Episode 77: 77: Nucleation Site
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2012
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about a potential smaller iPad, OUYA's challenges, what makes a successful Kickstarter project, how the Penny Arcade Kickstarter could have been more attractive to funders, and finally, the strange case of App.net.
Links for this episode:
- Overcompensating for the Length - 2000 Nickels
- Penny Arcade Kickstarter
- OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA - Kickstarter
- App.net
- HBO GO Android app
- Great apps for your new Nexus 7 - TechHive
- OUYA CEO: We're Confident We Will Deliver - Mashable
- Only 25% of Kickstarter Tech, Design Projects Deliver on Time - Mashable
- Letters.app on Twitter
- Letters.app web site
- Sparrow Was Born From Letters.App, And Why Tweet-Like Email Is Just The Beginning - Cult of Mac
- Rage against the Mail machine: the genesis of Letters - Ars Technica
- Some Letters.app source code - GitHub
- The iPhone Battery in Mike Matas's portfolio
- Marco Arment's answer to What is the Readability & Instapaper business model?
- Dreamcast WinCE games list
- Brent Simmons's "Email init" post that led to the Letters.app project
- 5by5 show length stats - Kieran Healy
- More 5by5 Data - Kieran Healy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:11.2 | Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about by |
| 0:16.4 | my co-host John Syracusea. I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, July 20th. |
| 0:23.7 | 2012, this is episode number 77. |
| 0:28.3 | We would like to say thanks very much to our three sponsors, |
| 0:31.2 | Squarespace.com, and of course, hover.com. |
| 0:35.8 | We also have mentioned the bandwidth for this episode. In fact, all of the episodes in July |
| 0:39.4 | is sponsored by our friends over at infinite kind, sink space. That's what they make. It's for iPad and |
| 0:45.4 | Android enables multiple people to sketch ideas together wherever they are. Learn more at |
| 0:50.2 | infinite kind.com. |
| 0:52.3 | It's a little bit busy here. at infinite kind kind. dot com. |
| 0:54.0 | It's a little bit busy here today. |
| 0:56.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:57.0 | You're at home. |
| 0:58.0 | Yep, if you hear banging or squeaking or other terrible noises |
| 1:01.0 | because they're installing a dryer downstairs. |
| 1:05.6 | A washer dryer? |
| 1:06.6 | Just the dryer. |
| 1:07.9 | Our dryer died after what must have been like 25 years of service, maybe longer. Are you kidding me? You had a, oh man. It came with the house and it wasn't new when we got the house. You've been in, how long have you been in the house can you talk |
| 1:22.8 | about that 13 14 years but and when we came the dryer was there and it looked old when |
| 1:27.0 | we moved in so it must be from like the 80s. Finally give up the ghost but then we were waiting two weeks to get this new |
| 1:36.0 | dryer in because they delayed our delivery for a week and so now they're finally |
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