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 73: 73: 22 Degrees
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet! It's an ultrabook! It runs Office, Windows, and your existing x86 applications…unless it's the ARM version. And why is Microsoft making hardware, anyway? It's all very intriguing.
Links for this episode:
- Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' - Engadget
- John's Tumblr blog, also titled Hypercritical
- Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life - Computerworld
- Microsoft VP creates perfume that smells of money - CNet
- Microsoft's Surface event video - YouTube
- Capacitive touchscreens - Wikipedia
- Surface by Microsoft
- Six Flags Great America
- Microsoft Technology Centers in Cologne
- Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty At Stealing from Apple
- PowerBook G3 - Wikipedia
- Limited-slip differential - Wikipedia
- John's Surface-like hardware musings from 2010 - Macworld
- Windows for Pen Computing - Wikipedia
- Inkwell (Macintosh) - Wikipedia
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