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The Talk Show With John Gruber

87: ‘Free Alcoholic Beverages’ With Ben Thompson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Topics include Samsung getting pinched from Apple on the high end and Xiaomi (at least in China) on the low end, Android and the importance of software differentiation, wearable devices, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So anyway, have you ever noticed Ben Thompson joining me this week on the talk show?

0:05.9

Do you ever notice there's some websites where like the username and password don't get auto-filled?

0:11.7

Yeah, I think usually it's the website's fault like mislabel the field or something

0:15.4

Yeah, and it's not like the thing where it where like certain financial sites have like an op-ed out thing

0:21.6

It's like a site where there's nothing really super confidential about it. It should work

0:26.8

It just doesn't yeah

0:28.3

Well, I'm still scarred from the whole like they've had auto complete for just like addresses like when you're buying something and

0:35.6

I swear those never worked for like the first three years and maybe they worked today

0:40.1

But I will never know because I refuse to use them

0:43.0

All right, you don't use the auto I still tapping through every field which that reason to the even worse annoyance when they have the fields in the wrong order

0:50.1

And your tab suddenly lands you on the bottom of the page

0:52.9

Hmm the credit card thing works

0:55.3

Perfectly for me. I can't remember the last time that the credit card auto filled didn't work

1:00.8

But the the password thing drives me nuts and I sometimes I think it's because it's like I've already saved a password for

1:10.2

WWW dot example dot com, but right now I'm on

1:14.9

Store dot example dot com and so it doesn't see it as the same website and doesn't fill it in

1:20.6

I don't even know and then other times I think it's like you said like they don't have the password field correctly labeled as a password field like

1:28.3

Yeah, I don't know I mean I have used I mean I've used one password for a long time

1:33.3

But the funny thing is I actually rarely use it because I have this you know this super convoluted system for for passwords that

1:42.7

You know involves like a a a seed or animstring

1:46.8

Shifting your your fingers like two things over on the keyboard

1:50.8

Explanation explain it in detail for us

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