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The Talk Show With John Gruber

361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in the App Store.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Federico, it is it's so good to hear your voice. I do hope that after the show

0:08.7

the world goes a little bit better than it did the last time you were on. Do you remember?

0:14.9

Oh my gosh, that was right. Was that right before the lockdowns? Like I remember we were talking like

0:22.8

is this gonna last

0:24.8

for a few months like that was spring 2020. Yep, the last time you were gracious enough to be the

0:32.0

guest my guest on this show was at the end of February. Yeah, the show probably came out in the

0:36.8

beginning of March. I didn't check of 2020 and Italy was going through at the time seemed to

0:45.2

have an abnormally large problem with. Have you heard of it? It's called it was called COVID-19.

0:52.2

No, it was a novel coronavirus. Oh gosh. And in hindsight, I cannot believe how much at the time

1:05.6

I just chalked it up to well, I feel bad for all of my friends and the whole country of Italy that

1:12.7

they've had such rotten luck with this as opposed to what in hindsight was clearly Italy is just

1:19.4

going first. Yeah, and I remember having the conversation with you about like, do you think

1:24.4

Apple is going to postpone that we have you see? And I remember you saying, well, no, I don't think

1:28.8

they are. I think they can still pull off an event. And then of course, we know how that went.

1:33.4

I was like much of the world at that two week period before all the shutdowns far.

1:41.9

I don't even I was going to say optimistic. I think better word would be naive and in denial

1:48.0

about how significant it was, but really it's quite quite a lot has happened outside the area

1:56.7

of Apple technology design, all the stuff we talk about since the last time you were on. I hope

2:02.0

you're I hope that like it's funny because you were we're recording this literally the day after

2:08.4

Elon Musk took over Twitter. So I'm not sure if it's just like another one of those things like

2:13.2

what's going to happen before like if you ever invite me back like it's is this like a bed sign?

2:19.0

Am I bad luck for global events whenever I come on the talk show? I hope not. Oh gosh.

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