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Welcome to a unique episode of The Apple Insider Podcast,

episode 164. I'm your host Victor and I'm going to be doing this one solo

thanks to some technical difficulties that we had with an earlier attempt at the

episode. Thank you so much for joining me and bearing with me.

And I want to go ahead and thank all of our listeners who have been sending me pictures of their iPods.

It's so cool to see that. I really appreciate it.

And I want to specifically mention Sylvan of Apple

Monbleogue and I want to mention Nowhere Man. I want to thank all of you for doing this.

There's a lovely picture of an iPod touch fourth generation running the podcast.

There's a beautiful picture of an iPod mini too with the podcast with a bunch of iPods lined up ranging from the touch first generation, the many

four generations of nanos and three generations of shuffles. It's really rewarding to see you guys listening and

really sharing that with us. And if you have more pictures of iPods,

please take them, we'd love seeing that.

I want to start right off by talking

about the story that really resonated with me this week.

And it's about Siri. The information

published a story about some of the different problems in series history in

terms of infighting, mistakes, and developers alienated by other

developers. And this is generally no real surprise in a large enough organization where turf wars take over, where people

in middle management decide that they know the way chart the product path and they sort of develop little

fiefdoms or kingdoms and try and push their theory forward.

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