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The Talk Show With John Gruber

279: ‘Chain of Precision’ With Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Jason Snell returns to the show. Life during the COVID-19 pandemic, WWDC going online-only, Apple's in-person on-campus workplace culture, speculation on upcoming Apple product releases, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How's your week anything going on?

0:03.6

On one level. Yes a whole lot and on another level absolutely nothing so you know, thank you

0:10.4

Absolutely nothing. It's the I can't even does nothing on my mind

0:16.5

Boy it just seems like every day is the same as the last

0:20.6

Holy hell

0:22.4

Yeah, we were looking forward to my daughter coming home for spring break next week

0:25.8

And instead my daughter is now home to do her online finals and then she'll be here for a month at least

0:32.6

So yeah, she's happy she's so through in nothing like having your freshman year

0:37.8

like switched off and kicked back to your parents. I don't know. Well, what are you?

0:42.9

All right, you're a college student. What's our all of this is bad and and let's just let me just say this as a preamble that number one

0:49.9

We're we're recording on Monday March 16th

0:54.5

At at 6.30 p.m. Eastern dive three Pacific and who the hell knows what the world will be like by the time this podcast gets out the door

1:04.1

But who knows where it will be like by the time we finish recording right? Yes, yeah good point very good point

1:10.7

I honestly thought the first person who I heard say that was there's a great restaurant guy here in Philly

1:17.7

Mark Vettry and is is is a couple restaurants now, but is or not not Vettry it was

1:24.3

Well, Vettry was quoted too, but there's a couple of restaurant guys

1:27.4

But one of them was I think I might have been Vettry was quoted everybody was saying everything's changed in day by day

1:31.6

And he goes no it's changed an hour by hour

1:33.8

Yeah, and that is only for now who knows minute by minute

1:40.1

Anyway, let me just say as a preamble that

1:43.0

this coronavirus thing and

1:45.8

Could not be more serious. It is hitting everybody. I don't I can't imagine I

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