94: Spirited Defense of Pong
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2014
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-Up:
- Casey clears up his car intentions
- Apple using push notifications for an advertisement
- Drafts' Today Widget fiasco
- Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts
- PCalc's Today Widget brouhaha
- Should one create an app for creating podcasts? Are niche professional apps worth creating?
- Game monetization and Crossy Road
- Post-show:
- Jason Snell dominates Crossy Road
- (John's son dominates Jason Snell)
- More on profitability (AppFigures)
- Desert Golfing
- Frog Fractions
- Scorched Earth
- Super Gravitron
- Super Hexagon
- VVVVVV
- Threes!
- Jason Snell dominates Crossy Road
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Why did you make me tell you this stupid game? |
| 0:01.9 | You should play this while rocking. |
| 0:04.3 | You get it, get it in for your arms. |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah, you can do it one-handed. |
| 0:07.3 | One arm, baby holding rock, bounce, walking, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, |
| 0:12.8 | die, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, die. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, so in the post show from the last episode, |
| 0:20.0 | we kind of had a post show neutral. |
| 0:21.6 | And I was talking, or I thought I was talking |
| 0:25.5 | completely hypothetically about cars for Aaron and myself, |
| 0:28.9 | now that decklin's around. |
| 0:30.8 | And I don't know if I made it clear that that entire conversation |
| 0:36.6 | was completely hypothetical. |
| 0:37.7 | And of course, what with this being us? |
| 0:40.9 | Everyone came out of the woodwork to give car recommendations |
| 0:43.6 | or car anti-recommendations, never buy this car, it's terrible, etc. |
| 0:47.6 | Which is certainly appreciated, but I don't think I made it clear |
| 0:51.1 | that it was all just hypothetical. |
| 0:53.9 | I mean, neither of us is going to get a car anytime soon. |
| 0:56.1 | And I still love my BMW and I planned to keep my BMW |
| 0:59.6 | for at least a couple more years if not longer than that. |
| 1:01.8 | And as I think I said on the show, Aaron loves her Mazda 6 |
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