The Talk Show With John Gruber

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a look back at the Apple year that was: the new one-port MacBook, Apple Watch's launch, WWDC and Apple Music, the iPhones 6S, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, iPad Mini 4, iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11, and, of course, the most important new product of the year, the Smart Battery Case.

This episode contains absolutely no Star Wars talk, except for a little.

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Links:

• Debug episode 76 (iTunes, Overcast): "Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about managing teams, managing up, retention, rivalry, and more", with hosts Rene Ritchie and Guy English.
• The Art of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
• "Obsession Times Voice": John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW 2009. "A pretty good stab at a simple formula for doing it right."
• Princess Leia wearing what looks like an Apple Watch in Return of the Jedi.
• Jennifer Bailey, Apple's VP of Apple Pay.
• uMake -- innovative iOS 3D drawing app with rich support for Apple Pencil.
• Gizmodo: "Everything Apple Introduced This Year Kinda Sucked".

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