5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2012
⏱️ 129 minutes
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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon's new Kindle and Kindle Fire products. Is Amazon Apple's most dangerous competitor, or are the two companies not really in competition at all? Who is Amazon's ideal customer? Finally, John and Dan make their predictions for next week's Apple press event.
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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. |
0:10.8 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. |
0:15.5 | By your friend and mine, co-host of this show, John Syracusea. |
0:19.8 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
0:20.8 | Today is Friday, September 7th, 2012. It's episode number 84 of |
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1:00.1 | how are you today mister |
1:01.6 | john sir is jon or jonathan is it short for jonathan we've done this before now you're repeating |
1:07.1 | remember you well say you said it was just john if I remember right is it just John that's what it is all right I'm |
1:13.9 | down with that on my birth certificate the long form. Do you keep that is that do you |
1:20.4 | keep it with you in your wallet I I have no idea where it is actually |
1:23.2 | someone brought that up recently when they were talking about some political |
1:25.7 | thing. It's like do you know where your birth certificate is? I don't know where |
1:27.9 | mine is. I mean I'm sure it's somewhere in the house. I think you can get a |
1:31.4 | reissued from the hospital if you need to. |
1:33.7 | Yeah, probably. I mean what if your house burned down? You have there someone else has to have a copy. |
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