79: John Poole of Geekbench

Formerly on the Apple design prototype team that brought us, among other things, the Pencil, and the Siri experience team that put voices in our cars and televisions, Linda Dong and Lia Napolitano join Guy and Rene in a chat recorded right after WWDC 2016 in June… but saved as a special holiday gift for us all now. Grab a beverage and hit play!

Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, formerly of Apple and Dropbox, joins Guy and Rene to talk about making everything more accessible, going independent, and what happens next.

Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk to Guy and Rene about handling transitions, taking Mozilla open-source, going to OS X, going to Intel, going to iOS, and saying "no".

Jaimee Newberry returns to talk corporate culture with Guy and Rene. How to you set it from the start, how to rebuild it over time. How do you make sure it’s healthy. You know, the easy stuff!

John Poole of Geekbench joins Guy and Rene to talk how he got started, that Apple A9 thing, the state of the silicon, and what's coming next. Sponsors Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off when you go to automatic.com/debug and use promo code debug. Guests John Poole of Geekbench Hosts Guy English Rene Ritchie

Jaimee Newberry — @jaimeejaimee — joins Guy and Rene to talk about how she got started in tech, her career in graphics, consulting for teams, and her new roll as COO of Martian Craft. Sponsors Automatic: Your smart driving assistant. Get $20 off when you go to automatic.com/debug and use promo code debug. Guests Jaimee Newberry Hosts Guy English Rene Ritchie

James Thomson of DragThing and PCalc fames joins Guy and Rene to talk about that time he was at Apple and Steve Jobs found out he was working from $^%#$ Ireland. And more!

Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk about managing teams, managing up, retention, rivalry, and more! Support Debug Check out the newly-released CleanMyDrive 2 at Macpaw.com/CleanMyDrive/ Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting www.casper.com/debug and using promo code debug. Terms and Conditions Apply. Guests Don Melton Nitin Ganatra Hosts Guy English of Kicking Bear Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations

James Cuda of Savage Interactive joins Guy and Rene to talk about bring Procreate to the iPad Pro, optimizing for the Apple Pencil, Apple TV, the market for pro apps, and more. This episode of Debug is brought to you by: Casper: Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/debug and using the code "debug". Terms and Conditions Apply. BackBlaze: Stop putting it off, start getting backed up. Get a risk-free no credit card required trial by going to backblaze.com Guests James Cuda of Savage Interactive Hosts Guy English of Kicking Bear Rene Ritchie of iMore Feedback Yell at us at the Twitter accounts above. Loudly!

Paul Haddad returns to Debug 3 years later to talk to Guy and Rene about Tweetbot 4, watchOS, tvOS, the App Store, and more.