37: A 3,000-Word Digression
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2013
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
- Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one.
- iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode.
- Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his OS X Mavericks review.
- Noodling John with random questions.
- Dragon Drop and Cocoapods don't suck.
- The big potential section of the Mavericks review that John omitted.
- Choosing high-level and low-level details to include in the review.
- Tags and the filesystem.
- Publishing the review ebooks, and relative sales between iBooks and Kindle.
- Marco's postmortem on his past Kindle efforts. (Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices, CueCat)
- Mavericks' theme and the Mac's constant battle between power users and ease of use.
- Will John keep doing OS X reviews?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You guys are failing. |
| 0:04.2 | I see something about transporter in the FU. Do we want to talk about that or do we not care? |
| 0:07.9 | That's where they follow up. |
| 0:09.2 | Okay. |
| 0:09.6 | Because it's quick, we were talking about transporter, maybe it was during an ad on a past show |
| 0:16.3 | mentioning the lights, and I think it was Marco was saying that the lights, the blue LED lights |
| 0:20.1 | are annoying on devices. This is a big blue light. Well, you can apparently turn the lights off |
| 0:25.2 | on a transporter. So if you are one of those people who doesn't like lights on your electronics, |
| 0:29.6 | and you get a transporter, apparently you can dim and turn off the lights. |
| 0:33.4 | I don't think the lights are that bad, but then again, mine is also in the basement, so there you go. |
| 0:38.6 | Speaking of retina, man, John, that thing in your review, we're supposed to talk about your |
| 0:44.0 | review, how you found that the default wallpaper is exactly 2x, the current 27 inch |
| 0:50.5 | cinema displays resolution. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, quite a coincidence. |
| 0:53.8 | That's painful, man. That's so painful. |
| 0:56.8 | Because now, you look, all the pieces are in place. I was feuding with the storage area. |
| 1:01.6 | All the pieces are in place to have a retina desktop display, except having the display. |
| 1:08.0 | The computer is now supported. Thunderbolt 2 is fast enough. The GPUs are insanely fast |
| 1:11.9 | in all these new models. There's clearly a differentiation here, whereas assuming it would |
| 1:18.7 | need to be Thunderbolt 2, the new MacBook Air still can't do it. They don't have Thunderbolt 2, |
| 1:24.0 | right? That's right, isn't it? I think so. |
| 1:26.8 | The only computers Apple has announced with Thunderbolt 2 are the new retina MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro. |
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