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 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin vow never to talk about physics again, then discuss the new iPad and, finally, how Apple's expansion into so many new businesses has created a series of conflicts of interest that could, at best, doom it to Microsoft-like stagnation in the long run.
Links for this episode:
- The Apple strategy tax
- Speed of electricity - Wikipedia
- Speed of electricity flow
- Apple iPad 2
- ARM Cortex A8 - Wikipedia
- ARM Cortex A9 - Wikipedia
- Apple A4 - Wikipedia
- Apple A5 - Wikipedia
- Speeds and feeds - Wikipedia
- Magnetic monopole - Wikipedia
- PAX East 2011
- List of The Incredibles characters - Wikipedia
- A sub-thread of the Hacker News discussion of the Apple Strategy Tax article
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