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The Talk Show With John Gruber

298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, not much has changed in the world since April of last year.

0:04.6

Nothing at all.

0:07.5

I think I know I every time it comes up, I always say, yeah,

0:12.3

it looks like it was April 30th, 2019.

0:14.9

Every time Skype comes up on a podcast, it gets real meta, real quick and

0:20.2

people complain and I know people use other things and there's, you know,

0:23.2

who knows, maybe I'll stop, maybe I'll move on to something better.

0:27.4

Ben and I use something called Zencaster for, yep, for dithering,

0:32.9

which is really weird, but works really well, even when the things that are bad that could happen.

0:40.7

Have you ever used Zencaster?

0:42.4

Yeah, the web version you made?

0:43.9

Yeah, so it's this web thing.

0:45.7

You have to run it in Chrome or a Chrome browser. It doesn't work as far.

0:51.2

And you start thinking weird things like, well, wait a minute.

0:56.5

If it's in a browser, couldn't you like accidentally close a tab and then you lose it?

1:00.8

And I did that a couple days ago.

1:03.9

And it's all pretty, it defends against it in pretty smart ways.

1:08.2

Like I closed Chrome before everything was uploaded and I just reopened it and it was there.

1:15.8

And it like uses local storage to save a wave file and it was still there.

1:20.7

Yeah, but it's terrifying because while that worked, like, oh my God,

1:24.9

I shouldn't have closed that, reopened there it is.

1:27.8

On the other hand, like Ben and I will go from like, it always happens from Thursday to Sunday.

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