The Talk Show With John Gruber
438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
A look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off . Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow . 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.