140: Harpooned a Turtle
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2015
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
- John tries to buy Star Wars tickets
- Follow-up:
- Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive?
- iMac revisited
- Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit
- Facebook battery usage
- Post-show: Perl 6
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:01.0 | It's like WWE DC all over again. |
| 0:10.0 | Although, at least WWE was over quickly because it's like, well, but it's clear I didn't |
| 0:13.4 | get tickets here. |
| 0:14.4 | It's just clear these people don't know how to make websites that can withstand any kind |
| 0:17.1 | of load. |
| 0:18.1 | But I have, we have many devices working on it. |
| 0:21.2 | Tina actually did get tickets for tomorrow, not the Thursday opening that up for the Friday |
| 0:27.1 | one, but she accidentally bought 3D. |
| 0:29.3 | And that's not acceptable because of motion sickness. |
| 0:31.5 | No, it's not acceptable because 3D is terrible. |
| 0:34.1 | Oh, I agree, but I wasn't sure. |
| 0:36.5 | I figured you at desperation would make it acceptable, but apparently not. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm gonna watch it. |
| 0:41.1 | I mean, if it's all I can get, it's all I can get, but that's just really. |
| 0:46.4 | Many times I got to the stage where you're picking your seats to reserve. |
| 0:50.4 | Many, many times I got to that step. |
| 0:52.7 | Is the theater near you like an Alamo draft house and some fancy and high flutiners? |
| 0:57.0 | No, no, these are fancy. |
| 0:58.8 | They're all just whatever. |
| 0:59.8 | I mean, the one the fanciest one is the only I can have tickets for is reserve seating |
| 1:03.0 | and it's the big reclining seats and everything like that, but, but 3D. |
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