Episode 92: 92: The Tim Cook Era
Hypercritical
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🗓️ 2 November 2012
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest information about Apple's Fusion Drive and the first big executive reshuffling at Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era: Forstall and Browett are out; Ive, Cue, Federighi, and Mansfield are in.
Links for this episode:
- AnandTech - The Windows RT Review
- Tweet from Tanner Silva about the cost of a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement
- Tweet from Stephen Hackett about glass-covered MacBook Pro screens
- Tweet from Thomas Brand about screens glued to laptop lids
- Tweet from jackslash about the Apple logo on the front of the iMac
- Mac notebooks: About the "Ignoring accidental trackpad input" option - Apple.com
- Fusion drive on older Macs? YES! - Patrick Stein
- More on BYO Fusion drive - Patrick Stein
- Fusion Drive - loose ends - Patrick Stein
- Core Storage in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
- Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services - Apple.com
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: Steve “taught me that the joy is in the journey” - Ars Technica
- Op-ed: Apple Store may be shifting from customer experience to profit machine | Ars Technica
- Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement of Apple's Bob Mansfield - AllThingsD
- Skeuomorphism in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
- Skeuomorphic applications in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
- Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple - Telegraph
- File system API unification in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Ars Technica
- Daring Fireball: Forstall Out; Ive Up
- Neven Mrgan's post on App.net about Jony Ive's car
- Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple - Apple.com
- Avadis Tevanian - Wikipedia
- Craig Federighi - Wikipedia
- Bertrand Serlet - Wikipedia
- Daring Fireball: The Good, the Bad, and the Avie
- Apple Technical Note 2034 (PDF)
- The Incomparable #114: When You Wish Upon a "Star Wars"
- From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout - Om Malik
- Hypercritical #45: Star Wars is Not a Blog Post
- Fusion Drive quick look: Our predictions confirmed! - Ars Technica
- Browett seen as bad for Apple thanks to Dixons’ poor reputation - Ars Technica
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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. |
| 0:07.5 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my friend in years. |
| 0:14.0 | John Syracuse, I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:16.0 | Today is Friday, November 2nd, 2012. |
| 0:19.0 | Episode number 92 of our beloved hypercritical. We would like to say thanks very much to our three |
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| 0:59.6 | good afternoon hello how are you doing this fine day? |
| 1:03.4 | How is the weather? |
| 1:04.6 | How is your power situation? |
| 1:06.2 | How are things holding up in the northeast? |
| 1:10.5 | Everything's fine here. |
| 1:11.7 | We never even lost power. |
| 1:14.0 | I noticed that you were sort of grandstanding a little bit |
| 1:18.0 | by talking about how your kids were playing through all sorts of video games and like grandstanding well yeah we've |
| 1:27.5 | got power that kind of thing show voting is that a better word I don't think either one of those are appropriate. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay. |
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