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Accidental Tech Podcast

273: Playing You Like a Video Game

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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0:00.0

Skype doesn't ring anymore on my computer. Maybe she got a new computer. Yeah, your Mac Pro is probably broken.

0:05.4

Mm-hmm. I'm gonna blame Skype.

0:07.6

Mm-hmm. I think it's Mac Pro.

0:10.9

We should do some quick follow-up with regard to what's the official name for it? Voice memos or voice messages?

0:16.0

Whatever it is that Marco and I were running into. Raise to listen. Yeah, well, that's the thing that we solved by raise to listen, maybe.

0:22.2

I will answer that I have not seen one of those

0:26.9

misfires with the, you know, speak a text message to somebody. I've not seen one of those since you and I had the simultaneous epiphany and invention of turning off raise to listen, raise to wake whatever it is.

0:38.1

How's it been for you? Yeah, same thing. Raise to wake. I still use raise to listen to what we turned off in the messages preferences.

0:44.8

And yeah, I too have had no accidental do-do, you know, as I'm putting my phone on my pocket and then I end up sending or half sending or trying to send a very long audio

0:55.7

message of my pocket, basically. Yeah, I've been very happy with that so far. I wonder if they picked the wrong defaults on this one then because I understand the feature.

1:03.9

I think I even remembered being demoed and I understand the utility of it, especially if you frequently need to like fire off a text message, but you don't have time to type it, so you just want to like bring it to your face talk and put it down.

1:12.8

Right. But it like the unexpected consequences of enabling that feature were obscure enough that took you guys a while to figure it out.

1:23.2

And like it's it makes the phone seem like it's broken. You want to bring Daisy and she seems to have an opinion. Yes, seriously.

1:30.5

It's got opinion about people walking past our house. What's going on with her? I haven't heard an update on rectips in a while.

1:36.3

I mean, it's springtime, so the windows are open on the house and there's more people walking by on the sidewalk all the time and there's more interesting smells out there and there are birds and squirrels and such.

1:47.9

She's gone a little crazy. And we wanted to point out that layers is there to the tickets for layers are available. This is a three day conference that's during WDC.

1:59.3

A lot of people seem to have been come to the opinion that layers is strictly a designer conference and although design is a heavy part of layers, it is not at all a designer only conference. I went.

2:11.1

What was it 2016, I believe and the only reason I'm not going this years because it's it's more appropriate for work anyway if I go to WDC, but layers is phenomenal.

2:22.1

The speakers are always great and diverse. The talks are always phenomenal. They're oftentimes about stuff that I would never think I would find interesting and then I'm absolutely fascinated and riveted by them.

2:33.1

And so you should definitely if you're going to be in the area of San Jose, if you like delicious snacks and or if you like both in the food in the food sense or in the brain sense, if you want to snack for your brain, go to layers. It's good stuff because Marco, you've been to at least one in the past, right?

2:51.4

Yeah, I've been to two actually. It's funny. The one you went to was the one I didn't go to.

2:56.0

I went to the one I think one year before that and one and the year after that and they were great. It's run by our friend, Jesse char, who does lots of wonderful things and Elaine Powell.

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