36: A Weird One
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2013
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
- The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up!
- Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the dots video.
- The Retina MacBook Pro update.
- The Mac Pro base price, CPU options, and speculation on SSD pricing.
- The iPad Air, Retina iPad Mini, iPad 2 (LOL), and iPod Classic.
- Apple's prod of free software.
- John's high-level summary of Mavericks and recommendation on upgrading.
- Listener homework: Read the review before next week's episode.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When Skype call begins, I'm against saying hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Because that makes it like a telephone. |
| 0:08.0 | We're bringing all of the traditions of the crappy previous generation communication system to the new one. |
| 0:16.0 | I can pick up the phone to say hello, but Skype, it should be like I am. |
| 0:19.0 | You don't begin every I am conversation with people that you know with like a greeting or something or a hello. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, if you're an A, you start an I am conversation with YT, question mark. |
| 0:29.0 | What does that stand for? |
| 0:30.0 | You there? |
| 0:31.0 | You didn't know that? |
| 0:32.0 | No, if anyone did that to me, I would be like, what are you doing? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, that's terrible. |
| 0:37.0 | It's like people saying hello on Skype, but it's worse. |
| 0:39.0 | Here's worse than YT. |
| 0:41.0 | Your name with a question mark. |
| 0:43.0 | That is the worst way to begin an I am conversation. |
| 0:45.0 | No, disagree, it has to be YT. |
| 0:47.0 | No, your name with a question mark is the worst, trust me. |
| 0:49.0 | I've had them all done to mix up for YT, but if I were to see? |
| 0:52.0 | No, because YT is like, yes, it's terrible, but it's better than KC. |
| 0:58.0 | Like what? |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, you know who you're I am. |
| 1:02.0 | KC? |
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