235: ‘Jony White’s Universe of Objective Purity’ With Rene Ritchie

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about iPad Pro — the new Pencil, the new amazing new hardware, keyboard options, and the OS that in many ways still feels meant for a phone. Also: the state of Apple’s MacBook lineup, and a plea to Apple to please — please — make the small Magic Keyboard in space gray.

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Links:

• Yours truly on the lack of third-party USB-C to Lightning cables and the future of Lightning.
• Rene’s Vector video on Apple Pencil, drawn with Apple Pencil.
• “Eat Up Martha”.
• Logitech’s $70 squishy AF “Keys-to-Go” slim keyboard for iPad and iPhone.
• Studio Neat’s excellent Canopy case for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
• “Thoroughly Considered” — monthly podcast with Studio Neat co-founders Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt.
• Steve Jobs introducing original MacBook Air.
• Bending iPads — fun video from Snazzy Labs.

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