You are listening to Hypercritical. This is a weekly talk show

ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related

technologies and businesses. Nothing, you see, is so perfect that it can't be

complained and criticized by my co-host John Syracuse. I'm Dan

Benjamin. The show is made possible by Fresh Books.com and Nelchimp.com which we'll tell you about in a little bit.

But this is episode number 13, creepy 13.

Are you superstitious?

I am not.

Okay. In some cultures 13 is considered lucky. A lot of people

would say it's unlucky. Should we skip? Should we just call this episode 14?

In my culture 13 is the number after 12.

Good enough, good enough for me. You sold me. How are you? How's your week been?

Been good so far. Good. We have a giant pile of follow-up. I'm still thinking about what parts I'm going to trim.

Don't trim any of it. I say we do the whole thing, all of it. The whole show would be follow-up then.

Yeah, maybe we could once in fro I'll clear it out, start fresh.

No, this wouldn't clear it out.

This was just supposed to be one show's worth, but it expanded, but I think I'll stop about halfway through.

I want to start with stuff about Pixar, believe it or not.

It was the big shock on last week's show.

Yeah, well it was a shock. I was shocked.

Yeah, not a lot of feedback on that surprisingly. It brought out a few of the people who had previously had bad thoughts about Pixar but didn't feel safe expressing them so now once they hear someone

else say anything bad about Pixar they will come out of the woodwork and tell you what

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