190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson
Show notes
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. Sponsored by: Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code THETALKSHOW for 20 percent off. Squarespace: Build it beautiful. Use code gruber for 10 percent off your first order. Fracture: Your pictures, printed directly on glass. 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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