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Hypercritical

Episode 6: 6: Frivolous Things

Hypercritical

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

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2011

⏱️ 104 minutes

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0:00.0

This is hypercritical a weekly talk show ruminated on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses.

0:10.8

Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about, at least not by the famous

0:17.9

or infamous John Syracusea. I'm Dan Benjamin and we're here today to talk about geek stuff.

0:27.0

Right?

0:28.0

Well, this time around you picked non-tech topics.

0:33.5

Yeah, I thought it would be fun.

0:34.8

But they're gee-...

0:36.5

The non-tech show.

0:37.5

But it's still very geeky stuff because we had a lot...

0:40.0

Well, first of all, I just want to take a second to thank the audience.

0:45.3

Great response.

0:46.7

Seconding or a hundred thing my motion to have John explain that yes in fact we should take time on this show to

0:56.6

explain in detail in great depth why John does not have an iPhone. A lot of people wrote in and by the way thank you for that and please stop now.

1:08.8

You can you let me do some tech topics a little bit of follow-off?

1:11.7

Of course let's do the follow-up first.

1:13.3

Let's do a limited amount, but I want to get some technology content in here.

1:17.1

Let's do it.

1:18.1

Um, all right, so, uh, last show, what were we talking about?

1:22.6

It was Apple's Hardware Blind Spots?

1:25.5

Correct.

1:26.5

I got a lot of feedback on that.

1:28.6

I just want to point out a couple of things that people sent.

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