232: ‘I’ll Eat My Hat’ With John Moltz
Hosted by
John Gruber
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week's Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.
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Links:
- My iPhone XR review and follow-up.
- Strategic Conquest.
- Bolo — networked Mac game from 1987).
- The Secret History of Mac Gaming, by Richard Moss.
- Joanna Stern: “Ugh, Green Bubbles! Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard”.
- Vlad Savov on Google’s imminent Night Sight feature for Pixel phones.
- Research paper and video showing Night-Sight-like results.
- Sam Byford on Chinese phone OSes based on Android.
- Totallee super thin iPhone cases.
- Jason Snell on building a Hackintosh (or as Moltz put it, a Macinstein).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton, who insists he’s going to the grave with a tiny phone.
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