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The Talk Show With John Gruber

126: ‘Tommy Got Made’ With Guest Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

Jason Snell returns to the show, with a lot to talk about: Pebble's new Pebble Time smartwatch, the "Safari is the New IE" argument, the state of web advertising (and its adverse effects on performance and privacy) and monetization, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello

0:02.0

Man you always sound so good. I got I just am doing what Marco tells me to do. I know I've got it

0:08.0

I keep saying I'm gonna do it Mark that tells me to do and I haven't done it yet

0:11.8

Well, he keeps changing his opinion

0:13.6

I like I bought all the stuff that he told me to buy and then like a week later was like oh

0:17.6

But this microphone's even better and then like two weeks later was like and then there's this microphone

0:22.2

Dude, I'm not gonna keep buying microphones

0:24.6

The other thing that gets me to is the

0:32.1

Now that I have the watch I feel like it's one too many devices to have to silence before a podcast

0:37.2

You know I leave my watch silenced all the time I do to accept when I don't and I at least have to I feel like I at least have to check it before

0:45.8

Recording well, that's true. Yeah, I I leave it I leave it off the whole time. I can't remember the last time I turned it on

0:54.5

That would kind I don't know I might be I might be wishing for too much magic, but I kind of wish that there was like a

1:02.1

Like a some kind of way to tie into eye tune or eye cloud and say silence all my shit. Oh, that's

1:10.0

Yeah, I mean the problem with other iPhones right and right just the iPhones have the physical silence switch

1:16.7

So you could silence it, but it would still be switched to on I don't know I did I think about that

1:22.2

I wish I had a button to push you know for the valuable podcasting demographic. I wish I had a button to push that basically said

1:28.8

Okay, stop syncing on your drop boxes and stuff

1:32.7

Everything is silent

1:35.4

Just enough already

1:37.4

I don't know I the Apple watch sound

1:40.6

That is one of the least compelling things about that that product to me and I just I don't want to have like I can feel a little taps

1:48.1

I kind of don't need to hear the sound

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