Hypercritical

00:00:02 ◼   ► this is hypercritical [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► a weekly talkshow ruminating on exactly [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► what is wrong in the world of Apple and [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► related technologies businesses nothing [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► is so perfect that it can't be [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► complained about and scrutinized and [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► criticized by none other than John [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► siracusa whom you may know from his work [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► at ARS technica or by Mead and Benjamin [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► and today this is episode number 5 [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► what's our topic today John you pick two [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► topics this time we'll I'd me pick so [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► you're trying to push the onus on to me [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► a bit but no problem with that I can [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► narrow down from two I liked both topics [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► so much that I got I found myself [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► getting kind of giddy about talking [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► about both of them either of them and I [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► didn't know which one you wanted more so [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► I picked the other one which one did you [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► think I think you want the UI [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► consistency one but I that's not my [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► favorite and I'm not sure how much I [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► have to say on it right now so I picked [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► the other one and what was the other one [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► the other one was Apple's Hardware blind [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► spots ah okay I act to be honest I [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► really don't know that I had a favorite [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► either way but I'm thrilled to talk [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► about that and so what does that mean [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► Hardware blind spots uh are we skipping [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► the follow-up is this what you're saying [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► no oh yeah we got to do our follow-up [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► I'm sorry no I'm not saying that let's [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► follow alright like I try to rush [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► through follow-up there is backup [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► related follow-up here I could push it [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► off for another show if you want or I [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► could just go through the items in order [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► no let's let's do all the follow-up [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► we'll do it all it would all we'll see [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► how that goes all right so uh I think [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► was it last week or two weeks ago that [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► we talked about Lian [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► I thought lion was last week yeah [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► probably was so there's a little follow [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► up on that we were discussing whether [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► spaces that was two weeks ago do weeks [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► ago episode basis would be in number [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► three the mouse is not a finger right [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► yeah and we said we talked about in last [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► show how they didn't show spaces in the [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► demo but that doesn't mean it's not [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► necessarily there well a couple of [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► people send me links to Apple's actual [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► web site where they have text on their [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► lion web page that says you know spaces [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► is they're basically right they're [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► saying the Mission Control thing you [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► know thumb [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► nails of your full screen apps [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► dashboards and even other spaces [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► arranged in the unified view so that's [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► pretty much as explicit as you can get [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► even though they've never shown it and [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► even though we have no idea how it works [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► or what it looks like the text on their [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► page says that s spaces not that things [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► can't change because you know there have [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► been many things written on my apples [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► website about operating systems yet to [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► be released that have turned out not to [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► be true when the operating system was [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► released I think that even a whole page [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► where they were talking about ZFS do you [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► remember that yeah yeah that was [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► surprising yeah I would have loved to [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► have that [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► there have been a few other ones I've [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► forgotten them now but all sorts of [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► things have been on their page when [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► they've during the previews you know and [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► then eventually they just stopped [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► talking about it and they released the [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► actual operating system those features [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► aren't there and everyone forgets [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► including me um so I just wanted to [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► clear that up exactly that's not some [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► pretty good evidence um some people were [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► asking me about my offhanded comment [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► about audio quality last time I think I [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► was talking about the limits of human [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► perception and how when technology [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► catches up to them yeah it's this [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► innovation kind of stops in that area [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► and I mentioned that you don't 256 [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► kilobit a C's or mp3s is pretty much [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► good enough for most people but but [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► audio files find it depressing and a lot [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► of people wanted out well you know can [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► you even tell the difference if we if we [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► did a double-blind test view listening [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► to whatever audio source you chose and [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► and a an mp3 would you be able to tell [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► and the answer is I probably wouldn't be [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► able to I don't have a golden ear I'm [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► not really an audiophile it's really [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► just a question of general principles I [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► don't know if I'm the only person who [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► feels this way but I like that audio [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► quality was progressing and that felt [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► like it's not like progress to me it [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► felt like audio quality gets better [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► during my life when I'm a kid there's [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► vinyl and there's cassettes and briefly [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► eight tracks and you know we get CDs [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► where that they'd be hard 22 kilohertz [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► cutoff is a problem for some people then [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► they started massively compressing music [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► but in general it's been a lumpy upward [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► slope in audio quality and then what was [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► it like just before the donut the [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► Internet they had super audio CD and DVD [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► audio duking it out for the next [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► generation high resolution format yeah [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► but then the internet came and Napster [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► an mp3 [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► and forget about super audio CD and DVD [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► audio these things still exist and you [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► can buy them but they're obviously way [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► way outside the mainstream and so we [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► kind of took we derailed we said well [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► audio quality is pretty much good enough [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► let's add more channels now upslope what [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► is it 7.1 or whatever for surround sound [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► but other than that the actual audio [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► quality itself is good enough and I [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► don't think that's the case I think [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► there's still Headroom and it bothers me [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► because I we know we have the technology [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► for better audio right it's not like we [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► don't have the tech for this we even [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► have a bunch of standards like super [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► audio CD came out DVD audio came out it [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► exists you can buy them not that they're [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► great formats or anything around [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► particularly recommending them but it [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► was the next step in the journey but [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► we've just decided to skip them entirely [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► we're not interested in them and the [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► thing that bothers me about them from a [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► practical perspective is that even if [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► you can't tell the difference compress [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► lossy audio limits what you can do with [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► it like say you want to make a video and [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► cut together pieces from a bunch of [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► different songs the best copy of the [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► songs you have is a lossy compressed [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► audio file that you got from iTunes or [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► something when you chop up pieces of [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► that song and put it together as a [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► soundtrack and then recompress it as you [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► know AAC or whatever for your video then [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► you start can start to tell the [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► difference you don't need to be an [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► audiophile to see to hear the difference [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► on a doubly compressed songwriting right [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► and triply compress it just gets worse [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► it and it bothers me that music prices [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► have stayed about the same [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► are you know depending on how you buy [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► your things like is this cheaper if you [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► buy an individual track instead of an [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► entire album but the quality has [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► basically gone down CDs have better [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► audio quality than these lossy [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► compressed the you know AAC files that [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► you can buy so that's why I still buy [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► CDs and faxes I buy them I'm like I'm [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► getting a physical backup for free [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► basically and I'm getting a higher [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► quality product so why in the world [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► would I ever pay for a lossy compressed [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► file from iTunes and this is you know [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► even with DRM being gone and everything [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► so everything else being equal is DRM [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► forget it no way but CDs through a [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► historical accident have no DRM and they [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► happen to be better quality than what [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► everyone else is selling so that's what [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► I still buy I'm sure they'll go away [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► eventually but I really hope kind of [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► like the light bulb right eventually [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► they'll become yeah all the replaced [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► with LEDs [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► but I really hope this industry gets [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► back on that train and starts doing the [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► you know saying well maybe got one or [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► two more standards in us or maybe let's [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► let's go let's stop with the compression [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► because a certain point network [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► bandwidth is so massive that the [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► compression is pointless anyway we'll [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► just give you uncompressed or we'll go [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► for a higher bitrate or higher [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► resolution and still compress it but it [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► but it'll I don't know that's like we [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► probably do a whole show on my insanity [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► in that regard we should really to get a [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► counterpoint of somewhat saying you're [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► not to be you just said you can't hear [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► the difference what do you care what's [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► right what do you care if the difference [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► size is more important that we needed [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► the mp3 revolution digital downloads are [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► good and everything I'm just sad that [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► progress has seemingly been derailed and [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► I hope we get back on that train okay [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► that one took a little too long no it's [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► alright um back up related someone [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► throughout this you this utility sent me [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► an email about it after the right after [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► the first backup so I never got to talk [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► about it smart utility all caps smart [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► I think smart I forget what it stands [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► for self monitoring analysis reporting [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► something or other [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► anyway smart is a standard that lets the [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► hard drive mechanism talk to your [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► computer and so you can query the hard [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► drive mechanism and ask it questions [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► about its health and there are a couple [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► little things like menu bar widgets they [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► have a little hard drive icon that just [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► changes green when all your hard drives [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► are ok and it changes red when they're [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► bad smart is just basically a [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► standardized way as far as I can tell a [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► standardized way for the hard drive to [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► tell you when it's really not working so [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► it stands by the way for self-monitoring [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► analysis and reporting technology I was [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► close yeah all right [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► it's a way to know that there's [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► something wrong with your disk [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► officially and not just find out like [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► when your i/o start to fail and your [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► operating system or something and smart [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► utility is a single app that shows all [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► the smart information in this big [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► display now it's a little bit creepy in [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► that the app has some heuristics built [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► into it where it decides whether your [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► hard drive is quote unquote failing [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► which is a strange you know it's in [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► terms of the tints it's strange failing [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► because I mean it's failing now it's not [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► failed failed smart will tell you you [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► know XYZ is broken that is [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► all right failing I don't really know [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► what that means [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► so it's something just made up from this [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► application where it says if I see [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► arrows XY and Z even though everything [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► is still currently working directly I've [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► decided that if I see these errors it [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► probably means that there'll be some [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► other unrecoverable error in the future [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► therefore I'll tell your drive is [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► failing and I mentioned that biggest [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► when I ran it on my drives is that one [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► of my drives is quote unquote failing [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► but you go into the help and you google [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► around and it becomes clear that the [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► notion of failing is really a sort of a [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► judgement call it may mean that your [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► hard drive is about to go bad but [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► doesn't mean that your hard drive is [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► currently bad and the thing that it said [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► about my hard drive is that I had bad [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► sectors that had been remapped but [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► that's part of what hard drives do they [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► remap bad right it's in other words it's [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► not necessarily really going bad but [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► it's saying this could be an indication [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► that there's a problem yeah like there [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► have been bad sectors that have been [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► remapped on your drive does that mean [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► that it's slowly dying or does that mean [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► just it came out of manufacturing which [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► the bad sectors and mechanism remap them [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► and then that's it so it has another [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► mode where it will it will only complain [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► to you if the number of bad sectors [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► increases so like for instance if you [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► get the hard drive out of the box and it [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► says 25 bad sectors and use this hard [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► drive for five years and at the end of [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► the five years it still says 25 bad [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► sectors ah I don't know yeah and as some [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► people in the chat room are saying and [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► as the the help guide and smart utility [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► itself says the statistics that Google [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► and other big companies that run big [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► data centres have done have shown that [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► if there are any sort of errors like [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► this even if everything is working fine [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► now it's a very good indication that [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► things are going to go bad later some if [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► it happens it happens but the problem [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► with this information is now I can't [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► really return my drive in to the [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► manufacturer and say hey smart reports [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► these errors could you give me the [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► drivers they'll probably just send me [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► back into the drive with the same exact [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► errors or send me back Furber give that [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► drive to someone else's they want an [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► error a drive that has errors on you [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► know I'm sure they'll take my drive and [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► then give me back another one but who's [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► to say whether that drive will have any [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► other problem so just so you know if [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► you're lit Amin AVI if you're listening [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► to this show you're probably kind of [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► geeky anyway but this this utility is [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► not I mean I won't go so far say it's [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► not for the faint of heart but it's it's [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► a geek utility this is not something [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► that that's made for like your mom to [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► use to watch her hard drive right it's [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► not it's not going to present you with [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► any actionable information it's just [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► gonna be a bunch of stats right maybe a [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► big colored thing that tells you you [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► know failed failing Pass felt like this [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► right like you'll see an attributes [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► window for something called dev disk [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► zero and it'll have like power off [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► retract count for that you know and [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► it'll give you a raw value for that so [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► these things you need to have some kind [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► of knowledge of what these things are to [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► actually really make the the best use of [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► this but I mean you know you will get it [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► at the end of the day you will see a [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► little green light or a little little [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► green block or a yellow block that's it [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► will say failing in it if you're running [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► into trouble so there is a little like [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► menu bar icon called [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► smart monitor or something that all it [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► does is put an icon in your menu bar and [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► that just changes colors green good red [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► bad and I've done that for years and I [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► always just says green this utility goes [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► further even if that little icon is [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► green this utility may be in the yellow [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► quote-unquote failing phrase the funny [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► thing about the app is that if you set [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► the preference that says only tell me [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► that I'm failing if one of these stats [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► changes over time now when I launched it [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► says that my drive past because this [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► reallocated bad sectors thing has been [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► the same for the life of this drive [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► right so and it's pretty new drive this [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► is 1.5 terabyte Western Digital caviar [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► black I think and it's the main drive [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► that I run off of but I've got only [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► other backup so I figure I'll just let [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► this one sale I I did increase the [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► frequency of my SuperDuper backups but [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► we'll just see how we go I was gonna I [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► was gonna ask you I'm you know people [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► are always asking what kind of hard [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► drives you have and and all of that [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► stuff and we've talked enough about [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► drives on another show I think for for a [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► little while when we were talking about [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► backups but you know I think I think [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► it's worth noting that there's a whole [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► new generation of drives out there now [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► if the last time you bought a hard drive [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► was even a couple years ago things have [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► changed a lot and if you're starting to [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► see message just about your drive [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► failing and it's not relatively new [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► a pride they're cheap enough we'll just [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► go by anyone am i right yeah and this [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► drive to get so much better all the time [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► it's all I can do to stop myself from [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► buying a new hard drive every month [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► because I just see that you know they [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► get cheaper they better capacity they [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► get better performance everything about [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► them gets better to say no no just wait [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► for a drive to actually fail wait the [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► outgrow something to buy a new hard [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► drive things are so cheap you see like a [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► 2 terabyte drive for 80 bucks you're [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► like man yeah like my scrap drive off to [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► the side where I just throw junk you [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► know but yeah for the free for the main [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► machine that we use for for doing our [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► video recording and stuff I just picked [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► up a terrible one terabyte caviar black [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► drive for 80 something dollars shipped [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► yeah I mean it you know it's you just [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► could go get a new drive and those are [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► good those like the premium mechanisms [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► yeah find the bomb you know bargain [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► basement right not a storage review [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► finding their best rated ro desktop hard [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► drive with great performance and good [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► power consumption not too noisy and [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► still 80 bucks [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► so yeah you and noise we got to do a [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► show just about you and your noise [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► phobias yeah thank you I would be a very [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► interesting show but which is a silence [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► wouldn't yeah that's right [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► that's 33 seconds of silence exactly [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► so today's show half halfway through the [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► hour let's talk about the day's job uh [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► yeah I guess I've got more follow-up [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► Allison know you want to do it let's do [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► I've got what I've got more problem we [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► could possibly I can fill a whole show [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► with this follow up so I'll save it okay [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► well how about this if we if we get [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► through today's topic to your [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► satisfaction we can circle back so that [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► one Oh problem but okay so the topic [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► Apple's hardware blind spots this is a [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► personal peeve of mine that I don't [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► think is shared by it shared in bits and [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► pieces by other people but whenever I [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► try to complain about it to somebody [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► maybe they'll agree on one of my points [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► but my 17 other points they'll think I'm [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► insane so I think this concern is [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► distributed through apples enthusiast [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► community and just happens to be [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► concentrated in me um before I get here [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► before I go into the beat the blind [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► spots I'll just talk about it's obvious [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► that Apple has lots of hardware [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► strengths I think most Apple fans will [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► be able to agree on all those and talk [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► about them what's good about Apple [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► hardware well it's high quality it's not [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► junk right [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► so it's not plastic stuff that falls [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► apart in your hands is always solid [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► materials it looks like somebody [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► designed it it doesn't look like it was [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► slapped together by a committee it looks [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► like little pieces of art apples really [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► good about innovative manufacturing [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► techniques they're always trying to find [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► a new and interesting way to build the [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► stuff they're not just happy like Dell [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► has Dell for decades it's like we build [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► computers like this we can do a stupid [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► metal frame we slap plastic on the [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► outside we put some colored panels on it [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► we throw the internals in there and they [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► were just happy to do that for decades [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► and decades but Apple is not happy to do [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► that Apple did that you know back in the [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► 80s and 90s and so how else can we make [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► computers and they you know worked with [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► manufacturers to say well you can do [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► this translucent plastic do you like [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► that but I'll still kind of got a metal [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► frame in there can we do like the entire [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► frame made out of clear plastic well you [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► get kind of hairline crack so it looks [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► kind of gross well how about we make [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► laptops out of titanium kind of works [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► with the paint doesn't stick and they're [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► always looking for you know something [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► interesting ways to do things and I [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► would call this a strength even if it [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► doesn't work out sometimes they're [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► trying new things um a great example is [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► the unibody laptops like that's the DES [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► creaking between panels and a big flat [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► thing that you pick up it's tough that's [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► a tough manufacturing challenge to make [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► something that feels solid so why don't [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► we just make it solid like a big unit [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► body thing and let's try you know [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► machining out a solid block of aluminum [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► into this particular shape maybe that'll [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► be really strong and interesting and [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► that has advantages for the product or [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► the laser micro holes that they put on [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► there you know and they have an LED [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► light behind a sheet of aluminum but [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► they don't want to put a hole in the [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► aluminum right so it too unsightly so [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► they put these tiny little holes with a [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► laser so you can't see anything there [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► until the light comes on and you see [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► light shining through right well it's [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► like solid aluminum beautiful details [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► yeah and they look nice that's the thing [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► most people know Apple's hardware it [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► looks nice you go into the Apple store [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► the store looks nice the hardware looks [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► nice so it's clear Apple has tons and [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► tons of strengths and as usual with me [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► if you're really good at something [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► that's that's when I find the flaw is [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► more irritating because if you're just a [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► total loss and you just make crap like [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► they'll then I'm not really interested [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► in criticizing some particular thing you [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► do because it's just not worth my time [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► right but the Apple Apple's the first [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► hardware to paraphrase Alan Kay that's [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► good enough to criticize and the [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► criticisms I've had [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► hardware the reason I call them blind [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► sauce is because they're persistent [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► maybe they're endemic to maybe they're [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► part of the good stuff I think a lot of [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► them are you know a result of doing all [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► the good things but the things Apple [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► does wrong have been the same pretty [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► much for the entire job just to error [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► when you you know came back and I don't [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► doesn't look like they're getting better [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► in some plays they're getting worse so [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► I've tried to break them down to [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► categories so we don't just wander all [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► over the place okay and the broadest [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► category I have to say is when Apple [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► does form over function it's just an [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► entire category of things where all [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► those good things about making things [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► look nice compromises the functionality [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► purely for aesthetics okay and I'm going [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► to start in a weird place I'm gonna [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► start with keyboards wait do you want to [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► share all of the different categories [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► first or do you just want to start tell [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► the category in the night donuts how to [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► do all the categories first we'll just [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► go through man order alright surprise [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► okay I'd even get all the categories [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► true enough um so keyboards with form [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► over function now there's a whole [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► sub-genre of keyboard cultism about the [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► mechanisms and mechanical switches and [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► buckling Springs and different colors of [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► switch mechanisms from different regions [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► of manufacture that's not what I'm [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► talking about here that's the whole [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► other fetish [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► I'll talk about the most basic stuff [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► about keyboards I'll highlight a laptop [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► keyboards to begin with the half-size [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► keys I don't think there's anyone out [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► there who's going to say I'd rather have [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► half-size Keys than full-size Keys [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► because you can get used to half-size [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► keys people can get good at doing them [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► but especially if you're an adult male [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► and you got the sausage fingers those [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► little sausage fingers rubbing together [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► on that little inverted T when you're [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► trying to hit the up-down left-right [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► especially if you're a programmer and [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► constantly using arrow keys maybe you're [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► not into VI keys for the people out [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► there who are going to say no don't use [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► the arrow keys anyway um [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► modes think long maybe max anyway the [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► little arrow keys the half size of our [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► keys drive me nuts and if you look at a [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► laptop an Apple laptop especially a 15 [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► or 17 inch there's room for full-size [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► arrow keys it will get any PC laptop [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► they have full-size our keys some PC [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► laptops have page up and page down and [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► end key home and end keys in it in a [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► particular arrangement especially things [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► size of a battleship like a 17 inch why [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► doesn't any of Apple's laptops that fall [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► size arrow keys well I'll tell you why [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► look at one of the laptops if you put in [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► a full-size inverted key the key board [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► would be asymmetrical and that is not [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► visually pleasing so Johnny I've or [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► whoever is deciding how to make these [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► things is just not going to let that fly [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► that's an example of they want the the [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► form to look like a beautiful simple [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► rectangle of probably the golden ratio [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► for all I know but they do not want that [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► to have the functionality of the [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► full-size arrow keys that's a compromise [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► they make and they they just haven't [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► gone back on it the very first review I [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► ever did of Apple's aluminum power book [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► series when they were called power books [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► and the first aluminum before the [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► unibody they just made them out of [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► aluminum I put up a graphic that showed [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► the 12 inch 15 inch and 17 inch laptops [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► all next to each other all the same [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► scale you saw they all use exactly the [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► same keyboard which is great for [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► manufacturing efficiency and it's great [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► for visual appearance they all look [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► exactly the same it's all the same [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► keyboard everywhere but it's ridiculous [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► to have this tiny little keyboard in the [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► middle of a 17 inch battleship size [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► laptop the whole point of having a 17 [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► inch thing is you can have a big screen [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► and give me a full-size keyboard [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► give me full-size our keys get me home [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► and Enki its it drives me insane and [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► they just will not budge in that if you [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► look at everything a laptop that made [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► sense the keyboards are the same I [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► imagine they get huge economic benefits [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► from having exactly the same keyboard [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► and all these things you know not having [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► different inventories up making the same [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► part they even use the same keyboards on [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► the desktops now for the most part or [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► the same key mechanisms but it just [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► frustrates me to no end and you know the [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► only reason I can come up with besides [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► the economics of having the same [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► keyboard everywhere even on the desktop [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► is they just simply do not want to break [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► that perfect rectangle they don't want [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► the top to look on there there are [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► things to be asymmetrical and that [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► compromise I feel like is a bridge too [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► far for things looking nice I'm not [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► staying on laptops the other one that [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► some people do complain about is the [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► sharp edges you know the yeah when [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► you've got when you get your the natural [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► way to sit in front of a laptop is you [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► sort of have your your wrists resting [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► and the [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► edge is sharp yeah I'm just gonna say [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► that you should not rest your wrists on [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► anything while you are typing it's very [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► bad for you that's what everybody's [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► don't every wheel my wrist rest don't [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► rest your wrist and thinks maybe you [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► have no problem with it maybe it's the [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► way you'd like to do things if you ever [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► get RSI which is another show entirely [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► we should do I should add that to my [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► topics list you will thank me for but [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► when you're not typing for example you [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► can rescue us but either way just [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► handling these devices their devices [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► that you put your hands on don't put [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► sharp edges on the man like I'm not [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► saying they have to all be round and [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► cuddly and cover fur but don't make them [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► razor sharp right but when the laptop is [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► closed it sure does look nice it looks [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► really nice it looks great process it is [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► amazing they manufacture something with [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► that it's that wonderful but don't make [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► them that sharp like seriously think [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► about the people are touching these [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► things with their hands that's kind of a [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► new development but in general Apple has [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► not been afraid to make things even on [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► my tower towers got quote unquote [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► handles those things would cut your [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► fingers off man these things weigh 50 [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► pounds and they want you to pick them up [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► from these incredibly sharp aluminum [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► handles yes the old deal g4 and g3 [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► handles were quite I mean they didn't go [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► so far as to have a motorcycle grip on [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► him but they were they were nice to pick [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► up and they were light to IMAX have a [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► little bit of this problem more recently [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► and they've done this on a bunch of [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► their computers they're supposedly [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► friendly desktop computers but they put [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► everything in the back all the ports in [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► the back the power button on the back [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► yeah that's you know they wanted to look [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► nice oh wait so so you stare you stare [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► at the front of I have an iMac right [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► here it's it's recording us right now [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► and this is one of the aluminum body [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► ones and it it does have all the ports [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► in the back and there's a power button [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► in the back but that's great I mean I [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► prefer that you're saying you want the [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► the buttons and stuff in the front of it [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► everything needs to be there but there's [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► a common function of when you sit down [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► in front of a computer that sometimes [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► you just want to plug in a USB device [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► for a second right and I know there's a [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► port on the keyboard too but it would be [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► nice to acknowledge not enough to get up [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► walk around in the back yeah or twist if [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► I reach behind there and even just for [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► the first you know the experience of [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► people who turn their computers on and [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► off or put them to sleep especially [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► since they remove the power button from [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► the keyboard way back when to reach [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► around behind there and [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► deal for that little power button thing [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► I know they want everything out of the [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► way but again I think it's just a bridge [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► too far putting everything back there [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► not having a single one in the front [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► busy with Martha the appearance or on [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► the bottom or anywhere and you know and [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► even the keyboard one is hidden [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► underneath there it's not easy to get I [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► know they want the cable to look nice so [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► you don't have the big USB thing [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► sticking out of the end so they recess [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► it which is good on one side but you [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► know I'm in the in the form of a [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► function category I'm getting back to [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► the weaker arguments here so the iMac [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► it's not as bad as I think the keyboards [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► are but it is indicative of the same [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► trend of at a certain point they just [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► cut off the functionality and say no [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► form must be R king here and I want my [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► thing to be beautiful and clean and I [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► don't care if you have to reach around [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► behind the thing and to find the port so [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► I'm just going to move on to the next [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► category so we can get through this [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► durability durability is a I think most [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► people recognize this a little bit the [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► that that you know when you have [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► something that looks nice you trade off [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► sometimes durability because you can [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► make something really durable but then [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► it looks like a big giant plastic [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► thermos with rubber gaskets all over and [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► it's not particularly nice and the thing [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► that occurred to me a couple years ago [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► is especially with Apple's handheld [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► things this is kind of like Apple cells [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► you only sort of the core of the device [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► like in a future world kind of right and [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► I'm I think they'll sell you this [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► amazing little metal core that has all [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► the functionality of the device but of [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► course they're just selling you the [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► inside and then you slip that little [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► core into a case that you buy and [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► rappelled Apple sells a couple of cases [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► but you you know buy your own iPods [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► everyone's iPods aren't look on the UNIX [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► timer in the subway or something look [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► around and see how many people have [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► their iPhones or iPods in cases unless [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► it's like a nano or a shuffle they're [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► all in cases Apple didn't sell you those [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► cases for the most part you don't see [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► people with apple brandy cases you see [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► them with random green cases pink cases [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► cases with stickers on them homemade [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► cases all sorts of stuff and it's kind [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► of weird to me that Apple sells this [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► entire line of products that you [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► basically it's not that you're not [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► supposed to use them as is but people [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► people just don't it would be kind of [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► like if they sold you remember the g4 [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► cube oh yeah I got one are you going [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► right now you pull the bottom out of it [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► ándale and everything it's like if they [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► just sold you that little core and you [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► got to slip it into something right get [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► build your own chassis yeah [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► and in some ways this is kind of [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► appropriate because you can always add [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► the case that you want but if they sold [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► it to you like more durable with the [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► thing on the outside you couldn't take [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► that away like you couldn't take it [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► apart so you could say it's giving the [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► most possible options if you if you go [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► if you want to use it without the case [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► then you can do it but if they sold it [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► to you with like a big rubberized thing [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► all over it [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► you can't like peel that off or you know [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► what I mean like it gives more options [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► to sell it as just a little core and you [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► can add stuff to it if you want and [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► they're working on it I give them credit [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► for working on especially with the [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► portables the glass iPhone 4 despite the [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► fact that people say scratches and [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► shatters and all that stuff it's clear [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► that they're recognizing durability [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► concerns of their previous iPods [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► bringing up plastic scratches and [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► plastic cracks so I say let's find [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► something that's more scratch resistant [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► let's put glass on it that seems to work [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► on the front let's try it on the back [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► well then we have to get super strong [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► glass that resists spending so we got [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► this Gorilla Glass and we have some [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► problems with shattering but it's clear [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► that they're trying to work on that but [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► my big problem with them just selling [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► this little core and this little not [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► quite as durable as it should be core is [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► that it also kind of trades form for [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► function this gets back to the previous [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► topic of my example is iPod Touches we [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► have iPod Touches all over the house and [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► they all have that like shiny silver [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► back yeah [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► which looks really nice but you cannot [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► put one of these things in the r-mo sofa [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► because it will slip off there like you [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► know ice on a hot grill alright even in [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► your hand like they are made to be like [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► it's slippery little things please drop [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► your $400 a piece of glass what's the [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► same thing with the newer remote that [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► comes with the newer Apple TV it's the [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► same same exact problem at all right but [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► yet same thing they don't have enough [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► friction there's nothing coefficient of [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► static friction is insufficient on these [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► devices so the main thing I want to do [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► with every single ipod touch I have is [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► put a thin coating or silicon rubber all [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► over all of them so they grip to any [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► fabric links and I can put it on an [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► incline on the couch it will just stick [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► there right but without that on it's [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► just a slippery little lozenge but the [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► big problem with this is like isn't this [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► working the way it's supposed to like [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► you said you can add a case if you want [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► if you don't want and you don't [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► have to and apples doing the best thing [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► no because every accessory that they [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► sell in other people sell will not [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► accept your thing if it has a case on it [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► right well docks and everything their [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► docks won't accept it so I can't use [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► docks anywhere in my house because every [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► single one of my iPods has some sort of [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► case on it [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► to make it so it's not a slippery little [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► pill but you know now you can't fit it [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► into any docks and even third-party [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► docks they just give up enough this you [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► look if you're going to wear a case you [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► take the thing in and out of a case [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► which is ridiculous nobody does it or [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► just use the plug and hope that your [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► case manufacturer was smart enough to [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► leave room for the plug to fit in [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► without you having to squish stuff out [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► of the way um so I think there's a ways [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► to go there on the on the durability [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► front on the handhelds [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► they do seem to be sort of addressing it [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► but on the other hand they just keep [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► making shiny iPods they just keep making [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► you know slippery iPhones it looks nice [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► but it's not the most durable thing in [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► the world and I feel like they're just [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► leaving this as a quote-unquote third [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► party opportunity which is Apple's kind [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► of codeword for fu and if you don't like [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► it fine have some other company deal [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► with it we're not dealing with it we [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► never drop our stuff ours never [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► scratches we don't put sand in our [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► pockets all our couches our magnetics or [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► devices stick to it I don't know so [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► that's a let's say really quickly thanks [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► to our first sponsor source bits com [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► they make amazing applications for iOS [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► Android Mac and the web they're at the [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► bleeding edge of emerging technologies [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► they have an awesome track record [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► turning ideas into tangible and visually [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► stunning applications for you whatever [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► your idea is so you can contact them and [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► though they'll get it done right the [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► first time and save you a bunch of money [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► source bits comm check them out [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► thanks someone in the chatroom is asking [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► if these if everything I'm complaining [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► about it really problems compared to non [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► apple products like I tried to say in [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► the beginning I'm not comparing Apple to [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► other manufacturers other manufactures [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► so beneath me my concern because they're [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► so awful I'm comparing Apple to an ideal [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► same thing apples comparing yourself to [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► apples not competing against other [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► manufacturers who's competing events its [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► own ideals and its own head of like [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► righteousness thing we can make it just [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► because Apple's probably you know miles [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► better than the other companies that are [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► out there on the PC side especially [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► making high [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► where that doesn't mean they can't [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► improve things and you mentioned Docs I [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► mean that's that's the whole problem [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► that people are always complaining about [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► is that every time a new new iPhone [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► comes out for example you got to throw [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► away all the other Docs that you've had [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► for years and adjust up to the to the [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► new one and for a while you would get [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► manufacturers doing these weird little [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► dock adapters that even though they [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► supposedly had one for each version of [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► the iPod or iPhone that came out they [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► never quite fit you know and that's [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► where we are now now that my wife and I [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► are finally allowed to have allowed by [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► Verizon to have iPhones again you know [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► that that's the situation she's in she's [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► like okay still have to get for this and [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► can't we use the dock that we were using [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► that worked perfectly for the iPad well [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► no we can't use that dock because it [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► doesn't exactly fit the iPhone and now [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► so do we get another talk do we get a [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► case that you can take the bottom part [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► off to put into the dock no we don't [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► really want to have to do that or maybe [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► we'll get that case anyway but then do [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► you really want to be removing half of [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► your case every time you want to charge [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► it up yeah it is it was really a hassle [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► I'm almost amazed that Apple did the [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► universal dock connector you know that [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► where they gave the little inserts yeah [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► that's that seems like a very uh Napa [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► like solution because it isn't elegant [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► it doesn't look nice but I guess at a [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► certain point people just get insane [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► that they're buying these $30 glorified [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► pieces of plastic with metal Connect [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► during them yeah I forgot about the [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► cases where you take off the bottom [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► talked about a way to damage your your [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► device if you're gonna slide something [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► on and off it every day everything's [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► gonna scratch do you do you have a case [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► usik do you have an iPhone 4 I don't [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► have an iPhone that's another show by [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► the way [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► no no iPhones at all [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► but I do have lots of iPod that's just [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► really that's a surprise [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► I'm you should have known that about me [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► yeah we could do a show about that maybe [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► we need just to do that show right now [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► and why I don't have an iPhone that'll [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► derail it that'll be real entirely save [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► it leave a that's at the top of my list [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► right now we got to talk about that next [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► week that's number one topic we get that [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► we zoom through the realize um I bit [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► before I ever said it's like you think [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► you know somebody like you knew I didn't [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► have an iPhone because I needed to be on [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► Verizon you knew that I talked about all [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► times right I totally closeted you're [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► like closeted not closeted everyone who [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► knows me knows like I guess you're [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► saying I don't know [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► no and that hurt I think I mention it to [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► hurt for but you just don't listen that [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► hurts - truth hurts but before before I [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► leave the durability topic yeah this is [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► something this whole durability thing is [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► like an article that I wanted to write [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► forever but never wrote because they're [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► just too whiny so but it works better in [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► a podcast but like I was going to write [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► this I guess before the iPhone came out [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► or whatever but it's been online for [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► ages this whole durability thing and the [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► thing about durability and size size and [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► durability are that like the two most [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► powerful tools a maker of any kind of [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► physical product has for encouraging [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► fanatical loyalty rabid crazy person [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► loyalty yeah [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► and now maybe you don't want that maybe [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► that's not important and certainly [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► doesn't translate into sales but say you [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► want to make something that you want to [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► have this tiny little core of insane [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► people who will never buy anything else [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► who love your stuff so much make your [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► thing incredibly durable or if it's [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► something you carry make it small and [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► light with laptops it's particularly [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► important small light and I'll give an [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► example like say well I don't know [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► enough about either one of these [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► products to be accurate but pretend that [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► I actually do and pretend this is [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► actually true the two examples are going [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► to give our snap on and that name of [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► that drill company that makes was really [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► powerful drills that I can't remember [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► people who like those things are insane [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► about them because they're just the [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► highest quality in the most [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► indestructible things you could possibly [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► imagine in in a past life John when I [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► was a teenager I used to work in an auto [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► mechanic and I one of the mechanics that [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► I used to know he didn't work there but [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► he worked elsewhere and I I was talking [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► to him and he was a snap-on guy and all [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► his tools are snap I like it like for [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► people who don't know about this like [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► that just a basic snap-on screwdriver is [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► gonna cost you know 50 to 100 bucks and [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► you'd say that's create and of course [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► this guy's got a whole tool chest fold [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► these things he's a lifelong mechanic [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► you know from came from the Air Force or [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► the the army and and out of a mechanic [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► his whole life and this is all he would [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► use and I would say well the guys at the [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► you know the place where I work they all [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► have you know they all just use a [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► craftsman there and if you know those [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► things break they give you you know they [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► give you a brand new one [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► - snap-on do and he just like Tammy said [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► they don't break yeah I mean that's kind [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► of more of a high-end kind of thing than [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► durability but durability is factored [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► into it it's the same type of thing [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► craftsman does have the guaranteed for [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► life but you break those things like [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► crazy I've broken Craftsman tools um but [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► but they are way more expensive but I'm [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► thinking more like in terms of laptops [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► remember how like the power broke 100 [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► had this crazy following yeah because [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► because it was small yeah it was really [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► small once you carry that as compared to [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► the gigantic you know floor tiles that [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► they had back then it was just you just [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► become crazy loyal to it and another [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► example is like I don't know the Sony [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► Walkman or any sort of like technology [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► product if you have one and you travel [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► with it for like five years and the [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► thing just keeps on ticking not a single [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► thing goes wrong no connector breaks you [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► know sand gets inside it doesn't matter [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► water gets on it you spill stomp on it's [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► just indestructible you become so [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► insanely loyal like especially that's a [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► brand whatever brand thing that is [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► you're like I'm never buying another one [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► of whatever these things are again [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► unless it's blah durability makes people [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► crazy [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► now Apple's products are way way way on [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► the bad side of durability especially [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► when it comes to preserving their [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► original like beautiful appearance [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► because they don't wear well size wise [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► apples doing pretty well the heirs is [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► getting some people people get a little [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► bit crazy about them because once you [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► carry an heir around you're like yes [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► this is the way it should always be but [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► durability wise it's kind of like having [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► a beautiful butterfly in your hand [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► you're like Oh put it in a case and [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► don't rub it on anything because they [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► don't they don't wear well they're not [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► like a guy who I read a lot of a blog [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► from what's-his-name koi bin I don't [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► know how that's your that's right yeah [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► cool if not but he's got subtraction [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► dot-com he's got a blog post there from [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► years ago that when I read I'm like yes [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► you are you are one of my people he was [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► talking about how cast iron pan as you [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► use it becomes more beautiful like the [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► aesthetic of a cast iron pan is not the [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► way it looks when it's brand new from [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► the factory but the way it looks after [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► it's been used for its intended purpose [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► for many years it becomes more beautiful [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► the article is entitled it is it is [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► entitled to designed deterioration and [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► it was written on [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► in July of 2007 yes that and that that [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► really resonated with me because I feel [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► the same way an apple you may say you [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► can't do that like cast-iron pan is is [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► going to look more beautiful as it gets [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► used and some people might say that an [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► iPod that scratched the hell looks more [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► beautiful but I think it's clearly not [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► the intent of Apple that its devices [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► look all scratched ahead otherwise they [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► would otherwise they would picture them [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► that way right whereas the manufacturer [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► of those cast-iron pans is probably has [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► some you know beauty shot of a cast-iron [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► pan that's a hundred years old that's [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► been beat the hell and that's their you [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► know that's the aesthetic they're going [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► for it saying by our products that look [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► like this eventually isn't it awesome [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► so apples aesthetic seems to be counter [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► to durability and I feel like they're [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► leaving a lot of room here that they [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► could they could get the same fanatical [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► loyalty they do now with like you know [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► they design people who say oh look how [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► beautiful it is in this beautiful [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► lighting and everything in the perfect [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► Photoshop mock-up like apples product [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► Rasika almost unreal I mean they must be [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► untouched in some way retouched in some [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► way but that's that's the look they're [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► going for never been touched by human [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► hands it conceived in a vacuum not a [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► dust speck on it and that's not how they [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► look in real life in real life when you [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► see somebody's got a three year old [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► MacBook especially the plastic ones over [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► there they do not look good really don't [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► wear well things things crack things [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► break and Apple has the opportunity to [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► say they'll take all that design [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► expertise and manufacturing companies [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► and make something that really is [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► indestructible and it wear as well again [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► I think they're doing better with the [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► with the phones I mean they're having [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► this steps with the glass stuff and [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► everything but they're thinking about it [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► you see they're trying to do it they [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► just haven't gotten there yet but on the [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► laptop so like it's a it's a perfect [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► uniform piece of aluminum I guess it's [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► kind of more scratch resistant than it [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► used to be but you use this thing for a [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► while the sharp edges are going to get [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► dings aluminum dents it scratches easily [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► there's a big glass component to it it's [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► not great oh that I I think I missed one [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► in the form of a function looking at my [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► outline no speaking of speaking a laptop [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► with a quick backtrack this one always [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► cracked me up and I actually wrote about [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► it in my original review of the first [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► aluminum MacBook and I'm sure everyone [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► has noticed this subconsciously if not [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► consciously but Apple arranges the ports [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► on the side of their laptops in size [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► order so if you have a Mac laptop now [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► turn it sideways I'm going to look right [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► now they're there range in size are [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► they've always been arranged in size [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► order [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► I never paid any attention to that but [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► but you're right on the side of this one [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► here it's you know it's it's Ethernet [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► USB mini DisplayPort and then the the [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► audio jacks and the little lock cans and [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► thing they get there basically it's [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► smaller the MagSafe actually threw it [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► off a little bit because MagSafe got it [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► was smaller than the old circle but it [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► used to be that they were strictly in [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► size order now they're more or less from [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► big and tall to to small and thin and [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► that looks nice but don't you feel like [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► when you're deciding what order the port [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► should be on the side of your computer [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► maybe function should have a seat at the [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► table [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► seems like saying I don't care what you [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► think is the most convenient one to have [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► forward or back I don't care if you [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► think you know the USB should be in [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► front of the headphone or the headphone [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► should be behind the USB you know I [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► don't care what your arguments are we're [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► doing its size order because that's what [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► Johnny ive wants and that bothers me [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► yeah it's neat in one regard but on the [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► other regard like when you're trying to [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► plug something in and things aren't the [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► way you think they should be like [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► there's no arrangement it's going to [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► please everybody but I just want [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► functionality to have seat at that table [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► come on I want someone to say I don't [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► care that the ethernet port is bigger [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► than the USB port the USB port should be [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► further back because when it's closed up [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► it's annoying if your mousing next to it [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► or you know what I mean yeah that's I'm [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► with you I'm with you all right well I [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► don't understand still there there's I [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► have other issues with the ports in [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► general but that that could be a whole [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► other show in terms of the the [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► durability of the durability of them up [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► and them not having covers those skips [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► or anything yes and and you know I've [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► never seen a good implementation of [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► covers I've just you know on PCs a lot [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► of the time they'll have these sort of [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► rubberized things which is something [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► Apple would never do but but the idea [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► that you have these ports that are [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► literally just gaping holes for things [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► to get in especially if you have a [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► three-year-old or something I mean it [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► just it it seems like if anybody could [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► come up with a better solution for this [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► that Apple would do well the solution [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► long term solution to this I think an [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► apple would probably agree is that [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► connectors are all too big and fidgety [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► to begin with as they get smaller and [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► better then this problem will start to [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► go away and you can start to have some [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► sort of reasonable rubber gasket Emeka [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► nism yeah this segues into my next thing [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► which is perhaps my biggest complaint [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► about recent Apple hardware [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► and I wouldn't call this a blind spot so [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► much as another willful choice that I [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► think is going to bite them in the butt [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► I bring this up and most people disagree [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► with me but we'll see how we go here and [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► it is the iPod dock connector which i [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► think is perhaps the worst hardware [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► technical design decision made by the [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► jobs to our Apple and no one seems to [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► agree with me both let me lay it out [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► yeah lay it out maybe you'll win me on [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► this one so so let me start off by just [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► saying the obvious advantages of the [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► dock connector that's what everyone says [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► oh no you don't understand a doctor is [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► genius you know it's it's proprietary [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► right so you get ecosystem lock-in so I [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► need any devices that you make that work [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► with the iPod only work with the iPod [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► because you know that's what the dock [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► connector does it only it doesn't [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► working on the other I positive music [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► players or phones or anything right and [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► it and you can use the proprietary [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► nature to enforce officially licensed [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► materials you know if you want to get [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► the design to work with iPod then you've [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► got to pay a license fee to make [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► anything with a dock connector on it and [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► if you don't make it officially licensed [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► thing Apple will screw you by putting a [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► different size resistor in the next line [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► of iPod so that your thing doesn't work [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► with it it will save this this device is [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► not designed to work with this [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► peripheral I don't know if you've ever [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► seen that message but I certainly have [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► and it pisses me off but from Apple's [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► perspective it's an advantage we've got [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► a locked-in ecosystem with people making [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► accessories only for us and we can [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► enforce you know with lawyers that they [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► don't make you know accessories without [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► paying us some you know piece of money [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► for everything that they sell or I don't [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► know what the license because maybe it's [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► a flappy but whatever it is that they're [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► in control and Apple loves control and [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► the other thing people say the dock [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► connector is that it's got lots of stuff [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► on there it's good analog video it's got [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► audio it's got the USB stuff going there [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► it's got more power again so your pins [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► yeah it's it's got it's pretty good what [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► it has the other thing is that you can [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► put more power over than you can't over [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► USB connector because it's not a USB [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► thing technically so you can no you know [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► overrun it if you connect like you know [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► those ones that have like a wall plug [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► and the other end dock connector USB the [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► USB standard is not involved anywhere in [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► that connection so you can do things you [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► can't do over USB [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► but this connector this thing that they [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► made flies in the face of what Apple of [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► all companies should know having been [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► around a long time that connectors in [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► the computer industry are going in one [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► direction for the entire life of the [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► computer [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► industry they're going from parallel to [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► serial and pretty much almost never the [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► reverse direction it used to be every [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► connector that connected our computer at [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► 800 pins and it was was you know three [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► inches wide and over time that the [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► connectors got a little bit less wide [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► but mostly because they made the pins [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► small over then the pins were breaking [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► so they made little contacts instead of [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► pins eventually on the on the PC every [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► one of these things that used to be a [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► gigantic parallel thing with lots of [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► wires going through it became serial [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► four wires you know power send and [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► receive USB came and sort of swamped [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► everything else it's it's just a serial [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► connection the wires are thinner you [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► know everything else hard drive scuzzy [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► cables used to be the size of my wrist [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► you couldn't even bend the frigging [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► things you know good scuzzy cables were [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► just ridiculous it's huge giant [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► connectors on the head I know if you [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► ever had the pleasure of dealing with [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► Africa with the standard it's called [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► like micro skies II nobody's got the [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► back of the Sun machine yeah yeah [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► zillions in like a one-inch area those [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► were those are really tough and God [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► forbid you know you're putting them in [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► you get that crunch sound yeah yeah and [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► and the worst part of it was that those [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► cables because there are so many wires [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► and then the cables were super super [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► thick but then they'd have this [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► relatively weak little connection point [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► and if if you if you were behind there [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► and you just bump one you'd hear that [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► sound and you'd know something terrible [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► just happened you'd be afraid that the [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► weight of the cables would snap off the [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► connector and it could yeah and like [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► that was the bad old days and now we [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► have serial Attached scuzzy firewire is [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► a sealer serial standard replacing [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► scuzzy reminder scuzzy back in the day [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► everything is going from parallel this [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► year and the reason it's obvious lots [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► and lots of wires is a pain in the butt [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► that means lots of connectors and the [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► connectors have to be small and there's [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► lots of room for stuff to go wrong that [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► little crunch that you hear that little [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► crunch sound that should be familiar to [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► people who are palm users from the old [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► days or anyone who's dealt with scuzzy [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► and everything that's not a good sound [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► that's the sound of a lack of durability [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► that's a sound of fragility and on top [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► of that the other reason you get rid of [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► parallel things is because they're wide [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► they limit the size of the device you [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► can plug them into the current iPod dock [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► connector is bigger than the iPod [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► shuffles that's why they gotta do this [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► stupid headphone thing they can't even [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► use their proprietary connector on their [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► little devices for a while they had the [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► you know the actual USB port on the iPod [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► shuffle which was nice but then they [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► said no we can do it all [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► through the headphone jack but then you [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► got to have a stupid adapter that has a [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► headphone jack on one end and a USB [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► thing on the other or the stupid little [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► dock it's just not good stuff and it [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► seems it seems like obvious like it's [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► not like they made the standard 1982 [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► when everyone was parallel they made it [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► after all the stuff had gone serial [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► after half you know they brought about [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► you know the USB revolution on the [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► desktop sort of by being the first ones [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► to say no no parallel connections just [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► USB with the iMac right and they're the [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► ones who were championing firewire for [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► you know it didn't quite work out the [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► way they wanted but they were saying [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► let's not use scuzzy let's use firewire [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► serial tiny little cables you know and [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► the thing is they really use to no [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► connectors when they made the firewire [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► connector [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► they copied the Gameboy connector I [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► don't know if you remember this but [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► remember the original game boy get his [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► headache had a link connector yes it [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► could connect to the other or someone [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► else right and it was it was smaller [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► than that the 30 pin connector that we [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► have but it was it was very similar now [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► they mention it it was similar to the [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► firewire connector that one said well [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► your Nintendo had done a lot of the [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► legwork here to make a connector that's [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► obviously safe enough for kids to use [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► plug on plug plug unplug constantly and [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► I won't break and sterile and it's a [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► serial connection let's make the fire [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► wire connector you know in the spirit of [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► that I don't know if it was based on it [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► patent wise or whatever certainly not [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► compatible but they look very similar [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► and the start was that they were [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► inspired by that connector so they [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► understood durability serial connectors [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► plug unplug really easily lots of times [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► none of those things applied to the iPod [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► dock connector is not durable you do not [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► want to plug in and unplug it lots of [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► times it's very fidgety they got rid of [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► the little remember back in the day they [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► set the little buttons you would push on [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► the side of the iPod dock connector yeah [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► to disengage the little hole right yeah [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► we still have some of those yeah that [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► they very quickly decided that would [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► beyond the ability of most people to [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► deal with well I always thought that it [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► was because at during that time period [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► you could not safely remove an iPod with [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► or without first ejecting it and I [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► remember at least in my mind maybe I've [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► got this wrong but it seemed like they [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► changed that the the hooks they removed [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► the hooks and little pinch thing from it [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► at the same time that the iPhone came [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► out because they knew the iPhone nobody [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► was gonna was going to do that but the [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► same time the iPhone was like a smarter [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► it could be unplugged and that sort of [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► ushered in the era of you sink and then [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► as soon as the sink is done the iPod or [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► device will say it is safe to remove as [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► opposed to having to eject manually but [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► maybe I've got my timeline wrong but I [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► feel like the timelines do line up but [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► I'm not sure what's causing effects [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► because the iPod Touch has the same [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► thing but for example right now the [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► shuffles you can't unplug you must [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► manually eject [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► they don't have dock connectors right [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► right it mostly comes down to a software [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► thing where they went from white list [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► black list now it's black list on on the [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► on the big iPod Touches and iPhones it's [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► blacklist [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► when we say this you can't pull it out [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► but every other time you can and that [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► was a good move but with the shuffles [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► it's still white lists you know manual [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► eject the thing before you can before [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► you can pull it out but but either way [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► like that's more of a software issue [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► because you know you can't yank out a [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► firewire hard drive when you're in the [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► middle of using it either it's not so [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► that's just a question of what kind of [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► guarantees do you have about you know [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► data it's in flight and stuff like that [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► you can go either way on that the [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► connector itself is just the the problem [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► here yeah and so I feel like the ship is [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► gonna the ship is going to say hell no I [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► what's the what's the expression the [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► chickens are gonna come home to roost on [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► the iPod dock connector sooner rather [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► than later [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► you know at a certain point they're [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► gonna make an iPhone or an iPod Touch [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► it's too thin for them to put the dock [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► connector in they're already getting [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► close if you look at the bottom [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► somewhere yes so you're saying they'll [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► have to move to something else like mini [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► USB yeah well that's what I was saying [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► before about the size of the laptops I [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► think Apple will not jump until the [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► standards start to catch up with them [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► and it may be the one that they're it's [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► currently a pipe dream for Apple is [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► probably light peak Intel's [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► fiber-optic thing where as you can [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► imagine you can make a fiber optic [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► connector really really small and it's [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► so fast that you can get away with just [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► a tiny little thing so well how do you [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► can't charge over light peak you can't [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► do this you know maybe Apple comes up [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► with another proprietary connector it's [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► not so much the proprietary nature of [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► the dock connector that's bad although [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► that is bad but the fact that it's [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► humongous wide crunchy thing with 30 [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► pins on they need to come up with a [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► serial interface the other thing is that [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► parallel interfaces allow you to have [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► fewer chips on the end decoding stuff [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► because you can just route the stuff [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► directly through to [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► no like a video signal can go directly [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► out the pens and blots of advantage to [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► the 30-pin but I think disadvantages are [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► very very quickly starting that way then [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► you really need a better connector than [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► that preferably a serial one now that [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► they have maybe room in there for our [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► fast serial interface to deal with the [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► data router it's kind of like what [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► you're talking about on the show right [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► before this about the cell phone network [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► going to entirely data where a voiceover [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► LTE instead of having a voice network [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► and a data network combine them make one [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► bill put your voice over over the data [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► network it's a stupid historical [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► distinction that's obviously going to go [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► away so let's just do it right also same [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► thing with all the other thing all the [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► other interfaces that come to the dock [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► connector with the exception of power [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► which you can't kind of get around every [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► other thing that used to be on a [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► separate pin turn it into a protocol [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► that you send over the really really [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► fast serial connection and make some [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► sort of hardware and software to decode [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► it it's where you're going to go [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► eventually anyway it's where all these [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► interfaces are going to go do it sooner [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► rather than later before you can't plug [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► that stupid thing into your iPods [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► anymore or your iphones not bad 102 [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► that's not bad we can keep going because [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► we start a little late what else do you [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► get to say you know when you were [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► talking about when you're talking about [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► older hardware and loyalty not [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► necessarily durability another one of [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► those machines that that people just [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► loved was the PowerBook g4 the 12 inch I [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► mean yeah the 12 inch yeah that was that [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► was a size thing where they felt like [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► yes how small can you make a laptop well [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► let's just shove the edges in until the [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► keyboard is practically hanging off the [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► edges and and it was pretty solid like [TS]