187: ‘Forget About Frodo and Sam’ With MG Siegler

MG Siegler returns to the show. Topics includes Virgin America's sad fate as a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros, "doing work" on an iPad Pro, Walt Mossberg, the absurd bloat of iOS apps, Clips, Netflix and Amazon's spending on video, and more.

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Links:

• MG: The Great Laptop Stagnation.
• MG: Death of a Virgin.
• MG: The Squid.
• Columbia Journalism Review's interview with Walt Mossberg.
• Mark Gurman's new weekly video show for Bloomberg.

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