76: Not Suitable for Any Purpose
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2014
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on Overcast:
- Debug
- Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load
- Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing
- Yosemite Public Beta
- IMAP
- VPN woes of the past
- Radar
- SuperDuper
- OS/2 Warp
- After-show:
- Marco rents crazy headphones from The Cable Company
- Marco's original post
- HE-6 headphones (the crazy way that planar-magnetic drivers work)
- The massive EF-6 amp and its crazy audiophile volume knob (top center) — it's a stepped attenuator, since common potentiometers are considered inferior.
- XLR plugs and balanced audio
- Casey still loves in-ear monitors (probably while listening to vinyl), but many experts in both prefer headphones.
- Casey surprises Marco and John by playing Journey
- Marco rents crazy headphones from The Cable Company
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| 0:00.0 | Not the right environment. |
| 0:03.0 | Other people talking, no. |
| 0:07.7 | What's going on? House overcast? |
| 0:09.7 | Going great. I talked for two hours about it on debug last night. |
| 0:13.7 | Go there to hear more because I don't want to flood our show too much for that. |
| 0:17.0 | Too late. So I flooded their show instead. |
| 0:19.0 | And Guy asked me to be on debug a while ago and I kept delaying it. |
| 0:23.0 | I kept saying, oh, I'll just wait until I release overcast that we have something to talk about and I can promote it and whatever. |
| 0:29.0 | And I've been putting it off because that was probably back in February that I said that. |
| 0:32.5 | And so I'm putting it off for quite a while. |
| 0:34.5 | So finally I went and I talked about it there for a while. |
| 0:39.5 | Some of the more low level tech stuff and then kind of app business and social stuff. |
| 0:45.0 | Like how do you break into the social crowd? How do you break into business stuff like that? |
| 0:48.5 | I'm pretty happy without turned out. So we'll see. |
| 0:50.5 | I don't know when they're going to post it, but we'll see. |
| 0:52.5 | I haven't heard all of your overcast tour. |
| 0:55.5 | So maybe you talked about this or maybe you don't want to talk about it. |
| 0:58.5 | But in case no one has asked, what are your conversion numbers like if you want to share that? |
| 1:02.5 | I don't even know off the top of my head. |
| 1:05.5 | But they're pretty good. I would say, I don't even know what percentage would be because I just know like dollars and total bullish. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't really want it to share. |
| 1:15.0 | But I was going to ask just to be a jerk, but you beat me to it. |
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