The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include the new Pebble Time watch, the imminent arrival of Apple Watch, Paul’s clever new doorbell (and unfortunate refrigerator situation), a little bit of baseball, and why I can’t attend next week’s Apple event in San Francisco.

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Links:

• MacRumors “speculative pricing” forum posting that social media turned into a “leaked price list from Apple”.
• Ring, Paul’s clever new doorbell.
• Just The Tip, Paul’s podcast with my wife, Amy Jane Gruber.
• Paul, writing at One Foot Tsunami, on Apple’s continued disregard for the Unicode 7 “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended” emoji glyph, arguably the most pressing technical issue facing Apple and its users today.
• Apple’s response to Paul's Radar on the “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended” emoji.
• Audio Hijack 3, Rogue Amoeba’s new update to their excellent audio recording app for Mac.
• Interesting ESPN feature on Alex Rodriguez’s return to baseball.