157: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills (WWDC Prelude)’ With Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.

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Links:

• Full video of Walt Mossberg’s interview with Jeff Bezos at Recode’s Code 2016 last week.
• Full video of Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s interview with Elon Musk.
• MacDailyNews: “Apple to Deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC”.
• Motion Stills: new iPhone app from Google that makes Live Photos way better.
• Mark Bergen’s report for Recode on Mercedes-Benz’s advanced self-driving car initiative.

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