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The Talk Show With John Gruber

393: ‘An Asterisk on the Bento Box’, With Marco Arment

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 190 minutes

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Summary

Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include the Apple-Masimo patent dispute over Apple Watch blood oxygen sensors, the new External Payment Links entitlement for the App Store, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, running the gamut here, it's the third and final of the ATP

0:04.8

triumvirate in a row back to back to back. I don't think I've ever done this

0:08.0

before. No. Closest was when I had you three guys on stage

0:12.4

before I upgraded to Apple execex at the live show.

0:15.0

I admit I was getting a little nervous because you had John and Casey on and I just didn't hear from you for like a month.

0:20.0

So I was like, damn, am I getting snubbed here? Like what's going on? like a money

0:25.0

money falls through my well you know how a money falls through my fingers like water and also time yes

0:32.1

I'm not good with money and I'm not good with time, but you and I missed our somewhat

0:37.2

traditional in-person summer recording, which we've been doing for several years while me and my family have been guests at your

0:44.9

beach house and then you and I the fun fun loving vacationers that we are.

0:51.7

Always take an entire afternoon to record an episode of the show in person. But we missed that last summer and I think you haven't been on since February, but here you are. I mean this is a good one. I'm happy to take this one yeah so in the

1:07.6

big picture I feel like there's three big things on the agenda there's this Apple Watch patent situation with Massimo. There's this App Store external

1:21.1

payment link entitlement. I think I'm getting the link

1:24.1

EPL I remember that whole fiasco and then I don't know if you've heard

1:28.9

Apple has a major new product coming out.

1:33.0

Talk about bad PR timing for the company.

1:35.0

How bad is it that at the time they are launching this major new product that has been years in the making,

1:41.0

lots of the company contributing lots of different pieces to it.

1:45.0

Like it's a huge ordeal to Long Vision Pro and Vision OS and this whole platform.

1:50.0

And now we're talking about these dumb lawsuits and App Store BS instead.

1:53.0

Like that's got to irritate people.

1:54.9

It should irritate people there, especially the parts of it that are their fault.

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