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Hypercritical

Episode 55: 55: Region of Pain

Hypercritical

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

52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2012

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss this week's announcement of OS X Mountain Lion: what it means for John's reviews, how the new release schedule might influence adoption and reliability, and how features like GateKeeper will affect Mac users and developers.

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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.

0:09.7

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0:48.8

Happy Friday to you, Mr. John Syracusea. Happy Friday to you, Dan.

0:54.0

Why thank you.

0:56.0

Have you already begun writing your review of Mount Line?

1:00.0

Uh, didn't we talk about the writing process once?

1:04.0

I don't begin writing writing, but I've begun working towards it.

1:08.0

Because now they have announced they're going to be on a yearly release cycle,

1:12.0

and what this means is that you are going to be writing 24

1:16.2

hours a day, seven days a week, non-stop and your reviews will have to because it takes

1:21.7

you the better part of a year to write one.

1:23.6

Yeah, like I said, it's not the writing though, it's, it really begins when I create a note and a tag

1:30.0

collection in Yo Jumbo for the operating system and traditionally I don't do that

1:34.8

until I know the the name of the operating system the name of the cat now yes I have I have my

1:40.4

mountain line note it has text in it, and yes, the process has begun.

1:47.0

So speaking of the name of the cat, you...

1:51.0

You don't even let me do follow up or jump right into it.

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