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438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
· 2 h 42 min
Episode 438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
A look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
• The classic Mac OS Appearance Manager and its support for (rather garish) themes:
• ATPM, August 2000: “GUI Junkie: Schemin’ and Themin’” by Christopher Turner. Includes screenshots. • Wikipedia: Appearance Manager.
• Luria Petrucci celebrates 20 years on YouTube. • Steve Jobs on product people vs. sales/marketing people, back in the early 1990s. • John Browett’s brief tenure running retail at Apple back in 2012. His sacking was effectively a footnote in the announcement that Apple had parted with Scott Forstall.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Links in the notes 8
- https://factormeals.com/talkshow50off
- https://squarespace.com/talkshow
- https://atpm.com/6.08/gui-junkie.shtml
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appearance_Manager#Appearance_themes
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DSlT4P6Es6y/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
- https://daringfireball.net/2012/11/seriously_apple_is_doomed
- https://daringfireball.net/2012/10/forstall_out
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