183: ‘A Very Masculine Bark’ With Serenity Caldwell

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John Gruber

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🗓️ 4 March 2017

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show. Topics include the Best Picture fiasco at last week’s Academy Awards, Tim Cook speaking vaguely of “the pro area” at Apple’s shareholders meeting, the conflict between Apple’s culture of secrecy and the glaring embarrassment that is the 1,100-day-old Mac Pro lineup, new iPad Pro rumors and our ruminations on tablet vs. notebook hardware form factors, The Wall Street Journal’s seemingly goofy report on new iPhones replacing Lightning with USB-C ports, and the garbage fire that is Uber’s corporate culture.

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0:00.0	Did you watch the Oscars?
0:01.7	I watched the end of the Oscars, so I caught right at the end with everything.
0:06.1	So you were watching live?
0:07.6	You were watching live when it happened?
0:09.1	Yeah.
0:09.9	We were not.
0:10.9	I've kind of given up on award shows.
0:12.6	I find it just too damn tedious.
0:14.8	And so, but I got a news alert from the New York Times.
0:18.3	And so we immediately switched over and quickly wound and watched it.
0:22.1	But it's so totally different knowing, you know, like the news alert was like,
0:25.3	holy hell, they announced the wrong winner of the best picture.
0:29.0	Go watch this fiasco live, you know, whereas if you're watching live,
0:32.5	it's got to be more of what the hell is going on?
0:35.6	Yeah, it was very unscripted.
0:37.4	So the funny thing is, of course, I was driving home from Canada.
0:40.6	So when I say watching live, what I really mean was I had my iPhone open
0:46.0	and I was listening to it.
0:49.1	So I didn't see the facial expressions that everybody was talking to.
0:52.6	I just heard this long, really awkward pause.
0:56.2	And I'm like, well, that's like
0:58.6	and some shuffling in the microphone.
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