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Accidental Tech Podcast

39: Desperation Mode

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2013

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, I'm going to use the most interesting two-thirds of that for the after show now. Let's start the real show

0:05.0

Good idea good idea

0:08.1

Good to say so I hear it was Christmas at the circus household already

0:12.6

Yeah, the tiny little package arrived that weighed a lot. Yeah, I was very proud of that

0:18.4

Seemed very dense and it was it really shows how little Marco cared about the old kindles that he sent me

0:25.0

He packed he packed them together by stacking them one on top of video like they were their own packing material

0:32.0

Like nothing in between them. No like bubble wrap tissue paper, you know, so just I put the crappiest one on top

0:39.2

It's just a bunch of kindles and other e-readers jammed together into a solid brick. Well, they stack very well

0:47.5

Yeah, except for the damn kindle one which is wedge-shaped everything else stacks really well

0:51.3

I think they managed out like the original kindle like the back cover had come off in transit

0:56.7

But I don't think anything was broken on it and the kindle touch has a

1:02.1

Thing in the upper left corner where it's damaged. Did that? Was that already there?

1:06.5

Um, what kind of thing is it like a I think there's like a small like a tiny scratch on the screen up there maybe

1:11.2

Yeah, it's like a little spot that's like permanently black like a little like a dead pixel like well

1:15.6

No, it's bigger than that. It's like someone took like someone took like a flathead screwdriver

1:18.8

I want to think and jammed into the screen. So it's like a little close lash area. It's not it's not big

1:23.4

It's like it's nope. That's new. Sorry

1:26.9

Yeah, whatever

1:29.1

But anyway, the candles came when we opened them up at the table with all the kids are there and all these candles coming out

1:34.8

and

1:35.8

Surprising things happened because Marco, you know, I mentioned I put this in the show

1:38.8

It's a mark because I was nothing to say about that. It's not it's not that exciting

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