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Accidental Tech Podcast

78: Fleece the Whales

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2014

⏱️ 93 minutes

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0:00.0

How do we always have this much to talk about even when we have nothing to talk about?

0:04.0

Blabbermouths, that's why. Yeah, no.

0:06.1

That's why you should get more out of your system on your new podcast than you won't have as much to say here. Oh,

0:10.2

Because I'm definitely the one who bogarting the mic of the three of us.

0:15.4

John any follow up?

0:17.3

Why is fall always my job because you invented fall?

0:20.8

Is that really that big of a surprise? I mean, I put all this fall up. You guys can put fall up in two, you know?

0:26.3

Yeah, we don't believe in following up on things because we're just always right.

0:31.6

Something to do is being right. That's to adding additional information.

0:35.6

People ask on like on the earning calls, can I get some more color on that? We provide more color.

0:41.4

All right, first item is that

0:44.4

New reversible USB connector that we talked about many many many shows ago.

0:49.4

They have

0:50.8

reportedly finalized the spec and released a bunch of images of what the

0:55.4

connector is supposed to look like. If you look in the show notes, you can see it.

0:58.3

We had like mockups before. We already knew

1:01.1

that it wasn't going to be like lightning. It wasn't going to be a solid metal thing with contacts on the top and bottom.

1:06.4

But rather was going to be more like an existing USB connectors where it's it.

1:10.2

Some kind of shape metal shell and then inside the little metal shell is

1:16.4

what's inside there? There's a better picture of the inner. It's like a little hole.

1:19.7

And then in the thing you plug it into, there's a little

1:23.1

board with contacts on top and bottom. And anyway, it's difficult to explain.

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