324 episodes
The Talk Show With John Gruber Daring Fireball / John Gruber
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3.8 • 302 Ratings
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The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz
John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.
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403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson
Quinn Nelson, renowned host of [Snazzy Labs](https://www.youtube.com/@snazzy), returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.
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402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak
Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.
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401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.
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400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler
Special guest M.G. Siegler returns to the show to talk about the new iPad Pros, the iPadOS/MacOS functional gulf, the OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson controversy, and M.G.'s new blog Spyglass.
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399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci
Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.
Customer Reviews
Mostly great
I always look forward to a new episode. Jon is an interesting, thoughtful voice in the tech sphere. I only skip episodes in which Merlin Mann or Marco Arment are guests, both of whom are insufferably full of themselves.
20yr DF Reader, lacking content
Love DF. Have read it since its first year, absolutely love the brevity. Full of content. /// Not sure what happened that Gruber thinks his readers have hours of free time to listen to insufferable tech bros yammer on endlessly. I’ve already got Pivot for that ;-) Heck, even at 1.5x this show sounds slow. Needs a firmer script, a heck of a lot of editing, and probably some sort of gap detection to get it to a 20 minute gem. Because one thing is for sure, I’m very interested in the content, there’s just very little of it.
Here for the rants
Looking over the reviews don’t shine a bright enough light on the wonderful content The Talk Show delivers. I think the joy can come from the hidden gems within a show that only a fully engaged audience gets to appreciate. For an ever-more overly stimulated population seeking instant gratification, sometimes it’s nice hearing about a guest or John’s preferences on the audible click of a mechanical keyboard and how much travel is right for them. A mental reset.
There are the obvious times when John innocently wrong statement about how some software works or the way an Apple Store functions… but that’s what the internet / twitter is for: to declare your position as the truest truth of all truths.
It’s quality entertainment at a price I can afford. For that, it comes highly recommended.