59: The Little Puck That Could
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2014
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus.
- Amazon Fire TV — no fan!
- USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector
- The giant anti-poaching collusion between Google, Apple, and dozens of other companies (Facebook apparently refused)
- Google checking with Steve Jobs first before making a hiring decision
- After-show: We tried to predict WWDC dates, not knowing that Apple would announce them 12 hours later, then discussed ticket lotteries and how Apple probably wouldn't build one. (Yeah.)
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| 0:00.0 | I saw the, um, the action cut your job movie, finally, because it was free on Netflix. |
| 0:04.3 | Ah, I did as well. And it was actually, well, you go ahead. You go ahead. |
| 0:08.4 | It sounded like you're about to give it a semi-decent review. I think |
| 0:13.7 | one of the most frustrating things about it is that even if you ignore some of the, |
| 0:19.4 | some of the little inaccuracies, and it seemed overall to get the big stuff right, |
| 0:23.6 | um, even if you ignore all that, it's not even a good movie because it takes like |
| 0:29.9 | two hours. And right towards the end, in like the last like 15 minutes, they have this eight |
| 0:38.2 | second montage that covers the entire time span from when he was fired from Apple to when Apple |
| 0:46.0 | bought next. And so not only does this gloss over a pretty significant part of Steve Jobs' |
| 0:53.7 | life and career, um, but it was also like, here's the big gloom and doom Apple is failing. |
| 1:01.1 | It like, it shoved all of that into eight seconds into a montage. So like, |
| 1:05.5 | it appears chronologically, like as you're watching the movie, it's like, here's Apple. Here's |
| 1:09.3 | the big villain Apple firing Steve Jobs, um, because they think they know better. And then |
| 1:16.1 | eight seconds later, Apple's, you know, on the floor dying and they need him and they beg him to |
| 1:21.6 | come back somehow and he somehow saves them, you know, like they, it's not even good storytelling |
| 1:27.1 | because they just kind of like, oh snap their fingers and oh, all of a sudden everything's fine |
| 1:32.0 | again. It clearly was dumbed down, which is as you would expect, but given that everyone |
| 1:39.3 | panned it and said it was like the worst thing committed to film ever, I didn't think it was nearly |
| 1:44.5 | that bad. As someone who has a reasonable amount of Apple history in my head, I thought it was |
| 1:51.1 | mildly enjoyable. And the one thing I will say that was extremely positive was I feel like |
| 1:55.8 | Ashton Kutcher just nailed Jobs' walk. And I didn't even know that Jobs had a unique walk |
| 2:00.8 | until I'm watching Ashton Kutcher, you know, pace around the stage and whatnot. And I don't know |
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