7: The Forecast For iCloud

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2013

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Summly's acquisition by Yahoo, and what could have justified its price. (Marco, WSJ)
The quality of speech recognition.
Challenges of big tech companies such as Apple hiring and retaining great talent.
Why iCloud sync works so badly for developers and whether it's fixable.
Why developers shouldn't use iCloud even if it worked.
Jonathan Mann's ATP Ending Theme Song and the More Bleeps version.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Is this interesting at all?
0:02.0	I don't know.
0:02.5	I'm poor.
0:03.5	What are we talking about tonight then?
0:06.8	Is there anything to talk about with this Summly thing?
0:10.5	I don't know.
0:11.0	I thought your post about David was really interesting.
0:15.3	And this is obviously mutual admiration, a society.
0:18.2	But I thought it was very, it was very
0:21.7	oppression and impressive that he was smart enough not
0:24.8	to reveal his age and then made in oops.
0:27.6	And like you said, suddenly every article about Tumblr
0:30.8	became about his age rather than the fact
0:32.4	that Tumblr was really well done.
0:34.8	And that's too bad.
0:35.7	But I've never used Summly.
0:37.6	So I don't know if it's any good.
0:38.7	Apparently you say it's not good.
0:41.8	I mean, I don't know what they did in the last six to nine
0:47.8	months.
0:49.9	They have their whole app that was this whole news browsing
0:52.6	thing.
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