306: My Watch Has Ended
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2018
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Casey gets
mediumvery upset about Medium - Did Google really cripple Edge's YouTube performance?
- Casey gets
- John's 2018 Butterfly Keyboard Watch
- Marco's fingerprinty iPad solution
- Paperlike
- John's LEGO and the instructions
- John Giannandrea appointed to Apple executive team
- iPad Pros can ship bent... 🤷🏻♂️
#askatp- Does Overcast do anything special to inhibit cookies? (via Mitch Cohen)
- Could Overcast get blocked by publishers for not implementing RAD?
- If Intel got its act together, would Apple cancel any ARM Mac plans and stick with Intel? (via Gabriel Salkin)
- What's the ATP editing process? (via Markus N)
- Do Marco and Casey use Xcode in full-screen mode? (via Erik)
- Does Overcast do anything special to inhibit cookies? (via Mitch Cohen)
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| 0:00.0 | Watch has ended who we are Marco having to strive on his fancy watches. I still I have not done that. I watchers are all |
| 0:08.0 | Perfectly in order. You're very you're very careful. They're cars all of them are slightly bent, but you know |
| 0:14.7 | It's a good for an end of the year episode two. Yeah great for an episode where we recap the top stories of 2018 |
| 0:21.3 | We would never do that. We don't we don't we don't do enough homework for that |
| 0:24.7 | That takes way more preparation than what we're willing to do. We don't remember the stories of 2018. We don't remember |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah, whenever whenever connected does there is I haven't listened to today's yet |
| 0:33.6 | But whenever they whenever they do there is I'm always like damn |
| 0:36.1 | I wish I would have thought to do that |
| 0:37.4 | But then I realized the reality of doing that is so much work |
| 0:40.6 | Like especially like so much work during the holidays season like I'm already busy enough like the last thing |
| 0:45.5 | I wanted to is add more work |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, it's kind of like the Oscars where like it's almost like stuff that happened at the beginning of the year |
| 0:52.0 | Like doesn't count anymore like no matter how important it was is the recency bias |
| 0:55.7 | I was gonna I was gonna actually add a section which is gonna be 2018 impressions |
| 1:00.0 | Technology impressions because it wasn't gonna be like let's survey all the important stories that happen |
| 1:03.4 | It's gonna be more like when you think back on 2018 in the technology world |
| 1:07.3 | What is your impression of it? Do you feel like this was a cool year? |
| 1:10.6 | Like what are the things to stick out in your mind? |
| 1:12.7 | But this is such tremendous recency bias that in my mind all I can think about are the things that happened fairly recently |
| 1:18.7 | So when I my impressions of 2018 they're like the stuff that happened with the Mac line towards the end of the year |
| 1:24.3 | Right and sort of the ongoing keyboard stuff and everything that it's like super recent and then |
| 1:30.5 | The other thing which we don't talk about much on the show everyone's from what we know but like an entire year of |
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