300: First of All, It’s Easy
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
- 🎉 300th Episode Spectacular! 🎉
- Follow-up:
- iPad Pro impressions
- MacBook Air impressions
#askatp- Post-show: Marco's adventures on YouTube
- MacBook Pro Review (from a year ago)
- Mac Mini Review
- iPad Pro Review
- DJI Osmo Mobile (newer version than what Marco has)
- FiLMiC Pro
- iZotope
- Neewer
- Curtis Judd
- Chase Reeves
- John's channel
- Casey's channel
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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. |
| 0:07.0 | This is, it is hilariously bad, just truly hilariously bad. |
| 0:12.3 | I can't, I, there's a, the entire window is one humongous pane of blue that shows Marco's floating head until I mouse over it. And then I get a whole |
| 0:22.3 | bunch of what the cool designer kids called fabs. Are you familiar with this trend, Marco? |
| 0:28.3 | No. Not like Silicon manufacturing production facilities, but like something else? No. Floating |
| 0:34.8 | action buttons, Marco. It's the new cool thing. Oh, God. Is that so when I |
| 0:39.2 | hovering on all these round things, that's what these are? These have a name, not just badly |
| 0:43.0 | implemented buttons. And guess where I heard it first starting? Google. Of course. Remember, |
| 0:48.6 | kids. Material design is where it's at. Anyway, so why are our heads in fabs that aren't buttons that look identical to |
| 0:57.0 | the buttons, except they have our heads in them? Oh, it's so, this is truly heinous. And why is |
| 1:02.2 | John's head floating in the middle of the screen while your head is up on the upper right next to my? |
| 1:06.6 | Well, see, you're, you're my floaty guy title, and John is just relegated to the corner. |
| 1:12.7 | And also, didn't the previous version indicate to you who was talking? |
| 1:16.8 | Yes, that's correct. |
| 1:17.6 | So if you were on like some big conference call with a bunch of people you didn't know, you could tell who's talking, which is really nice. |
| 1:22.1 | On the plus side, I can show you a red heart, which I'm doing right now. |
| 1:26.1 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:26.7 | There's a red heart on top of your fab. |
| 1:28.6 | Yes, indeed. Can I put a middle finger on top of mine? |
| 1:32.5 | It's a thumbs up. I can only do a thumbs up. Why, you know, Jelly just sent me a text message, |
| 1:37.5 | which makes a good point. Why aren't we trying like group FaceTime or something? It's, I don't know, inertia. This is proven. We know this works. It's the kind of thing that, like, it's like, why don't you try, you know, new toilets |
| 1:47.4 | in your house? |
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