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 20: 20: I've Got Nothing
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's upcoming trip to WWDC, Twitter's strange gaps in functionality, and the sale of NetNewsWire to Black Pixel.
Episode 19: 19: Don't Make Me Read
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk toasters again, then discuss John's first computer love, the classic Macintosh Finder.
Episode 18: 18: Worse and More Diverse
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin put the TV technology and PHP topics to bed, then discuss what's wrong with Twitter and why toaster ovens are worse today than they were a few decades ago.
Episode 17: 17: Intruding Gooseneck
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk some more about TV technology, elaborate on why, exactly, PHP is a bad programming language, and ponder the place of SSDs in the lives of computer users who are not independently wealthy.
Episode 16: 16: The Soap Opera Effect
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin repent after two episodes on programming languages by discussing TV technology…after about 45 minutes of follow-up.
Episode 15: 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue their discussion of high-level programming languages, now focusing on why all popular languages suck in some way, then transition into a hard look at Perl.
Episode 14: 14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's GUI history, complain about TiVo some more, then explore the possibility of another Copland-like crisis looming in Apple's future.
Episode 13: 13: The Tortoise and the Hare
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Pixar, Facebook's open datacenter initiative, Star Wars, and, finally, Apple’s philosophy and practice of UI consistency over the years.
Episode 12: 12: Nothing Is So Perfect
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.
Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's iLife island and Google's operational secret weapons, then talk about the nature of criticism, online and offline.