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Accidental Tech Podcast

157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0

The following is the complete list of sane states in these United States of America that require only a real

0:07.9

Real license plate Alabama Arizona Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky, Louisiana Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina

0:15.0

Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. You'll notice that very nearby states North Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, all

0:23.6

No front license plate friggin Virginia

0:26.0

Now out of curiosity, can you think of any other criterion for which those would be listed as the sane states?

0:33.0

Not off the top of my head.

0:36.0

So we should do some follow up.

0:39.0

Yes, follow up.

0:41.0

I can't believe I just did that. I swear I'd never do that on a podcast ever.

0:45.0

You just baited me into it. I hate everything. All right, I quit.

0:49.0

Anyway, so we had some feedback about my iPad tale of woe. We had a lot of private feedback from Mike Hurley, the once iPad hater now king iPad evangelizer.

1:01.0

I would never say I would never classify him as a hater. He was more of an iPad in different year.

1:07.0

That's a word that I just made up. I don't know. Maybe he was fairly anti-iPad for a while there. But anyways, he gave me some feedback that basically said I didn't know what I was doing and that's the problem,

1:18.0

which I believe I admitted a lot of people basically said the same thing. And the point, you know, I was trying to make was, hey, you know, all of this stuff comes right out of the box on OS 10. And it does not on the iPad.

1:29.0

Except a lot of people wrote in to say that you can in fact do a signature on a PDF on an iOS device. And apparently there's a toolbox, which to me looked like a briefcase icon.

1:44.0

And within there is the annotations and markup and whatnot. And within there, you can do a signature. I have not had the chance to try this myself, but I had plenty of people tell me about this.

1:55.0

So I'm taking it as fact that that is the case. So that is just a little bit of follow up. You can indeed do the signature on an iOS device.

2:03.0

Did you mistake the briefcase icon for the Windows 95 my briefcase?

2:08.0

You say that jokingly, but I was a heavy briefcase user way back in the day because that was about the best way in the Windows world to do kind of like a poor man's arsink between your laptop and your desktop, which is what I was doing toward the end of college.

2:22.0

That was kind of like the it was like the floppy disk stage of evolution towards a drop box, right? That was also kind of the hangover of the desktop metaphor.

2:32.0

The drunken orgy that was the desktop metaphor like, oh, folders, they're just like folders that go on a foul cabinets and there's a little trash can and so on and so forth. And people would latch onto that idea.

2:43.0

That's why the Macintosh is easier to use because it has all these analogies to the real world. And so people like, what else is in an office?

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