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Accidental Tech Podcast

6: Live Like Other People

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2013

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

  • How Marco buys a TV (unlike how John does).
  • Regular people noticing and caring about high-DPI screens.
  • The amazing Mac lineup that few care about.
  • Which Mac would we tell people to buy?
  • Marco revisits the Microsoft Store.
  • The Surface Pro's uniqueness.
  • Why GarageBand's adoption of Audiobus is so interesting.
  • How exposed filesystems and iCloud's document model both fail users.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's get going. Oh, we are going. Oh, that was so good. I'm keeping that in. So I went

0:07.6

to the mall today and I had to pick up a new Apple TV and a replacement remote. First

0:13.4

of all, I do want to talk a little bit about my TV. So we've had this back, den, slash,

0:20.6

family room, slash playroom in our house since we bought the house and we haven't had

0:26.0

any furniture in it because we just haven't had any need for it yet. We have a living

0:29.8

room. I have an office. We have separate rooms for these things. So this room, we always

0:34.2

said, oh, it'll be like the kids play room. So we just started using this room finally

0:38.8

now that we have the kid. So we got a couch for it that was delivered this morning and I

0:44.8

got a TV for it and a second Apple TV to plug into that TV. And I thought it was interesting

0:52.6

how, you know, and John, of course, you're famous for your research television purchase.

0:58.3

But I thought it was interesting how for this TV, I literally, the only research I did

1:03.7

was I searched Amazon for TVs and roughly this size range on my iPad mini in bed one night

1:11.8

and just ordered it. That's how the rest of the world lives, Marco. I learned that. Occasionally

1:17.0

I fantasized about purchasing something that way, but I can never actually pull the trigger.

1:21.6

Well, and like, it was like, well, but it would just take five more minutes, just ten

1:25.8

more minutes. Okay, Boker, maybe just one more hour. Okay, maybe three more hours. And

1:29.0

just think that three hours you invest now, you can have this thing for years. Isn't it

1:33.0

foolish to just live like other people and just search for TV and find one that looks

1:38.0

nice and click a buy. But that's what people do. So the reason you keep cars for seven

1:43.1

attorneys is because it takes you seven attorneys to research the next car. I'm continuing.

1:47.6

I mean, like I'm reading car magazines, at least one car magazine a month. I'm continually

1:51.7

researching what the next car is going to be. There's, oh, I am always ready at a moment's

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