43: Brilliance Enhancer
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2013
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
- Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.)
- Desktop 4K/Retina resolutions hitting bandwidth limitations of Thunderbolt 2 and DisplayPort 1.2, and the Sharp/Apple non-news.
- John's Squarespace-reseller idea already exists.
- Why aren't iOS App Store purchases available for purchasing and management in the App Store app on the Mac?
- John's new TV:
- Technological progression from CRT to plasma and LCD, and the many hacky tricks used by modern TVs to overcome limitations and look better in stores. See also: Hypercritical 16: The Soap Opera Effect.
- The new John Siracusa TV.
- John's TV-calibration regimen.
- Why we're not talking about the iOS notification sync in OS X that never shipped.
- Merlin's response to our criticism discussion, and how Casey reacts to little worms.
- After-show Neutral: the new M3/M4 and John's dead pedal.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's no way this is going on the show. |
| 0:03.5 | I know. |
| 0:04.5 | This is not nearly exciting enough. |
| 0:06.5 | Well, it was embarrassing for me, so I thought there |
| 0:08.4 | was a pretty good shot you'd wanted in there. |
| 0:11.8 | So we have a little bit of follow-up. |
| 0:14.0 | The first thing is, and I'm a little disappointed |
| 0:16.3 | that this has gotten a little bit of publicity, |
| 0:18.5 | because I was hoping to wow everyone |
| 0:21.2 | with revealing this on the show. |
| 0:23.4 | But there is a listener who wrote, far and away, |
| 0:27.4 | my favorite thing I've ever read on the internet. |
| 0:29.9 | His name is Joe Steele, if I'm not mistaken. |
| 0:33.0 | And he wrote, and a screenplay review |
| 0:38.0 | of the accidental tech podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | And as it turns out, I didn't realize this at the time. |
| 0:41.9 | As it turns out, he's actually done several of these. |
| 0:44.5 | And he even has a little tumbler where he posts them. |
| 0:47.7 | So he's done one. |
| 0:48.4 | He did one for the prompt, which is falsely advertised |
| 0:52.2 | as his greatest podcast in the world. |
| 0:53.7 | He did one for Bionic, which I actually |
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