Episode 39: 39: Quasimodo Backpack
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2011
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Siri in theory and in practice, and how iCloud is different than MobileMe, with its own set of problems. Plus more complaints about the Star Wars blu-rays, a clarification of the TiVo Premiere Elite's specs, and the long-overdue completion of our tour of the Windows 8 UI.
Links for this episode:
- How Siri Works
- Siri in Practice - Kieran Healy
- The impact of Apple’s Siri release: From the former lead iPhone developer of Siri
- How Siri Could Work With AppleTV - FXRant
- Android Chief Andy Rubin Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant - Ina Fried - AsiaD - AllThingsD
- Let's Take This One With a Grain of Salt - Daring Fireball
- Back to Work #37: It's Never Not Everywhere - 5by5
- A New and Improved Moore's Law - Technology Review
- Windows 8 Metro video - Channel 9
- Premiere Elite performance enhancements - TiVo Community
- Publish and Subscribe - Wikipedia
- The People vs. George Lucas - Amazon.com
Sponsored by Sourcebits, Handelabra Studio, and Shopify.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:12.2 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be utterly Apple related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:12.5 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be utterly destroyed. |
| 0:16.4 | By my co-host, John Syracusea, I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:19.5 | Today is October 21st, 2011. This is episode number 39. We would like to say a quick |
| 0:26.3 | thank you to our sponsors, handleobber, studios, makers of game minder and |
| 0:30.5 | reminder, Shopify.com. The most elegant customizable and affordable e-commerce |
| 0:36.4 | platform in the world and source bits.com these guys make software for |
| 0:42.0 | every platform out there. |
| 0:45.0 | How you doing, John? |
| 0:47.0 | Just fine. |
| 0:48.0 | How's your week been? |
| 0:50.0 | Same as always. |
| 0:51.0 | Same as always. |
| 0:52.0 | Productive. Productive at work. Oh yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, this was a good show. |
| 1:07.6 | That's what, you do that for a talk show line. You got switch modes. You're in hypercritical mode. Well you're not talking. I'm getting ready. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm just getting. Oh you know what you know what happened ladies and gentlemen is that I was actually on time today I actually |
| 1:16.8 | I was sitting here waiting for you to call at exactly noon |
| 1:20.2 | John's phone rang and he's these so not used us running ahead of schedule |
| 1:24.3 | it if he shut that actually twelve or one according to now i right here on this uh... on this |
| 1:28.4 | Skypebox i can tell you right here |
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