107: ‘Now It’s All Floppy’ With Guest Marco Arment

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John Gruber

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🗓️ 12 January 2015

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include microphones; Marco’s much-publicized article last week on Apple’s seemingly declining software quality; talking to the press and agreeing to interviews; Apple’s relatively tiny developer relations team (and how that pertains to the aforementioned segment on Apple’s perceived software quality); the purported new 12-inch MacBook Air and its dearth of peripheral ports; and more.

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0:00.0	What kind of microphone do you have?
0:01.4	I know you were gonna give me like a,
0:03.4	how to improve my audio,
0:05.2	some help a while ago,
0:06.6	and then we never follow through.
0:07.5	What kind of mic do you have?
0:09.1	So I have,
0:10.2	I have both of the ones that everyone says
0:12.6	are the best mics for this purpose.
0:14.3	I have the HylPR 40,
0:16.0	the Dan Benjamin and all those people use,
0:18.1	and I have the Sure SM7B.
0:20.6	And I prefer the Sure,
0:21.8	I prefer the way my voice sounds at the Sure,
0:23.2	the HylPR 40 makes people sound a little bit more nasal
0:26.4	and has like weird,
0:27.7	it's like,
0:28.8	it's missing like the mid bass,
0:30.6	but it has a lot of the lower bass.
0:32.7	So you sound like really bassy,
0:34.2	but not that present and not that warm with the PR 40.
0:38.2	So the SM7B is a really, really nice sounding mic,
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