107: We Get the Most Boring Tips
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2015
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things
- Follow-up:
- Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday)
- Being enthusiastic about your "team"
- Heathrow's self-driving pods (via Michael Luís Brown)
- One ship pollutes as much as 50M cars (also via Michael Luís Brown)
- TED Talk – start at 8:00 (via Nick Thain)
- The Guardian on ships' pollution
- Tesla's supply chain (via Sam Abuelsamid)
- CAN bus
- America's Right to Repair Act
- BMW ENET cable
- Sample OBD2 to Wi-Fi bridge
- Expensive BMW app Casey mentioned (iTunes link)
- Tim Cook on Apple Watch replacing car keys
- BMW Remote app (iTunes link)
- Apple's "Spring Forward" Event
- 12" Retina MacBook Air
- Jason Snell on receiving tips
- Apple Watch technology page, including Force Touch
- Post-show:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | the snow is destroying my house. |
| 0:01.4 | We'll see if it remains standing. |
| 0:03.1 | I keep thinking this house has been here since I'm 32. |
| 0:05.1 | It's not going to fall down this year, |
| 0:06.2 | but it's got to fall down some year. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'll probably be in it when it does. |
| 0:09.4 | So if you want to know how to polarize our audience, |
| 0:15.5 | and we've talked about some controversial things in the past, |
| 0:18.8 | we've talked about all sorts of things, |
| 0:20.6 | not really ever politics or religion, |
| 0:22.0 | but we've come as close as one can get. |
| 0:23.8 | And it's not the abuse of women in the technology industry. |
| 0:27.2 | That is actually not very controversial to our audience, |
| 0:29.3 | which is good. |
| 0:30.7 | But man, if we talk about cars, |
| 0:32.3 | holy hell do people get upset? |
| 0:34.7 | And then some people love it, and then people get upset. |
| 0:36.8 | And then other people love it, |
| 0:37.8 | and then people get really upset. |
| 0:39.6 | Who's getting upset? |
| 0:40.5 | Who's people yelling at you about stuff? |
| 0:42.7 | Most people are in a joking way |
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