443: ‘The Pogue Feature’, With David Pogue
March 18, 2026
David Pogue's book, *
442: ‘Bad Dates’, With Jason Snell
March 1, 2026
Jason Snell gave MacOS 26 Tahoe a high grade (a 'five') in the Six Colors Apple Report Card partly to be intentionally provocative, despite acknowledging significant UI regressions like Liquid Glass and inconsistent menu icons.
441: ‘Serious Opinionators’, With Adam Engst
February 25, 2026
Apple's decision to offer both Classic and Unified views in the iOS 26 Phone app is praised as a welcome return to user customizability, contrasting with recent design trends.
440: ‘Flush a Radar’, With Brent Simmons
February 1, 2026
Brent Simmons has retired from Audible after five years working on the iOS app, where he focused on simplifying the codebase by eliminating Objective-C and reducing framework proliferation.
439: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’, With Daniel Jalkut
January 27, 2026
The consensus between John Gruber and Daniel Jalkut is that macOS 26 Tahoe represents a significant, though perhaps 'mitigated,' decline in Apple's historical standard for pixel-perfect user interface quality and consistency.
438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
December 31, 2025
Rene Ritchie is currently working at a startup in the video space, emphasizing the difficulty of scaling operations to YouTube levels.
437: ‘A Naughty Citizen’, With Quinn Nelson
December 24, 2025
Despite significant hardware advancements, iPadOS 26's new windowing environment introduces a substantial learning curve and operational complexity because it attempts to bridge touch-first design with desktop-like features, resulting in an experience that is not fully optimized for either input method.
436: ‘Financial Boner’, With Tyler Hayes
November 30, 2025
Tyler Hayes argues that flip-style foldable phones, like the Motorola Razr, offer a viable path back to smaller, pocketable smartphones, despite John Gruber's initial skepticism about the usability of the small front screen.
435: ‘Lincoln Bio Services’, With Stephen Robles
November 22, 2025
Stephen Robles has recently transitioned to full-time independent media creator on YouTube, leveraging systems and AI tools to maintain a high output of 11 videos in two weeks.
434: ‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’, With Dan Frommer
November 18, 2025
The subscription newsletter model is now an undeniably sustainable business model for independent publishers, unlike older models reliant on banner ads.
433: ‘Meat Bags’, With Brian Mueller
October 31, 2025
Brian Mueller's initial success came from a suite of apps starting with Carrot To Do, but Carrot Weather ultimately became the flagship, forcing him to focus solely on it—the 'curse of success' for an indie developer.
432: ‘You and Frank Sinatra’, With Dan Moren
October 26, 2025
The hosts express significant skepticism regarding OpenAI's Atlas browser, viewing it as an "anti-web browser" that replaces traditional browsing with a chat interface, which they find less efficient and potentially more invasive.
431: ‘Iconic Pig Lipstick’, With John Moltz
October 1, 2025
The iPhone 17 Air's extreme thinness is a highly compelling physical feature that makes John Moltz genuinely tempted to purchase it over the iPhone 17 Pro, despite missing the Pro's telephoto lens.
430: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’, With Andru Edwards
September 1, 2025
Google's 'Made by Google' event adopted a live show format, prioritizing audience participation and camera engagement over traditional media information delivery, which felt unusual to some attendees.