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.
https://hypercritical.fireside.fm
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 17 hours 7 minutes
Episode 90: 90: Salad Days
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin ponder the upcoming Apple event, assess details of the iPhone 5 and iPod touch, discuss pricing for the Microsoft Surface to its possible competitors, and discuss John's approach to getting value from Twitter.
Episode 89: 89: Lazy Sunday
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin relax on a Sunday afternoon and chat about Apple's taste for brute force solutions, the foibles of decentralized systems like Tent and email, and The Magazine, Marco Arment's new Newsstand publication.
Episode 88: 88: Nobody Leaves Email
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest events in the burgeoning App.net community, then explore the competing(?) Tent.io protocol for decentralized real-time social networking.
Episode 87: 87: Smarter and Harder
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on Apple's slippery little devices and Apple's mapping woes, then discuss the new iPod touch and iPod nano. John's hypothetical Ferrari is briefly mentioned.
Episode 86: 86: Naked Robotic Core
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss thew new iPhone 5: its physical design, the case for cases, the new lightning connector, and Apple's trouble with maps. Let the iPhone 6 speculation begin?
Episode 85: 85: Just Check the Checkbox!
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss all the things that went wrong during John's Mountain Lion ebook publishing experience. Please note that this episode was recorded before the September 12th Apple event.
Episode 84: 84: Spared No Expense
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon's new Kindle and Kindle Fire products and make their predictions for next week's Apple press event. Is Amazon Apple's most dangerous competitor? Who is Amazon's ideal customer?
Episode 83: 83: Dishonorable
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Apple v. Samsung court case, the rumors and leaks about the next iPhone, the possible internals of the rumored iPad mini, and which company we'd like to buy Twitter.
Episode 82: 82: The Opposite of Comprehensive
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin complete their discussion of John's Mountain Lion review. Topics include power management, UI simplification, automatic termination, Facebook integration, and plagiarizing from yourself.
Episode 81: 81: Channels of Control
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest round of Twitter API changes and their effect on third-party clients, and inevitably follow up about App.Net.