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

Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my co-host John Syracuse. I'm

Dan Benjamin today is Friday August 3rd 2012. This is not hypercritical. John Sir Cusa is out his own vacation.

This is kind of critical.

John Sir Cusa is out he is on vacation and he gave permission for me to do a show

with a couple of our friends, Marco Arment and Merlin Mann, and that is what we are doing today.

We'll be back for a regularly scheduled episode of Hypercritical next week

when John is back.

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Ooh.

It's John's show.

It is John's show.

Thank you for, thank you for having us on, Dan.

Glad to have you here, finally, long last.

And let's thank John for permitting us to do this again.

So the last one was February 10th.

I looked it up.

And I figured, so now it kind of feels to me like this is a show.

You know like now we have multiple episodes.

So this is like a real show and I think it's funny that this exists entirely in like the

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