The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Ben Thompson’s argument that Apple’s functional organizational structure is hindering their efforts in online services, recalling our first Apple computers and the elegance of the classic Mac OS’s conceptual design, Prince (and his early use of Macs for creating music), emoji and exclamation marks, WWDC 2016, and yours truly’s youthful foray into on-the-job vandalism.

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Links:

• Great article by Ben Thompson: “Apple’s Organizational Crossroads”
• BeOS developers tossing CRT monitors off the roof of their office building, circa 2000.
• Interesting study on differing interpretations of emoji across platforms.
• Napkin — a terrific Mac image annotation app from Guy and Chris Parrish.

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