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The Talk Show With John Gruber

91: ‘BlackBerry Is Still Technically in Business’ With Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2014

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Topics include speculation — seriously, just speculation — on Apple’s purported upcoming wrist wearable thing, Apple’s fall event schedule, polarized sunglasses, market share in the post-PC era, and Beats’s integration into Apple (including a clever idea from Dan about the potential for a Beats Music channel on Apple TV).

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a very special week for you. You're now on the on the dole for both Google and Microsoft.

0:08.5

Very cool. That was by the time this episode airs that'll have been last week.

0:12.8

Wow, last week. Cool. We're in the future then also. Yeah.

0:17.2

Thanks to Facebook for sponsoring this week. Dan is referring to last week's

0:21.1

During Fireball R.S. Feed sponsor, which was Google, who took the spot to

0:25.6

Advertise job openings for their iOS apps, which I think is actually a fantastic sponsorship.

0:33.3

I think that I think that they're I hope they do well. I hope they get some good care.

0:37.6

If they get one good candidate out of it, they'll be delighted.

0:41.2

Yeah, it's actually really smart and I'm actually surprised more companies haven't been looking to do.

0:46.2

I mean, you know, there are job boards like there's that one that a lot of the sites use.

0:50.8

But companies like Google and Apple too and all the big tech companies spend so much money

0:57.6

on recruiting. It's not even funny. And it's more and more because it's really a

1:02.2

They all say that it's one of the biggest problems they have right now.

1:07.5

Oh, totally, especially engineers. I mean, they're willing to buy them for like a million dollars each

1:11.8

in these aquahires. So surely a few blog sponsorships here and there are good investment.

1:18.8

But it actually it inspired me to get out my old the only Android device in my house,

1:25.6

which I've actually never used until today was it's a Nexus 7 that I don't even know how we got it.

1:31.2

But so long had passed between receiving it and

1:35.9

Trying to use it that it had actually been bricked.

1:39.8

Like I I plugged it in for a month and it still didn't charge at all.

1:45.5

And then today randomly I'm like throwing stuff out and I was like,

1:49.3

Oh, I should just throw out this stupid Nexus 7 that never worked and I plugged it in and started charging.

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