231: ‘It’s a Deep Notch’ With Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.

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Links:

• Points Party — Dan’s email newsletter on credit card and airline rewards programs.
• Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack”.
  • Daring Fireball items on the story.
  • Supermicro’s old-school website (even uses a .cfm file extension).
  • Supermicro’s stock dive in the wake.
• Custom watch faces by Steven Troughton-Smith.
• David “Underscore” Smith’s retro watch face.
• The Verge hands-on with on Photoshop for iPad.
• The new “Palm” phone.
• Punkt’s minimal MP02 phone.
• Panic’s late great Status Board app for iPad.

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