Episode 5: 5: Slippery Little Pill
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2011
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple’s hardware blind spots: keyboards, dock connector, iPod/iPhone cases, laptop designs, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Ars Technica review of the original Aluminum PowerBook G4
- Apple's Mac OS X Lion web page, which mentions Spaces
- SMART Utility - hard drive hardware diagnostics
- S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
- Subtraction.com: Designed Deterioration
- Apple's 30-pin dock connector
- SCSI - Kids, ask your parents about it
- Light Peak - A New Hope for connecting computing peripherals with wires
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong. |
| 0:08.6 | In the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses, nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained |
| 0:14.6 | about and scrutinized and criticized by none other than John Sir |
| 0:19.6 | Cusa whom you may know from his work at Arstectica or by me Dan Benjamin and today this is |
| 0:25.7 | episode number five what's our topic today John you pick two topics this time well |
| 0:32.0 | I'm gonna pick so you're trying to push the onus on to me a bit |
| 0:35.6 | but I had no problem with that I can narrow it down from two. |
| 0:38.2 | I liked both topics so much that I found myself getting kind of giddy about talking about both of them either of them and I just know which one you wanted more so I picked the other one |
| 0:49.0 | Which one did you think I think you want the UI consistency one but that's not my favorite |
| 0:56.1 | and I'm not sure how much I have to say on it right now so I pick the other one. |
| 0:59.1 | And what was the other one? The other one was Apple's hardware blind spots. |
| 1:03.0 | Ah, okay. I act to be honest, I really don't know that I had a favorite either way, but I'm thrilled to talk about that. |
| 1:09.8 | And so what does that mean? Hardware blind spots. |
| 1:13.6 | Are we skipping the follow-up? |
| 1:14.9 | Is this what you're saying? |
| 1:15.7 | No, oh yeah, we get to do our follow-up. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:17.9 | No, I'm not saying that. |
| 1:18.8 | Let's follow-up. |
| 1:19.6 | All right, I can try to rush through follow-up. |
| 1:21.9 | There is backup-related follow-up here. I could push it off for |
| 1:25.8 | another show if you want, or I could just go through the items in order. No, let's do all the follow-up. We'll do it all. |
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