Episode 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2011
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin vow never to talk about physics again, then discuss the new iPad and, finally, how Apple's expansion into so many new businesses has created a series of conflicts of interest that could, at best, doom it to Microsoft-like stagnation in the long run.
Links for this episode:
- The Apple strategy tax
- Speed of electricity - Wikipedia
- Speed of electricity flow
- Apple iPad 2
- ARM Cortex A8 - Wikipedia
- ARM Cortex A9 - Wikipedia
- Apple A4 - Wikipedia
- Apple A5 - Wikipedia
- Speeds and feeds - Wikipedia
- Magnetic monopole - Wikipedia
- PAX East 2011
- List of The Incredibles characters - Wikipedia
- A sub-thread of the Hacker News discussion of the Apple Strategy Tax article
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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 in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:09.2 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. |
| 0:13.0 | And the chief complainer, chief of complaints, |
| 0:17.6 | it could be a good title for you, John. |
| 0:19.2 | John Syracuse, hello. |
| 0:21.6 | You can make me a department for the department of complaints. |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, and I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:26.0 | Together we do this show and this is episode number eight, right? |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah. We made it. |
| 0:31.0 | Big eight. |
| 0:33.0 | Sure. |
| 0:34.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:35.0 | Big, big week for Apple and you sound a lot better than last time. |
| 0:38.0 | Do I? |
| 0:39.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:40.0 | Maybe I just move with a microphone closer to my face. |
| 0:41.0 | Well, no, I meant because you're cold. You had to |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, it's still hanging on but I always take like three weeks to go through these in |
| 0:47.0 | the winter. You're old too, that's the other thing. You're very old. |
| 0:53.0 | Incredibly. |
| 0:54.0 | Good week for Apple today. |
| 0:55.0 | Or this week. |
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