301: I Cut Them Up in the Air
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
- Essential's "audiophile" headphone-bump dongle
- Follow-up: Total ATP length so far
- The Surface Go is more interesting than we thought
- An update on
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#askatp- How would we quarterback a x86 → ARM transition? (via Cameron Kerr)
- Can one switch careers into development in one's late-30s?
- How do we slice bagels? (via Dave Altizer)
- Post show: ATP Thanksgiving
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was at Wegmans, which is one of our local grocers this past weekend. |
| 0:05.5 | And we went to get some lunch and then due just like a spot of shopping to get some essentials |
| 0:10.8 | before we go to my parents for the holiday. |
| 0:14.5 | But it was Sunday. It was a lunchtime on a Sunday. |
| 0:17.5 | And that was when I realized I am well and truly retired because I looked around and was truly |
| 0:23.5 | and utterly disgusted by the amount of people I saw while I was trying to go to the grocery shopping. |
| 0:29.0 | What are all these people doing here? |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, I was like, what the hell? Oh, right. It's Sunday. |
| 0:33.5 | Ah, I see. |
| 0:35.0 | Yep. My transformation is complete. I am now the worst. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the life. |
| 0:41.0 | Officially the worst. |
| 0:44.0 | As always, we have to start with some follow up and we have a headphone bump slash dongle |
| 0:50.0 | that one of us wants to talk about. |
| 0:52.5 | And oh my, this is large and in charge. |
| 0:56.5 | Is this the phone that you can break into components or whatever? |
| 1:01.0 | No, this is the Andy Rubin phone. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, it's hard to keep track of which doom to failure. |
| 1:06.0 | Non-Android and on Apple phone, this is. |
| 1:10.0 | But that's not what the point of this thing is. |
| 1:12.0 | A couple shows back. We're talking about the thickness of devices and the difficulty facing the headphone port on the very, very thin new iPad pros. |
| 1:21.0 | And I surmised that they should add a headphone bump. |
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