The Talk Show With John Gruber
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The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Location:
Austin, TX
Description:
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Language:
English
Episodes
423: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’, With Patrick McGee
5/29/2025
Patrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, *Apple in China* -- one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written.
Duration:01:32:42
422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett
5/26/2025
Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America” iPhones; and Fortnite’s return to the US App Store.
Duration:02:14:46
421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod
4/30/2025
Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, *Things Become Other Things*. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.
Duration:01:53:11
420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman
4/20/2025
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book “Six Centuries of Type & Printing”.
Duration:02:08:24
419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler
3/23/2025
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Duration:02:28:58
418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry
3/8/2025
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, [Tapestry](https://usetapestry.com/) — a universal timeline for the Internet.
Duration:02:42:03
417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis
2/24/2025
Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.
Duration:02:00:43
416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac
12/24/2024
Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.
Duration:02:32:38
415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike
12/2/2024
Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.
Duration:02:32:52
414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
11/18/2024
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.
Duration:01:54:06
413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann
11/9/2024
This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk *around* another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something *about* it.
Duration:02:52:16
412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren
10/31/2024
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
Duration:01:41:42
411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman
10/7/2024
Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.
Duration:01:53:03
410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell
9/30/2024
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple's September product announcements, and Meta's Orion prototype AR glasses.
Duration:02:12:58
409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel
9/26/2024
Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.
Duration:02:43:09
408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard
8/31/2024
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.
Duration:01:40:45
407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller
8/28/2024
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.
Duration:02:18:11
406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren
7/31/2024
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.
Duration:01:43:33
405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas
7/28/2024
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.
Duration:01:56:17
404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz
6/30/2024
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.
Duration:01:17:36