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Podcast: The Talk Show With John Gruber
Episode: 190: ‘Anything Luxury’ With Ben Thompson
Description:
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...