Episode 36: 36: Wedge
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2011
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon's new tablets, the Google technologies and Amazon cloud services that stand behind them, and what making money by "selling the blades" implies about Amazon's ability to compete with Apple's approach of "selling the razors." Also, predictions for October's Apple event, and (briefly) Fringe.
Links for this episode:
- Apple Thunderbolt Display Teardown - iFixit
- The case against the Kindle as a low end tablet disruption - Asymco
- Amazon Kindle Press Conference - YouTube
- Magma ExpressBox 3T gives you 3 external PCIe slots over Thunderbolt - Engadget
- Belkin Reveals New Thunderbolt Express Dock - MacStories
- SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - Google
- Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will it click Buy? - VentureBeat
- Macintosh Classic - Wikipedia
- The Talk Show #61, where John Gruber makes his iPhone predictions
- The Incomparable - 5by5
- Geek Friday - Listen to understand the references to Faith
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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. |
| 0:09.5 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my co-host John |
| 0:14.9 | Sarah Kucah. How are you John? I'm pretty good. Is this episode number 36 we want |
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