443: ‘The Pogue Feature’, With David Pogue

Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good (podsearch.david-smith.org/shows/11).

Links:

• “Apple: The First 50 Years (applefirst50.com)” official website.
• Hardcover:
• Amazon (amzn.to/479Cp8v)

• Bookshop.org (bookshop.org/a/56320/9781982134594)

• E-book:
• Kindle (amzn.to/4sKCjfK)

• Apple Books (books.apple.com/us/book/apple/id6749329845)

• Photo of Sculley and the other white dude in suits (daringfireball.net/misc/2026/03/sculley-exec-t…) on his executive team, circa 1993, from page 251. (My son Jonas quipped that they look like the executives from the company that made Robocop.)

• The “Apple at 50” event David hosted at the Computer History Museum (youtube.com/live/eCSNJgI2LFI) earlier this month.

• The similar event David hosted two years ago, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh (computerhistory.org/blog/insanely-great).

• Matt Neuberg, back in 1998 (!), reviewing Conflict Catcher for TidBITS (tidbits.com/1998/09/14/nice-catch-conflict-cat…), with mention of the user manual.

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