Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a year-in-review look back at Apple’s 2018: the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Siri and services, and more.

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Links:

• The C64 Mini.
• Raspberry Pi.
• Vortex Race 3 mechanical keyboard.
• The other “Vortex”.
• The MacBook ARM — video from Rene laying out the similarities between Apple’s 2005 transition from PowerPC to Intel and the seemingly inevitable coming transition from Intel to in-house ARM chips.
• Apple Watch Series 4 detects man’s potentially deadly heart condition.
• John Giannandrea, Siri, and AI/ML.

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