108: Zero is Better Than One
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2015
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-Show: Last Exile
- Follow-Up:
- More on Crossy Road
- Previously on ATP 94, 95, 96
- Previous interview with Crossy Road creators
- Anonymous tips from last episode
- More on Crossy Road
- Monday's Apple Event
- New MacBook
- Performance is on par with a 2012 MacBook Air
- Handbrake
- Broadwell
- Robert Thomas' tweet
- USB-C to USB Adapter
- Jason Snell on the keyboard
- Keyboard comparison GIF
- Internals
- 13-inch nearly-borderless Dell laptop
- Will Apple kill the headphone jack?
- Expandable iPads
- John's post about thin and light Apple hardware
- Apple "hockey puck" mouse
- Post-show:
- Impacts of new MacBook technology on other Mac laptops
- Apple Watch
- Gruber's original predictions and his last-second updates
- Marco's theory about the Edition
- BGR on pricing from perspective of a watch person
- Casey's daily watch
- Casey's special-occasion watch
- Panerai
- Red/Gold Edition
- John's Watch preference
- Casey's aspirational Watch preference
- Marco's original Watch preference
- Marco's new Watch preference
- Paper Apple Watches
- Casey's more-likely-to-buy Watch preference... except he isn't buying one. Really. Maybe.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is that background? |
| 0:01.1 | Right. |
| 0:02.0 | It's from last exile, which is an anime series that neither one of you has heard of, let alone scene. |
| 0:06.2 | I've seen it. It's really good. |
| 0:07.6 | You have not. |
| 0:08.6 | Yeah, what big do you think I haven't seen it? |
| 0:10.8 | Tell me about it, without googling. |
| 0:12.6 | I know nothing about it, I've never seen it. |
| 0:14.2 | All the great shows. |
| 0:15.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:18.8 | So, John, why don't you tell us about how crossy road is doing financially? |
| 0:22.4 | Why would I do that when it says in the notes that we already talked about this? |
| 0:26.3 | All right, let's not talk about this, because everyone keeps sending us the same link, |
| 0:30.5 | and I'm tired of getting it. |
| 0:31.5 | Here's what happens. Everybody has a bad memory. |
| 0:35.4 | We talked about crossy road finances on at least two episodes, maybe three. |
| 0:39.0 | In the first one, it was before they did a major update. |
| 0:42.7 | In the first one, I was looking at the top grossing charts, and I was saying, |
| 0:48.0 | given their position on the top downloading chart, because they were like one of the top |
| 0:51.5 | handful of apps on the top free chart, but they weren't very high on the top grossing chart. |
| 0:55.6 | So, what I said was, at that position on top free, they should be making more money, |
| 1:00.9 | and so maybe they can monetize better, because there's not really much reason to ever pay |
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