Episode 40: 40: When The Hobby Light Goes Off
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2011
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss what it's going to take for Apple to field a television product that's finally something more than a "hobby." Attached box vs. full TV set, apps vs. channels vs. a la carte purchases, direct deals with content owners vs. additional layers of middlemen (e.g., Netflix). So many possibilities, but all of them difficult.
Links for this episode:
- Here’s why Apple’s TV needs to be an actual television, and not just a cheap add-on box – SplatF
- 4K resolution - Wikipedia
- Nesting dolls comic
- "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use." - Steve Jobs
- An iCloud conflict resolution dialog box in Pages on the iPad
- Screen resolution, viewing distance, and screen size chart
- What's Really Next for Apple in Television - NYTimes.com
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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, related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:09.7 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. The show is hosted by John |
| 0:15.5 | Syracusea and by me I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is October 28th 2011 this is |
| 0:21.3 | episode number 40. |
| 0:25.1 | We would like to say thanks to our two sponsors today, |
| 0:28.5 | Tinyletter.com, and Squarespace.com. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll tell you more about those as the show goes on. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey John, how you doing this week? |
| 0:38.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm bummed that our guest isn't here. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, we, you had to, do we even want to talk, do we want to talk about it or? |
| 0:47.0 | We just say we were supposed to have a guest. |
| 0:50.0 | We were going to have a very special, very special guest. |
| 0:52.8 | Very special guest. |
| 0:54.2 | He's not here. |
| 0:56.6 | We waited. |
| 0:57.1 | We waited a little while and he didn't show up. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, maybe he got time zones confused. |
| 1:03.4 | Could be. |
| 1:04.4 | Who knows? |
| 1:05.4 | You know, now I'm starting to worry now. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm just, now I just hope he's all right. |
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