292: ‘Not the Batman We Want or Need’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Phil Schiller advancing to Apple Fellow, Microsoft’s simmering spat with Apple over Xbox Game Pass and the App Store’s ban on game streaming services, and Epic’s sizzling spat with Apple over, well, the entire concept of iOS as we know it.

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Links:

• Beats 1 is now Apple Music 1 (and the Beats brand is probably not long for this world).
• Apple Newsroom: Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow.
• The Curious Editing of 'Artemis Fowl'.
• John August’s Arlo Finch series, which is unrelated to Artemis Fowl but very cool nonetheless.
• Rene on Apple’s decision not to allow Xbox game streaming on iOS.
• Epic goes to war with Apple over the App Store.

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