Musk's Take on Twitter

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.

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Links:

• Joanna’s Rock ’Em Sock ’Em CEOs, Zuck vs. Musk Edition.
  • Zuck vs. Cook, back in 2021.
• Joanna and Nicole Nguyen’s investigative series for the WSJ on organized thieves stealing Apple IDs after stealing iPhones and gleaning their passcodes:
  • February: “A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life”
  • April: “The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account”
• Me and Joanna trying to figure out whether Facebook should make an iPad app or web app next for Threads. (It’ll probably be the web app.)
• Hillary Clinton joins Threads with a joke, and the top replies are civil and fun.
• Paris Hilton’s collection of old — really old — phones.
• Mark Zuckerberg posting on Threads:
  • Chatting with Sundar Pichai.
  • And Jeff Bezos.
  • Dunking on Elon Musk.
  • And tweeting for the first time in 11 years.

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