63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2014
⏱️ 111 minutes
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- Follow-up:
- Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association)
- Your favorite game genres going out of fashion
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- ComiXology removes in-app purchase
- After-show:
- Burstly acquired by Apple, which brings TestFlight with it.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What the hell is on the livestream right now that everyone's freaking out about? |
| 0:03.0 | Warming up, Cruz! |
| 0:04.0 | I look out too. |
| 0:06.0 | We're not live, yeah, right? |
| 0:09.0 | We do have some follow-up. |
| 0:10.0 | Something happened a few hours ago, thank goodness, because otherwise this would have been a |
| 0:13.5 | short show. |
| 0:14.5 | But, but yeah, we do have some follow-up. |
| 0:17.5 | So, John, would you like to tell us about how people do or do not play games? |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah, last week I mentioned the average age of gamers and none of us knew what it was, and |
| 0:28.2 | if someone wrote it in the chat room, I didn't notice, so I apologize for that. |
| 0:32.2 | But, it looks it up. |
| 0:33.2 | It's not hard to find this information, so here are the stats. |
| 0:36.2 | This was in regards to both of you saying that you had grown out of playing games, and me saying |
| 0:40.7 | that's ridiculous, because most people who play games are even older than you or adults. |
| 0:44.7 | Wait, hold on. |
| 0:45.7 | Neither of us said we grew out of games. |
| 0:48.2 | That's going to get us some feedback, we should already have, which is not accurate. |
| 0:53.7 | I don't remember the exact quote, but it was something like you just felt like you were |
| 0:57.2 | out of it. |
| 0:58.2 | Anyway, everyone responding thinks that's what you said. |
| 1:00.2 | Obviously, there was a miscommunication, and you can feel free to clarify, because they |
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