144: Digital Schmear
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2015
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles
- Mac App Store certificate problems
- iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment
- USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector
- Post-show:
- Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Anyway, I don't know how you're gonna edit the beginning of the show. Good luck. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm just gonna delete everything before right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, come on. |
| 0:07.0 | What am I gonna pull out of that? |
| 0:08.0 | Cool, the coolie-cozy-cozy discussion was wonderful. |
| 0:11.0 | I don't wanna have a little show about butts and beer warmers. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, come on. |
| 0:15.0 | Or Ohio. Sorry, sorry Ohio. It just doesn't make the cut. |
| 0:18.0 | Just let it be known, Marcos the Party pooper. |
| 0:22.0 | So, John, would you like to tell us about Apple TV catching up on gaming consoles and power? |
| 0:27.0 | Sure, we don't have much follow up on Apple TV. It's finally tailing off now. |
| 0:31.0 | But one conversation I saw floating around these past few weeks. |
| 0:35.0 | I forget what prompted it, otherwise I would have put the link in here. |
| 0:39.0 | But maybe it was just people talking about gaming in the Apple TV in general. |
| 0:43.0 | And some people like, you know, the Apple TV with an A8, it's catching up to some gaming consoles and power. |
| 0:49.0 | And like, it's more powerful than a PS3. And maybe it's not as powerful as PS4 now, |
| 0:54.0 | but the PS4 isn't gonna change anytime soon. Like, the PS5 is not imminent. |
| 0:58.0 | So, if Apple keeps revising the Apple TV, at some point, the Apple TV could be more powerful than all current generation gaming consoles. |
| 1:06.0 | And I think that's crazy talk. |
| 1:08.0 | I guess it starts with a kernel of truth. Yes, the Apple TV with the A8 is way faster than the old one. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'd even go, so I haven't looked into this deeply, but just from looking at the games, you could say, |
| 1:20.0 | yeah, sure, PS3 power, maybe a little bit more, probably. |
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