243: Knew About the Dollar Signs
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: macOS upgrades vs. clean installs
- Follow up:
- Google Pixel preorders (via Hannes Hauer)
- Google customer service strategy
- Casey has received his first AT&T bill with his Apple Watch
- Sonos and Google sitting in a tree...
- Google Home Max and Mini
- Casey's 👋🏻⛰️ FOMO
#askatp- Apple Phone → Watch notifications
- Twitterrific for Mac
- Apple TV gaming and Sky
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show Neutral: Casey has pipe dreams about cars
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did you try that translucent menu bar thing by the way that I faced it? No because I guess you have to |
| 0:05.1 | Don't you have to like kill system UI server to make it take effect and something like that? Yeah, please don't do that while podcasting |
| 0:11.2 | over the years |
| 0:12.9 | I've come to the conclusion and I think I first heard this from Dan Benjamin and I think for me |
| 0:17.8 | He was right about this that it is it is a happier experience for you whoever you is if you |
| 0:24.8 | Customize or if you insist on his few customizations to vanilla macOS or iOS as possible |
| 0:31.4 | Obviously every one of us myself included has plenty of customizations that that you consider |
| 0:37.6 | Critical to me on a new installation of macOS and same with iOS, but I |
| 0:42.8 | tried to choose wisely and I tried to choose things that |
| 0:48.7 | Usually just amount to installing like an app or something like that and this is not I mean |
| 0:54.2 | It's a defaults right like I understand what it is. It's not hard to do. It's something I am perfectly capable of doing |
| 0:59.7 | But the fact that I didn't even notice that the darn menu bar was translucent until you said something means you know what |
| 1:05.6 | It's probably just not worth it to worry about it and I'm okay with that. I disagree with that philosophy |
| 1:11.2 | I understand it like maybe if you're a hotel in a world where you have to use other people's generic computers all the time that you don't want to customize but |
| 1:18.1 | I'm in the opposite camp |
| 1:19.8 | I'm not going to live with some minor annoyance for years and years just because like oh if I happen to find myself |
| 1:24.2 | A stranger's computer. It's a default setup. I'll be able to do it and if I get a new computer |
| 1:27.7 | They'll just be able to use that at the box |
| 1:29.0 | That's not true because migration system has been great for so many years |
| 1:31.8 | Up people always ask me do you do a clean install or do you upgrade install? I upgrade install |
| 1:36.5 | I've been upgrading stall forever and apples upgrading stalls have historically both on classic macOS and on OS 10 and macOS or the hell |
| 1:44.4 | It's called now have been really good about keeping all your crap. Yes, that's why I have like |
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