Episode 9: 9: No iLife is an Island
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2011
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin further opine on the iPad 2 and the Apple Strategy Tax, then discuss Apple's anachronistic views on digital media management as embodied in the iLife suite and the iPod product line.
Links for this episode:
- The edit wars on the Apple A5 page at Wikipedia
- Put 16GB of RAM into your new MacBook Pro…for $1,600
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown - iFixit
- One tale of Apple's woes with partners: Rhapsody and Blues
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical. A weekly talk show ruminated on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.3 | Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained or criticized about by John |
| 0:15.0 | Syracuse. It's my co-host. I'm Dan Benjamin. We'd like to thank Freshbooks |
| 0:19.7 | com online invoicing and Rackspace.com for sponsoring this show and as I mentioned this is |
| 0:26.1 | episode number eight nine rather or eight could be nine it's nine let's go with nine |
| 0:36.1 | it's episode nine and uh... today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:41.1 | well first we have follow-up but do we want to announce the topic? |
| 0:44.0 | Sure, yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | Today we're going to do follow-up on both topics from last show, the iPad too and the Apple |
| 0:51.8 | Strategy Tax. |
| 0:52.8 | And then our main topic, which will squeeze in if there's time, |
| 0:56.5 | is no eye life is an island. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, this has been on the list for a long time. Since the beginning. |
| 1:04.0 | And this is one I'm finally glad we would. |
| 1:05.0 | It's just the right time to get to it because everybody's applauding Apple right now. |
| 1:09.0 | As they should be, great new stuff coming out, I think. |
| 1:12.0 | But this, they, they might have gotten some of this |
| 1:14.9 | wrong so we'll talk about that but first we got to do this follow-up. |
| 1:18.0 | Yep. Did you pre-or did you order your iPad too? So my wife actually, I don't think has officially picked which model she's getting, |
| 1:26.0 | over narrowed it down, but she went to the store today for some reason. |
| 1:31.0 | Just to, I don't know if she was going to buy it on the spot or she just wanted to see one or whatever but as soon as she saw the lines she just turned around and came back. |
| 1:37.5 | What were the lines like out your way? I'm guessing pretty bad if yeah and and she was annoyed that they're not selling them or even showing them |
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