154: ‘Facebook on Your Face’ With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new flagship retail store in San Francisco, recent improvements to App Store approval times, and Google’s announcements at I/O this week — Google Home and Google Assistant, Allo and Duo, and Android “N” and Android Instant Apps.

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Links:

• Rene’s preview of the new SF Apple Store.
• Apple Talk — iMore’s new podcast, with yours truly as their first guest.
• App Store review times.
• Privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian on Twitter.
• Google I/O 2016 Keynote on YouTube.

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