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The Talk Show With John Gruber

157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2016

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.

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0:00.0

Hey, liking it over there. It's awesome. It's great. It's it's

0:04.7

It's fun. I mean, it's it's it's hard, but it's

0:08.5

It's been really good. Well, this a busy time for you guys because it's it's like a busy time of the year period because

0:15.1

It's like May and June is like when everybody in tech wants to if they're launching anything that they're doing it now

0:21.4

Like you got to get it out before July and August

0:24.5

And you guys have a big conference that you just got wrapped up, right? Yeah, which was my

0:30.0

Third time as my third time attending it, but my first time working it and

0:35.4

Totally different experience

0:37.4

But it's I mean, it's it is an amazing conference. It's probably you know

0:41.7

Obviously, it's different than something like WWDC or CES, but as far as executive conferences go in tech that the public is invited

0:50.5

Well sort of invited to I think it's the best one

0:54.8

Well, and it's you know, it the history clearly dates to when it was called all things D

1:00.5

I mean, it's you know, it's Cara and Walt and the big red chairs and

1:05.9

You know, it was the basically the only conference that Steve Jobs went to besides

1:11.2

Mac world and whatever Apple would put on right and it's then and the difference

1:15.2

It's you know, the big difference is that when Apple puts on a keynote. It's not really a conference

1:19.1

It's you know, here's everything we have to say and it's prepared and you know

1:23.9

Onstage there. It's Walton Cara asking the questions right totally. Yeah the difference in

1:31.6

Preparedness and who kind of lays out what what they talk about and all that but it was great actually you know

1:40.2

You know watching the the videos now I you know, I kind of wonder like and what if Jobs were still here? What would he be talking about?

1:49.6

kind of

1:51.5

Ruins the mood but watching Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

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