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The Talk Show With John Gruber

146: ‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’ With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Very special guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi join the show. Topics include: the new features in Apple's upcoming OS releases (iOS 9.3 and tvOS 9.2); why Apple is expanding its public beta program for OS releases; iTunes's monolithic design; how personally involved Eddy and Craig are in using, testing, and installing beta software; the sad decline of Duke's men's basketball team; and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, your pal John Groover here.

0:04.0

This is a very special episode of the talk show.

0:06.0

It is a different episode of the talk show as you're about to find out.

0:09.8

And so it has a different kind of sponsorship setup.

0:12.0

I'm just going to tell you right here, this episode is exclusively brought to you by

0:17.0

maa.com.

0:19.0

That's meh.com.

0:21.0

If you don't know what's maa, it's a daily deal site.

0:24.0

You guys remember Woot WOT?

0:26.0

That was a daily deal site where they put funny content and videos and stuff like that

0:30.0

up and they'd have one thing a day that they would sell at an extraordinary discount.

0:34.0

Then they sold to Amazon.

0:36.0

That was Woot.

0:37.0

They sold to Amazon and Amazon started changing everything around and eventually got rid of

0:40.0

everything about Woot that made Woot Woot.

0:42.0

So the team laughed they left Amazon when they could.

0:45.0

And they started a new site.

0:46.0

That was like Woot except even better than it used to be.

0:50.0

And that's maa.

0:51.0

It's the guys behind Woot.

0:53.0

They have a new site, maa.

0:54.0

And you go there every day and have a daily deal.

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