3: Conditions Led To Freecell
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2013
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
- The Nifty MiniDrive
- The challenges of small-camera design
- Sony RX1 and Sony's camera-business revival
- Apple in the gaming market and the evolution of casual gaming
- Solitaire, Minesweeper, and the first time anyone has mentioned FreeCell in 2013
- The bad old days of Game Boys, lead-acid "portable" computers, and mouse-pointer trails
- iOS' refusal to let you pick default browser, email client, calendar app, etc.
- Mini-web-browsers inside of iOS apps
- How iOS could adopt Contracts or Intents, and the problems that might arise
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, I received my first Kickstarter-backed thing in the mail today, and I want to love |
| 0:08.9 | it, but it's quasi-deo-way. |
| 0:11.6 | So, I got the Nifty Mini Drive. |
| 0:14.6 | Did you guys remember this from like eight months ago or something like that? |
| 0:17.8 | Yeah, it's like, was it like the USB drive that fits in the SD card slot? |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, basically. |
| 0:22.8 | So, what it, the premise is, it fits in the SD card slot of a Mac, and they've designed |
| 0:29.4 | it and machined it in such a way that you stick this into the slot and stick, I think it's |
| 0:34.5 | a micro SD card into the Nifty Mini Drive. |
| 0:39.7 | And then you put the Mini Drive in the SD card slot for your Mac, and then it sits flush |
| 0:44.7 | as opposed to the way full-size SD cards typically sit, and so you've basically added another |
| 0:49.3 | drive to your Mac, which I don't know why I wanted to do this other than it seemed cool. |
| 0:54.4 | Now that I've gotten it, it looks great, it looks to be the same aluminum that the Mac |
| 1:01.6 | is made of. |
| 1:02.6 | I didn't get a color. |
| 1:03.6 | I just got it and plain aluminum. |
| 1:04.6 | And I really like the look of it, but apparently some tolerance or something was a little |
| 1:09.5 | bit off in some of the first batches, and so without putting Scotch or cello tape around |
| 1:16.1 | it, the drive was read-only, so I had to put Scotch tape around it because SD cards have |
| 1:22.2 | a physical switch to make them read-only, and so apparently without Scotch tape around |
| 1:29.7 | it, it didn't trip or did trip whichever direction the switch that made OS10 treated as |
| 1:36.7 | read-only, so now I have Scotch tape around it, but other than that, it's actually really |
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