The Talk Show

‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman

Friday, 30 April 2021

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.

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Links:

• My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
• Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
• Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
• Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
• Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
• MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
• Apple Platform Security Guide.
• Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
• “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
• Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
• Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
• “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
• That scene from “The Naked Gun”, exquisitely synced to my remarks about it, thanks to Todd Vaziri.

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