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The Talk Show With John Gruber

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.83.6K Ratings

Overview

The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.

347 Episodes

426: ‘The Cutting Edge Latest Supermodel’, With David Smith

Special guest David Smith returns to the show for a developer's perspective look at WWDC 2025.

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2025

425: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’, With Chance Miller

Chance Miller returns to the show to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2025.

Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2025

424: ‘Live From WWDC 2025’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2025.

Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2025

423: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’, With Patrick McGee

Patrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, *Apple in China* -- one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2025

422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett

Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay.fm, joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive's LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of "Made in America" iPhones; and Fortnite's return to the US App Store.

Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2025

421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod

Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, *Things Become Other Things*. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2025

420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book “Six Centuries of Type & Printing”.

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2025

419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.

Transcribed - Published: 23 March 2025

418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, [Tapestry](https://usetapestry.com/) — a universal timeline for the Internet.

Transcribed - Published: 8 March 2025

417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis

Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac

Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024

415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike

Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2024

414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2024

413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann

This again. Once more, let's talk *around* another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something *about* it.

Transcribed - Published: 9 November 2024

412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren

Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2024

411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman

Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.

Transcribed - Published: 7 October 2024

410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple's September product announcements, and Meta's Orion prototype AR glasses.

Transcribed - Published: 30 September 2024

409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2024

408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard

Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.

Transcribed - Published: 31 August 2024

407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller

Chance Miller, ace reporter for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple's DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.

Transcribed - Published: 28 August 2024

406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren (a.k.a. “Mary Brown”) returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.

Transcribed - Published: 31 July 2024

405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas

Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike fiasco, and the closing of the iconic Mirage resort in Las Vegas.

Transcribed - Published: 28 July 2024

404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz

John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2024

403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson

Quinn Nelson, renowned host of [Snazzy Labs](https://www.youtube.com/@snazzy), returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.

Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2024

402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2024

401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024

400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler

Special guest M.G. Siegler returns to the show to talk about the new iPad Pros, the iPadOS/MacOS functional gulf, the OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson controversy, and M.G.'s new blog Spyglass.

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2024

399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci

Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2024

398: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz

The one and only John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the relative dearth of original content for Vision Pro, WWDC rumors and guesses, and, yes, a wee bit about Apple's regulatory/antitrust tribulations.

Transcribed - Published: 30 March 2024

397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2024

396: ‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard

Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.

Transcribed - Published: 29 February 2024

395: ‘I’m a Real-World Man’, With Adam Lisagor

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.

Transcribed - Published: 12 February 2024

395: ‘I‘m a Real-World Man’, With Adam Lisagor

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.

Transcribed - Published: 12 February 2024

394: ‘An Impossible Balcony’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter [The Obsessor](https://www.theobsessor.com/) -- returns to the show to talk about -- what else? -- the Vision Pro.

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2024

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

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.

Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2024

392: ‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss

Apple’s 2023 year in review, with Casey Liss.

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2023

391: ‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa

Special holiday guest: John Siracusa. Special holiday topics: the Apple/Masimo patent dispute over the blood oxygen sensors in Apple Watches, the ongoing Beeper Mini/iMessage saga, iOS 17.3’s upcoming Stolen Device Protection feature, Apple’s new Journal app. Also, an ode to big-ass tower desktops.

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2023

390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.

Transcribed - Published: 30 November 2023

389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera

Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2023

388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2023

387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky

Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide, Spectre, and Orion) and speculate about next week’s “Scary Fast” Apple event.

Transcribed - Published: 27 October 2023

386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz

Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with OpenAI on an “AI device”, and more.

Transcribed - Published: 30 September 2023

385: ‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.

Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2023

384: ‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons

Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro, and his enthusiasm for the future of spatial computing.

Transcribed - Published: 31 August 2023

383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestent on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.

Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2023

382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and our favorite features in iOS 17 now that it’s in public beta.

Transcribed - Published: 31 July 2023

381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security.

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2023

380: ‘The M Is for Magnificent’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2023

379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig

Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along with highlights from WWDC 2023.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2023

378: ‘Live From WWDC 2023’, With John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Back in San Jose's historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2023.

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2023

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