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The Talk Show With John Gruber

108: ‘Malaprops’ With Guest Ben Thompson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2015

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Summary

Topics include Apple’s pseudo “sabbaticals” (employees who leave the company but then return after a year or two); Google’s cultural similarities to Microsoft; the ways that Apple (and iOS users) might miss Scott Forstall; accessibility as a high priority for Apple; Instagram’s success (and how they effectively ate Hipstamatic’s lunch); a debate on just how “simple” Twitter is; Box’s successful IPO, and Dropbox’s support for Yosemite’s official Finder integration for such services; MIT economist Jonathan Gruber pissing in my Google juice; Chromebooks; Amazon’s overall strategy, and the colossal failure of their Fire Phone; and, lastly, a good chunk on Microsoft’s Windows 10/HoloLens event last week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What time you got? What do you got? What do you 11 o'clock?

0:02.7

12.21 a.m. Oh my god. Are you serious? Is this gonna be all right? Yeah, no, I

0:07.6

I have down to science. I

0:10.0

Took a shower then I weighed down for 20 minute nap and then I drank up a coffee and then I will calm myself down with a couple beers during the conversation. Sounds good

0:22.1

And now I'm good. Don't worry about it. Okay, although although we had we had a we had a nice like home Korean barbecue

0:30.6

We over at the the in-laws place of course, and she like my mother was like a huge whiskey fan

0:37.9

So she always has really good stuff

0:39.3

But I I womened myself to to us to a single a single serving

0:44.9

So you owe me one I

0:47.6

Do that's that's a deep price to pay to be a guest on the show. I forgot I have you set up

0:53.2

I have type-ay set up in my today view. I could I didn't need to ask you a time was I could have just

0:58.8

Opened today

1:00.3

My world clock

1:02.0

Well, I guess that that says enough about today

1:05.2

You know what I

1:07.2

I think the problem is that I usually I really only open that thing up for it's kind of weird to have that be today and notifications

1:14.0

Like I understand why they grouped it together that way, but I think in practice it's weird because it's

1:19.9

One or the other is always two steps away instead of one step away

1:23.8

Yeah

1:25.3

Yeah, I agree I don't know I I'd never click on today either

1:28.5

I'm looking at like it actually took me a couple seconds to remember what you were talking about when you said today

1:34.3

It's I use it for notifications only and I don't know that I guess that's kind of true on both Osses

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