382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and our favorite features in iOS 17 now that it’s in public beta.

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0:00.0	Craig, I, it felt like six months is a good time to check.
0:03.9	Yes, for the whole of the six months.
0:06.1	Yeah, those have an anniversary.
0:09.9	What do you call it?
0:10.7	Annual Twitter.
0:11.6	Yeah, by annual.
0:13.8	By annual is one of those words, like biweekly, bi monthly.
0:17.0	Those, I'd never know.
0:18.9	No, I think, is it, is it being twice or every other?
0:22.5	I think it's one of those literal holes in the English language where it means both.
0:28.5	Like, bi annual means like every six months and it means every two years.
0:33.2	Yeah, it's like you pick it up out of context.
0:35.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:37.0	There's all sorts of funny, entire books written about the oddities of the English language,
0:41.4	but that's, that's one that has to be considered a bug.
0:44.0	But anyway, we're doing it six months.
0:45.8	I don't want to wait two years.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:48.5	Well, yeah, whatever we're going to call it may not be around in two years.
0:53.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:54.8	When, when last you were on in January,
0:57.7	the wounds were fresh, Elon Musk.
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