438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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3.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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A look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie.

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0:00.0	Renee, it's been a while.
0:01.7	Yes.
0:02.8	I've been busy.
0:03.4	You've been busy.
0:04.8	Yeah.
0:05.2	I understand you're working at some kind of plucky startup in the video space.
0:10.7	Yeah.
0:11.2	It turns out if you want to take yourself and put you on a tube, we got the platform for you.
0:16.6	You have been on the show since you've started at YouTube, right?
0:19.8	Yeah.
0:20.4	And I think it was when you first started.
0:22.7	Yeah, absolutely.
0:24.1	And how's it going?
0:25.4	It's going great.
0:26.4	I love helping people and I get the opportunity to help people at YouTube scale, which is once in a lifetime.
0:32.4	That's why I did it.
0:34.3	It's to me, because there's other scaling, computers can do so much now that there are scaling things that just make no sense.
0:42.2	But like, it's like the stats on like how much the amount of video that gets uploaded to YouTube every hour of every day.
0:53.0	Do you know the numbers off the top of your head?
0:55.0	They're mind-boggling.
0:56.3	I don't.
0:56.7	But, yeah, it's just all the video all day from everybody.
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