51: Maybe We're Just Dinosaurs
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2014
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
- The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story.
- More FU on iPads going pro, giant-tablet-desk ergonomics, trying to understand John's theory again, and a train analogy from Casey.
- New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Bill Gates' new wildcard role, and Microsoft's likely future direction. (Marco's post, John Gruber's post, Brent Simmons' post)
- Paper, Paper, Paper, Fifty Three, and Figure 53.
- Responsibly naming things by first searching for trademark conflicts and potentially applying for your own trademark.
- Apple's role in App Store name conflicts.
- Facebook Paper's opportunity cost to the world.
- After-show: More on Microsoft and some Retina MacBook Air speculation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm gonna try not to be whiny. It might be punchy, but I'm gonna try not to be whiny. |
| 0:04.7 | I have had pretty bad internet connectivity over the last two days. |
| 0:08.3 | Um, oh really? |
| 0:09.8 | I don't think it's because of Fios' weird |
| 0:12.8 | possible throttling of Amazon web services |
| 0:15.6 | because they have actually denied because we're pointing out, but that story is crazy. |
| 0:19.8 | It's based on like one of those online chat logs for the support person. |
| 0:23.7 | They don't know anything. They barely speak English. |
| 0:26.8 | This is a worse non-story. |
| 0:30.4 | I have seen a lot of very slow downloads from S3 and a lot of Netflix problems. |
| 0:34.9 | Um, however, that's not, not only is that not new, but it probably is not Verizon doing that. |
| 0:42.3 | It's probably Netflix being at massive scale where they're responsible for like a third of |
| 0:47.2 | the traffic on the internet. And you know, no wonder that I have some slowdowns here and they're |
| 0:51.2 | during peak hours and some, you know, some bad quality streaming happening. It's not that big of a deal. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, something is up like ours, the story on this a while back. |
| 0:59.6 | And I was really hoping they would get to the bottom of it and I don't think they did. |
| 1:03.2 | It was like, well, why the hell are YouTube videos so slow? |
| 1:06.1 | Um, fiber optic connection and you can't play like it just literally won't play this YouTube video |
| 1:10.9 | that would use one 10,000th of your bandwidth if it would come. |
| 1:14.4 | And it's lots of finger pointing of like Google saying the ISP and ISP saying it's |
| 1:22.4 | not that they're not doing anything wrong. And like it's not like, why would you intentionally |
| 1:25.6 | throttle YouTube? Like I don't think it's anything the fariest, but there's some sort of networking |
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