A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
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Episode 75: 75: Just a Dinosaur
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss rumors of a new, smaller iPad, Marco Arment's experience with and reporting of this week's App Store data corruption problem, Apple's response, and the continuing, unhealthy separation of developers and their customers in the App Store.
Links for this episode:
- Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch - Marco.org
- Android Developers Blog: Replying to User Reviews on Google Play
- Replying to App Store reviews - Matt Gemmell
- John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory - Penny Arcade
- Aged to Perfection - Design Mind
- Creating the first laptop (GRiD Compass) - YouTube
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
- GRiD Compass - Wikipedia
- “iPad Nano” Images - ZooGue
- Apple Preps for Smaller Tablet - The Wall Street Journal
- Apple Said to Plan Smaller IPad to Vie With Google Nexus - Bloomberg
- The case for a 7.8" iPad - Joel Bernstein
- How to pronounce Matt Gemmell's last name (MP3) - Paul Kafasis
- Apple responds to App Store download corruption - Marco.org
- Apple’s fix for corrupt binaries - Marco.org
- Dublin Dr. Pepper - Wikipedia
- Trixie - Pixar Wiki
- Velocistar237 - Pixar Wiki
- Twitter thread detailing the various sites that rewrote Marco's blog post
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