Apple Chat: A Cult of Mac podcast with Leander Kahney

Apple Chat: A Cult of Mac podcast with Leander Kahney

Weekly interviews from the world of Apple by Leander Kahney, editor and publisher of the Cult of Mac blog and co-host of the ever-popular CultCast podcast. Lots of Steve Jobs stories.

Episodes

The Apple Design Process of Demos, Decisions & Feedback with Ken Kocienda

September 4, 2018 • 58 mins
Curious what it was like to work at Apple during its Golden Age of design? What exactly did the creative process look like? On this episode of the Apple Chat podcast, I sit down with Ken Kocienda, a programmer who spent 15 years at Apple during the Steve Jobs era, working on the first versions of the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. His new book, Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden A...
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Apple and manufacturing with Instrumental CEO Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

June 23, 2017 • 64 mins
Manufacturing processes haven’t changed much in recent years, even with dramatic advances in technology. Consumer electronics are still almost 100% handmade, even at companies that supply the best of the best -– like Apple. On this episode of Apple Chat, I interview Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, former product design engineer for Apple, about the challenges of manufacturing electronic goods at massive scale. Shedletsky's new company, I...
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The job of a designer with Oliver Seil of Belkin

November 21, 2016 • 50 mins
“The job of a designer is to be a psychologist…” Industrial design is something that a lot of manufacturers used to outsource. Companies would design a product and then contract with a firm of outside design consultants to slap a good-looking skin on it, and hope for the best. But in the last decade or so, lots of companies have gotten design religion. Design has been brought in-house, where it can shape products from the very ...
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Apple and the environment with filmmaker Sue Williams

November 13, 2016 • 39 mins
Sue Williams is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. Her new film, Death by Design, takes a sobering look at the electronics industry and it’s toxic environmental legacy — both here in the US and in China. The film starts in Silicon Valley, which has a horrible record of environmental pollution. The industry appears to be nice and clean, but has a long and toxic history of environmental damage. Silicon Valley is home to the mo...
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What it was like to work for Steve Jobs with Lawrence Levy, former Pixar CFO

November 1, 2016 • 66 mins
Steve Jobs enjoys a mythic reputation as a technology and business genius. After his death, it often seems like he dreamed up products like the iPhone and iPad from whole cloth, single handed. But a new book by the former CFO of Pixar, Lawrence Levy paints a very different picture of Jobs at work. In Levy’s book, To Pixar and Beyond, out this week, Jobs is portrayed as very human and vulnerable. He doesn’t have all the answers, a...
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iPhone sex toys with Suki Dunham, founder of OhMiBod

September 26, 2016 • 30 mins
This week we talk to Suki Dunham, cofounder of OhMiBod, a company that makes a line of iPhone and iPad controlled female pleasure products. Suki used to work at Apple, where she learned a lot about product design, packaging and marketing, which she applies to her business selling high-tech vibrators.
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iPhone 7 teardown with Kyle Wiens of iFixit

September 19, 2016 • 54 mins
iPhone teardowns are a cultural phenomenon. This week we talk to Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, about the latest iPhone 7 teardown, which attracted a massive global audience, and the secrets of Apple's new iPhone.
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Future of Siri with ArcTouch's Adam Fingerman and Paulo Michels

August 8, 2016 • 51 mins
These developers have been looking under Siri's hood to discover what iOS 10 and macOS Sierra will bring to users of Apple products. In this episode of Kahney's Korner, they tell us what they found.
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Autonomous cars with robot car consultant Paul Godsmark

August 1, 2016 • 35 mins
Autonomous vehicles are going to have a giant impact on society -- even bigger than the internet, says robot car consultant Paul Godsmark. In this fascinating interview, Godsmark talks about the enormous changes that are coming up fast with self-driving vehicles, including the rumored Apple car. Buckle up! Everything is about to change dramatically -- from the way we travel to the way we work, and even how we'll make money fro...
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iPhone espionage with Tim Hickman, CEO of Gumdrop Cases.

June 24, 2016 • 42 mins
We talk about leaked iPhone 7 CAD files with Tim Hickman, a veteran accessories maker. The files are circulating among iPhone accessory makers ahead of Apple's big launch in the fall.
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Talking with Ken Segall, author of Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity

June 7, 2016 • 62 mins
Ken Segall is a former Apple adman who worked closely with Steve Jobs for more than a dozen years. Segall is the guy who put the “i” in iMac and worked on the famous “Think Different” campaign. The big lesson he learned from Steve Jobs was keeping things simple. But how exactly do you keep things simple? Segall went out and found 40 business folks who keep things straightforward. His book based on those interviews is called ...
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