34: Made The Dot Smaller
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2013
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
- Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture.
- Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so?
- The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe, and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash.
- The Mavericks GM.
- Drawbacks of a Readability-like model for paying podcast producers in Overcast, and Instacast's 2012 rejection for Flattr integration.
- Different priorities for podcast playback and management.
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| 0:00.0 | I took the bold step, the very first time I think I've ever done it, and marked that |
| 0:04.3 | review. |
| 0:05.3 | It was not helpful. |
| 0:06.3 | What's up? |
| 0:07.3 | Oh, no, I totally marked them as not helpful, if they're not helpful. |
| 0:12.2 | I want to talk about TV for a minute and not breaking bad. |
| 0:16.2 | And this is going to have a point. |
| 0:18.6 | I was watching Agents of Shield earlier tonight with Aaron. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:25.1 | It's okay. |
| 0:26.1 | It's got promise, but it's not very good at the moment. |
| 0:30.5 | Well, the reason I bring this up is because there was a portion of the episode, and this is |
| 0:37.0 | not particularly important if you haven't seen it yet, but somebody was going behind enemy |
| 0:41.6 | lines, if you will. |
| 0:43.6 | And they had like an invisible, almost invisible secret agent earpiece thing, and this |
| 0:49.6 | person was trying to schmooze people they didn't know at a party. |
| 0:53.4 | And so what they did was they had the other agents like up in the magical plane thing telling |
| 1:00.4 | the person on the field, oh, well, this is so-and-so, and he has twin kids and ask them about |
| 1:06.8 | this and that and the other thing. |
| 1:07.8 | So this person could schmooze and not look like an outsider. |
| 1:10.2 | Well, they walked away from one of the, from this conversation where they had to schmooze |
| 1:14.4 | it with people they didn't know, and they said something to the effect of, wow, it's |
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