29: Computerized Garden Gnome
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2013
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
- John's Mavericks review progress.
- iPhone event predictions.
- Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock.
- iPhone 5S colors.
- Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model?
- Cell towers near rich people.
- The Apple TV shipment rumor.
- Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"?
- Our Synology experiences and disk-layout strategies so far.
- The OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store saga.
- Microsoft and Nokia: Stratechery 1, Stratechery 2, Asymco: Who's buying whom?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | He's a nice guy, like just he has a good voice. |
| 0:02.9 | Well, that's how we, you sound to other people, Marko. |
| 0:05.9 | This gives you a glimpse of what it must like for the people, for the people who are |
| 0:08.7 | thinking it, but I didn't say it. |
| 0:10.4 | For the people who hate us, this is exactly how we sound. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, nobody hates you, John. |
| 0:15.1 | That is so not true. |
| 0:16.4 | I should look at my email there, believe me. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, okay. |
| 0:19.5 | There's a difference between hates you and corrects you. |
| 0:21.6 | You do realize that, right? |
| 0:22.7 | Not well. |
| 0:25.4 | So how's the review going, John? |
| 0:26.8 | Well, with the uncertainty about the release date. |
| 0:30.2 | And, you know, like, it could be, it could be any day now or whatever. |
| 0:34.3 | I thought it was a, well, I brought up to the R's guys and |
| 0:37.4 | agreed that we should just start editing and copy editing this. |
| 0:40.7 | Even though it's not done, done, like we're still doing battery tests and |
| 0:44.8 | getting results and still waiting for dictation to work and stuff like, |
| 0:50.1 | and still waiting for pricing information. |
| 0:51.9 | But like, what's there? |
| 0:52.9 | Like, we've got to start going through it now. |
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