The Talk Show With John Gruber

190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson

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Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Microsoft's announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon's new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple's WeChat problem in China, and more.

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    • Links:

    • Microsoft's Build 2017 Keynote.
    • Fish Shell.
    • Surface Laptop "luxury" treatment.
    • 2007 Apple iPhone commercial.
    • Bob Borcher's iPhone guided tours.
    • Phil Schiller dumping Instagram in 2012.
    • WeChat and the iPhone in China.
    • When a ReadWriteWeb article became Google’s top result for “Facebook login”.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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