50: Disk Light Observer Effect
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2014
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people".
- Can iOS add more power-user functionality without harming its simplicity or usability?
- Whether Macs should ship with ARM CPUs, how such a transition would be challenging today, and whether Casey should just buy another power adapter.
- The 30th anniversary of the Macintosh and the experience of using its power switch (photo from iFixit's awesome teardown).
- Disk-ejecting usability.
- Using iStat Menus to monitor your performance and assist future hardware decisions. (Or not.)
- Lenovo buying Motorola's pillaged carcass from Google, and whether they ruined the IBM ThinkPad.
- After-show: What will we reflect on in 20 years as being the obvious sore spot with computers today?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Want me to put more bad music on I have lots to choose from actually that I have nothing to complain about anymore that music was fantastic |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, yeah, I have something to complain about. I was like turning on the radio like top 40 radio in the 90s |
| 0:12.9 | That's not an attractive thing |
| 0:20.0 | All right, so how about that iPad pro? Yeah, I put that in there just to make a second a second run at this because after |
| 0:26.8 | The last show where we talked about this in the after show and hearing it back |
| 0:30.4 | I'm not sure I successfully communicate what I was trying to say was when I listen to myself |
| 0:34.8 | I don't think if I didn't already know what I was thinking I would have understood myself |
| 0:38.7 | I so I thought it started by asking you to see if you can summarize what I was trying to say about the iPad pro |
| 0:44.7 | And then when you fail to say what is in my head, I will try to clarify |
| 0:50.8 | Wow, did that happen like a week ago. I don't remember what you said come on |
| 0:56.0 | I have some idea |
| 0:58.6 | Give it a shot like what was it like you're asking like why does anyone ever want to iPad for and I try to give you the reason why I think a larger |
| 1:04.6 | More cable iPad is an inevitable thing that will happen someday |
| 1:09.1 | Trying to explain why I think you're reasoning for why it had to be larger was that |
| 1:15.9 | Is that like as the OS gets more advanced and allows more advanced types of usage |
| 1:22.0 | That you will have to at some point have some kind of multiple window kind of arrangement |
| 1:27.3 | Or the possibility for multiple windows whether it's split or you know whether it's like a fixed setup or or a flexible setup |
| 1:33.8 | You know, but so it was something it was mainly about |
| 1:36.5 | It has to get bigger because it will get more advanced and more advanced needs more windows base |
| 1:41.1 | Was that just I was like the secondary thing we ended up talking about but the the main thing |
| 1:46.6 | I think I'll take another shot in here |
| 1:48.4 | The main thing I was trying to get out was what I have in the show it's here |
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