It's time for episode 168 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, December 21st, 2016.

Clockwise, four people, four technology topics, 30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, the Tech Podcast.

That's always the most wonderful time of the year.

I'm your co-host, Dan Moran, and I'm joined across the ocean and the internet by my co-host, Mr. Jason Snell.

Hi, Jason.

So the most wonderful time of the year is Wednesday at 9 Pacific, noon Eastern?

Yeah, sounds good to me. This is the show where we talk

about four tech topics with two wonderful guests. To my left from I'more. It's Renee Richie. Hi,

Renee. Hi, Renee. Hi, how are you doing? I'm doing great. Welcome back. Thank you so much. Thank you for

having me. It feels odd not to be recording with Jason in a parking lot, but because of the cold temperature i do welcome this new format and to my left also sitting right next to rene spoilers uh you

you may know her from i'm more and from total party kill let's say and many other places it's georgia dow hello

hello i can't talk about rene right like then he's going to hear me so i now i'm have a problem Georgia blink twice if you want you can't do that on podcast doesn't work

that way all right let's get this show on the road I'm the designated co-host today so

I'll start off with our first topic Mario run it is the first real sort of Nintendo game

for iOS.

I've been playing it a little bit, but I ran into a bit of a problem experienced by many other people.

Right around the time it was released, I was traveling a bunch.

And so I had to go on a plane, and I was also in a situation where I had a pretty terrible Wi-Fi,

and so I couldn't download a bunch of the early levels. And then, of course,

once I had downloaded it, I couldn't play it on the plane because it's got an always-unitrant

requirement. People are a little annoyed about this, and the stated reason is anti-piracy,

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