The Kill Switch That Removed Fortnite From the App Store

Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.

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Links:

• iPhone 14 production hit by Chinese protests.
• Me, on Twitter-Apple drama and Musk baiting Tim Cook.
• The Washington Post: Musk claims Apple threatens to remove Twitter from App Store.
• WSJ: Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
• Macstodon: Mastodon Mac client for 68K Macs.
• “Sleep Baseball” podcast.
• Tim Cook’s gag tweet sent minutes before the start of the 2018 event introducing the iPhone XS and XR.
• Fedifinder.
• “The Peripheral” on Amazon Prime.
• “1899” on Netflix.
• “Dark” — from the creators of “1899”.
• “Andor” on Disney+.

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