Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether their declining stock price makes them an acquisition target), the end of Google Plus, why the new Photos app for Mac is inadequate as a replacement for Lightroom for us, Apple's new San Jose real estate acquisition, Apple Car speculation, and Apple's spree of hiring writers from the Apple media. Sponsored by: Lynda.com: Learn at your own pace from expert-taught video tutorials. Free 10-day trial. Fracture: Your pictures, printed directly on glass. Photo, frame, and mount, all in one. Save with code “DARINGFIREBALL”. Automatic: Cool connected-car adapter (a.k.a. “dingus”). Save $20 with this link. MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use this link for 10 percent off for the life of your account. Links: This American Life episode on the NUMMI automobile plant in Fremont California -- a joint venture between GM and Toyota that wound up in the hands of Tesla Motors. Gizmodo's jacktastic "obituary" for iTunes. Evan Williams on why "monthly active users" is a poor metric. Chris Sacca endorsing Jack Dorsey to return as Twitter CEO.. Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton's book about Twitter. Funny-because-it's-true Dilbert cartoon about management consultants. Great Vanity Fair feature by Richard Lawson: "The VidCon Revolution Isn’t Coming. It’s Here." Apple's $138 million purchase of a 43-acre site in north San Jose. Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine talk to USA Today about Apple Music, which now has 11 million trial subscribers.
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