This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses.

And John Sir Cuzer, my co-host, is quite adept and skillful at criticizing really any of these things.

He's very good at it.

And I like to help out once in a while. I'm Dan Benjamin. This show is brought to you this week by

rackspace.com and Shopify.com which we'll tell you about as the show goes on.

Hi John, Syracuse, how are you?

Doing just fine, Dan.

Now we are recording this show a little bit earlier than usual in the week,

and people, we may hold it back a little,

we may not make everyone wait till Friday

uh... but i'm i'm moving this week to austin this is the big week

so uh... i couldn't record on friday i'll be in a car

drive

with uh... my wife and my three-year-old not an ideal

recording venue so you agree to do it today you agreed to do today and you

said oh man I'm not sure we're going to talk about.

Yeah you should leave the impressions to Merlin I guess.

So what are we going to talk about?

Toasters?

We got the follow-up first.

We got to do the follow-up.

We're still going to talk about

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