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 60: 60: Reversing the Polarity
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the puzzling UI of iPhoto for IOS, the magnetic polarity of iPad Smart Covers and more.
Episode 59: 59: Safari is Apple's Google
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on John's TiVo and smoke detector woes and the angst about the lack of a number after the name of the new iPad. John reviews his new Apple TV. Finally, the videos showing Chris Pirillo’s dad exploring Windows 8 and Mac OS X for the first time are mined for insights about computing in 2012 and beyond...
Episode 58: 58: No More Numbers For You / The Four Tuners
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin do some brief follow up on file systems, then dive into this week's Apple press event: the new Apple TV, the new iPad, specs vs. product names vs. Apple PR vs. sanity, and how we all still miss Steve Jobs. Plus, John reviews his new TiVo Premiere Elite and, of all things, his new smoke detector...
Episode 57: 57: Computational Skeuomorphism
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about file systems: the origins of Btrfs, how file systems might change in the new age of SSDs, the possibility of a Grand Unification of storage and memory subsystems, and why snapshots, clones, block-level diffs,
Episode 56: 56: Belt and Suspenders
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about file systems: what they do, what makes a good one, and who needs a new one, badly. (Spoiler: it's Apple.) File systems discussed: Microsoft's ReFS, ZFS, and HFS+.
Links for this episode:
- Apple Purchases Land In Oregon For Another Large Data Center
- The state of the filesystem, from John's Mac OS X 10...
Episode 55: 55: Region of Pain
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss this week's announcement of OS X Mountain Lion: what it means for John's reviews, how the new release schedule might influence adoption and reliability, and how features like GateKeeper will affect Mac users and developers...
Episode 54: 54: Public Service Announcement
There's no Hypercritical this week, so we put together something special for you instead.
Episode 53: 53: Brad Pitt Gets to Contribute
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit gamification in education, talk briefly about the Nest thermostat, then engage in an ever-so-slightly more considered discussion of Wikipedia, attempting to address the mountain of feedback on the topic. No Wikipedians were harmed in the making of this episode.
Links for this episode:
- No-One Cares About the College Bookstore - Kieran Healy
- Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes...
Episode 52: 52: Marked for Deletion
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about iBooks Author, Apple's real and stated motivations for entering the textbook market, and what really matters in education. This is followed by a long, ill-considered rant about Wikipedia. (Warning: original research, no neutral point of view.)
Links for this episode:
- Apple sued by Toronto lawyer over stolen MacBook, iPhone - thestar...
Episode 51: 51: Unjustified Confidence
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin briefly recap the iPhone ringer/silent switch controversy, then discuss the new iBooks Author application, Apple's ebook ambitions and prospects, and the role of technology in education...