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292: Don't Look Over There!

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Myke, Hurley, Amazon, Apple, Snell, Jason, Tech, Streaming, Media, Technology

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

How will COVID-19 change the future of consumer technology? Why is Zoom the videoconferencing tool of the moment, and why has it had so many security and privacy issues? We ask the big questions this week, and also discuss Amazon's ability to sell and rent movies on iOS, the mystifying launch of the Quibi video service, and how moving to a virtual workspace is affecting Apple.

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0:00.0

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0:13.5

This is Upgrade episode 292. Today show is brought to you by Pingham,

0:15.3

Squarespace, Linode, and Ero.

0:17.2

My name is Mike Hurley and I am joined by the Intrepid Jason Snell.

0:21.4

Oh, Intrepid. Hi Mike, how are you? I am fine, my friend. How are you?

0:26.0

Just great, you know, again, we are two of the people least affected by what's going on in the world because we stay inside and work

0:35.0

inside all the time. But it makes me feel a little bit strange. And of course my entire family

0:40.4

is in my house now. So, know it's it's uh we live in

0:44.7

strange times strange times but we're here to keep on keeping on yeah

0:49.3

has a hashtag snow talk question which is jason what's your desktop background and does it serve any purpose other than decoration

0:57.2

any so the any purpose thing is what got me about this question well I've seen people that design like desktop backgrounds to have calendars on them and stuff,

1:05.8

you know?

1:06.8

Yeah, that's weird.

1:07.8

Or I mean, I shouldn't judge that.

1:09.8

Or like motivational messages, that kind of stuff. I was thinking like a grid with like a little

1:14.7

play or a little like little places where you put files in various places yeah like you see that a

1:19.2

lot with iOS apps like desktops right people draw little app icons where app icons could go and that kind of stuff.

1:26.2

Yeah exactly I think so I actually just wrote a piece that we can link to in the show notes about my messy

1:35.6

desktop and how I've actually changed how I approach detail there I have that

1:41.1

maybe as a always quiet this week. We're going to talk about this about cleaning up my desktop.

1:46.7

Yeah, we will see we're gonna be careful here. You will see the short versions I can see more of my desktop

1:51.3

that I used to and I have a 27 inch I'm at

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