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

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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 Casey, 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, notice, I didn't even ask you, John.
0:08.3	That's my birthday.
0:09.3	It is? The 31st?
0:10.5	It's his 40th birthday, Marco. Get with the program.
0:13.0	Oh, man, where have I been?
0:14.1	Oh, you're the worst.
0:15.9	Okay, so we won't record that day. Oh, we can. No. That's a terrible, no. Why is it a terrible idea? I'm not going anywhere.
0:22.2	Oh, that's bullshit. I'll be in the house. You should be going somewhere, so we're going to do it.
0:25.7	I should not be. It's my birthday going to do what I want. What I want to do. Stay home. That's the
0:30.3	BS where people think your birthday is about them and what they want to do. I don't care what you want to do in my birthday. I care what I want to do.
0:38.0	John, I love you so much.
0:39.4	Well, I'll talk to Tina and make sure that I understand the schedule.
0:43.0	We're not doing anything.
0:43.7	We never do anything for my birthday.
0:45.0	We're not doing anything in my birthday this year.
0:46.6	Is that her gift to you every year is not doing anything?
0:49.2	Yes, that's what I ask for every year.
0:50.5	What do you want for your birthday? No gifts and no party. Do you want to do some follow-up
0:55.6	really quickly? Starting with batteries. Sure. I think we were talking about how on the watch
1:02.0	the components will have to go down in power because the battery is not going to save it because
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