Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include Apple's horrible no good very bad earnings warning, the Chinese market, Apple's push toward services for revenue growth, antitrust issues regarding the App Store, and more.

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Links:

• “Apple’s Errors” — Ben’s take on Apple’s earnings warning.
• “Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning” — my take.
• Steven Sinofsky and Apple’s “next big thing”.
• “Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”.
• Exponent — Ben’s podcast cohosted by James Allworth — is back.

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