42: The Ultimate Vanity Search
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2013
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
- FU on PrimeSense.
- Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why.
- Apple's possible difficulty in getting and keeping enough engineering talent, and how they might make bigger strides in web services.
- Which group wears the pants in a company?
- Marco's embarrassing FiOS support calls.
- How Apple's release and marketing schedule affects their web services.
- Methodologies and vocabularies.
- USB spec group will add a reversible connector, the history of terrible USB connectors (see also: Hypercritical #5 from around 45 minutes, Hypercritical #6 from around 9 minutes, and the entire rest of the series, too), Lightning epitomizing Apple.
- Dell renews hope for desktop Retina with the new Mac Pro, single big monitors vs. dual smaller ones, and higher-than-native resolution scaling on the Retina MacBook Pro (see also: Eye-Friendly).
- Waiting for a new technology to fully mature before switching, or adopting it earlier with tradeoffs and hacks.
- Texas.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We should probably start the show, shouldn't we? |
| 0:03.5 | What show? |
| 0:04.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.5 | That thing that we accidentally made when we were talking about cars. |
| 0:09.7 | We had a lot of really, really, really, really awesome feedback about the last episode. |
| 0:16.1 | And I don't say that to self-congratulately. |
| 0:17.8 | What I mean is a lot of listeners wrote in various forms and tweets and emails and all |
| 0:23.1 | sorts of things to say. |
| 0:24.8 | Not only that, you know, they like all of us and that they also enjoy the show, in particular |
| 0:30.8 | they enjoyed the end of the last show. |
| 0:32.6 | And I don't know that us having group therapy sessions is really going to be entertaining |
| 0:36.8 | on a regular basis. |
| 0:38.4 | But I really appreciate, and I think I speak for the two of you guys as well, I really |
| 0:42.3 | appreciate everyone that wrote in and said, well, keep on keeping on. |
| 0:45.8 | So that was very kind of every single one of you. |
| 0:48.5 | And I tried to reply to pretty much everyone that I saw. |
| 0:51.2 | But if I missed you, my apologies and thanks so much for having written in. |
| 0:55.8 | That was really cool. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 0:57.8 | We got a lot of great feedback about that because I think a lot of people don't talk about |
| 1:03.0 | this stuff in public on the internet because it doesn't fit into the topic of your site |
| 1:07.3 | or your podcast. |
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