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 5: 5: Slippery Little Pill
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple’s hardware blind spots: keyboards, dock connector, iPod/iPhone cases, laptop designs, and more.
Links for this episode:
- Ars Technica review of the original Aluminum PowerBook G4
- Apple's Mac OS X Lion web page, which mentions Spaces
- SMART Utility - hard drive hardware diagnostics
- S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
- Subtraction.com: Designed Deterioration
- Apple's 30-pin dock connector
- SCSI - Kids, ask your parents about it
- Light Peak - A New Hope for connecting computing peripherals with wires
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