416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities
- Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience
- Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience
- Follow-up:
- Tesla
- Limiting Siri’s Messages Announcements
- Telling Siri to 🤫
- Developer Transition Kit returns
- iOS 14.5 Beta adds support for unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask
- Apple replies to one of John’s old Radars
- Sony ɑ1
#askatp- Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc? (via Donald Rabideau)
- Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan? (via Dan Blondell)
- How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work? (via Jan Philipp)
- Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS? (via Aidan Trager)
- Post-show: Marco is snowed in
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| 0:00.0 | John, I have a question for you. |
| 0:01.7 | When you were perhaps younger or just generally in the days |
| 0:07.8 | before, did you have any strong corporate legions? |
| 0:13.0 | So what got me thinking about this was obviously, |
| 0:15.3 | I have a strong affinity for Apple, |
| 0:16.8 | even though sometimes it may not sound like it. |
| 0:18.5 | But I was thinking there was a time when |
| 0:22.1 | I felt probably as strongly in favor of BMW |
| 0:26.4 | as I do about Apple, which now sounds bananas. |
| 0:28.9 | But there was a time when I was extremely enthusiastic |
| 0:32.7 | about BMW. |
| 0:33.5 | Mark, when I flew halfway across the planet |
| 0:36.6 | in order to visit more BMW. |
| 0:40.0 | And I was also thinking about when I was a kid, |
| 0:42.9 | I had very little actual possessions, |
| 0:45.7 | but a strong affinity for Sony stuff. |
| 0:47.7 | And we've all talked about, especially |
| 0:49.2 | as old men, about how Sony used to be great blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:51.4 | And actually, coincidentally, we're |
| 0:52.3 | going to be talking about Sony again later. |
| 0:53.6 | But I was curious for both of you, but particularly, John, |
| 0:57.0 | were there any other corporations that you felt like you did |
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