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 74: 74: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss alternate motivations for the Microsoft Surface, Google's new Nexus 7 tablet, the history and value of reparability in computer hardware, and the possibility of electronics that "age well." Also, there's a robot that feels no shame.
Links for this episode:
- Designed Deterioration - Khoi Vinh (2007))
- Built to Not Last - Khoi Vinh (2012)
- The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable - Wired.com
- Follow Up to “Built to Not Last” - Khoi Vinh (2012)
- Nexus 7 - The new Android tablet from Google
- Replicant - Wikipedia
- Nexus One - Wikipedia
- 'There's No Margin' - Daring Fireball
- Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% Of The Time - IEEE Spectrum
- Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
- An Update on Flash Player and Android - Adobe.com
- How Microsoft Lost the API War - Joel on Software
- Mandrill - Wikipedia
- Microsoft PlaysForSure - Wikipedia
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