321: ‘Just a Standard Bird’, With MG Siegler
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MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about last week’s surprise announcement from Apple settling a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. App Store developers, and the various reactions to it. Also, a bit on App Store payment processing, and some speculation on who might succeed Tim Cook.

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Links:

• Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get).

• Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S).

• Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”).

• Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal).

• Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”).

• MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”).

• And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”).

• Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program).

• Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”).

• Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO).

• The Peter Principle) — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle)” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)

• Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game).

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