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Episode 042 — Monopolizing Your Ears

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Ben and James thank John Siracusa then dive into the EU’s antitrust investigation of Google and discuss whether or not antitrust is more or less important in technology. Links John Siracusa: OS X Reviewed – Hypercritical John Siracusa: OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review Conclusion – Ars Technica Ben Thompson: Growing Apple at WWDC – Stratechery Danny Sullivan: Analyzing the EU’s Antitrust Charges Against Google Over Shopping Search – Search Engine Land Chris Dixon: Proprietary Services vs Open Protocols – Medium Ev Williams: Sometimes Things Stay Stuck – Medium Exponent Episode 005: The World Has Changed – … Continue reading Episode 042 — Monopolizing Your Ears

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:03.2

I'm good. Not too bad. Weather's getting nicer. It's still, it's still in that kind of

0:09.0

in between stage where you're not quite sure if in the morning, like so the morning,

0:13.9

I wake my daughter up to help her and she's like, oh, should I try to bring a jacket or not.

0:17.7

And I have to say every single time in the morning, I have to fish out my phone and look at it at the temperature.

0:23.2

I'm like, I would buy a watch just for the temperature function.

0:27.0

I know they all have that.

0:27.9

But to me, that actually is a super killer use case.

0:30.8

Just be able to look down and see what the temperature is.

0:33.3

Temperature is now or temperature is going to be?

0:37.2

One of the watch faces shows the temperature is going to be.

0:39.5

But, but yeah.

0:42.4

I went and played with it in an Apple store.

0:44.6

I had in the back of my mind your point about the killer app is actually contained within use as opposed to a demo.

0:54.3

I was like, hmm, this is demo. I was like, this is interesting.

0:57.6

I'm like, I'm not super compelled,

0:59.3

but then, like, sitting around and playing on the watch

1:02.0

actually defeats the point of it,

1:03.7

and you're not really going to know until you use it.

1:05.8

So I remain interested to find out.

1:08.8

Did you, you've pre-ordered one.

1:10.2

What, how, when's it expected to arrive?

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