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🗓️ 11 May 2012
⏱️ 122 minutes
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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the various ways that Apple takes money from transactions involving the App Store, lessons from gaming and gamers for the larger software world, why nothing is ever good enough when it comes to technology, the Instagram acquisition, and the sad state of the US patent system and how it might be fixed.
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0:00.0 | This is hypercritical. |
0:04.0 | finally. |
0:05.0 | It's a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong. |
0:08.0 | In the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses, |
0:11.0 | nothing is so perfect. |
0:12.0 | You will see that it can't be |
0:13.9 | complained about by my co-host John Syracuse. I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is |
0:19.4 | Friday. It is May 11th, 2012, 67 of these episodes. We're recording that one today. |
0:28.4 | I want to say thanks very much to our sponsors, igloo software.com and hover.com bandwidth for this episode has been provided by |
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0:53.0 | Hello John, Syracuse. |
0:55.0 | Hello Dan. |
0:56.0 | Before the show, John was complaining that there was a little snap crackling pop but not the serial. |
1:01.0 | Yep, the audio kind. I think we're good you're going to tolerate it I don't hear it anymore |
1:07.6 | could be gone |
1:09.6 | okay has pre-show jitters maybe. |
1:12.8 | Yeah, it's a little nervous. |
1:15.8 | First time. |
1:17.5 | I got some follow-up today and I got a couple little mini topics. |
1:21.2 | All right, I love the mini topics. They're bite-sized |
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