The Talk Show With John Gruber

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

419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler

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

23 Mar 2025 - 02 h 28 min 58 s

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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.

9 Mar 2025 - 02 h 42 min 03 s

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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.

25 Feb 2025 - 02 h 43 s

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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.

24 Dec 2024 - 02 h 32 min 38 s

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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.

2 Dec 2024 - 02 h 32 min 52 s

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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.

19 Nov 2024 - 01 h 54 min 06 s

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413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann

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

9 Nov 2024 - 02 h 52 min 16 s

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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.

1 Nov 2024 - 01 h 41 min 42 s

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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.

8 Oct 2024 - 01 h 53 min 03 s

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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.

1 Oct 2024 - 02 h 12 min 58 s

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