The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show. After some brief chitchat on Meerkat and monocular vision, we get into the obvious topic this week: Apple’s “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco. Sub-topics therein: ResearchKit; FaceTime and open standards; accessibility and Tim Cook’s refusal to measure the ROI of such things; Jeff Williams’s first on-stage appearance at an Apple keynote; Angela Ahrendts; the new single-port MacBook; San Francisco as the new keycap font on the MacBook keyboard; the Taptic trackpad; the timing of this event; and more.

Oh, and something called “Apple Watch”.

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Links:

• Meerkat.
• Video for Apple's "Spring Forward" event.
• Matthew's scoop on the Apple Watch diagnostic port.
• Matthew on Apple Watch: 'The Apple Watch Is Time Saved'.
• Yours truly's pretty good guesses on Apple Watch pricing.