12: Accidental Server Hardware
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2013
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
- FU on Apple's tick-tock pattern.
- Marco's PHP framework and sponsor-tracking web app, and why both exist.
- Usability and security implications of passwordless login systems.
- The Mac Mini's seemingly accidental success.
- Podcasters who hate the word "podcast", its quality connotation, efforts to invent alternative names, and barriers to entry.
- Brent Simmons' 30 Minutes To Sync proposal.
- Building web services on Apple's infrastructure.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have opinions on kit lenses by chance? |
| 0:04.3 | After your last show, where the three of us |
| 0:06.3 | were talking about Apple's TikTok strategy with iOS, |
| 0:11.6 | somebody tweeted at us, Pablo Binderski, which |
| 0:14.1 | I'll probably pronounce wrong, I'm sorry, Pablo. |
| 0:17.1 | And he wrote a blog post that was actually fairly short. |
| 0:19.5 | So hopefully we'll remember to put this in the show notes |
| 0:21.5 | and you can take a look. |
| 0:22.3 | But he made an interesting point. |
| 0:24.4 | And the premise of it was, what's interesting is that the, |
| 0:28.3 | and I'm going to actually read this here, |
| 0:29.8 | the tick versions of iOS came with the S versions |
| 0:32.3 | of the devices, iOS 3 with iPhone 3GS and iOS 5 |
| 0:36.0 | with the iPhone 4S. |
| 0:37.7 | On the other hand, big hardware releases, such as the iPhone |
| 0:41.2 | 4 and iPhone 5, launched alongside the talk releases |
| 0:44.8 | of iOS, iPhone 4 with iOS 4 and iPhone 5 with iOS 6. |
| 0:50.6 | So now, not reading anymore, the general premise he drives |
| 0:53.8 | at is, hey, even if you consider the software |
| 0:58.8 | on a TikTok, and if you consider the hardware on a TikTok, |
| 1:01.8 | what's interesting is they're offset, |
| 1:03.8 | it's like a 180 degree offset sine wave. |
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