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🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah. |
0:05.0 | How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief |
0:10.7 | second life and then was buried for good. |
0:14.8 | Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube. |
0:19.8 | Hey everybody, it's Neili from The Vergecast. |
0:24.0 | On this week's interview episode, we actually have a kind of unusual guest. |
0:27.6 | It's Tony Decker, he's the CEO of Asurian. |
0:30.7 | Asurian is the company that sells insurance through your carrier. |
0:33.4 | So if you break your phone, they can come and replace it. |
0:36.4 | But they have a huge business that's growing alongside that, doing tech support for people. |
0:41.5 | So every year I write an article called Everything is Too Complicated. |
0:45.3 | It's just me, I go home during the holidays, I listen to my family, as I drive around, |
0:49.8 | you know, 15 Christmases. |
0:51.5 | I just listen to the questions people ask me. |
0:53.5 | And they're always really basic. |
0:55.1 | They're always about the difference between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi or what streaming service |
0:59.2 | to use or my favorite is what the difference between Hulu and Roku is deeply hilarious. |
1:04.9 | And so every year I just write up these questions, I put them out in a piece called Everything |
1:08.9 | is Too Complicated. |
1:09.9 | And Tony reached out to me and said, everything is too complicated. |
1:13.7 | And we're building a whole business again. |
1:15.5 | They sell tech support to people because it's so hard to use stuff. |
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