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The Talk Show With John Gruber

337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're a bad influence, Jason. Now I am. I have I've sent you down so many rabbit holes and sent you

0:06.6

after so many wild gooses. You've cost me a fortune in keyboards, most of which I don't use. Yeah.

0:14.6

Same. You know, I was looking at the speaking of keyboards. I have the key cron K2

0:23.1

yeah from a couple years ago. And apparently there's a new K2, but you would think this is what

0:27.9

gets me about these damn keyboard companies. You would think if the name of your product is the

0:32.8

key cron as the company, the K2, that's the that's a fine name for a keyboard, whatever it's,

0:39.3

but you would think if you updated it would become the K3 or the L2 or something, you know,

0:45.6

upgrade the letter, upgrade the number, but apparently there's a new K2, which you just have to know.

0:51.2

Because there's also a K3 and a K4 like they're all the different sizes is what they do. So yeah,

0:56.0

it's a size thing not a model thing anyway. There's a there's a Q2.

1:02.6

I do I have the Q1 here. That is what I'm using right now. I just Mike Hurley made it for me on

1:07.4

his livestreams that he does where he does keyboard stuff. Because he's I got him into it a little

1:12.0

bit and he just went down the rabbit hole to the plow. It's literally his hobby now. Yeah, it's

1:16.0

but I don't need this for me and sent it to me. So I've got a new keyboard today. It's pretty

1:21.4

it's very weighty. They carved it out of aluminum and it feels solid. I'm impressed by that. So I

1:27.1

I was looking at the Q2 and I thought, well, I don't want it because it's not Bluetooth and if I'm

1:31.7

going to have a wire, I'm just going to use my Apple extended keyboard to sure, but I showed it to

1:36.7

my son Jonas and he's become a mechanical keyboard aficionado. And not not through my encouragement.

1:45.1

If anything, I would have encouraged him to get into programming or something actually useful,

1:48.8

not something expensive. Yeah, expensive and just uses a lot of plastic. Right. But spent his own

1:56.9

Christmas money to get one and to add to his keyboard collection. And in addition,

2:04.7

also bought a set of different switches. This is how you do it. He is. So not just swapping out

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