265: ‘Thompson’s Razor’ With Ben Thompson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the latest Surface hardware announcements from Microsoft, the state of the iPhone, and bulk purchases of charcoal.

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Links:

• The Seattle Times: “Whistleblower: Boeing Rejected 737 Max Safety Upgrades Before Fatal Crashes”.
• Matt Stoller on the disastrous leadership at Boeing after merging with McDonnell-Douglas.
• The biggest announcements from Microsoft’s 2019 Surface event.
• Yours Truly: “Apple and Hong Kong”.
• Ben Thompson: “The China Cultural Clash”.
• Microsoft’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard.
• The old Microsoft Courier prototype.
• iPhone “8S” rumors (a.k.a. the new iPhone SE).
• Luna Display — use your iPad as a second Mac display without upgrading to MacOS 10.15 Catalina.
• MacBook Pro displays, circa 2015, with bad anti-reflective coating.
• Steve Jobs making peace with Bill Gates and Microsoft at Macworld Expo New York 1997: “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win Microsoft has to lose.”.
• Microsoft’s 2010 “funeral” for the iPhone on the streets of Redmond.

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