160: ‘Fresh Out of Prison’ With Nilay Patel

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Nilay Patel joins the show. Topics include The Verge and Recode (and the state of the media industry at large), what’s going on with the lack of updates to professional Mac hardware, and, of course, Apple’s purported removal of the headphone jack on the upcoming new iPhones.

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Links:

• Nilay Patel: “Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid”.
• Cory Doctorow: “Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Phones With DRM for Audio”.
• Yours truly: “Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives”.
• Jason Snell: “Searching for a Good Reason to Remove the Headphone Jack”.

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