397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.

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Links:

• Jason: “U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction” (sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/u-s-versus-apple-a-…).

• Yours truly:
• “The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue” (daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_…).

• “European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta” (daringfireball.net/2024/03/ec_non_compliance_i…).

• Steve Jobs, explainer extraordinaire:
• “Thoughts on Music” (daringfireball.net/2007/02/reading_between_the…).

• “Thoughts on Flash” (daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/29/jobs-thou…).

• Signal dropped support for handling SMS messages on Android in 2022 (signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android).

• Google does not support APIs to allow third-party Android apps to handle RCS messaging (reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/1914dod…).

• ESPN: “Shohei Ohtani, His Interpreter and Wire Transfers: A Timeline” (espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39784809/dodgers-shohe…).

• Craig Calcaterra’s excellent Cup of Coffee baseball-oriented blog/newsletter (cupofcoffee.beehiiv.com).
• Calcaterra’s breakdown of the Ohtani gambling scandal (cupofcoffee.beehiiv.com/p/cup-coffee-extra-bre…).

• The Alabama college baseball betting scandal (si.com/college/2023/07/10/inside-the-alabama-b…) (“You don’t understand, I have inside information!”).

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