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. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Links: All…

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. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: M…

This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it. Sponsored by: Tiptop: A new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In and Pay-in-4 at checkout. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion with me…

Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion wit…

Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Links: Tyler Stalman on YouTube: iPhone 16: A Photographer's Revie…

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. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order.…

Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16. Sponsored by: Tiptop: A new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In and Pay-in-4 at checkout. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Nilay’s review of the iPhone 16 Pro. Also from Nilay: “Let’s Compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s Definit…

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. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Political …

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. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talksho…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off yo…

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. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10%…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Godzilla Minus One “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” “Counterpart” — The…

Quinn Nelson, esteemed 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. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Enjoy 30% off your first month of coffee. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your…

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. Standard video: YouTube. 3D video with spatial audio: Exclusively in Sandwich Vision's Theater on Vision Pro, available on …

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. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Enjoy 30% off your first month of coffee. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 1…

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](https://spyglass.org/).Sponsored by:+ [Pine Works](https://pineworks.co/) is a design and development agency with good ethics and strong opinions. World-class app…

Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more. Sponsored by: Nuts.com: The world’s best snacks, delivered fast and fresh. Trade Coffee: The best coffee is made at home. Enjoy a free bag of roasted-to-order coffee and $15 off select plans when you j…

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. Sponsored by: Nuts.com: The world’s best snacks, delivered fast and fresh. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off…

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Trade Coffee: The best coffee is made at home. Enjoy a free bag of roasted-to-order coffee and $15 off select plans when you join Trade. Links: …

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. Sponsored by: Nuts.com: The world’s best snacks, delivered fast and fresh. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Weather Up. On the App…

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Trade Coffee: Let’s Coffee Better. Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Links: My review of Vision Pro. My follow-up: "Simple Tricks and Nonsense". Sandw…

Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter The Obsessor -- returns to the show to talk about -- what else? -- the Vision Pro. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. AdBlock Pro: Block ads in Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Links: My review of the Vision Pro. Tech…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Trade Coffee: Let’s Coffee Better. Get a free bag of fresh cof…

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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. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Let’s coffee better. G…

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. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Let’s coffee better. Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. N…

Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media. Sponsored by: Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. AdBlock Pro: Block ads in Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Squarespace: Use code talkshow to save 10% off your…

Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac. Sponsored by: Nuts.com: The world’s best snacks, delivered fast and fresh. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Apple’s “Scary Fast” keynote event video. The Verge: "All …

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Trade Coffee: Let’s coffee better. Get a free bag of fr…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: OverheatGate: David Phelan at Forbes: Apple comments on iPhone 15 overheating. Ming-Chi Kuo’s on…

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Trade Coffee: Let’s coffee better. Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Links: M…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Inside Apple's Vision Pro developer labs Fantastical Cardhop Thi…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Trade Coffee: Let’s coffee better. Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subs…

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. Sponsored by: Backblaze: Backblaze makes backing up and accessing your data astonishingly easy. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for …

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk. Sponsored by: Rocket Money: Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions and manage your expenses the easy way. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off…

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS. Sponsored by: Backblaze: Makes backing up and accessing your data astonishingly easy. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and tra…

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. Sponsored by: Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Rocket Mo…

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. Presented by Kolide: The security tool for companies with Okta that need to manage their employees' devices. Links: Apple's WWDC 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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Cross-platform…

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. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Let’s Coffee Better. Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Cross-platform endpoint security solut…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for t…

Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple's rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency. Backblaze: Backblaze makes backing up and accessi…

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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Cro…

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Kolide: Kolide is a cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency. Check out our manifesto: https://honest.security. …

Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Memberful: Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency. …

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. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off you…

Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod. Sponsored by: Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off y…

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. Sponsored by: Nebula: Videos. Podcasts. Classes. Creator-built and creator-owned. Trade Coffee: Incredible coffee delivered fresh from th…

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. Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $10…