252: ‘The Dustin Egress Problem’ With Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic From Panic
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 130 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, John. Hi, cable. It's been a while. Oh, so here we go. Special episode is a very special |
| 0:08.4 | episode of the talk show and it's not just one guest. It's three. It's panic co-founders, |
| 0:15.8 | cable sassers and Stephen Frank, no strangers to being guests together on this show. And |
| 0:20.8 | first time guest, Greg, Meledic. Hello, everybody. Hey, John. Hey, John. How are you? Thanks. |
| 0:26.9 | For having us. Hello. We are here to talk about the most exciting piece of hardware and hand |
| 0:35.7 | hold hand held gaming in years. Just today, Apple released an update to the iPod Touch. Are you |
| 0:44.1 | going to be excited? Are you guys excited? Finally. Sure. I think it's a great platform to be |
| 0:52.5 | on it. iPod Touch. Yeah. Yeah. It is really nice. So I think that it is exciting. I have, of |
| 0:59.0 | course, I'm kidding. We're here to talk about play date. But the iPod Touch is new. We could |
| 1:04.2 | briefly touch on it. It's a it's it is such isn't it such an oddball device like it it obviously |
| 1:10.2 | must sell in high enough quantities that they don't get rid of it, right? Like they don't sell old |
| 1:16.1 | spin wheel click wheel iPods anymore, right? At some point, people stop buying them and Apple stop |
| 1:20.9 | making them. They're not they don't keep making things for nostalgic purposes. But on the other |
| 1:25.5 | hand, they didn't update it in four years, which is a long time. Did they make any other iPod product |
| 1:32.3 | right now? Do they still make the nothing else, right? There's no nano. There's no shuffle. I don't |
| 1:36.8 | pick some. So the iPod Touch is the last remaining iPod. Yeah. And then when the nano and shuffle |
| 1:42.5 | existed, that was even weirder because there was like that clone OS of iOS. Somebody has to work |
| 1:49.0 | on this every day. And that always seems super strange to me. But I think the iPod Touch is really |
| 1:54.3 | cool. I don't know. It's a great size. I mean, and I've had many as the closest thing to it. |
| 1:59.6 | Yeah, that's true. But that's too big for some cases. Yeah. And it's always surprisingly thinner |
| 2:06.1 | than whatever the state of the art iPhone is. Yes. I remember and I've told this story before. But |
| 2:12.9 | at some point, I'm pretty sure it was a WDBC, but it was something at at a Moscone West. It was an |
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