Special guest John Moltz returns to the show (finally). Topics include the iPhone XR, next week's Apple event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and more.

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Links:

• My iPhone XR review and follow-up.
• Strategic Conquest.
• Bolo — networked Mac game from 1987.
• The Secret History of Mac Gaming, by Richard Moss.
• Joanna Stern: “Ugh, Green Bubbles! Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard”.
• Vlad Savov on Google’s imminent Night Sight feature for Pixel phones.
• Research paper and video showing Night-Sight-like results.
• Sam Byford on Chinese phone OSes based on Android.
• Totallee super thin iPhone cases.
• Jason Snell on building a Hackintosh (or as Moltz put it, a Macinstein).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton, who insists he’s going to the grave with a tiny phone.