Episode 89: 89: Lazy Sunday
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2012
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin relax on a Sunday afternoon and chat about Apple's taste for brute force solutions, the foibles of decentralized systems like Tent and email, and The Magazine, Marco Arment's new Newsstand publication.
Links for this episode:
- The Magazine
- The Magazine - Foreword
- Appnetizens Analytics: Posts Per Hour History - appnetizens.com
- Google Realtime Search Goes Offline - Time.com
- The Secret of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed - NPR.org
- The Feature
- The Brief
- The Brief Explained - Marco.org
- Marco's tweet about his "LOL" FAQ answer
- Marco's tweet about the The Magazine's App Store ranking on launch
- Newsstand - Wikipedia
- Lazy Sunday - NBC.com
- The Apple Strategy Tax - Ars Technica
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show remaining on exactly what is wrong in the world |
| 0:09.9 | of Apple and related technologies and businesses nothing is so perfect that it can't be |
| 0:15.4 | complained about shows hosted of course by your friend in mind John Syracuse |
| 0:20.6 | and by me I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is Sunday. |
| 0:22.8 | What, Sunday? |
| 0:24.2 | October 14th, 2012, it's episode |
| 0:27.0 | number 89. |
| 0:29.0 | I'd like to say thanks very much to our three sponsors, |
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| 0:37.4 | dot com |
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| 1:05.6 | Hello John how are you today? |
| 1:08.0 | Doing just fine. On this Sunday it's Sunday you like this don't you you'd rather like this, don't you? |
| 1:12.8 | You'd rather do it Sunday, wouldn't you? |
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