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The Talk Show With John Gruber

101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2014

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yes, but can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Yeah, now I can hear us but that's very strange. I don't know

0:06.3

I don't know I seriously I spent 15 minutes and made like probably 12 recordings to make sure that everything was fine

0:14.0

I'm telling you and I re I include

0:17.5

Most I have the time we include this stuff in the show like me having problems with Skype

0:23.0

I am like like Mr. McGoo with Skype

0:28.2

Like nothing can possibly

0:30.2

I never want to have a podcast where it actually just plain works. It's always

0:36.9

Well the horrible thing is that I work on audio recording. Actually, this is what I do every day

0:44.0

Every day and somehow I just it just screws up every time that I actually I mean when I test things

0:50.0

It's fine. It's always fine

0:51.0

And I tell you know sometimes I run kind of long tests

0:53.1

I'm like all right. All right things are going well and then no actually using them

0:56.8

It's me always breaks. It's it has to be Skype's fault. It can't be any of our

1:01.0

Perfect perfectly usable software. Of course, which always functions at a hundred percent. So you anyway

1:08.8

Christa Mergan you sound great. Oh

1:11.2

Great. Thanks. You do as well. Thank you. I have so much to talk about. I am so excited because the watch stuff came out and

1:18.4

Yes, are you excited about the watch? I'm excited about the watch and also

1:22.9

I don't know this this happens sort of with I feel like every time there's either a big update to an Apple product or

1:30.4

Brand new Apple product and I was like well

1:32.6

Do I really need that and then of course I know the day that it comes out of me like oh god

1:37.7

Give this give me this thing

1:39.7

So I'm excited about it, but also a little like I don't know

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