184: ‘Hubbo Is in Decline’ With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

The one and only Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include modern plumbing technology and product marketing, the intricate ordeal of switching from iCloud’s old two-step authentication to the modern two-factor authentication, and the future of voice-driven UI/AI. Also, a wee bit of follow-up on our post-election November 9 Holiday Party.

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0:00.0	Oh boy, I want you to start locking everything down.
0:04.1	Wow, do you unlock, ask your question.
0:08.0	Yeah, you can ask me anything.
0:09.1	Do you, um, me cut this out?
0:11.2	Do you unlock your Mac with your watch?
0:13.7	I do.
0:14.7	Wow, but I don't wear my watch every day.
0:18.4	But it's one of my favorite features and it's actually one of the main motivators for
0:23.0	me to wear my watch because I love that feature so much.
0:27.4	I do.
0:29.4	It, and I find that it works amazingly.
0:31.8	It works, you know, it's over 80% of the time, which is good.
0:35.3	But, uh, man, switching it was a good excuse to finally switch over from two
0:40.4	steps to two factor.
0:42.5	Wow.
0:44.0	That's a heck of a thing.
0:45.8	I did it and I got to tell you, I put it off for a long time.
0:52.2	I only did it several weeks ago.
0:56.8	There was like an update to, um, I forget if it was a macOS update or an iOS update where
1:03.2	one of the features was, hey, you know, we came out with this unlock your Mac feature
1:07.4	with your watch back in October, whatever, but we made it really fast now.
1:11.1	And I was like, you know what?
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