5: Negativity, Skepticism, and Doubt
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2013
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
- The upcoming Google Reader shutdown.
- The market for RSS today, and the way forward.
- Client-side vs. server-side feed crawling.
- Addressing excessive demand for WWDC and Google I/O tickets.
- Apple pessimism is at an all-time high, even in the mainstream.
- What could Apple do to turn the pessimism around?
- Apple and web services.
- The Apple TV's interesting new A5.
- Diversifying the iPhone line.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | People tweeting me think I was drunk in the last show. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, because you didn't get a chance to be blind. |
| 0:05.0 | Because my voice sounded terrible. |
| 0:07.0 | Right. |
| 0:08.0 | That's not what you sound like when you're drunk. |
| 0:10.0 | That's what you sound like when you're sick. |
| 0:12.0 | People. |
| 0:13.0 | People are crazy. |
| 0:15.0 | All right, so what are we talking about tonight? |
| 0:17.0 | I think I know. |
| 0:18.0 | I mean, I think we have to talk about the Google Reader thing. |
| 0:20.0 | I think we do. |
| 0:21.0 | So let me start by asking to either of you guys believe in RSS. |
| 0:25.0 | I presume the answer is a resounding yes. |
| 0:27.0 | It exists whether you believe in it or not. |
| 0:29.0 | It's all around us all the time. |
| 0:34.0 | Just like love. |
| 0:36.0 | No, I use RSS constantly. |
| 0:38.0 | A lot of people have always said like, oh, RSS is dead. |
| 0:41.0 | I don't use RSS. |
| 0:42.0 | I guess you can place it with Twitter or whatever. |
| 0:44.0 | And I think that's true for a lot of people certainly. |
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