The Talk Show With John Gruber

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include indoor plumbing, a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s excellent “Westworld”, our favorite beverages, Apple’s AirPods launch debacle, Apple TV single sign-on, and more.

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Links:

• HBO’s post-Westworld Easter Egg laden site for Delos Inc..
• Ask Siri about “Westworld”.
• “A History of the World in Six Glasses”, by Tom Standage.
• Interesting New York Times story from January on Donald Trump’s brother Freddy, who drank himself to death in 1981.
• Glenn’s review of NewerTech’s $49 NuPower 60-Watt dual USB-A/USB-C charger — a single charger that can charge both a MacBook and iPhone at the same time.
• Tim Cook purportedly emails customer saying AirPods should ship over the “next few weeks”.
• Yours truly on what’s going on with the AirPods delay: unexpected manufacturing problems.
• Thoroughly Considered: the Studio Neat podcast.
• John Paczkowski summarizing the inauspicious partner list at the launch of Apple’s single sign-on service for TV content.
• Farhad Manjoo explains why he thinks gadgets are dying as a category: smartphones, probably.

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