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Accidental Tech Podcast

60: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2014

⏱️ 144 minutes

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0:00.0

Oh man excellent track excellent track. Yeah, that was that was my it was one of my first

0:11.7

cassettes that I ever bought was empty hammer. Yeah, it was please hammer. Don't hurt

0:16.6

him. Did you end up having him sign that cassette when you met him many years later? No,

0:21.5

I did not have it with me in Manhattan. It's poor planning when he was promoting dance

0:25.9

jam. I did not. And I was promoting Tumblr. Yeah. Is that still a thing? Is dance jam still

0:32.3

a thing? I have no clue. I don't I've never even even even that day. I didn't even look

0:37.1

it up. Dance jam has come to an end. Thank you all for the participation over the years.

0:42.2

But dance jam has come to an end. I guess they sunset their brand. They're they're

0:47.2

aligning their visions with their platform umbrella. Oh, just stop. Just stop. You're hurting

0:51.8

my ears. John, let's talk about how you can sell tickets quickly. Yeah, last show we

0:58.7

talked about whether how they would sell WC tickets this year, of course, in the grand

1:03.6

tradition of our Wednesday recording of our Friday show Apple announced how they were

1:08.2

going to sell tickets after we hit a record of the episode. So that was fun. So one of

1:13.2

the options was lottery. That's what Apple ended up doing. And yeah, some people back

1:18.7

on Twitter, someone saying that they didn't think that that it was really difficult to do

1:23.1

a system that won't crash due to the onslaught of people wanting to buy tickets. And on

1:28.9

the previous show, I had said that, you know, this is a bounded problem. It's not like

1:32.6

Facebook where in theory, everyone on the earth with an internet connection could get

1:36.0

an account. There was limited interest in WWDC. How we were trying to think how many people

1:40.7

could there possibly be maybe one million as an upper bound, a crazy upper bound for

1:44.4

this conference of 5,000 people. And I said, surely someone could design a system that

1:48.3

can handle the onslaught of 1,000 people and basically serve them on a first come first

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