441: ‘Serious Opinionators’, With Adam Engst
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 131 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Adam Angst, welcome back. I think it's been about five years since I've had you on the show, which I keep saying repeatedly to the guests on the show has been too long. |
| 0:09.5 | When last we spoke, I believe it was the tidbits 30th anniversary of tidbits. |
| 0:13.6 | That probably is just about right because we were closing it on 36 in April, I think. |
| 0:19.0 | Right. |
| 0:19.2 | Which is utterly incomprehensible. |
| 0:22.4 | And so to put it in context, and I think right now as we record in mid to late February, |
| 0:29.8 | there is no middle of February. |
| 0:31.2 | It just goes right from early February to the end of February. |
| 0:33.6 | But as we record, I think we're going to see a march that is dominated by Apple |
| 0:39.3 | is turning 50 coverage. And, you know, it's a big anniversary of 50 years. I think Apple itself is going |
| 0:45.8 | to be very uncomfortable with it. Oh, yeah, I didn't get a copy of that yet. Yeah, you can get |
| 0:50.9 | Postbook yet. Yeah. But I was supposed to, and I don't know why I didn't. And in fact, just before we recorded, I just emailed whoever his rep is about the fact that I think. Yeah, Simon & Schuster or someone, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can't wait to read it. That's Adam, you listeners won't hold it, won't be able to see it. |
| 1:23.3 | But Adam held up his copy of David Pogue's, an early edition of David Pogue's upcoming Apple at 50 book, which I'm greatly looking forward to and so glad that David Pogue wrote that book because I'm not quite sure. |
| 1:31.4 | I don't know if anybody would do a better job at Apple at 50 book. But just to put it in context, tidbits at 36, Apple's turning 50. |
| 1:40.5 | That means 72% of Apple's corporate lifespan tidbits has been around from. |
| 1:42.4 | I can't wrap my head around that. |
| 1:47.9 | And I guess for me, Daring Fireball started in 2020, |
| 1:57.9 | 2002, so it'll turn 24 in August. So, so your big one's in next year then. Yeah, but pretty close to half. And that to me is, that to me is nutty, but 72% must feel really weird for you. |
| 2:05.1 | I will admit there are times when, you know, something happens and you're like, I've seen this so many times before. |
| 2:12.9 | You know, it's a speed bump update. |
| 2:16.4 | Can we just say that? |
| 2:19.4 | You know, like... Yeah, I do like saying that. |
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