Episode 341: Rich Boy Phone

An important discussion about aging as examined and explained through the lens of James Howlett. 

Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, Chernobyl. Merlin’s weird, truncated contexts in Things. 

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit. 

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides). 

This week, Marques, Andrew, and David talk about everything from the new Hasselblad camera to the upcoming Apple event! First, they talk cameras for a bit before going over some final thoughts of the Pixel 10 phones. Then they try to figure out what the Apple event invite could b ...  Show more

Special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include Dan’s new gig as senior tech editor at Quartz, tablets as a form factor for full-featured PCs (and the now-aging design of the MacBook Air), WWDC rumors, the rumored iOS-style redesign of Mac OS X, previous Mac OS visual designs, and more ...  Show more