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Accidental Tech Podcast

300: First of All, It's Easy

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Casey has just seen the modern version of Skype for the first time like the one that the rest of us have been seeing for like six months or something

0:06.5

This is it is hilariously bad just truly hilariously bad

0:11.2

I

0:12.2

Can't I there's the the entire window is one humongous pain of blue that shows Marcos floating head until I mouse over it

0:21.1

And then I get a whole bunch of

0:23.4

What the cool designer kids called fabs are you familiar with this trend Marco?

0:28.0

No, it like that not like silicon manufacturing production facilities, but like something else no floating action buttons Marco

0:36.2

It's the new cool thing. Oh god. Is that so when I hover we're gonna these round things

0:40.4

That's what these are these have a name not just badly implemented buttons

0:43.8

It's and guess where I heard it first starting Google of course remember remember kids material design is where it's at anyway

0:51.8

So why are heads in fabs that aren't but I don't know that look identical to the buttons

0:57.4

Except they have our heads in them. Oh, it's so this is truly heinous

1:01.3

And why is John's head is floating in the middle of the screen while your head is up on the upper right next to mine

1:06.6

Well, see your your my floaty guy title and John is just relegated to the corner

1:12.5

And also it didn't didn't the previous version indicate to you who was talking yes, that's correct

1:17.5

So if you were on my some big conference call with a bunch of you leaded know you can tell who's talking

1:20.7

Which it's really nice on the plus side. I can show you a red heart which I'm doing right now

1:26.0

Oh, yes, there's a red heart on top of your fab. Yes indeed. Can I put a middle finger on top of mine?

1:32.4

It's a thumbs up. I can only do a thumbs up

1:34.7

Why you know jelly just sent me a text message which makes a good point

1:38.5

Why aren't we trying like group FaceTime or something? It's a nurse. This is proven we know this works

1:43.7

It's the kind of thing that like it's like why don't you try you know a new toilets in your house

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