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The Talk Show With John Gruber

140: ‘Apple’s 2015 Year in Review’ With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2015

⏱️ 188 minutes

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Summary

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look back at the Apple year that was: the new one-port MacBook, Apple Watch's launch, WWDC and Apple Music, the iPhones 6S, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, iPad Mini 4, iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11, and, of course, the most important new product of the year, the Smart Battery Case. (This episode contains absolutely no Star Wars talk, except for a little.)

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0:00.0

Did you get anything good for the Christmas?

0:03.4

The art of Star Wars of Force Awakens which is very recommended and is really good

0:08.3

What was that was that it's a book it shows all the design process? Yeah, they shows the design process they went through which I always find fascinating

0:16.3

It seems how did they make the book? How is the book already out?

0:20.4

Well, they showed stuff that they've been working on for years and years like early concepts for the movies and designs

0:24.8

They did and things that changed an awful lot and stuff that

0:27.8

J that Abrams would come back and forth while he was working on Star Trek to Kibits about

0:33.7

Kibits I would say Kibits

0:36.7

Am I wrong? I don't know I probably got a little bit of Yiddish in mind

0:43.9

So like what changed?

0:46.9

I've only just started it because I've gotten so not used to looking at physical media anymore that it's a slow reading process for me

0:53.3

but a lot of the early designs were just

0:56.3

Very different and just when the way they look and some of the character ideas that they had I

1:02.6

Was the feeling that Abrams writes by the seat of his pants, which is not my favorite characteristic of his?

1:08.2

Yeah, I mean we I definitely keep saying I don't want to go all Star Wars on this

1:14.0

I do think I I mean that's his reputation

1:18.5

I mean, I don't know personally, but I mean it's certainly his reputation and it's like as one my friends put it that is that he

1:25.6

Inevitably heads into every movie like

1:28.8

Production starts with the story 85% written. Yeah

1:33.3

It's just that's his style, you know, and I don't know that it's ever gonna change

1:37.6

And you get wonderful set pieces and sometimes the story takes a backseat to them. I

1:43.1

Did like a force the force awakens though. I don't want to leave people without the I mean I've seen it four times

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