195: ‘I Do Like Throwing a Baby’ With John Moltz

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include more follow-up from WWDC 2017, the iPad Pro models and ProMotion, Scott Forstall's interview with John Markoff regarding the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone, the ongoing shitshow at Uber, quick thoughts on the Nintendo Switch, and more. Also: guess which John enjoys throwing babies into the air.

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Links:

• Michael Hagain at Lead Fast on the Chinese-made Dixon Ticonderoga pencils.
• Chris Pirillo on iPad Pro, Promotion, and iOS.
• Museum Historian John Markoff moderates a discussion with former iPhone team members Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra and Scott Herz, followed by a conversation with Scott Forstall.
• Episodes of Guy English and Rene Ritchie’s Debug podcast with Nitin Gunatra and Don “No Fucks Left to Give” Melton:
  • Episode I
  • Episode II
  • Episode III
  • Episode IV
  • Episode V
• Navistone — the creepy company that sells a JavaScript library for collecting form data as soon as you type it.
• Chris Lattner leaves Tesla.
• The Outline: “Apple’s War on Leakers”.
• Brian Merchant’s The One Device and the excerpt that ran in The Verge.
• Evidence in High Sierra betas suggests iMac Pro might come with Secure Enclave ARM chip.
• Donors Choose — a great way to contribute money to help teachers buy supplies for their classrooms.
• The Osborne Effect.

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