Episode 63: 63: Talking to the Bear
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2012
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about paid upgrades in the Mac App Store, how Apple is reshaping the software market (intentionally or otherwise), Readability's role as a middleman as compared to another prominent middleman, the App Store, and finally, the Flashback malware scourge and what it says about Apple's preparedness.
Links for this episode:
- Performance Driving School - Overview - BMW North America
- Strategy Letter V - Joel on Software
- Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 - Apple
- Apple updates Java for a third time, this time with Flashback malware removal - Ars Technica
- The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades - Wil Shipley
- Readability
- German automotive manufacturing plants - Google Maps
- Analyst Expects iPhone 5 to Launch at WWDC 2012 in June - Mac Rumors
- Moscone Center Events
- WWDC-less WWDC - Rentzsch
- Welcome to the Home Page of TALKING-BEAR!
- Adobe Photoshop - Wikipedia
- QuickPick Pulled From App Store - Rentzsch
- Flashback Is Not a Trojan Horse; What Is It? - The Mac Security Blog
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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. |
| 0:07.8 | In the world of Apple related technologies and businesses, nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about by my |
| 0:16.2 | co-host John Syracusea. I am Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, April 13th. |
| 0:22.4 | Friday the 13th. |
| 0:24.1 | This is episode number 63. |
| 0:28.1 | We have two sponsors. |
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| 0:35.3 | show goes on as always we also want to say thank you very very much to join that |
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| 0:50.8 | Skype 5. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes, I don't know what all my settings are right. I unchecked the thing that said like automatically adjust microphone something or other. |
| 1:00.0 | Good. |
| 1:01.0 | Automatically adjust microphone settings. I unchecked that. Good. good. is in this interface. It's probably the little microphone mute your microphone. Here we go, let's see. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey, it worked, and I can actually see when I'm muted. |
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| 1:20.0 | Yeah, you were struggling with that other one, weren't you? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, I was just sick of it not working, and so now I'm dealing with this gigantic interface. |
| 1:27.0 | That it, I don't know, whatever, but if it works, we'll go with it, so I sound the same sound the same oh yeah it's a little different and I'm tweaking your audio right now |
| 1:38.0 | I didn't make any other changes to settings like I just installed Skype 5 and uncheck that checkbox. |
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