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 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are briefly amused by iPhone 5 rumors, then dive head first into a ruthless analysis of Apple's online services, past and present. The sad conclusion: Apple sucks at what Google is good at, and vice versa.
Links for this episode:
- July 2006: .Mac users mock Apple slogan during outage - CNET News
- June 2008: .Mac Outage Causes Stir - World of Apple
- June 2008: .Mac suffers 15th outage as MobileMe deployed - MacNN
- July 2008: MobileMe says sorry with a month of free service
- July 2008: Apple's report on the MobileMe Email service interruption
- December 2010: Apple retires .Mac HomePage
- iPhone 5 rumors: aluminum backside, redesigned antenna
- Square corners for Snow Leopard QuickTime player windows
- iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing - Techinch
- The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation - Audible.com
- The Name of the Wind - Audible.com
- Dropbox - Online backup, file sync, and sharing made easy
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