Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about HomePod, clickbait, the Spectre/Meltdown security exploits, and a look back at Apple’s 2017 in review.

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Links:

• Rene with Tim Cook at a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
• Joe Cieplinski on HomePod pricing.
• Business Insider: “I Had an Apple Store Experience From Hell — and It’s Clear There Are Larger Problems With Apple’s Retail Presence”.
• Yours truly: “On Rumors of the iPhone X Being Produced for Only One Year ” and “The Scourge of Clickbait”.
• Saved You a Click.
• Vector, Rene’s new daily podcast.

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