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The Talk Show With John Gruber

92: ‘That New Laptop Smell’ With Joanna Stern

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Topics include Joanna’s recent review of over 20 laptops; the HTC One M8 for Windows Phone; why Windows Phone is still struggling to gain traction; the role of Microsoft Office in today’s world; and speculation on Apple’s upcoming iPhone event.

Transcript

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0:00.0

breaking news. You see Steve Balmer stepped down from the Microsoft board.

0:03.9

I did. I did. I love him so much. So it's hard for me.

0:07.8

I'm kind of happy for him though, because I feel like he's already.

0:11.8

He's already got like a big new thing.

0:15.0

Yeah. No, he's found.

0:17.1

He's found his next windows, you know?

0:20.5

Yeah. Did you see the video of him at the, like,

0:23.2

clippers opening? He's going to be such a great owner.

0:27.8

Clippers fans don't know how good they're going to get it.

0:29.4

I mean, this just could have been like this probably what he should have been doing for 20 years.

0:34.8

I do. I kind of, I do kind of feel like that. I do. And I feel like, you know,

0:39.6

yeah, I mean, as a Yankees fan, I'm partial to the bigger than life owner,

0:46.8

like George Steinbrenner, which is exactly what Balmer is, except maybe he's,

0:51.2

maybe a little, a little bit, believe it or not, a little bit less angry.

0:59.8

I mean, the guy goes how to keep his cool though.

1:02.7

Have you ever seen the video on YouTube where he's at like a German press conference

1:07.6

and somebody throws something at him? Oh, yeah, yeah.

1:12.7

And he does, he's completely unfazed. Like it doesn't really bother him.

1:16.4

Right. You know, and he just like keeps spouting Microsoft propaganda.

1:21.0

And like, it doesn't really matter at all to him that he just got hit in the face by some German.

1:25.8

Yeah.

1:26.4

It's.

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