418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.)
- Chatroulette
- Party line
- Newton’s cradle
- Should Apple remove the Contacts framework?
- Follow-up:
- Living outside the east coast… or America.
- The Concert for Charlottesville was posted
- Should timers sync? (via Richard Harris)
- What can Mobile Device Management really do? (via Chris Harper)
- An alternate way to think about RAM vs. SSD-wear tradeoffs (via Jonathan Dietz)
- Ada and MISRA C for car-computer safety
- T568A vs. T568B myths revisited (via Jon B.)
- iPhone 13 rumors
- Post-show: Casey’s new toy
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| 0:00.0 | It's a party here once again on a Wednesday night. |
| 0:03.2 | Join us in our clubhouse. |
| 0:05.0 | Have you done that? |
| 0:07.0 | I just installed it tonight and I did one dog walk with it. |
| 0:11.0 | Just listening. I'm not gonna say anything for a while. |
| 0:14.8 | Just listening. |
| 0:16.8 | I have not yet seen why people like it, but that doesn't mean it's not there. |
| 0:22.8 | It just, you know, I need more time with it. |
| 0:24.8 | Before you tell me anything about it, I'm going to tell you what I think it is. |
| 0:29.4 | It's based on nothing other than like third degree tweets about tweets about clubhouse. |
| 0:36.8 | Okay. |
| 0:37.8 | My impression, like multi-degrees separated is that it's a thing where people are either |
| 0:46.4 | lurking like you or are on audio speaking and it's like imagine if you had a Skype call, |
| 0:53.7 | but instead of just being the three of us on the Skype call, there were 50 of us on |
| 0:57.3 | the Skype call. |
| 0:59.5 | And probably there's some way to determine who is allowed to speak at various times and |
| 1:03.5 | who is ever going to be allowed to speak or whatever, but in general, like a bunch of |
| 1:07.3 | people in a big audio chat room and the draw is that sometimes famous people come in and |
| 1:11.9 | say things in real time that are really dumb that aren't recorded for posterity because |
| 1:15.3 | people don't record audio on their devices yet. |
| 1:19.2 | And it's exciting to hear famous people talk just kind of like the same way it was exciting |
| 1:22.2 | on Twitter to see a famous person type something like that they wrote themselves presumably. |
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