406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren (a.k.a. "Mary Brown") returns to the show. Topics include Apple's new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.

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Links:

• “On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple” by Gil Amelio (amzn.to/3WLv6iu).

• Steve Jobs introduces the Mac OS X Dock — and the purple “single window mode” button — at MWSF 2000 (youtube.com/watch?v=2GkoAa5718Y).

• Coverage of zombie TUAW and Christina's AI-generated alter ego:
• Christina, announcing the scam on Threads (threads.net/@film_girl/post/C9Nq7jLS6A_), and on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@film_girl/112758216249922551), both of which resulted in interesting threads.

• Karissa Bell at Engadget: "[Apple Blog TUAW Returns as an AI Content Farm](Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm)".

• Jason Koebler at 404 Media: “Hocked TUAW (404media.co/email/1f6797e6-3d48-4034-a3a1-36a3…)”.

• The Verge: “Early Apple Tech Bloggers Are Shocked to Find Their Name and Work Have Been AI-Zombified (theverge.com/2024/7/10/24195858/tuaw-unofficia…)”.

• Ernie Smith, deducing that the new owner of TUAW is Haider Ali Khan (writing.exchange/@ernie/112759019550334455), and that he also bought the ilounge.com domain name.

• A very much NSFW tweet testing Apple Intelligence's familiarity with current slang (x.com/sondesix/status/1818285933118271527).

• MTV News shut down (hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mtv-news-shut…) and the jerks at Paramount pulled the plug on their decades-long archive (variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website…).

• Brett Terpstra (brettterpstra.com).

• Ernie Smith, author of Tedium (tedium.co) and creator of udm14.com, a single-serving site that shows you how to make Google's "web" view your default for search (daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/22/google-we…).

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