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Hypercritical

Episode 21: 21: Reading Playboy for the Articles

Hypercritical

5by5

News, Apple, Ars Technica, Siracusa, Mac, Tech, Sci-fi, Geek, Tech News

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2011

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about WWDC: iCloud, iOS 5, Lion, and yes, John's toaster, a gift from fellow 5by5 hosts Marco Arment and Merlin Mann (a.k.a. The Best Guys Ever).

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about or criticized by my co-host John

0:16.4

Syracuse.

0:17.4

I'm Dan Benjamin.

0:18.4

This is a special episode.

0:20.6

John is at W.W. D.C. reporting live and direct from his hotel room. We'll be talking a lot about that and other things of course.

0:29.0

But first we want to say thanks to our two sponsors, rack space

0:33.0

dot com and Shopify.com which will tell you about

0:36.3

as the program goes on.

0:38.3

So how's W. W. D.C?

0:40.0

So you know I actually have follow-up listed on this sheet

0:42.3

but do you want to skip it all?

0:43.5

Now let's do some of it and we got to talk about your toaster. So let's do the follow-up.

0:47.5

Oh and before you know what I even have some follow-up. So let me do mine first because I almost never have any on this show. Okay, go for it.

0:54.0

Ah, last episode I was on a crappy USB mic. A lot of people seem to think that that was my new

1:01.0

and I'm doing air quotes quotes my new mobile studio or something

1:04.3

and that they were going to have to endure that kind of quality and I had an

1:07.3

inordinate amount of people emailing me tweeting me or I aming me even

1:11.3

with great concern that this was the new quality of the setup.

1:14.8

But you explained the situation.

1:16.6

People don't listen.

1:17.6

All right.

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