I joined John Gruber on this week’s edition of The Talk Show to discuss Apple Music, iCloud Photos and many more topics of interest to Apple nerds such as yourself.

Guy English joins Dan Moren and me yet again to talk about Apple Watch sales figures and customer satisfaction and car talk. Yes,

The official Google Blog:

People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But we’ve also heard that it doesn’t make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.

So in the coming months, a Google Account will be all you’ll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel and more, all across Google.

“We tried to force you to use it. That didn’t work. Sorry about that. Sorry it didn’t work, we mean.”

More summer fun time, some perspective on screen time and dance sensation Liam Friedman.

Strategy Analytics:

…global smartwatch shipments grew an impressive 457 percent annually to hit a record 5 million units in the second quarter of 2015. Apple Watch was the star performer, capturing a dominant 75 percent marketshare in first place.

While I have to note that their estimate of 4 million Apple Watches sold is just that, an estimate, it’s not very controversial. Ben Bajarin estimated Apple sold about 4.75 million units. Apple would only offer that it sold more than the iPhone and iPad in their respective first quarters, meaning more than 3.27 million.

Here are some things to consider about the state of Apple Watch demand for 2015, I think:

• Early supply was heavily constrained, probably because of a bad supply of taptic engines, leading to a longer burn of pent-up demand throughout the second calendar quarter.
• Tim Cook said on Tuesday that Apple sold more units in June than the previous months, despite those Slice numbers. That may or may not be due to finally being able to fulfill orders placed in April and May, though. His statement wasn’t clear on that point.
• The Apple Watch requires an iPhone 5 or up. While that confines the size of the market, that market also grows every year as people still using older iPhones eventually upgrade and Apple’s vaunted switcher effect continues to bring in more customers.
• Apple leads the pack, but the pack is still a pack made up of smartwatches. No one really knows how big this market is going to get and how long it’ll have steam. Let me repeat that for emphasis: No one really knows. So feel free to point and laugh at anyone estimating the next five years of smartwatch sales. Remember when Windows Phone was going to overtake Android? Good. Times. We laughed ourselves until we died and then we were reborn, shiny and chrome.
• watchOS 2.0 will probably be a pretty big shot in the arm and coming this fall could allow the Watch to maintain momentum throughout the year.

It doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect that Watch sales will drop in the third calendar quarter and pop back up in the holiday quarter, like pretty much everything else. That Apple is clobbering the island of misfit toys that is the competition in the smartwatch market shouldn’t be surprising. By that measure, the Watch is quite successful. Which is why people are using manufactured yardsticks of their own devising to say that it isn’t.

Jim Dalrymple has had enough of Apple Music:

At some point, enough is enough. That time has come for me—Apple Music is just too much of a hassle to be bothered with. Nobody I’ve spoken at Apple or outside the company has any idea how to fix it, so the chances of a positive outcome seem slim to none.

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that many of Jim’s problems probably have solutions but the unfortunate fact is that it doesn’t matter. If Jim can’t figure it out, it’s probably not easy to figure out and it should be. That’s Apple Music’s biggest problem: It puts together some nice music but in a way that’s so convoluted it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Ben Bajarin reports on the results of a survey conducted on over 800 Apple Watch owners showing 97 percent customer satisfaction. I found this part interesting:

Then I talked with teachers,

Guy English joins us this week and our Prime Day jokes are not to be missed.

This week on America’s most liquored up dadcast we ask is college worth it? Also, Lex and I discuss our drinking plans.

Ben Bajarin provides his estimate of the first quarter of Apple Watch sales which, of course, I can’t stress enough, is just an estimate. It’s an estimate that’s higher than the iPhone’s first quarter and higher than the iPad’s first quarter but, still, it’s just an estimate.