even though a lot of people think they want one, and more.

‘Warmest Regards’, With Special Guest Dan Frommer

Friday, 31 March 2017

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the end of The Deck ad network, my weird story about getting kicked out of Amazon’s affiliate program, Apple’s new products announced last week (Red iPhone 7 models, larger-capacity iPhone SEs, the new 9.7-inch just-plain iPad, and Apple’s excellent new Clips app), Samsung’s new Galaxy S8, Twitter’s new reply system, CarPlay getting its ass kicked in a head-to-head comparison with Android Auto, ISPs and Privacy, and more.

‘Hubbo Is in Decline’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

The one and only Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include modern plumbing technology and product marketing, the intricate ordeal of switching from iCloud’s old two-step authentication to the modern two-factor authentication, and the future of voice-driven UI/AI. Also, a wee bit of follow-up on our post-election November 9 Holiday Party.

‘A Very Masculine Bark’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Saturday, 4 March 2017

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the Best Picture fiasco at last week’s Academy Awards, Tim Cook speaking vaguely of “the pro area” at Apple’s shareholders meeting, the conflict between Apple’s culture of secrecy and the glaring embarrassment that is the 1,100-day-old Mac Pro lineup, new iPad Pro rumors and our ruminations on tablet vs. notebook hardware form factors, The Wall Street Journal’s seemingly goofy report on new iPhones replacing Lightning with USB-C ports, and the garbage fire that is Uber’s corporate culture.

‘AAA Podcast’, With Special Guest Marco Arment

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include WWDC moving back to San Jose, the latest rumors about this year’s new iPads and iPhones, and the thinking behind the design changes in the just-released Overcast 3.0.

‘Corporate Stiffy’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Friday, 10 February 2017

John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include: 🐩💨, iPad vs. Mac for productivity (and why the iPad isn’t a self-sufficient platform), nostalgia for System 7, speculation on this year’s upcoming new iPhones, and more.

Alternative title for this episode: 🏢🍆.

‘Yay or Nay to Their POV’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s Q1 2017 financial results (including record iPhone sales and continuing cooling iPad sales), issues with LG’s new 5K UltraFine display (not so fine if you use it near a Wi-Fi router), the tech industry’s response to Trump’s immigration ban, and the highlights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

‘iPhone Is the New Hitler’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the state of the Mac (and our shared belief that its death has been greatly exaggerated), the NFL playoffs, Chris Lattner leaving Apple for Tesla (and the general problem of talent retention), ruminating on the origins of the word “podcast”, and more.

‘Now Banned In China’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Monday, 9 January 2017

Jim Dalrymple returns to the show for the first episode of 2017. Topics include New Year’s Eve, Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant, Apple’s aging AirPort and Mac Pro lineups, the future of desktop Macs, Apple Watch battery life, and rumors of upcoming new iPads.

‘Surface Curious’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Wednesday, 28 December 2017

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Siri vs. Alexa, and whether Wynn Las Vegas’s announcement that they’re putting Amazon Echos into their 4,700+ guest rooms is a sign that Amazon is building a meaningful long-term lead in the nascent voice assistant market; Mark Gurman’s week-ago piece for Bloomberg, “How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists”; Consumer Reports’s bizarre but widely-publicized battery test results for the new MacBook Pros; and a brief year in review look at our favorite new Apple products from 2016.

‘Frolic’, With Special Guest Craig Hockenberry

Friday, 16 December 2016

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show with his gigantic fleshy palms. Topics include Donald Trump’s highly publicized meeting with a handful of U.S. tech company leaders (including Tim Cook), the release of Nintendo’s Super Mario Run for iPhone, Uber’s autonomous car that was caught cruising straight through a red light in San Francisco, and Craig’s excellent new book, Making Sense of Color Management.

‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’, With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman

Saturday, 10 December 2016

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include indoor plumbing, a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s excellent “Westworld”, our favorite beverages, Apple’s AirPods launch debacle, Apple TV single sign-on, and more.

‘Election Escape Key’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros (and their keyboards), stockpiling old MacBook Airs, dongles, Touch ID, SnapChat Spectacles, and more.

‘Fork the Universe’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Friday, 18 November 2016

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar, and Apple’s new book chronicling the last 20 years of their industrial design, Designed by Apple in California.

‘Holiday Party’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss the election, by which I mean we mostly talk around the election. I hope we never do another show again with such heavy hearts, but whatever you think about this election, I think you’ll like this show.

‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include what we expect from this week’s Apple Event for new Mac hardware, and my impressions of the Google Pixel phone after a week using one.

‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Sunday, 16 October 2016

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include voice control with AirPods, how to get your entire music library onto an iPhone while using iCloud Music Library, Apple Watch durability, the Dash/App Store controversy, the disappointing and frustrating state of Siri and voice-driven AI assistants, Google’s new Pixel phones and the strategy behind them, Snap’s (née Snapchat) Spectacles (and why they’re nothing like Google’s ill-fated Glass), and more.

‘A Murder of Eeros’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 6 October 2016

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Google’s “Made by Google” hardware announcements (the Pixel phones, Google Wi-Fi routers, their Amazon Echo competitor Google Home), mobile photography, Samsung’s acquisition of Viv, and more.

‘You’ve Got the Nubbin’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s new stuff: the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2 (and the semi-new Series 1), iOS 10, MacOS Sierra, and more.

‘Hey Bruh You Bumped Muh Hat’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Friday, 16 September 2016

Jim Dalrymple returns to the show, to discuss last week’s Apple event in San Francisco, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple Watch Series 2, and more.

‘Way of the Future’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Monday, 5 September 2016

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss what we expect to see at Apple’s upcoming event in San Francisco: new iPhones (without headphone jacks, and with a radical new two-lens camera on the Plus-sized model), Apple Watch 2 (and a new fall lineup of watch bands). We also discuss Samsung’s recall of the Galaxy Note 7 (because of exploding batteries), when we’ll see new Mac hardware and new iPads, and more.

‘I Do Feel the Pea’, With Special Guest Guy English

Saturday, 27 August 2016

Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.

‘Enjoyably Clicky’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Friday, 12 August 2016

Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include the latest rumors regarding the upcoming new iPhones and MacBook Pros, Rick Tetzeli’s cover story for Fast Company on Tim Cook’s Apple, and the connection between baseball and mechanical keyboards.

‘Low Grade Scam’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Sunday, 31 July 2016

Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include media gossip on Eddy Cue negotiations with cable TV companies, Apple’s aging notebook lineup, Apple’s upcoming product announcement event, the Windows 10 upgrade fiasco, and our sweaty feet.

‘Special Bullying Venue’, With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman

Saturday, 23 July 2016

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include security vulnerabilities on MacOS and iOS, ransomware, counterfeit products and outright fraud on Amazon, and online harassment and “free speech”.

‘Mumbles and Grunts’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Sunday, 17 July 2016

John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include parenting thoughts on controlling the amount of time our kids spend playing games and watching YouTube and Netflix, why Google’s apps for iOS are better than their apps for Android, Chromebooks in schools, Windows Phone’s bright future, Pokemon Go, and more. We also insult the driving abilities of people from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Canada.

‘Fresh Out of Prison’, With Special Guest Nilay Patel

Friday, 1 July 2016

Special guest Nilay Patel joins the show. Topics include The Verge and Recode (and the state of the media industry at large), what’s going on with the lack of updates to professional Mac hardware, and, of course, Apple’s purported removal of the headphone jack on the upcoming new iPhones.

‘Phil Z’, With Special Guest Marco Arment

Saturday, 25 June 2016

Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include WWDC 2016, Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi’s appearance on the live episode of this show during WWDC, the purported removal of the standard headphone jack from the upcoming new iPhones, and more.

Live From WWDC 2016, With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to discuss the news from WWDC: WatchOS 3, MacOS 10.12 Sierra, iOS 10, and more.

‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’, With Special Guest Dan Frommer

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.

‘Yo, Dingus’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Saturday, 4 June 2016

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about artificial intelligence and Eddy Cue’s flip-flops.

‘Medium Rare MacBook’, With Special Guest MG Siegler

Saturday, 28 May 2016

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.

‘Facebook on Your Face’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Saturday, 21 May 2016

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new flagship retail store in San Francisco, recent improvements to App Store approval times, and Google’s announcements at I/O this week — Google Home and Google Assistant, Allo and Duo, and Android “N” and Android Instant Apps.

‘Chock Full of Whimsy’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Friday, 6 May 2016

Ben Thompson returns to the show to talk about Apple’s recent quarterly results, what we think is going on with iPhone sales, Tim Cook’s misleading guidance, Apple Music, and a lot more.

‘The Greatest Mic Drop I’ve Ever Seen’, With Special Guest Guy English

Monday, 25 April 2016

Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Ben Thompson’s argument that Apple’s functional organizational structure is hindering their efforts in online services, recalling our first Apple computers and the elegance of the classic Mac OS’s conceptual design, Prince (and his early use of Macs for creating music), emoji and exclamation marks, WWDC 2016, and yours truly’s youthful foray into on-the-job vandalism.

‘Option P’, With Special Guest Serenity Caldwell

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, using an iPad for “work”, podcasting microphones, the damn Siri Remote for the new Apple TV, the Star Wars: Rogue One teaser, and more.

‘Strict Robot Definer’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Monday, 28 March 2016

Jason Snell (Six Colors, The Incomparable, Upgrade) returns to the show for an in-depth look at last week’s Apple Event, and the two products that were introduced: the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Other topics include the ongoing FBI/Apple encryption soap opera, what’s wrong with the Apple Watch — and our appreciation for the late great Garry Shandling.

‘With Apologies to Hamilton’, With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Glenn Fleishman joins the show. The primary topic: Apple’s legal battle against the FBI regarding the iPhone and encryption. Other topics include Aaron Burr’s resurgence in popularity, the U.S. founding fathers’ use of cyphers and codes in their correspondance, next week’s Apple event, USB battery packs, and more.

‘Occupy Portland’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the Apple/FBI encryption fight, Apple’s upcoming event and the products they’re expected to announce. And Campo Santo’s fantastic new video game Firewatch.

‘iTools or Whatever’, With Special Guest Jim Dalrymple

Sunday, 21 February 2016

Special guest Jim Dalrymple joins the show to talk about the Apple/FBI legal showdown, the debate over Apple software quality, and more.

‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’, With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi

Friday, 12 February 2016

Very special guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi join the show. Topics include: the new features in Apple’s upcoming OS releases (iOS 9.3 and tvOS 9.2); why Apple is expanding its public beta program for OS releases; iTunes’s monolithic design; how personally involved Eddy and Craig are in using, testing, and installing beta software; the sad decline of Duke’s men’s basketball team; and more.

Some scoops too, including: the weekly number of iTunes and App Store transactions, an updated Apple Music subscriber count, peak iMessage traffic per second, and the number of iCloud account holders.

‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.

‘Hopped Up on Holiday Juice’, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Special Guest Matthew Panzarino. Topics include Apple’s quarterly financial results, rumors of Apple working on VR handsets and “wireless” charging for iPhones, Bezos charts, and more.

‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’, With Special Guest Merlin Mann

Sunday, 24 January 2016

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 rumors that the next iPhones will omit the standard headphone jack, the seven-hour The Godfather Epic, and more.

‘They Sherlocked F.lux’, With Special Guest Dan Frommer

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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, Peach, why Apple never participated at CES, El Chapo’s re-capture, iOS 9.3, Apple Watch, Apple’s finances (and stock price), and self-driving cars.

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More

Thursday, 31 December 2015

A brief holiday chat about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.

‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’, With Special Guest Rene Ritchie

Tuesday, 29 December 2015

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 iPhones 6S, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, iPad Mini 4, iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11, and, of course, the most important new product of the year, the Smart Battery Case.

This episode contains absolutely no Star Wars talk, except for a little.

‘How Many Fingers Should This Baby Have?’, With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa

Monday, 14 December 2015

Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi joins the show for a wide-ranging half-hour discussion about Swift — Apple’s new programming language that just went open source.

Next, John Siracusa returns to the show to follow up on Federighi’s segment on Swift. Other topics include Apple’s new Smart Battery Case for the iPhone 6/6S, and our mutual (and perhaps futile) desire to head into this week’s premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens knowing as few spoilers as possible.

‘I’ve Been Using Mine More in Bed’, With Special Guest Joanna Stern

Monday, 7 December 2015

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), how best to sell old iPhones when upgrading, and Mark Zuckerberg promising to donate 99 percent of his fortune to charitable causes.

‘Peak Rumor Season’, With Special Guest John Moltz

Monday, 30 November 2015

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 new MacBook Airs. Also: a parenting guide to the Star Wars and James Bond franchises.

‘Fully Charged Pencil’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Saturday, 21 November 2015

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 Norman and Bruce Tognazzini’s overwrought “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name” article for Fast Company. Also: the new membership program at Six Colors.

‘Put a Nipple on It’, With Special Guest Adam Lisagor

Saturday, 7 November 2015

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, and Adam’s excellent new series “Computer Show”.

‘Field Sobriety Test’, With Guest Guy English

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV.

‘The MacGuffin Tractor’, With Guest Serenity Caldwell

Saturday, 17 October 2015

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include this week’s new iMacs; the new “Magic” mouse, trackpad, and keyboard; an overview of Apple Music and iCloud Photos; Facebook’s outrageous background battery usage on iOS; Elon Musk’s gibes on Apple getting into the car industry; and my take on the new Steve Jobs movie.

‘Peace, Porn, and Privacy’, With Guest Marco Arment

Saturday, 3 October 2015

Marco Arment joins the show for a brief chat on ad blockers, advertising in general, and the new iPhones 6S.

‘If Only the Death Star Had That’, With Guest Rene Ritchie

Friday, 18 September 2015

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 (and Smart Keyboard, and Apple Pencil), the all-new Apple TV, and the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Also: iOS 9.

‘A Full Canseco’, With Guest John Moltz

Monday, 7 September 2015

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’s Apple event in San Francisco.

‘90 Minutes or Bust’, With Guest Ben Thompson

Saturday, 29 August 2015

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 of Amazon’s work culture, and more.

‘Did You Ever Take a Photograph?’, With Guest Matthew Panzarino

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether their declining stock price makes them an acquisition target), the end of Google Plus, why the new Photos app for Mac is inadequate as a replacement for Lightroom for us, Apple’s new San Jose real estate acquisition, Apple Car speculation, and Apple’s spree of hiring writers from the Apple media.

‘A Sack Full of Plucked Feathers’, With Guest John Moltz

Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include bluetooth headphones, Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library, phone sizes (including speculation on the lineup of new iPhones in September), El Chapo’s social media intern, Apple’s stock price, Alex Gibney’s upcoming Steve Jobs documentary, and the new trailer for Spectre.

‘Tommy Got Made’, With Guest Jason Snell

Monday, 20 July 2015

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 advertising (and its adverse effects on performance and privacy) and monetization, and more.

‘They Buy a Hole in the Wall’, With Guest Horace Dediu

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Special guest Horace Dediu joins The Talk Show for the first time. Topics include the state of the maps industry, Apple’s functional organizational structure, what the WWDC keynote said about the state of the company today, and more.

‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’, With Guest Guy English

Saturday, 20 June 2015

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 the topics we did hit: app thinning, Bitcode, WatchKit 2.0, CloudKit (and opening it up to web developers), Swift 2.0, Metal coming to the Mac, accessibility and low-level support for right-to-left languages, iOS 9’s new low-power mode, and more.

Live From WWDC 2015, With Special Guest Phil Schiller

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

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 El Capitan, iOS 9, the new native app SDK for Apple Watch, Apple Music, and the 2004 American League Championship series.

‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’, With Guest Mark Gurman

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Prelude to WWDC 2015 episode, featuring special guest Mark Gurman. We cover anything and everything you’d want to know heading into WWDC.

‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’, With Guest Rene Ritchie

Sunday, 31 May 2015

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics includes Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer and the implications for Apple; the differences in Apple’s internal design culture now that industrial and user interface design are under one roof; Google’s announcements at their I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, including Google Photos; “machine learning”; Apple replacing the much-maligned discoveryd with good old mDNSResponder in the latest Yosemite developer beta; our thoughts on the space black Apple Watch with link bracelet; and more.

‘The Move to Frisco’, With Guest Dan Frommer

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include David Letterman, iPhone docks, the space black steel Apple Watch, whatever happened to the Edition collection, San Francisco as the new system font for iOS and Mac OS X, and more.

‘Workin’ in Pajamas’, With Guest David Sparks

Friday, 15 May 2015

Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo Syncing and the new Photos for Mac, WWDC, and wearing slippers as “work” shoes.

‘Sloppy on the Side’, With Guest Adam Lisagor

Thursday, 7 May 2015

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, maybe, my son. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that Apple just released a brand-new thing, and they don’t do that very often. This episode, we just had fun. Some keen observations about the future of the platform, too.

‘I Touched Ron Johnson’, With Guest John Moltz

Thursday, 30 April 2015

John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Gruber’s retina, Apple Watch backorders and the watch itself, news from Microsoft’s Build conference, how to introduce yourself to people you’ve publicly branded a “jackass”, and more.

‘Browser Pooped on the Wee-Wee Pad’, With Guest Joanna Stern

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

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).

‘Turd on the Front Porch’, With Guest Ben Thompson

Friday, 3 April 2015

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 Watch. Other topics include the launch of Jay Z’s streaming music service Tidal, audience ceilings faced by different types of dedicated TV devices, and Meerkat-vs.-Periscope and the nascent revolution of ubiquitous live-streaming video. We make some NCAA men’s basketball Final Four picks, too.

‘All of Us Assholes in Journalism’, With Guest Serenity Caldwell

Friday, 20 March 2015

Special guest Serenity Caldwell joins the show. Topics include last week’s “Spring Forward” Apple media event; the new Force Touch Trackpad for MacBooks, and the prospects for force touch in future iOS devices; and of course, Apple Watch.

‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’, With Guest Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show. After some brief chitchat on Meerkat and monocular vision, we get into the obvious topic this week: Apple’s “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco. Sub-topics therein: ResearchKit; FaceTime and open standards; accessibility and Tim Cook’s refusal to measure the ROI of such things; Jeff Williams’s first on-stage appearance at an Apple keynote; Angela Ahrendts; the new single-port MacBook; San Francisco as the new keycap font on the MacBook keyboard; the Taptic trackpad; the timing of this event; and more.

Oh, and something called “Apple Watch”.

‘Retina Quality’, With Guest Paul Kafasis

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

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 doorbell (and unfortunate refrigerator situation), a little bit of baseball, and why I’m not attending next week’s Apple event in San Francisco.

‘12 Hours a Day’, With John Moltz

Monday, 23 February 2015

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 hardware; and a long discussion on Ian Parker’s extraordinary New Yorker profile of Jony Ive and his design team at Apple.

‘Rats in the Lobby’, With Merlin Mann

Friday, 13 February 2015

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.

‘How Many Keys?’, With MG Siegler

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

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.

‘Malaprops’, With Ben Thompson

Saturday, 24 January 2015

Topics include Apple’s pseudo “sabbaticals” (employees who leave the company but then return after a year or two); Google’s cultural similarities to Microsoft; the ways that Apple (and iOS users) might miss Scott Forstall; accessibility as a high priority for Apple; Instagram’s success (and how they effectively ate Hipstamatic’s lunch); a debate on just how “simple” Twitter is; Box’s successful IPO, and Dropbox’s support for Yosemite’s official Finder integration for such services; MIT economist Jonathan Gruber pissing in my Google juice; Chromebooks; Amazon’s overall strategy, and the colossal failure of their Fire Phone; and, lastly, a good chunk on Microsoft’s Windows 10/HoloLens event last week.

‘Now It’s All Floppy’, With Marco Arment

Monday, 12 January 2015

Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include microphones; Marco’s much-publicized article last week on Apple’s seemingly declining software quality; talking to the press and agreeing to interviews; Apple’s relatively tiny developer relations team (and how that pertains to the aforementioned segment on Apple’s perceived software quality); the purported new 12-inch MacBook Air and its dearth of peripheral ports; and more.

‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’, With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English

Wednesday 31 December 2014

A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.

‘George Lucas Called’, With Jason Snell

Tuesday, 30 December 2014

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 at his new Six Colors; a look back at his 20-year career at MacUser and soon thereafter Macworld; tricky edge cases when booking sponsorships, and the whole situation with separating advertising sales from editorial integrity when you’re running a one-person publication; the Sony/North Korea hacking and The Interview, and iTunes’s slightly belated release thereof; and we pour one out for good old Movable Type.

‘2014 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie

Friday, 26 December 2014

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 acquisition; WWDC 2014 in hindsight; an aside speculating on the alternate universe where Google acquired WebOS instead of Android; the similarities between the “projected UI” nature of AirPlay, CarPlay, and WatchKit; UI fonts (Helvetica Neue in Yosemite, Apple Sans, and the Watch’s San Francisco (a.k.a. “DINvetica”)); Apple’s growing ability to design and bring to market its own hardware internals and components; recent controversies and confusing rejections at the App Store (and the need for a public-facing App Store ombudsman); and what we’re looking forward to in 2015.

‘Robotitize the Assembly’, With Dan Frommer

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

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 its mountain of cash, speculation on why iPad sales growth has stagnated, and more. Also, some in-depth segments on Instagram and the concept of “institutional taste”.

‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’, With Dave Wiskus

Friday, 5 December 2014

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 for the 24th EON Productions Bond movie, Spectre. Other topics include the untapped potential of podcasting and YouTubing, cutting babies in half, turtle copulation, and kangaroo genitalia.

‘Like a Butt Crack’, With Christa Mrgan

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

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 speculation (including using it as an Apple TV remote), the Watch’s new San Francisco font, bling in icon design, and more. It’s a Thanksgiving week design-focused spectacular.

‘People Are Gay All the Time’, With John Moltz

Saturday, 15 November 2014

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 mutual preference for the old 5S 4-inch size over the 4.7-inch iPhone 6); the new book Moltz co-wrote, The Visual Guide to Minecraft; writing tools, including word processors and Markdown; shopping for gaming PCs as a Mac person; Microsoft Office going free on mobile platforms; Twitter’s stilted strategy statement; President Obama’s statement on Net Neutrality; and Tim Cook’s eloquent essay announcing that he’s gay.

‘The Smoker Channels’, With Merlin Mann

Friday, 7 November 2014

Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man and his showboating-spectator predecessors, and the state of podcasting today. Also: daylight saving time and Roman numerals.

‘Far Less Eloquent as You’, With John Siracusa

Saturday, 25 October 2014

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 thereof).

‘Copious Software Projects’, With Guy English

Friday, 10 October 2014

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 company too thin. Then things devolve into a bitter argument over the merits of file name extensions.

‘The Edition Edition’, With Ben ‘Bengate’ Thompson

Sunday, 28 September 2014

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 topics include “Bend-gate”, Apple’s growing prowess in mobile chip design, and Derek Jeter.

‘Twenty-One Thousand Words’, With Rene Ritchie

Friday, 19 September 2014

What else? The iPhones 6, iOS 8, and last week’s special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino.

‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’, With Jason Snell

Monday, 8 September 2014

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 a breakthrough wearable device. Topics include the purpose and advantages of a 5.5-inch iPhone, why only the 5.5-inch iPhone will (I think) get an @3× retina display, speculation on the nature and purpose of an Apple wearable/watch, the intrigue surrounding the event’s venue, and more.

‘Toner-Perfect Design’, With Craig Hockenberry

Friday, 29 August 2014

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. @3×, here we come.

‘That New Laptop Smell’, With Joanna Stern

Thursday, 21 August 2014

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; the role of Microsoft Office in today’s world; and speculation on Apple’s upcoming iPhone event.

‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’, With Dan Frommer

Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Topics include speculation — seriously, just speculation — on Apple’s purported upcoming wrist wearable thing, Apple’s fall event schedule, polarized sunglasses, market share in the post-PC era, and Beats’s integration into Apple (including a clever idea from Dan about the potential for a Beats Music channel on Apple TV).

‘Jamming More RAM in for Free’, With John Moltz

Monday, 28 July 2014

Topics include Apple’s quarterly results, how much Apple’s cable and peripheral prices contribute to the popular conception that their products are “expensive”, presbyopia and large-screen phones, and more.

‘Cat Pictures’, With Marco Arment: Side 1 / Side 2

Saturday, 19 July 2014

Topics include the design and development of Marco’s new iOS podcast player, Overcast, custom UI fonts, the difficulty of low-level audio programming, and pricing strategy — with digressions on U.S. politics and other non-controversial subjects.

‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’, With Ben Thompson

Friday, 11 July 2014

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 software differentiation, wearable devices, and more.

‘Diddling Your Feeds’, With Dave Wiskus

Monday, 30 Jun 2014

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 the new ones Google showed at I/O last week), and Dave’s new behind-the-scenes role at The Talk Show.

‘Oh Man, Soccer’, With Paul Kafasis

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

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 Times’s profile of Tim Cook last week, Apple’s growth, and the agonizingly slow death of Blackberry. Lastly, Paul brings up a devilishly tricky question regarding whether Apple will support a particular new addition to the Emoji specification.

‘Doctoring the Ball’, With Guy English

Monday, 16 June 2014

Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largely behind-the-scenes role in many of the new features for iOS and OS X. The new much-improved WebKit API (which brings third-party apps the faster Nitro JavaScript engine), third-party keyboards, Sharing menu extensions, and Notification Center widgets — all these things are built on XPC. Other topics include Apple TV, Swift, and the apparent happiness not just of third-party developers, but Apple employees, too.

Live From WWDC 2014, With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson

Friday, 6 June 2014

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 — Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa — to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.10 Yosemite, iOS 8, Swift, and more.

Then, Scott Simpson joins the show to discuss theme songs and the future of higher education.

‘We’re Allowed to Make Stuff Up; It’s a Podcast’, With Dan Frommer

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

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-aging design of the MacBook Air), WWDC rumors, the rumored iOS-style redesign of Mac OS X, previous Mac OS visual designs, and more.

‘Bring Back Jerry Yang’, With John Moltz

Thursday, 22 May 2014

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 the iPhone, the ZTE Open C Firefox OS phone (spoiler: it’s a turd), and the transition of The Talk Show from Mule Radio to its new home here at Daring Fireball.