5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2012
⏱️ 119 minutes
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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss alternate motivations for the Microsoft Surface, Google's new Nexus 7 tablet, the history and value of reparability in computer hardware, and the possibility of electronics that "age well." Also, there's a robot that feels no shame.
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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 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my co-host, |
0:15.0 | John Syracusea. |
0:16.0 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
0:17.0 | Today is Friday, June 29, 2012, |
0:21.0 | 74 of these episodes have been completed and today we would like to thank our |
0:28.6 | sponsors Iglu Software.com shopify.com and mailchimp.com for making this 74th episode possible. |
0:37.0 | Hello John Syracuse, how are you? |
0:41.0 | I'm just fine Dan Benjamin. You made your flight. Let's hear about your flight first. |
0:46.7 | That's boring. No and people care. People care about you. They worry about you. |
0:50.0 | I'm my flight was cancelled because they had some problem in a fire and some building that's important to the flight control system for the East Coast so they had to spread out the planes as they say, which involved cancelling a lot of flights including |
1:03.5 | mine so I had a nice five-hour excursion to the airport that resulted in me not |
1:08.2 | leaving on a plane and I'm so pissed off because I managed to get through |
1:12.2 | security without having to go through the |
1:14.3 | you know groping line I went through the metal detector and then of course when I had to come back |
1:18.5 | for my the earliest flight I could get out after the cancellation which was two days later I had to go |
1:26.0 | through the groping thing. |
1:29.4 | You opt out of the the x-ray machines. |
1:31.8 | Yeah I don't even like it like when you opt out now sometimes they make you walk through |
1:35.6 | the little scanner area. |
1:37.2 | Yeah. |
1:38.2 | I don't like that. |
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