297: ‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’, With David Smith
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 167 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, David Smith, how's your week been boring? Probably. |
| 0:03.2 | Yeah. Nothing going on. It's just the beginning of fall. |
| 0:06.2 | Things are quiet. You know, the leaves are turning. |
| 0:09.3 | Feed up on the ottoman. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah, that's me. |
| 0:12.4 | Like it's just finally cool enough that I can get a fire going in the fireplace. |
| 0:16.2 | And I can sit on the, you know, it's just by the fire and read a casual book. |
| 0:19.3 | Did something like that dig into a long novel that you've been saving up for a while. |
| 0:24.8 | Or the opposite of that. |
| 0:25.9 | I think what the scene we just described is the exact opposite of how it's the last week. |
| 0:30.6 | It's been in my life. Yeah. Isn't that always the truth though? |
| 0:33.8 | I mean, I know it's like the, it's like a, the human condition where if you |
| 0:39.0 | had released new apps and it didn't seem to go anywhere, went over like a lead balloon, |
| 0:44.0 | you would think, wouldn't it be great if one of these apps had been a hit? |
| 0:47.0 | Wouldn't it be great? Yeah. And now that your app is a hit, |
| 0:49.8 | wouldn't it be great to just have a weed fire? |
| 0:53.0 | It's a fire. |
| 0:55.4 | So as we record this episode on Tuesday, the 29th, it'll be out tomorrow, probably the 30th, |
| 1:03.0 | the top downloaded free app, top app right now in the app store is your app, |
| 1:10.1 | widgets, Smith. Yes. |
| 1:12.2 | And it has been the top app since Friday, the 18th. |
| 1:17.8 | So about a week and a half ago. |
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