337: Sea Conditions Are Calm
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: John's vacation wrap-up
- Follow-up:
- John's Apple sticker on his Civic
- Shallow water blackout
- Dropbox alternatives
- Synology Drive
- Resilio
- Growl
- Port forwarding information
- The Talk Show #258 with discussion about iCloud Drive wonkiness
- The Talk Show #259 with Marco
- How does the Overcast recommendation algorithm avoid promoting awful people, unlike YouTube's algorithm? (via Justin Cardinal)
- Casey needs some advice about Vignette duplicate-photo detection
- Apple acquires most of Intel's smartphone modem business
- Apple Employees/Contractors Listen to Siri Audio Samples
- Update after recording: Apple temporarily suspending "Siri grading", and will provide an opt-out
#askatp:- Testing headphones & iOS 13's politeness (via Prone to Bits)
- Making suggestions as part of the Pro Workflow Team (via Aaron Bushnell)
- Siracusa ranks Tennists (via Anthony Roberts)
- Post-show: Endangered Camera Species
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| 0:00.0 | Destiny Shadowkeep moved to October 1st, but I'm not gonna move eight to be for that. So |
| 0:04.7 | Thank you. Whatever that is. They delayed it was supposed to be September 17th. |
| 0:09.2 | They said, oh boy. When game when game companies like you know an apple like tells you the like the thing they had |
| 0:15.2 | They don't even tell you they're like it's gonna be in the fall and it's a being like the last day of fall or whatever |
| 0:18.9 | Like game companies announced a launch date and they have to announce like a specific day like months and months and months in advance |
| 0:26.1 | And then if they miss that day like they're moving it from the September 17th to October 1st |
| 0:30.4 | But just like nothing in computer land like so what who cares? |
| 0:33.6 | They end up writing like a two-page apology letter and explaining in detail because like game fans are so rabid and insane |
| 0:39.8 | They'd be like you're delaying my thing you said September 17th six months ago. I plan my entire life around her |
| 0:45.4 | Now you tell me October 1st first in computer land. It's like October 1st September 17th. Whatever like who cares? |
| 0:51.8 | Ship it when it's done fix the bugs. God gamers are the worst. They are they're absolutely the world like I've got to read these letters |
| 0:57.6 | I'm like I feel these companies like and then I think they have to do that |
| 1:01.0 | They have to be you know prostrate themselves and be like we're so sorry that six months ago |
| 1:05.7 | We didn't know the exact date time and hour that we were gonna launch a thing that we're working on that is basically software |
| 1:12.6 | Please forgive us. We just want to make sure it's okay, but it's like |
| 1:16.8 | It's fine. It's like two weeks not even two weeks |
| 1:19.8 | Sorry, but you said October 1 that's a Tuesday. That doesn't bother us |
| 1:25.2 | It's like I'm taking the day off of working. I wouldn't put it past you people take weeks off of work for these launches |
| 1:32.0 | I think entire week off |
| 1:34.8 | Way of life |
| 1:38.1 | Vacation is over for at least one of us |
| 1:41.5 | Summer of that to work for some of us. Hey, we work occasionally. Yeah, I'm working right now on my vacation |
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