64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2014
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
- Hurry if you want an ATP T-Shirt! Just $19, and the sale may be over by the time you read this!
- Follow-up:
- Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers"
- ComiXology
- Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality?
- Vihart Video
- Internet2
- Who should blink, Apple or ComiXology?
- AppLinks
- App.net sunsets its employees
- Chrome experiments with removing URLs from the omnibox
- Casey open-sourced his Camel blog engine
- After-show:
- Casey's flower boxes
- John's code on CPAN
- Marco's bastardized K&R style wedged into his Objective-C code
- Brent Simmons on Javascript integers
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| 0:00.0 | Well, someone says something funny first and then that can be air opener and then we'll start. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, I'll get right on that. |
| 0:04.6 | So that was another case where we got a bunch of feedback that I thought talked about something |
| 0:11.0 | we had covered in the previous show, but apparently we did not do a good enough job. |
| 0:14.2 | So if we don't get the job done the first time, we'll go back and try again. |
| 0:18.4 | This was about video games and the the top I came up when both of you had said that you |
| 0:24.6 | had played video games when you were younger and didn't play them as much now and we talked |
| 0:27.6 | about why that might be and I talked about the average age of a gamer and they brought |
| 0:31.4 | out stats from the ESA. |
| 0:32.4 | I think I'm the last show and talked all about this and a couple people wrote in to talk |
| 0:37.9 | about the difference between people who play video games and people who are self identified |
| 0:43.0 | gamers. |
| 0:44.9 | Some people wrote into sale. |
| 0:45.9 | I just play a couple iOS games now and then I certainly wouldn't call myself a gamer. |
| 0:49.8 | One of the best ones I thought was Joe Lyon who wrote in to say a section from what he |
| 0:54.3 | wrote, having put in hundreds or thousands of hours playing games over the past couple |
| 0:58.3 | of years, I by no means consider myself a gamer. |
| 1:01.6 | So I mean, a lot of people put in the argument in terms of time like, I just play once |
| 1:05.6 | and while not a big deal, but this guy plays games all the time. |
| 1:08.8 | It is only counts hundreds or thousands of hours like in playing during the commute, |
| 1:12.4 | just obsessively playing games, finishing games or whatever, but does not consider himself |
| 1:16.5 | a gamer. |
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