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The Talk Show With John Gruber

319: ‘You Called Him Pixel Mature’, With John Moltz

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Special guest: John Moltz. Special topics: Playdate preorders, MagSafe battery packs, iPad keyboard covers, Facebook and NSO Group, Safari 15 betas, and “Loki”.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, you ready to go? Yeah, I'm recording. Oh, yeah. Yeah, excited for later today. Is that human well everything?

0:06.9

I'm excited to be disappointed by it. It's

0:10.0

exciting for everything. No, no, I'm not excited for everything.

0:16.3

It seems like too much. That seems like too much.

0:19.6

We are recording on Play Date Day. Yeah. Before Play Dates go on pre-sale in like a little over two hours

0:28.4

and I cannot wait to buy one. I would like to buy everything. I want the pen. I want I want to live the Play Date lifestyle

0:35.6

and I'm afraid that it's going to be like buying an iPhone. Yeah, back in the day. That's what I'm afraid of too. Yeah.

0:44.0

I'm going to, yeah, my mind is going to be delivery for mine is going to be sometime in next year or sometime.

0:50.4

And just like buying iPhones immediately at 3am or 5am or whenever they go on sale. It's also the

0:57.6

the the kick and the pants is always that we've all got friends and we're all on Slack or Group X.

1:02.8

And it's like somebody's going to get in. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking about this yesterday. I was thinking

1:08.8

that someday a company is going to come up with the idea of offering a like a half price device

1:17.4

that you can get that works for an hour. And so, so you know when it's one of those

1:25.4

lunch day things like you try and get the real one. If you can't, well, you could get this half

1:29.5

price one and then you could say that you got it and that you played with it and you loved it.

1:34.3

But you only have to pay half price for it. But it broke it. It broke an hour. After an hour,

1:38.8

it doesn't work anymore. I'm still excited about Play Date. And I think I don't mind I go on about

1:45.6

it because I have, you know, it's just pre-orders and they're shipping hopefully later this year. But

1:50.0

I'm so proud of our pals at Panic. I think this is such an amazing, it is such an amazing thing to do.

1:56.2

And Nevin, Nevin was tweeting I think this morning about like how we're showing Slack images from

2:02.1

like four years, seven years ago when they were talking about it. Right. One of the things about

2:07.2

it being slightly retro inspired. And like they're not all in on retro. It's not like they're trying

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