The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include Twitter (their musical chairs game at CEO, the @MagicRecs feature, and whether their declining stock price makes them an acquisition target), the end of Google Plus, why the new Photos app for Mac is inadequate as a replacement for Lightroom for us, Apple's new San Jose real estate acquisition, Apple Car speculation, and Apple's spree of hiring writers from the Apple media.

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Links:

• This American Life episode on the NUMMI automobile plant in Fremont California -- a joint venture between GM and Toyota that wound up in the hands of Tesla Motors.
• Gizmodo's jacktastic "obituary" for iTunes.
• Evan Williams on why "monthly active users" is a poor metric.
• Chris Sacca endorsing Jack Dorsey to return as Twitter CEO..
• Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton's book about Twitter.
• Funny-because-it's-true Dilbert cartoon about management consultants.
• Great Vanity Fair feature by Richard Lawson: "The VidCon Revolution Isn’t Coming. It’s Here."
• Apple's $138 million purchase of a 43-acre site in north San Jose.
• Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine talk to USA Today about Apple Music, which now has 11 million trial subscribers.