Episode 87: 87: Smarter and Harder
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2012
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on Apple's slippery little devices and Apple's mapping woes, then discuss the new iPod touch and iPod nano. John's hypothetical Ferrari is briefly mentioned.
Links for this episode:
- iPod touch - Apple.com
- iPod nano - Apple.com
- A letter from Tim Cook on Maps - Apple.com
- Lightning connector, disassembled - iFixit.com
- iPhone 5 Teardown, connector portion - iFixit.com
- Acer AZ3731-UR21P, with PS/2 ports - Amazon.com
- Close-up picture of those Acer PS/2 ports
- iPhone 5 wall charger vs. earlier model
- How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - The Atlantic
- Merlin's Tweet: "You’re dead to me, Dan. DEAD."
- Merlin's Tweet: "He USED to have a web site…"
- Speaking for Yourself - Merlin Mann
- PC System Design Guide - Wikipedia
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It was like, yeah, you want to buy. |
| 0:02.4 | This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show reminating on exactly what is wrong. |
| 0:12.4 | In the world of Apple and related |
| 0:13.7 | technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained |
| 0:18.5 | about by my friend and yours. John Syracuse. I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, September 28, 2012. This is |
| 0:28.2 | episode number 87 of Hypercritical. I'd like to say thanks very much to our three amazing sponsors |
| 0:36.4 | Harvest. Get Harvest.com, Gazelle.com and MailChimp.com. We would also like to say thank you so much |
| 0:44.6 | to our band with sponsor |
| 0:46.7 | Been here with us this whole month of September. |
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| 1:03.0 | 5 by 5. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, Dan. |
| 1:07.0 | How are you this fine Friday afternoon and last Friday in September 2012. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm just fine. |
| 1:14.4 | Great. |
| 1:15.4 | It's rainy day here in New England. |
| 1:16.9 | Rainy day here today too in Austin. |
| 1:19.0 | Austin. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, well a little bit of rain. |
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