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 67: 67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the various ways that Apple takes money from transactions involving the App Store, lessons from gaming and gamers for the larger software world, why nothing is ever good enough when it comes to technology, the Instagram acquisition, and the sad state of the US patent system and how it might be fixed.
Links for this episode:
- Good Game - ABC TV
- Good Game Spawn Point - ABC3 TV
- Sequelitis - YouTube
- Sequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X - YouTube
- Rands In Repose: Two Universes
- Misbehaving Children in Ancient Times? Plato or Socrates? - Quote Investigator
- Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine - TED.com
- Pebble: E-Paper Watch - Kickstarter
- High Performance Touch - YouTube
- Copyright Clause - Wikipedia
- Patent - Wikipedia
- When Patents Attack - Planet Money
- No Respect these Days - Kieran Healy
- Steve Jobs with thoughts on life and failure - YouTube
- Steve Jobs: One Last Thing - PBS
- Against Intellectual Monopoly
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