The Talk Show

‘A Tube of Lubricant for Your Life’, With Guest Matthew Panzarino

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Special guest Matthew Panzarino joins the show. After some brief chitchat on Meerkat and monocular vision, we get into the obvious topic this week: Apple’s “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco. Sub-topics therein: ResearchKit; FaceTime and open standards; accessibility and Tim Cook’s refusal to measure the ROI of such things; Jeff Williams’s first on-stage appearance at an Apple keynote; Angela Ahrendts; the new single-port MacBook; San Francisco as the new keycap font on the MacBook keyboard; the Taptic trackpad; the timing of this event; and more.

Oh, and something called “Apple Watch”.

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Links:

• Meerkat.
• Video for Apple’s “Spring Forward” event.
• Matthew’s scoop on the Apple Watch diagnostic port.
• Matthew on Apple Watch: ‘The Apple Watch Is Time Saved’.
• Yours truly’s pretty good guesses on Apple Watch pricing.