Fri. 01/15 – Are We Really Getting the MacBook of My Dreams?

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Is Apple finally throwing in the towel and giving us the sort of laptops we actually want? With these IPO first-day pops, forget banks screwing startups, are VC’s also undervaluing companies right now in a way that is unfair? Amazon wants to do in cars what it’s done successfully in homes. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Oracle For Startups - oracle.com/goto/ride Metalab.co Links: Kuo details 2021 MacBook Pro: new design with squared-off sides, MagSafe connector and IO return, Touch Bar removed (9to5Mac) Apple Plans Upgraded MacBook Pros With Return of Magnetic Charging (Bloomberg) Online clothing reseller Poshmark closes up more than 140% on first day of trading (CNBC) Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants (The Verge) Galaxy Book Flex2: Samsung’s first 5G laptop has an 11th-gen Intel Processor (Digital Trends) Shares in China’s Xiaomi tumble after US investment ban (Financial Times) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? (NYTimes) Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work (AlexDanco.com) An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia (OneZero) CRISPR and the Splice to Survive (The New Yorker) Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability (Bloomberg Businessweek) Subscribe to the premium feed here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the text being right home.
0:04.3	Today is January 15th, 2021.
0:08.6	Today.
0:09.6	Yeah, maybe you should do the, maybe you should do it for me today.
0:15.0	All right, let's get it right this time.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, January 15th, 2021.
0:26.0	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:28.0	Today is Apple finally throwing in the towel and giving us the sort of laptops we actually want.
0:34.4	With those IPO First Day pops, forget banks screwing startups.
0:38.9	Our VCs also undervaluing companies right now in a way that is unfair.
0:43.7	Amazon wants to do in cars what it's done successfully in homes,
0:48.1	and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:50.6	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:56.0	I actually kind of want to title this segment.
0:59.0	What if we actually got good laptops from Apple. These days since quarantine and working from home I've
1:06.2	been producing this show on an early 2019 27 inch retina 5k I Mac but
1:12.3	before then all of my podcasting has been produced on a 13-inch
1:17.9	Retina Early 2015 Macbook Pro. The last Macbook produced with U.S. B.
1:24.2	ports, which frankly as a podcaster and mobile audio
1:27.5	producer, I still kind of need.
1:29.8	But also, the last Macbook with HDI ports, with an SD card port with mag safe charging.
1:37.0	When I saw that this was likely the last of the line for this sort of thing. I bought this bad boy, maxed it out with the best storage
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