276: ‘Bring It On, Haters’ With Ben Thompson

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPad.

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Links:

• DF: “The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10”.
• Ben: “The Tragic iPad”.
• Tweetie for iPad: Loren Brichter’s iPad masterpiece from 2010.
• Ben in 2013: “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong”.
• Average times to brute-force crack iOS device passcodes.
• The feds got Paul Manafort’s encrypted WhatsApp texts from his iCloud backup.
• Ben’s and my favorite iPad drawing app: The Iconfactory’s Linea.
• Obsessive Astros fan upset by scandal logged 8,200 pitches from 2017.
• Randy Johnson tipped his pitches his entire career.
• Randy Johnson faces John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star game and Kruk wants nothing to do with him.
• Kobe scores 62 in 3 quarters in 2005.
• Kobe scores 81 in 2006.
• Kobe scores 60 in his final game in 2016.

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