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

Location:

Austin, TX

Description:

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

Language:

English


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

4/29/2024
Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more.

Duration:02:27:59

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

3/30/2024
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.

Duration:01:33:40

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

3/26/2024
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.

Duration:03:28:03

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

2/29/2024
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.

Duration:03:38:18

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

2/12/2024
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.

Duration:02:17:52

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394: ‘An Impossible Balcony’, With Matthew Panzarino

1/31/2024
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.

Duration:02:23:21

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

1/25/2024
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.

Duration:03:09:44

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392: ‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss

12/31/2023
Apple’s 2023 year in review, with Casey Liss.

Duration:03:12:33

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391: ‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa

12/23/2023
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.

Duration:02:43:34

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

11/30/2023
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.

Duration:02:02:30

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

11/22/2023
Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of news and social media.

Duration:02:02:30

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388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren

10/31/2023
Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch iMac.

Duration:02:11:17

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

10/27/2023
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.

Duration:02:02:15

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386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz

9/30/2023
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.

Duration:01:30:50

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

9/28/2023
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.

Duration:02:12:10

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384: ‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons

8/31/2023
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.

Duration:01:18:57

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

8/29/2023
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.

Duration:02:45:59

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

7/31/2023
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.

Duration:01:39:43

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381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern

7/11/2023
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.

Duration:01:55:26

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

6/30/2023
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.

Duration:02:04:24