Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2011
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's iLife island and Google's operational secret weapons, then talk about the nature of criticism, online and offline, from movies to cars to (finally) computers.
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- Hypercritical - (Read this to understand the show title)
- Why Daring Fireball is Comment Free - Shawn Blanc
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- Google Sync for iPhone
- New MobileMe Calendar
- John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.5 | Nothing is so perfect that John Syracuse cannot complain about it. Hey John, how are you? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm doing fine. I'm Dan Benjamin. This is episode number 11, almost a 10. It's 11. |
| 0:22.0 | We want to preemptively thank mailchimp.com, |
| 0:25.5 | we'll tell you about what they've got going on |
| 0:28.3 | later in the show, but here it is, big number 11. |
| 0:31.0 | We feel like we crossed a milestone by going, |
| 0:34.0 | you know, it's like when people would celebrate |
| 0:36.4 | the new millennium in 2000, |
| 0:38.8 | but really that it's not, it's not till 2001, |
| 0:42.0 | for example, that you're supposed to celebrate that. |
| 0:44.0 | You knew that. |
| 0:46.0 | I was actually hoping that we can make it at 10 shows before you rescheduled it. |
| 0:50.0 | We almost made it, almost. |
| 0:52.0 | This is a good time. almost. |
| 0:53.0 | This is a good time. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | For at least the next nine episodes. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, we'll hold out for nine more at least. |
| 0:59.0 | So what have you been up to? |
| 1:01.0 | You have some follow-up? |
| 1:02.0 | I do. I have some follow-up. I always say not a lot, but then it ends |
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