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Hypercritical

Episode 25: 25: Invisible Software

Hypercritical

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

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2011

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about why webOS is slow, what's wrong with Apple's digital distribution mechanisms, why Google+ is a really big deal (for Google, anyway), and the hidden world of server-side software. John also shares some statistics about his upcoming Lion review.

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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.

0:10.0

Nothing is so immaculate that it cannot be utterly destroyed.

0:15.0

By the host of this show, John Syracusea, I'm Dan Benjamin.

0:18.0

You'd like to say thanks to today's sponsor, Sound Studio 4 from Feltip and MailChimp.com.

0:24.0

More about them coming up as the show goes on.

0:27.0

This is episode number 25.

0:29.0

Bandwidth for this show has been provided by Midas Green Technologies virtual private servers submerged in oil.

0:36.0

Really, you can check them out at Midas Green Tech.com.

0:41.0

Broadcasting live and direct from the closet in so many ways.

0:45.0

Oh, well, different topic.

0:48.0

So how are you? Speaking of topics, we've got some FU, don't we?

0:51.0

We do.

0:52.0

Ah, just a little bit today. Okay. Someone in the

0:56.2

chat room did come up with something to talk about for the main topic. Oh good because

0:59.9

we're really we're out of topics. Yeah but I think it will be a short one.

1:03.3

But it's something that we mentioned on a past show.

1:04.7

But anyway, follow up first.

1:06.8

So last show we talked a little bit about WebOS.

1:10.6

Sometimes I feel like I want to say that as WebOS. I don't know how I think Palm says

1:15.1

WebOS, but anyway we talked about Palm and their chances as a mobile platform

1:21.5

and I talked about how I like them but how their stuff was always seemed to be slow and then I said I couldn't understand why it was slow and somebody on Twitter

1:30.3

was telling me that it was slow because they use web technologies.

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