347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Casey's computer and 👽
- Follow-up:
- Where is FaceTime attention correction?
- "Coming this Spring"
- October expectations
- Disposable AirPods
- Catalina
- An aside about Apple's [lack of] API documentation of late
#askatp- Why can't we family share contacts? (via Dan Stanton)
- Why don't Casey and John join the iPhone Upgrade Program? (via Cameron)
- What non-high-tech tech do we enjoy? (via Phillipp)
- Post-show: 🛎️
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So what computer are you on right now? |
| 0:02.0 | The fact that you even have to ask that question is really depressing. |
| 0:05.6 | Really, really depressing. I'm on my iMac. I think last we spoke, nothing has changed with regards to the iMac. |
| 0:14.6 | So you still only had it repaired once and then you did a software restore basically? |
| 0:19.7 | Well, so I had repaired once. I restored from time machine. Things got wonky and then last Monday, |
| 0:27.1 | so not October, what is today? It's the ninth, so not October 7th, but September 30th, I believe it was. |
| 0:34.0 | I decided I'm just going to nuke everything from orbit. And what is the genesis of that reference, John? |
| 0:39.8 | You don't know. You're making me so disappointed. I use it. You use it. I'm like, yeah, we're on the same page. |
| 0:45.2 | We all get this reference, but now you're making that you don't. And of course, Marco doesn't. |
| 0:48.5 | No, of course not. |
| 0:50.5 | What is genesis of that? |
| 0:51.6 | Aliens, the one with the s, the plural one, the second one, the James Cameron one. |
| 0:56.6 | I never seen it. |
| 0:57.2 | You've never seen aliens. |
| 0:58.8 | Wait, hold on. There are two different movies. One called alien and one called aliens. |
| 1:03.7 | They're sure as terrible. |
| 1:05.4 | Are they related? |
| 1:06.7 | They sure are. Because the first one had one alien and the second one had more than one. |
| 1:12.8 | Oh, spoiler alert. That's right there. |
| 1:15.4 | That's not okay, see? Alien, that's not terrible. That is classy. That is before I was like, |
| 1:21.1 | aliens to more aliens, furious five in the fate of the furious and fast five and all this |
| 1:27.1 | ridiculous. We had alien and then it was followed up by aliens, which is a perfect way to amp up the |
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