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The Talk Show With John Gruber

338: ‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's been some drama in the rumor community recently.

0:04.8

You sent me the link to what was the guy's name, the guy who always had the dreams.

0:08.9

Kang.

0:10.2

So I love to dream and Kang and yeah.

0:12.4

Yeah, so tell me about tell for people who don't know, tell me about Kang.

0:17.8

Well, so there was a few like I think a lot of people who maybe listened to this show are

0:21.5

familiar with the American based reporter is like Mark German or John Prasser.

0:26.8

Evie, Evie Leaks, I don't know how to say it, Evlieks, Evie Leaks.

0:30.1

Yeah, there's just there's a bunch of them, just European based too.

0:33.2

But there was a growing contingent coming from China where all the supply chain is.

0:37.2

They had access to a lot of information and that included love to dream and Kang and I don't

0:42.1

know where Dylan DKT was based. No idea, but there were quite a few people who were primarily

0:47.2

Twitter leakers. Which is way bow.

0:51.8

Right, which is weird, because I don't even understand what the and I'm not so cynical as to

1:01.6

suggest that the only reason anybody would do anything is to be

1:07.1

renumerated for it financially.

1:10.4

There's certainly a lot of things I've done that I just give out to the world.

1:14.8

But it's the rumor thing in particular has often seemed, there's always been rumor sites go

1:20.4

all the way back to think secret. I mean, think secret isn't even going all the way back.

1:25.0

There were sites in the 90s. I forget some of the names, but I think there was one Mac rumors,

1:30.6

which is not to be confused with Mac. Mac OS rumors.

1:34.6

Or no, Mac OS rumors, not to be confused with the current long running site Mac rumors.

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