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The Talk Show With John Gruber

185: ‘Warmest Regards’ With Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the end of The Deck ad network, my weird story about getting kicked out of Amazon’s affiliate program, Apple’s new products announced last week (Red iPhone 7 models, larger-capacity iPhone SEs, the new 9.7-inch just-plain iPad, and Apple’s excellent new Clips app), Samsung’s new Galaxy S8, Twitter’s new reply system, CarPlay getting its ass kicked in a head-to-head comparison with Android Auto, ISPs and Privacy, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You a dog where do you put your dog?

0:03.0

Bottom.

0:04.0

Oh, bottom.

0:06.0

Damn, I don't know if I could be your friend anymore.

0:09.0

I'm a dog on the right, man.

0:12.0

Dog on the left is acceptable, but the dog on the bottom, you're losing.

0:16.0

I need to meet what I crave the most is vertical real estate.

0:21.0

It is tricky on the 12 inch MacBook, although I had the dog pretty small.

0:26.0

But I don't know, I could never get used to the symmetry of having it on one of the sides and not having windows take on the full width.

0:34.0

Yeah.

0:35.0

Like the right side of my screen has been the aim buddy list for 20 years or more than that.

0:41.0

Yeah, my dog icons are so small and I don't even keep many apps in the dog permanently, but just the running apps is enough to make them tiny little targets.

0:55.0

And it's not like that I lack the motor skills to do it.

0:58.0

It's just that part of what I love about the map, and we could probably do all show about why I love the Mac.

1:03.0

But it's like I feel like I can just fly through the Mac, you know, like I'm always clicking and moving my mouse extremely fast.

1:10.0

Same. Whenever I get a new job, I demand the fastest Mac possible because it's my brain is basically at the same speed of the computer.

1:20.0

But whatever it is about, doc clicking, it's just not, it's never going to work.

1:25.0

Yeah.

1:26.0

Always the wrong icon.

1:28.0

I'm just noticing now that Apple has added very, it's very kind of them to do so auto added the iWork apps to my doc again for the 10th time.

1:36.0

Oh, nice of them.

1:38.0

Very kind.

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