313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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.

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Links:

• My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
• Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
• Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
• Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
• Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
• MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
• Apple Platform Security Guide.
• Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
• “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
• Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
• Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
• “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
• That scene from “The Naked Gun”, exquisitely synced to my remarks about it, thanks to Todd Vaziri.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.