The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Links:

• MacRumors: "Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid".
• Foldable iPhone: Maybe in 2027, or maybe never.
• Moltz's "This Week in Apple" column at Six Colors.
• Joz's "It's going to be Absolutely Incredible" tweet hinting at AI-related WWDC announcements.
• Netflix’s “3 Body Problem”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction”.
• Yours truly:
  • “The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue”.
  • “European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta”.
• Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
  • “Thoughts on Music”.
  • “Thoughts on Flash”.
• Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022.
• Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging.
• ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline”.
• Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter.
  • Calcaterra’s breakdown of the Ohtani gambling scandal.
• The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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.

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Links:

• Weather Up.
  • On the App Store.
  • Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.
• RevenueCat.
• Sub Club Podcast.
• “How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.
• Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).
• March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
  • Apple Newsroom post.
• WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
  • Apple Newsroom post.
• Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.
• Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.
• Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.
• City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
• Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.
• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
• David, in a blog post from 2011: "Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products".
• David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta's average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple's €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• My review of Vision Pro.
• My follow-up: "Simple Tricks and Nonsense".
• Sandwich.
• Newton Connection Kit.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter The Obsessor -- returns to the show to talk about -- what else? -- the Vision Pro.

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Links:

• My review of the Vision Pro.
• Techmeme's roundup of reviews.
• The Obsessor.
• TipTop.
• The Atari 400, with the most craptacular keyboard I've ever used.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.