93: I'm Not Running a Boarding House Here

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2014

⏱️ 98 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Follow-up:
- Correction on battery increases year over year
  - Hypercritical #74
  - Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs
    - The Prompt (succeeded by Connected)
    - Palm V
- IIS on !Windows
- Casey can't manufacture that thing like Apple does
- Homescreens
  - Some people like them empty
Group homescreen shaming
- #Homescreen and the top apps
- John
- Marco
- Casey
Why there isn't an Overcast Mac app (yet?)
Post-show Neutral:
- VW Golf R
  - Autoblog photos
  - Interior photo
- Flat-bottomed steering wheels
- Possible upgrades for Erin's car
- Oxymoronic Cars
  - X5
  - SRT-8
  - Tesla Model X
- Other options:
  - 3-series GT
  - Outback
  - CTS-V Wagon
  - Lexus ES
  - Honda Accord
  - Volvo V60
  - Honda Odyssey
  - F-150

Transcript

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0:00.0	Wait, we can't do it on 31st because in case you might want to be at a New Year's party.
0:03.8	It's not going to any parties anymore, that part of his life is over now.
0:06.5	Well, I don't even ask you, John.
0:08.2	That's my birthday.
0:09.2	It is? The 31st?
0:10.4	It's his 40th birthday, Marco. Get with the program.
0:12.9	Oh man, where have I been?
0:14.0	Ugh.
0:15.0	You're the worst.
0:15.8	Okay, so we won't record that day.
0:17.3	Oh, we can.
0:18.2	No!
0:18.8	That's a terrible- no!
0:19.7	Why is it a terrible idea? I'm not going anywhere.
0:22.0	Oh, that's bullshit.
0:23.1	I'll be in the house.
0:24.1	You should be going somewhere, so we're gonna do-
0:25.8	I should not be. It's my birthday. I'm gonna do what I want.
0:28.0	What I wanna do is stay home.
0:29.4	That's the BS where people think your birthday is about them, what they wanna do.
0:33.5	I'm not, don't care what you wanna do on my birthday.
0:36.9	I care what I wanna do.
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