28: The Pit Of Irrelevance
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2013
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right!
- The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault?
- Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer.
- Microsoft's enterprise business.
- Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business?
- What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets?
- John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement. (Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand).
- After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a review that keeps happening. |
| 0:03.1 | I think the person like updates it in some way |
| 0:05.8 | or I don't know what they do, |
| 0:08.0 | but they ask, the title is something |
| 0:10.3 | that along the lines of non-cassy, C-A-S-S-S-E-Y, |
| 0:14.2 | download option. |
| 0:15.6 | One star, I don't have it in front of you, |
| 0:17.3 | but it's like one star and it basically says, |
| 0:19.4 | I can't handle Casey and I need to fast forward |
| 0:21.8 | every time he talks. |
| 0:23.7 | Well, we already do offer a non-cassy download option. |
| 0:26.8 | It's the non-cassy download option that's not coming. |
| 0:31.5 | Feature already implemented. |
| 0:33.0 | I believe it was last episode. |
| 0:35.8 | We talked about the time capsule and how that is |
| 0:38.7 | or is not an acceptable way of backing things up |
| 0:42.8 | and John lamented how the network base |
| 0:46.5 | time machine backups are really crummy |
| 0:48.9 | and the time capsule is a piece of junk and blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:52.0 | And somebody whose name I need to rediscover, |
| 0:55.3 | hold on, let me fill this dead air by mumbling. |
| 0:58.8 | Crud, I'll have to come back to it. |
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