290: ‘The Least Worst’, With Christina Warren

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Special guest Christina Warren joins the show. Topics include the App Store and antitrust, the general crumminess of video streaming service UIs, and historical examples of when Apple gets something wrong.

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Links:

• Steven Levy on the G4 Cube’s 20th anniversary.
• Me on the Cube and lessons learned.
• Report commissioned by Apple comparing the App Store to other “digital marketplaces”.
• Rolling Stone TV Critic Alan Sepinwall: “Who Loses Big in the Great Streaming Wars? The User”.
• Jason Snell pointing out that even the playback UIs stink for a lot of streaming apps.
• Jonathan Mann on Apple (Steve Jobs) deciding to use his “Antennagate Song” to open their emergency press conference.
• From the DF Archive: “Antennagate Bottom Line”.
• “The Innocence Files” — outstanding series on Netflix documenting the work of the Innocence Project, which works to free those convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
• Rocket — Weekly podcast hosted by Christina, Simone de Rochefort, and Brianna Wu.
• Christina on Twitter.

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