Episode 90: 90: Salad Days
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2012
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin ponder the upcoming Apple event, assess picayune physical details of the iPhone 5 and iPod touch, compare the newly announced pricing for the Microsoft Surface to its possible competitors, and discuss John's approach to getting value from Twitter.
Links for this episode:
- Pentagon Paradox: The Development of the F-18 Hornet, by James P. Stevenson
- Hypercritical #73: 22 Degrees
- Daniel Siders on sending a POST for each follower in Tent
- October 23 Apple event confirmed: “We’ve got a little more to show you” - Ars Technica
- McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - Wikipedia
- iOS portfolio price distribution - asymco
- Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad - Daring Fireball
- iPad (3rd generation) - Wikipedia
- Microsoft Surface will start at $499
- Just one example of a Totoro-themes iPad case on Etsy
- The Brief, by Richard Dunlop-Walters
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| 0:00.0 | And there's like a bunch of guys on the side, like looking at you but not looking at you, but listening to you, but looking like they're not listening to you. |
| 0:05.4 | And that happens in real life, right? |
| 0:07.4 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:17.5 | Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about by my friend and yours. |
| 0:24.0 | Co-host of this show John Syracusea. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:27.5 | Today is Friday, October 19, 2012. |
| 0:31.0 | To episode number 99.0. |
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| 1:09.6 | Hello, John Syracuseau of Massachusetts. How are you today? |
| 1:15.0 | I am just dandy. |
| 1:16.0 | Let me ask you a quick question |
| 1:18.0 | before you dive in. |
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