459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
- Shocking revelations:
- Marco’s wrist
- Casey’s desk
- The myth of digital audio producing stair-step sound waves
- Apple’s monitor-pricing conundrum
- Follow-up: Junior vs. Senior Developers (via Nick Matsakis)
- Mac Mini rumors and renderings
#askatp:- Which company would we love to see Apple buy & integrate? (via Ryan)
- Why bother with backups anymore? (via Joe Athman)
- Post-show: John’s beeps
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| 0:00.0 | So I went on a little break, you know, a little vacation for Thanksgiving with the family. |
| 0:05.5 | And in order to keep things simpler, as I frequently do when I travel, |
| 0:10.5 | I did not bring my Apple Watch because I figured that's one less charger I need to deal with. |
| 0:15.4 | Right, so I'm going to a bunch of different places, let me just bring my phone charger. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm not gonna worry about it all the way to the whole second one. |
| 0:22.3 | And I really missed it. |
| 0:25.2 | Uh-oh. |
| 0:26.8 | I finally reached the point in my Apple Watch dumb. |
| 0:32.4 | And in my watch notary, I think, where I want to wear it most of the time. |
| 0:38.6 | And I mostly only want to wear fancy mechanical watches when I'm like going out, |
| 0:45.2 | like, you know, for dinner or like for a special occasion or it's for like, you know, non-common everyday things. |
| 0:52.0 | Like for common everyday use, I'm pretty much wearing the Apple Watch now. |
| 0:55.2 | Apple Watch, the sweatpants of the watch world. |
| 1:00.4 | So, so wait, so what is it that you missed out of curiosity? |
| 1:03.6 | Was it notifications? |
| 1:05.0 | Was it the tracking of your fitness and movement and things of that nature? |
| 1:09.6 | What did you miss about it? |
| 1:11.2 | Notifications I, I miss initially. |
| 1:15.4 | Like the first time I get the tap, tap in my pocket and look at my wrist and I can't tell what it's for. |
| 1:20.0 | Then I'm like, oh, I guess that's kind of unfortunate. |
| 1:21.7 | But I forget about that within a day and don't miss it anymore because I don't, I don't, |
| 1:26.9 | I don't enable that many notifications. |
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