Episode 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2011
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are briefly amused by iPhone 5 rumors, then dive head first into a ruthless analysis of Apple's online services, past and present. The sad conclusion: Apple sucks at what Google is good at, and vice versa.
Links for this episode:
- July 2006: .Mac users mock Apple slogan during outage - CNET News
- June 2008: .Mac Outage Causes Stir - World of Apple
- June 2008: .Mac suffers 15th outage as MobileMe deployed - MacNN
- July 2008: MobileMe says sorry with a month of free service
- July 2008: Apple's report on the MobileMe Email service interruption
- December 2010: Apple retires .Mac HomePage
- iPhone 5 rumors: aluminum backside, redesigned antenna
- Square corners for Snow Leopard QuickTime player windows
- iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing - Techinch
- The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation - Audible.com
- The Name of the Wind - Audible.com
- Dropbox - Online backup, file sync, and sharing made easy
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminated on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.4 | Nothing is so perfect that my co-host John Syracuse cannot complain about it. |
| 0:16.0 | Sometimes I complain too. I'm Dan Benjamin and we would like to thank our two sponsors, |
| 0:22.2 | Audible Podcasts.com and SourceBits.com. We'll tell you more about |
| 0:26.8 | those as the show goes on. We'd also like to say thanks to Photocase.com, a new photography marketplace for creative stock photos. |
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| 0:44.6 | How are you John? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:49.3 | It's good to be back here in the virtual studio with you. |
| 0:51.7 | It's been a long week. My finger is much better. |
| 0:55.0 | That's good. Did you talk about that on other shows? No, just this show. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, well I don't think we need to go into it in too much detail, but you could post some disgusting |
| 1:04.6 | pictures for the fans of their... |
| 1:06.6 | Trust me, I'm too embarrassed to do that. |
| 1:08.7 | And we don't, we'll just, yeah, we'll move on. |
| 1:12.3 | All right. |
| 1:14.0 | We get a lot of feedback about about this segment of the show, the follow-up segment. |
| 1:20.0 | We get more feedback about this than most of the topics. |
| 1:23.2 | It just seems that way I think. |
| 1:24.7 | It's like 50-50 split. |
| 1:26.0 | Some people like it for the same reasons that I like it, |
| 1:28.3 | and some people don't like it for the same reasons |
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