The Talk Show With John Gruber

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214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis


Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, [Farrago](https://rogueamoeba.com/farrago/) (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.

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Links:

  • You Look Nice Today: “Aunt Nancy”.
  • Unofficial You Look Nice Today topic index.
  • Video proof, from yours today, that you can’t spear a Mento.
  • The Shirley Temple of Doom.
  • Rich Siegel’s excellent presentation at Cingleton 2014 on removing BBEdit from the Mac App Store.
  • Is the top of the HomePod a “touchscreen”? We decide no, it is not, rendering this Claim Chowder piece from yours truly wrong.
  • HomePod reviews:
    • Mine.
    • Jim Dalrymple’s, with backstage footage from our tour of Apple’s audio lab.
    • Matthew Panzarino’s for TechCrunch.
    • Nilay Patel’s for The Verge.
    • Brian Chen’s for the NYT.
  • Farrago, Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app.
  • Designing Farrago.
  • Just The Tip: The Fracture Swap.
  • buttholevideo.com.

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


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 February 9, 2018  2h10m