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The Talk Show With John Gruber

273: ‘My Cousin Hans’ With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last show of the decade. Special guest: Rene Ritchie.

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0:00.0

I did the thing that I said I was gonna do. I don't know if you'd listen to my show with

0:04.0

with Rich Siegel, but I said I had to use a dongle to go from this Onyx Blackjack USB device to

0:14.8

the thing. I mean by the time the show is over by the time I'm done doing the talk show,

0:22.1

it's recursive. By the time I'm done I'll have about four or five hours of

0:31.5

backloaded backstory about the USB interface to Skype and that'll be it. That'll be it. It'll

0:41.4

be the final show. The final, you'll know it's over when I've got about four hours of backstory.

0:47.7

I'll record two hours of it. I'll leave two hours of it unsaid just to give people you know

0:54.4

something to hope for in the future. It'll all be about USB interfaces. But I'll tell you what,

1:00.9

I finally did it. I bought that cable that I was talking about which is USB B. I don't know

1:08.3

what the hell it is. Yeah, USB B. Which is the dumbest port ever, right? I mean who the why

1:15.2

does that even exist? But anyway, but anyway, I got USB B to USB C. So there's no dongles. You

1:26.0

are listening to me, Renee, with no dongles. There is not a single dongle between my voice

1:34.1

and your ears and the ears of our hundreds of listeners. I did the same thing. I was

1:40.8

heard you talking about it. I ordered the USB B to the USB C because my I have this fancy high end

1:46.3

USB pre-to amp and it still has a damn USB B port on it. Oh man. Hey, while we're on it while we're

1:57.4

on the topic, what's what's the name of this thing that so so there actually is some news that

2:06.4

has broken in the last few weeks and it's this consortium. I don't know what you want to call it

2:16.7

with the Amazon and Google and Apple and they're going to try it. It's chip, right? Basically,

2:25.8

it seems like Apple is spearheading it. It kind of seems like it's coming from Apple. But

2:34.1

basically, it sounds like it's an idea to make home connected devices like Hey,

2:48.1

or Hey Google or whatever your favorite thing says devices. Sort of make it like a USB type thing.

3:03.2

Where? Right. Where they're interoperable. And I got to tell you if they pull it off,

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