245: ‘40 Hours a Day of Murder’ With Rene Ritchie

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include, but are not limited to, privacy concerns with apps from the App Store, Google’s payments to Apple to keep Google Search the default in Safari, Apple’s Shot on iPhone contest winners, and speculation about Apple’s purported March 25 media event.

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Links:

• These Apps Are Stealing Your Most Private Data and It Should Be a Crime.
• Objective Development’s Internet Access Policy.
• The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America.
• Samsung Galaxy Fold vs. Huawei Mate X.
• Shot on iPhone Challenge winners.
• Should Apple Remove Google as Default Search?.
• Twitter thread on new MacBooks with keyboard problems.
• Adam Lashinsky on Steve Jobs’s parable of the difference between a janitor and a VP.
• LG’s answer to the foldable mania is a second screen.
• Google Blames Bug for Apple Music Appearing on Home Speakers.
• Teleprompt+.
• Panasonic GH5.

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