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The Talk Show With John Gruber

187: ‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’ With MG Siegler

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics includes Virgin America's sad fate as a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros, "doing work" on an iPad Pro, Walt Mossberg, the absurd bloat of iOS apps, Clips, Netflix and Amazon's spending on video, and more.

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0:00.0

In the old days, if I were going to have a show, we would have to be together.

0:04.8

You'd have to be in a studio with me.

0:07.8

You would think I would supply comfortable chairs for my guests.

0:11.8

I feel like forcing guests to use Skype is like, you get a folding chair that was outside

0:19.2

and it has like a rain scum on it.

0:23.0

Yeah.

0:24.0

It's nice to be on again.

0:29.0

There's a couple of things we have to talk about, I guess, or there's always stuff to talk

0:33.7

about.

0:34.7

There's a couple of recent posts that you've had on your 500-ish word site.

0:39.7

Is that what it's called?

0:41.0

I know that's the domain.

0:42.0

Yep, 500-ish words.

0:44.9

But you wrote about the end of Virgin America.

0:51.8

Can you summarize this?

0:53.2

And again, it's a perfect piece.

0:55.1

I will put it in the show loads.

0:57.6

But it is perfect in so far as you admit that Virgin America only flew between a very

1:02.8

small number of cities.

1:03.8

Right.

1:04.8

So there's a large number of people who, if you don't live in San Francisco, LA or New York,

1:07.6

you probably haven't flown Virgin.

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