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Accidental Tech Podcast

52: Necessary But Not Sufficient

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2014

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

  • Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface.
  • RootMetrics testing real-world wireless speeds.
  • Despite constant effort to improve usability, what if computers just aren't for everyone? (There's a similar long-standing debate with programming. See 4GL.)
  • The Flappy Bird saga: Whether it's a good game and why the developer pulled it. (See also: Super Hexagon.)
  • Is free-with-in-app-purchase ruining the game industry?.
  • Comcast buying Time Warner and the implications on U.S. broadband competition.
  • The stupid new top-level domains (TLDs).
  • iBeacons and Bluetooth LE in stores and .museums.
  • After-show: Bionic on new TLDs (at 26:50) and whether the TLDs are just a scam by ICANN, Patreon, and yet more on the Mac Pro.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm drinking teats tonight. I feel like Dignation.

0:02.0

What?

0:04.0

That's like...

0:06.0

I know it's not actually the 90s

0:08.0

but that's like the 90s equivalent of

0:10.0

an internet world. Dignation.

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:14.0

Yeah, so you guys really...

0:16.0

I mean, Casey, you really honestly don't know what Dignation is or was?

0:20.0

I've heard of it, but I never paid attention to it.

0:22.0

Did you use a computer in 2006?

0:24.0

Yes.

0:26.0

Have we not already completely established

0:28.0

that both of us myself especially

0:30.0

have no knowledge of anything

0:32.0

that either of you considers worthwhile?

0:34.0

Yeah, I guess, but I mean,

0:36.0

you're at least a nice guy.

0:38.0

I thought we established it was like me

0:40.0

and then the you two in another camp over there.

0:42.0

Yeah.

0:44.0

Dignation was a podcast.

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