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Accidental Tech Podcast

23: The X Or The X

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2013

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

  • FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine.
  • iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme.
  • Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this before we knew why it was down.)
  • _DavidSmith on Logic X's pricing and what this might indicate for future App Store upgrades.
  • Whether upgrade pricing is best for consumers, and the upgrade-pricing train.
  • iOS developers acting like the RIAA in 2002.
  • The complexity of modern software business models.
  • The Wal-Martization of app pricing and how Marble Madness formed the modern Marco.
  • Are Apple's policies really at fault for falling app prices?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And that's my fault again. Well, it's a combination of johns. Actually, no, that one's more

0:03.6

chance. No, it's not. No, it's your fault again. No, because yes.

0:10.6

Probably the most egregious error I made in the last episode was reporting that the global

0:15.5

sand ice guzzy initiator was free. It used to be free, but apparently a couple of years ago,

0:20.9

it stopped being free. Now it's 90 bucks. And so when looking at ice guzzy initiators,

0:26.7

you have global, global sand at 90 and Ado at 195. So 200 basically, I still continue to get

0:35.9

positive recommendations for the Ado one and mixed to negative recommendations for the global

0:41.1

sand one, a few people sent in a few, a few kernel panic stories about global sand. So

0:47.0

given that the price difference is now much, much smaller than it was before, I would,

0:52.4

if I was going ice guzzy, I would, I would go with the Ado one, but I still haven't.

0:56.9

One also interesting ice guzzy thing that a few people have pointed out to me, which I didn't

1:01.6

realize, but it makes perfect sense. Because ice guzzy is basically just like running the direct

1:07.6

drive access protocol over the wire, you can actually like, like, let's say, let's say macOS,

1:15.2

whatever mavericks or whatever comes after mavericks comes out and your ice guzzy initiator of

1:21.7

your favorite ice guzzy initiator stops working and just won't work again. You can take the

1:26.8

drive out of the, out of the NAS and stick it either directly into the computer or into one of

1:32.4

those drive dock things. And because ice guzzy is just accessing the drive directly,

1:38.6

if you plug it in directly to your computer, it works directly because like, it's formatted,

1:43.0

however you formatted it, it's because it's just like a block level protocol. So I think that's

1:48.8

pretty cool. So that's like an interesting kind of insurance policy again, because we were

1:53.1

discussing last episode how I was worried and John, you were worried about, first of all, even

1:57.4

needing to run a third party kernel thing to have this protocol enabled. But also I was worried

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