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 69: 69: Sport of Kings
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about patents and copyright, revisit the sources of lag in human/computer interactions, revise the probabilities of retina-display Macs, MacBook Pros without ethernet ports, any Mac Pros ever again, and the various ways to deal with a possible taller iPhone screen.
Links for this episode:
- Apple scrapped troubled 15-inch MacBook Air for 2010, rebuilding for 2012 - 9to5Mac
- Miserere (Allegri) - Wikipedia
- Allegri: Miserere - YouTube
- Teen's Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic Wins $75,000 Intel Prize - Reason.com
- Apple working to adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit WiFi this year - AppleInsider
- Venus Equilateral - Wikipedia
- Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture -TED.com
- The Reform of Intellectual Property - Dean Baker
- How to Lower the Price of Prescription Drugs - Dean Baker
- Can You Patent A Steak? - Planet Money
- How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads - Wired.com
- Everything Is a Remix
- Scooby Snacks - Wikipedia
- The Big Apple: “Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it’s been” (hockey adage)
- Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package - Ken Shirriff
- Surviving Without Subsidies - NYTimes.com
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