308: Left-Handed Streaming Service
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: What is a jam band, mannnnn?
- Follow-up:
- Unshaky
- China is an equal-opportunity financial disappointment for everyone
- Firefox is still a thing
- Apple is putting iTunes and/or AirPlay 2 in various TVs
- MicroLED
#askatp- What Siri Shortcuts do we use? (via FoTS Todd Vaziri)
- How does one preserve podcasts? (via Fred McCann)
- Apparently something Destiny-related. Your show notes author tuned out. Thanks a lot, Graham Wetzler.
- Post-show: Is today Mac Pro day?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was thinking about that the other day about our differing definitions of jam band and how wrong your definition is. |
| 0:06.5 | That's right. |
| 0:07.5 | You mean mine is good? |
| 0:09.0 | I agree they are very different. |
| 0:10.5 | No, because I feel like a jam band by definition is about improvisation. |
| 0:15.5 | It is not about what instrument is emphasized or what the particular flair of music is. |
| 0:22.0 | Totally disagree. |
| 0:23.0 | Jamming is about improvisation. |
| 0:25.5 | But a jam band is a specific musical genre. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't know how to properly adjudicate this disagreement other than to say I feel as strongly as you the other direction that it is. |
| 0:38.0 | It is little to nothing to do with the particular flavor of the music, but more about the style, not the styles of wrong word there. |
| 0:46.5 | It's about the fact that they improvise. |
| 0:49.5 | So as an example, I think it would be terrible, but there is no reason in my world that you couldn't have a death metal jam band. |
| 0:56.0 | If they are all about improvisation and if every show sounds very different, they are jam band. |
| 1:02.5 | Some I kind of jam band, but it is jam band. |
| 1:04.5 | That's like saying anybody who wraps is making wrap. |
| 1:09.0 | That's not necessary. |
| 1:10.5 | No, wrapping is a verb. |
| 1:12.5 | Wrapping is a verb. |
| 1:13.5 | Making wrap maybe the widest thing you've ever said. |
| 1:15.5 | I know. |
| 1:16.5 | Maybe this is a bad example because I don't know anything about this. |
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