383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestant on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.

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Links:

• John Warnock, RIP (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/26/john-warn…)
• “Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story” by Pamela Pfiffner (abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=plpaf…)

• iPhone charging clickbait nonsense:
• TheStreet: “Apple issues a surprise iPhone danger warning (thestreet.com/technology/heres-why-apple-issue…)”

• Yahoo News: “Apple says don’t sleep next to charging phone (news.yahoo.com/apple-says-dont-sleep-next-2301…)”

• What Apple actually says, which isn’t new (support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph301fc9…)

• Apple and Disney:
• Jason at Macworld: “Apple Buying Disney Isn’t the Fairy Tale It Once Was (macworld.com/article/2032120/apple-disney-merg…)”

• Yours truly: “Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree (daringfireball.net/2023/08/disney_and_apple_si…)”, and “Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts (daringfireball.net/2023/08/disney_strategy_cha…)”

• “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” by Neal Gabler (goodreads.com/en/book/show/118824)

• iMac at 25:
• Jason writing at the Verge: “How the iMac Saved Apple (theverge.com/23830432/imac-twenty-five-years-a…)”

• Me, linking to Jason’s piece (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/24/how-the-i…)

• Me, linking to Steven Levy’s 1998 Newsweek profile of Jobs and the original iMac (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/16/imac-25th…)

• Jason’s 20 Macs for 2020 podcast series (sixcolors.com/post/2020/08/20-macs-for-2020-an…). You’ll never guess which Mac (rightfully) topped the list.

• iPad as travel computer, or really just a computer:
• Jason: “Giving Up the iPad-Only Travel Dream (sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-th…)”

• Me on the iPad now (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/25/ipad-only…)

• Me on the same damn thing back in 2013 (daringfireball.net/2013/10/the_ipad_air)

• The iconic “Yum.” poster (mastodon.social/@gruber/110958695033918841)

• “Perfect Bid (netflix.com/title/81092327)” — fun Netflix documentary on the guy who beat The Price Is Right

• Bike (hogbaysoftware.com/bike): Hog Bay Software’s excellent new(ish) Mac outliner

• “Headless Body in Topless Bar (nytimes.com/2015/06/10/business/media/vincent-…)”, the greatest headline ever written

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