102: Marco Is Not a Platform
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2015
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson)
- Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations
- How do you learn a new language?
- Apple's earnings
- What's going on with Photos.app?
- Fake sponsor break for two awesome conferences on the British Isles:
- Familiarity and Progress (via Gary Bernhardt)
- Post-show:
- Microsoft today
- John's sad TV news
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | No, no, no. |
| 0:03.7 | No. |
| 0:04.7 | No. |
| 0:06.2 | All right. |
| 0:07.4 | So you want to do some follow up. |
| 0:09.4 | We can start with handwriting recognition, |
| 0:11.7 | which I'm assuming is more of John's follow up? |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah, I don't know why none of us thought of this |
| 0:17.6 | probably because we're all Westerners. |
| 0:20.4 | But the one thing we didn't talk about with iPads |
| 0:22.2 | and styluses or styly is that handwriting recognition |
| 0:28.8 | is good. |
| 0:29.8 | Text input with a pen is good for people who don't write |
| 0:33.2 | with Roman characters who have tons and tons of characters. |
| 0:36.3 | Chinese, Japanese, it's paying the butt |
| 0:39.0 | attention to those with the keyboard because they have |
| 0:40.5 | to have these crazy multi-level keyboards. |
| 0:42.3 | But you, you know, tap one key then tap another and tap |
| 0:45.7 | another work your way down to the actual character you want |
| 0:47.9 | or combine multiple taps to make one thing. |
| 0:50.4 | Whereas these people know how to draw it with you just |
| 0:52.2 | gave them a pen. |
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