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I saw you I saw your you're getting you'd you dig in deep on the PHP stuff
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again I have and I you're gonna switch to nginx a stinking Imaginext
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yes I why I don't give nobody named your software somewhere it's ambiguous
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houseboats and genetics she's Christ this stupid spell that I i'm still like
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I'm one of those people we're even if the project owner or the project
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maintainer insist that they could get the correct pronunciation is a certain
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way if I think the pronunciation too stupid I won't use it so like like
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SQLite is one of those things where I think the the actual official
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pronunciation and I believe is is a sequel light or something or is it
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something weird that I thought was done so I did I don't use that same thing
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with like gift vs Jeff ICQ and I don't really care of the correct pronunciation
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is its gift was about to ask you how you pronounce Gia Lai pressing gift as well
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and and
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its I know that it stands for graphics interchange format so I feel like
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there's a reason to stand on that and it ends it ends up that the guy who
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invented it pronounces it Jeff and all the diff people say well if he invented
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and he calls it Jeff it must be Jeff and I say no it's gift I don't feel like
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this is like a George Lucas scenario I get some point that you got to override
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the creator we're not changing the format know right I'm not I haven't
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redefined what the gif interchange you know graphics format is I've been
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rendered it technically you know some kind of incompatibility I'm just telling
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you it should be pronounced gift exactly and at some point you have to say you
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know what I respect you for creating this thing or working at the company
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that created this thing but you're you're just wrong on this also Jeff
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already is it think its peanut butter is kind of a crappy mass-produce peanut
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butter but it is a very popular peanut butter whereas gif is out there for the
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taking there is no gift it's unambiguous if you if you say that this image format
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is gonna be pronounced gif than any time you hear judge if you know they're
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talking about peanut butter and not an image format I'll go even further and
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say hey look we've got a whole bunch of words in the English language that have
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G and it's sometimes hard G sometimes a soft G but if you gonna make up a new
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word with Ag why not go the unambiguous route and use the G in the Hartge format
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where there is no other letter that makes that sound and if you want the
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soft G sound use it jack and can also when you when you hear gift there's no
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I'm big on how its spelt exactly exactly exactly I tell you to get a gift find
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you don't even know what it is well how are you gonna write that down I don't
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maybe I'll add an extra half I don't know but at least you'll be in the
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ballpark
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or at the worst you had an extra I'm one of those guys who like I I know people
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say paying for the PNG format but I I stuck with PNG for a long time I think I
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might even still said I don't get a chance to see it very often so not
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positive on that but I still say PNG format for the ambiguity of reason I
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think I don't know I'm not quite sure I think ping ping involved so late in the
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game relative that I was already sort of working by myself most of the time by
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the time PNG became widely used whereas whereas with Jeff and see if that was
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what I was like collaborating working with people and so I had to say it'll I
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don't remember saying PNG let you like working a whole loan you can you not you
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can avoid saying everything out loud except when your podcast or speak
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somewhere in my head though I think of it as a PNG yeah it just seems right
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pincus already mean something computers and business people stole it to me
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something even worse I'll ping you later talked about our action items they still
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download they still so many things terrible speaking of business people
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Windows Live they're they're like phasing out that brand and their faith
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and their totally getting rid of the Hotmail brand saw something on Twitter
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last night I went to bed about that i truly a billion people on some double
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check I believe I know it was the largest webmail service for quite a long
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time even long after gmail has released I believe it might still be the largest
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or that Yahoo's
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up their gmail has always been third place there but especially like
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worldwide if you go past the USA heading gmail is more popular in the USA and
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worldwide it gets worse 44 Gmail but it's crazy like Hotmail was the first
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mass scale web and that name is now going to be totally gone but a Microsoft
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change the name of their online consumer service
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like every five years just like when to when did Windows Live start with like
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with Xbox Live after that who knows what was at seven or eight years ago they
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started that that's all gonna be gone and out of going to outlook.com and who
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knows what else that's not very interesting doesn't have their shit
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together in terms of getting acquisitions on brand like you know like
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the hot nothing if your gonna do that why not do it years ago why wait 10
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years I'm not really sure microsoft knows what theyre branding is you know
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they I think one of the problems they keep changing their own minds about it
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and like over about five years ago he started really maybe even more than that
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disorder really shutting windows in your face more like this
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adding the word windows to the names of all the programs that they made their
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run on Windows Windows Explorer Windows Internet Explorer and Windows Live like
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things at the same thing with office so now it's like Microsoft Office Word
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Microsoft Office Excel which is just kind of clumsy and I don't I don't
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really know what the goal there was except like to beat people over the head
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with the fact that its windows they are using an office at this is a part of but
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I think there's better ways to do that I think people are really care anymore
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clumsy yeah I've always interpreted that from the outside as being bomber bomber
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thanks that Windows winner has Windows makes a lot of money and Windows clear
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market winner
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and so we just take him insisting that everything is Windows whereas it doesn't
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even make any sense you know like I've said this before like 10 with this whole
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thing where they contribute to call Metro after they lost in a metro and
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they still call it you know when does but it doesn't even the whole thing with
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the new UI is that it doesn't even involve windows I mean little window
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lower lower case W windows I mean it was at least the name windows at least
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applied to the software originally it was hey here's the thing you put on your
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computer and everything runs in a rectangle that's called a window and you
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can have a lot to you know and everything's in these records
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overlapping rectangles called windows if they lost that long I'm even even back
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with Windows CE and then became Pocket PC and then Windows Mobile 2003 read
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that too but even that like it looked like windows but I think everything was
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full screen once I think so I think it was sort of like Windows it it looked
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like the windows Chrome but you couldn't couldn't make the windows over and they
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they crammed in there was another example of them overusing the windows
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brand in the windows theme of windows everywhere like they they crammed in the
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start menu and crammed in like the little minimize and close buttons in the
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title bars and so you really get looked like windows but it didn't really work
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that way and it works very well
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devices of that size and to me it makes even less sense for the online stuff
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yeah because when I mean obviously know there are thinking of the word windows
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in the lower case W way they haven't thought about that way for a very long
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time you know they they own network now it's like a weird extra superfluous
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level of higher tho branding lies where why not just emphasize Microsoft
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right there is the thing that you can get that everybody's heard of and it's
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already familiar and it you know you know it's it's a well-known popular
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brand I mean I know for years and years in a Microsoft Worldwide Brands survey
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was like top three ranked ahead of Apple and Google like up there with a Coke and
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something else I never understood why they didn't emphasize that more because
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you're right that they've been driving home the windows brand for four years so
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hard but I don't think it really sticks of people get you ask people you know do
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you have a Windows computer a bit more people would not really know what to say
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to that but if you ask them if they had a Microsoft computer actually people
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don't really care about the windows brand right so if you want something to
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parlay your new product your new initiative here's a new thing we're
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doing we're doing online services when I just stick with the company instead of
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you know going two dollars even having Microsoft Windows Live now you've got
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these two levels of branding higher everything's under Windows or Office
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took your hard drive and put everything in one folder at the root level
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hard cold shoulders right files right we'll have that one extra level of of
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higher ticket doesn't make any sense they always have this kind of like you
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kind of think something may be in the water up there and you'll like it just
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seems like Microsoft lives in a slightly different reality than the rest of us
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when it comes to things like branding and marketing of their stuff and it just
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seems like you can tell that they like in their world of Redmond and their
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various office campuses and everything like in their world where all those
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people live and hang out and talk to each other this all makes perfect sense
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and then when you when you get like some kind of a weird new commercial out of
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there or some kind of weird new product and they come up with the rest the road
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is kind of like
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what a little bit off you know it's like if you ever spent any time in in western
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Pennsylvania especially northwestern Pennsylvania in the Erie region almost
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everything there is just a little bit off their
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pittsburgh is a pretty nice place where western Pennsylvania Northwest I went to
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college there and there's been quite a lot of time there it's you know
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Microsoft could be headquartered there it's very much like the same kind of
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just a little bit off his friends a little off to the side I was joking with
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Amy the pittsburgh is a little bit likes the simpsons Springfield it's sort of
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sequestered half half part of all mostly part of modern North American pop
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culture but has its own stuff like and and the best example is the way that
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Springfield as Duff Beer they've got the Iron City Beer and pizza which you can
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buy nowhere else no one else carries Iron City Beer and in Pittsburgh it
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everywhere its Budweiser and Miller and Coors all rolled into one yet pittsburgh
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is is and I live every couple years I like Pittsburgh a lot it's it's a really
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nice city in a lot of ways but yeah there are some things about their lake
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or just kind of bizarre and but no one ever thinks it's bizarre to them it's
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you know it's just that's how things are and most places but I feel like
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pittsburgh has has more of a quirky personality than most cities do but
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that's true of a lot of things in Pennsylvania in general in pennsylvania
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is just kind of quirky
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so what's it tell me something weird about you people are what's going on up
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well first of all I think the whole place is made of cigarettes it's it's
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just like you can just if you're driving anywhere within 20 miles of year you'll
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smell cigarette smoke and the entire I mean I don't I don't know everyone there
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smokes and I mean it's it's kind of a depressing place like it's the economy
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of Erie has been pretty terrible for a pretty long time you know it's one of
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those post-industrial places just never really recovered but everything was
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outsourced the climate is awful it's way more snow than you'd expect based on its
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latitude and it's it's just really miserable and it's kind of in the middle
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of nowhere to so it has everything working against it but the people who
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live in Erie people who are from Erie and include a lot of my family in this
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actually left but people who live in Erie tend to be perfectly fine with it
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and and not not recognized or not care that it's such a depressing place and a
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lot of them have literally never been anywhere else like never left the Erie
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area and it just fine as long as they smoke constantly I guess that makes it
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ok so I don't I'm never going to cigarette guys wanna really know what it
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does to you but you know that that makes it ok to live in the area so you know
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whatever it takes
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sure they're fine people very nice I would be interested in seeing a map that
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shows like areas where smoking is still permitted in restaurants
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pennsylvania's the Big Red Dot
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you've heard james carville the former area guess is on TV now but clinton guy
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but his description of Pennsylvania I think it applies both politically and
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culturally but he said it
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Philadelphia on one side Pittsburgh on the other and Alabama in the middle
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that's that's pretty accurate as you know quite to win the state requires a
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run that way you know you don't just campaign in pennsylvania campaign very
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differently in Pittsburgh in Philly areas than you do in Harrisburg and a
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new york is very similar to mean everyone thinks of New Yorkers who is
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not from here from the side of the country everyone thinks of New York as
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being like the city but in fact it's it's extremely diverse state that is a
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very large state with lots of different political climates lots of different
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types of people not to protect the places yeah right like the state
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legislature New York is nothing like the city politics in the new york city and
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the state can't get anything done because the status of incredibly diverse
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that the state legislators can't agree on anything I think it's a little bit I
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think pennsylvania's non-urban areas though are more people than new york's I
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could be wrong or if if I'm not wrong if I am wrong about it being more like more
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split like I feel like New York is so big it's you know it's clearly way
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bigger population wise Dan Fillion Pittsburgh combined
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may not even be that the non-urban areas in Pennsylvania are more populous it's
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just that the urban area is in as populated enough to compensate the way
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the New York City Kan in New York like I feel like when we get a republican
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governor we get much more like a regular republican governor like you know just
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like typical republican governors throughout the country as opposed to New
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York where you get like a pataki whose you know a little bit more moderate same
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thing with new jersey with
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what's the name of that big guy Christie Christie chris Christie happen if that
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sounds like he's a comic book character chris Christie signed a bill that if if
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you're taking drugs with your pals and one of them as an overdose and you
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report it you can't you won't be you won't get price you know your immune
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from prosecution for having taken the drugs herself seems very sensible EADS
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price that wasn't already yeah that's the thing is they can believe that
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conservatives are giving the guy should for signing the bill that yes I can I
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love the guys explanation to use like look I don't want anybody breaking laws
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and anybody taking drugs but if you think it's more important to prosecute
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someone for taking drugs than saving somebody else's life you know we're
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gonna have a disagreement we don't get republicans like that anyway enough
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vacation and it was fun because because online backup your files and so it's
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whatever but the truth is if you're only backups are in your house you are at
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gonna grab anything that looks computer II including your hard drive yeah I
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you gonna be careful with what you back up online but if you have anything
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fashion that if you're in cable if you're an optical its FiOS you gotta do
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this I mean it's it's online backup is awesome I that I will say that you know
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that they didn't pay for you for me to say this but online backup is
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ridiculously awesome and I've tried a few of the options of my favorite by far
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something like that are coming out and be that it's one of the reasons behind
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good kid and he's doing really good work but that story had was a lot of words
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for very little information but I will say and I don't I'm not the type of
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person who get hung up on it but I started rolling my eyes at all of this
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they actually gave me credit both said Torreon
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percent sure that it would be ready even show at WWDC until late April like I
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it was you know where we sure that we're gonna have it in shape to show and then
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whatever they show in June you know it's such a high-profile event but the Kino
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keynote and until all the developers about it for the next few days so you
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six weeks from now five weeks and really soon and they don't have to give a
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developer beta but it's weird if they don't because of the guy right telling
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you about these new things like things that are different things that are new
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exactly and also you know they they have to have it ready a couple weeks ahead of
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the presentations they can make the presentation and make sure that's gonna
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somebody's always does it is because it's new and shiny now have to have the
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newest shiny thing they go ahead and install it on their regular day-to-day
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iPhone an hour after never let me forget you but your actual developer though and
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will never do it again and I reaction remember where I was when I gave you
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taxi going somewhere I thought but when we left the W I remember being in the I
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Hotel and this doesn't work but that's you know even given the fact that bug
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enos is excusable and understandable and that's the whole reason that debate it's
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not actually released it has to be there certain minimal functionality that has
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to be there and and and you know and almost all of the headlining features
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you know whatever those are going to be those have to be at least working it had
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to be done but they have to be you know damnable to some degree they have to be
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forward to 70
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don't really know how much is going to change since forestall been out because
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he has been out for that long and so we know it's it's going to be hard to to
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really look at seven and say well this was all joining I'd stuff like certainly
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it's going to be a lot of difference but it hasn't been long enough to see the
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full effects of what that major change in design leadership is going to lead to
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end and to patch Caskey and Tori honors credit specially patch Caskey has
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reported AllThingsD again I don't I'm not real good but anyway but a lot of
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the so important shown us because I've linked to an enduring fireball and I
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just presume that everybody out there who listens to this podcast listens to
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reach my site too but podcast he had some quotes from sources which was new
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likes people who obviously familiar with what they're doing with Iowa 7 talking
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you know they didn't there's no names but you know it's still better than the
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rest of us have like I you know I've talked to people but I've not talked to
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anybody who let me quote them and I have not talked to anybody who's actually
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told me anything specific about what what it actually looks like it's a deep
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forest Ali's impossible to pronounce worker to rate money somebody on Twitter
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favorite in it or something to somebody on Twitter us tonight said what's this I
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hear about iOS 7 to deforestation
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the wall street journal front-page scandal ahead tomorrow is gonna leave
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the station here next year times pulitzer yeah I don't know you know and
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it's hard I don't know I seriously AM I being coy I have not spoken to anybody
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who's actually seen iOS 7 what the direction they're going and his I don't
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know anybody who's actually seen it but I've heard is people who've seen people
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who have seen it and know about those those filters that they put over the
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funds security filters that you have to look be looking at exactly the right
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angle to see it and i also know that this is in fact the first time they've
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the building before it was released on their personal phones outside the campus
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did not have those filters right so obviously you know that that supports
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what we hear from everyone else which is basically that it's a big change for a
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greens and some of the coloring and some of the shading but it was a pretty minor
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overall difference in appearance and if you are just looking across the bar and
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saw someones phone on you wouldn't really noticed that was something really
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different right but in this case sounds like they're prepared for that
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particular how come and want to prevent that and you know so it's different
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he tweeted yesterday to me johnnie Ivan software I fear he might take the fun
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sentiment that's perfectly express that I've a bunch of people have sort of set
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whole flat thing and the anti ace is this all gonna be like no fun and i dont
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zuber hence I don't know you wanna Corning this even of Game Center I mean
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going to look like a craps table anymore
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was just really inexcusably bad because that was back from from the from various
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softly into the Steve Jobs era and it was pretty clear they were at Steves
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career that he did not really respect or understand the gaming market at all and
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casino like that's that's that's their interpretation of video games it's like
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deep misunderstanding or lack of respect of the gaming market right back that's
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that the new look of Iowa seven is completely sterile and no fun and
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unemotional and
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robotic I don't know but I I don't think so I'd be very surprised at that because
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you feel a certain way and I would say look no further than their product
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marketing writer commercials and stuff like the new one that the latest one is
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yeah and there's nothing silly about it like in the way that game center is
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silly or the leather in the calendar APIs is silly it it's not silly but it's
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definitely emotional and it's definitely there's playfulness and fun kids on
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skateboards there's it's not dead serious either right I feel like thats
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exactly what they've probably be going for it and less textured 3d depth look
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where the fun and playfulness and emotions should come from I mean if you
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if they're gonna give the default UI kit widgets new default styles like they
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then what that's going to affect our apps that use the default UI could wages
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probably shouldn't be looking to the default which is to provide a whole lot
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of personality to your application you know if you're going to want to add that
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emotion and personality or even if you're not the case never once has a lot
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of stuff and has designed up these days you probably should not be using stock
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defaults and if you look now like apps that use just the defaults don't show
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any emotion they you know they don't show any don't show much playfulness
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absolutes defaulted a look old and terrible
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just starting even without bike on swear if you do nothing
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your app automatically gets that fake U-shaped gloss top third and I know you
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can suppress that you know there's a way that you can you appeal is filed you can
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suppress that bite specifying something but you get that by default and most a
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lot of contact that and all their apples icons have that you know they do eat dog
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food on that if you look at it as far as it is not they've had a bit like
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messages and phone and stuff like that they have this lhasa credit across the
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you get it played in this system standard alert box that blue translucent
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thing that pops up late when you need to put your Apple lady password in or when
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it says hey you know you've got airplane mode on in this thing requires network
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access to want to go to settings or cancel that that you know everybody's
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seen that dialog box 10,000 times has that fake trend glossiness to it like
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that I can guarantee you that going away I gotta know if they're going to
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completely redesign the look at that dialogue but the glossiness is going
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away any what I would love as a developer is for half of what I just
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said to be wrong for you know what I would love would be enough of a refresh
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of the default components that you can start using them again like it right now
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if you release an app that uses default components it will it'll just because
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the style is kind of outdated now a lot of that still looks like 2007 and you
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know if you and I were six teams some of it they change some of the gloss to just
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like reading and stuff like that but there's still quite a lot of it there
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and you know I would love as a developer to have better defaults again or to make
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it easier to customize those default like right now if you want to pop up an
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alert dialog box like we were just talking about with a custom look on it
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you have to make you have to re-employment the entire alert dialog
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box yourself you have to complain all the behavior of it yourself and they've
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been slowly integrating more you know the UI appearance stuff so integrating
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more of that into the OS since I was five but they're still so many things
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that are so fixed in their default style that the most you can do maybe as 10 to
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them or replace the entire thing manually and you know if they if the new
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defaults are kinda less heavy-handed with with their books with their default
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looks default styles if their little bit lighter and simpler and if that's what
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people mean by flat you know if they're little bit lighter and simpler then
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it'll be better for everybody
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it'll be better for developers it'll be less old looking for users and any
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easier for designers to work with him I think we've gotten some hints already
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about the the direction they're going and maybe the magnitude of it so one of
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them is that the podcast at the Apple podcast app is called pop yes and the
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the new version that came out a couple weeks ago is not just like a bug fix
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release compared to the original version you know they got famously got rid of
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the the the real to reel tape recorder interface which was that doesn't counted
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and there's all sorts of arguments what counts as quote-unquote school market
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but that's that's the school market is anything
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I mean it actually looked like a 3d reel to reel tape recorder that's gone but
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there's other things in the change just ask that a changes in there that like
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the buttons have become a lot less 3d they don't look as much like physical
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buttons on her bra on tape recorder from 1965 there just you know they're just
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you know that a triangle foreplay and and you know I think for fast forward
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and stuff like that if you look if you google for it like you know the changes
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between them podcast app it's not radical it's not like unfamiliar it's
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not like if you are already familiar with the old podcast app that now you're
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lost in the new one it's you know just taking out some of the exuberance of the
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fake device notice I think it's you know and I super down on on on this
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commercialism but I do think though that it it taken to the level that it has
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been in turn the apps it's dishonest and a lot of times it's unnecessarily clunky
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that's that's a thing where it gets in the way like people people often cited
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find my friends and it's crazy letter thing as as being like the epitome of
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bad secure more visible I don't really think it was that bad it was just the
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skin and it didn't really interfere with how you use the app it was just that
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sort out the toolbars look but the podcast app that giant real real feeling
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that was actually interfere he was taking up too much space things like
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gestures didn't work that the speed knob thing didn't work well you'd expect it
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to and it was hard to use like that's when actually is a problem and it's
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dishonest here's a perfect reason why I used the word dishonest because if you
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have a real reel-to-reel tape or any sort of tape
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you have a real limiting factor in terms of seeking to go ahead like if you have
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an hour long podcast and you know that the part that you're interested in is
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like 45 minutes in with you and your at the beginning you've got to wait and
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hopefully you know in a fast forward can only go so fast it's gonna shred the
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tape right and you gotta wait to get there
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well there is no one of the great advantages of going digital with video
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and audio is we no longer have to do that right and so using that is the
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metaphor it's a false metaphor because you're all the limits that apply to
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actual to tape or to a strip of film if you wanted to do that and and have liked
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you know carry that analogy to a video player and have a film projector none of
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those it doesn't hold up right that's why that's always been my complaint with
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calculator app so I always prefer silver instead because they they were just
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mimic this old type of devices the old calculators that would have his one line
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of of digits and their billing no no real backspacing ability that you can't
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like it
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hundred-plus and I go back at that number you know there's all these stupid
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limitations of real calculators were carried on exactly directly to computer
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calculator perhaps to almost all of them are very few that have broken it and
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where a soldier is like rethinking the entire way
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rethinking what a calculator is because now its computer and you don't have to
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do all that old crap that used to in there and you don't have a limitation
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that used to have an excuse and gets in the way when it starts bringing in those
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invitations unnecessarily yeah that's a good example says the guy who still
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loves peek out but I agree with you disagree with you
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but that's for me the reason and and the main reason that I i i agree is that if
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I was doing something that would involve more than just one you know a couple of
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digits multiplier something like that I probably would use salt silver instead
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of precalc like for you know it's a neat middle ground between what what I might
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have in the old days gone to a spreadsheet for as opposed to exactly
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where that I just want to multiply two numbers together I'd still works
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perfectly for me to pick out to create a good example to I think of where Apple's
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going and why I don't think people who are worried about the fun or the
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playfulness being taken out of the OS I think it's needless is if you go in load
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apple.com and I think that these have been up for a couple of weeks out
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obviously anybody listening to this show you're somehow this you know I can't do
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it but if you go unload apple.com now in two different tabs wants to get the iPad
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hero layout and wants to get the iPhone hero
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you can see some of the apps third party apps that Apple is celebrating so on the
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iPad 1 they've got two outs I'm not sure what the one on the right is it some
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kind of photo app but it's mainly a big photo of a little girl playing in a
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tender and the balloon or something like that but it's you know it's there
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because it shows the color in the happy kid
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but if you look at the elementary school gym parachutes yes I'm like that but if
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you look at the UI around it though is no 3d depth to it looks good but it's
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like just a translucent overlay to put text and some now very it is flat but
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it's you know it's attractive and then the other app that they're showing
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they're showing letterpress which again is not really flat it actually does she
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and you could see it in the screenshot it does use depth when you play at I'll
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it pops off the screen
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three-dimensionally and you know so it's flat rice a flats not quite the right
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word but famously it it's relatively unadorned and minimal but I think
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anybody who's played letterpress would realize that it's it's a it's a very
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playful and fun
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interface it's you know it's perfectly appropriate for a game you know but in a
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way that is not at all like you know Game Center visually
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letterpress achieves a lot of fun and playfulness with with gesture response
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and animations and you know that everything is very tactile and it can be
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tactile without being without looking like a textured but you know something
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is certainly there are some design challenges there with with usability and
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getting people to figure out what's touchable what's draggable but adding
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water presses is a great example to show that it can be done in the in the flat
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aesthetic you know it can still be done and you know you don't have to make
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everything look like a 3d textured button for people know that they can't
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touch it and if you look at the iPhone hero its three apps they show one
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built-in photo app and again i think thats just to put a photo up there
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but you know not not a particularly school Norfolk design than the to third
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party apps I don't know what the photo one is you know that is the Tumblr app
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oh is it ok wow yeah so there you go I see I don't use that I didn't know and
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then there's the its own notes note-taking app called catch that I
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actually just checked out last week not entirely flat you know it's it's but it
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is more flat done a lot of apps you know it's flatter maybe that's the better way
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to describe like I think the trend it's not flat design it's not windows 8 style
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completely flat no textures no gradients it's just glad ur here and looking at
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the shot with which shows the issue is a full-screen photo in the in the camera
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roll but with the toolbars showing and and so it has these like semi
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transparent glossy toolbars overlaying this photo and to me that looks old like
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that like I think I think we've seen for a while as though is that the default UI
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kit styles are out of style and they've been holding on you know I was 6 did a
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slight tweak they've been holding onto them still a bit too long but even like
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if you go back to the iPad hero layout I think one of the reasons they didn't put
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anything there that uses default which its is because you like it on the iPad
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has always looked I didn't mean it's it's always been you know if if you use
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the default UI kit navigation bars on top or if you use the default alerts
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like it's always look like a scaled-up version of the iPhone is no it's never
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really come into its own if you use the built-in stuff and a lot of it just i
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think is ugly like 10 things I love most with doing the magazine's app was that I
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finally could could really replace the popover chrome is that the default pop
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over crime which has which has a border of a navy blue gradient thing you know
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framing something with the deep shadow instead of the middle of it that should
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always look like a hack and until iOS 6 you could not fully replace it I was 5
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you could change the current you're stuck with that weird inset shadow
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and six you could finally hide the shadow also and and so you can fuck like
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I think the popovers are some of the best looking for some of the best
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looking interface however I've ever done because well I tried to limit it to
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actually true and you know you're talking about the ones you get for the
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footnotes for any pop over I replaced every popular in iowa and in the
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magazine that for iPad in fact Michael with that was tonight show any default
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chrome ever and the only time I do show default chrome is logging in to
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Instapaper add some text inputs and an alert box if you do it wrong and then if
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you if you subscribed and I have to show the system's in-app purchase dialogues
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which looked completely out of place in the rest of the apt my goal there was
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like to make this look well-designed I'm going to have the entire at just be
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custom designed and that alone looks better than if he just uses the default
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probably look look horrible I think it's a great design in the abstract I love
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popovers as opposed to and I i've I think that the popover should be used a
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lot more in iPhone apps not just iPad apps like me too I wish I could there's
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there's tons of developers who have made their own pop over class for iPhone
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because there because Apple's popular class only works on iPad when I think
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that the iPhone maybe just because it's called phone I think maybe like back in
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2006 when they were cranking out and waiting on that initial design I think
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they got to cut up thinking about it as a phone and in traditional phones every
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time you got a new menu in new screen and everything
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so many things are an entire screen and you go in and do it they just look at
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like when you do talk a Bluetooth and you go to set a Bluetooth and you get an
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entire new screen just for a checkbox to toggle Bluetooth now I i do think it's
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important to have that checkbox bein nice big fat target like big 44 pixels
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three dimensions myspace some friendly target but you know why not just a
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popover that comes underneath it when you hit Bluetooth and settings that
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would you know give you the check box yes I think I think this might change in
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the future as phone screens get bigger yeah you know the iPhone 5 already gave
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us tons and tons more real estate and then we'll see you know my prediction is
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gonna have a bigger screen iPhone fairly soon
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you know we'll see if that actually happens or not I think I think that the
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hint that took it on the earnings call
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sounds like it might be happening soon and you know I think as we see a mean
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one of one of the great values of bigger screen devices including the crazy
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fabric that everybody hates except for all the people who keep piling them
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works as a lot of them one of the great things about them is that you can bring
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you have more space to bring in some of the conveniences of tablets and tablet
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interfaces and you know you aren't limited to just very very deep
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navigation stacks of full-screen things are a little phone screen but to your
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point from a guy do you think that the iPad has suffered all three years of its
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life from having default default krone that really originates with the 2007 I
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know yet the scales all wrong like like my I can't even look my the screenshots
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of my first version of Instapaper for iPad are unbearable for me to see
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because it was just blowing up the iPhone interface it was everything that
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you would never do today if you were if you were just heading into it ever I did
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everything wrong and that first version in half an iPad yet I just before anyone
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had iPads so it would be there on day one and as soon as it was out of
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realized oh man this is I got some work to do
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I had forgotten that you're the guy who did Instapaper it's been so long I
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totally forgot about that that the other weird thing about the evolution of iOS
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over the years because now you know it's been six years right this is six years
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that like you know whenever there has been a visual refresh in Mac OS 10 like
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them to all of a sudden looked exactly the same which is you know and in some
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pretty that was a pretty major change but nobody who was a Mac user was lost
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computer like that's to me is what I think they're going to do with iOS 7
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like I don't think that's the other concern i've seen out there that all my
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going to get an automatic upgrade Iowa seven and then they're gonna call me and
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they can't find anything right I don't think it's going to be that type of I
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don't think that's what they're working on at all I think it's like when they
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change the way the windows look
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costs 10 right right there still a red button up in a corner they used to close
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the window you know there's still an Apple menu up in the top left corner
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where you go to get to System Preferences stuff like that I think to
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you know you can look at the trend that they've been doing with OS 10 design but
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did not call anymore I still like all those tend to me it immediately it
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emphasizes the word mac whereas otherwise with OS and iOS iOS is it the
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middle of it and I it doesn't have to think about which one is wet right
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anyway with with Mac OS 10 makin' brackets there I think the trend has
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been very clearly towards less ornamentation the most part and and
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making the default chrome be less visually noisy and make it making it
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easier to ignore or forget about and iOS was started out being the complete
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opposite of that with all these very heavy-handed visual crime as all the
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defaults and so if you know as early as they move towards a more subtle default
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look then you know people who who make custom design apps are still gonna make
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very high personality designs that's not going to be a risk but it'll it'll just
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make everything else a little bit less saccharin
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yeah that's a good way to put it so I yeah I think we're on the same page in
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terms of the scope of this sort of redesigning we're gonna see I don't
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typically I i this is the last point on making this is I don't typically do that
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game where you read into Apple's invitations the design of the invitation
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and try to interpret that what it means about what they're going to announce
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but I know a lot of people have taken this whole flat you I you know that
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they're gonna get rid of this and then they look at the WWDC logo yeah and they
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say that must be the direction they're going and maybe there's something to
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that you know the one thing I notice with that it's a stack of these vibrant
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primary color gels yeah like app shapes right though that the the Round Rock the
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icons like if somebody cut out a Nikon shape out of lighting gels and stack
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them up right but they're not you know there's no gloss on but there is death
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right and there is translucency so I you know again I don't throw the baby out
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with the bathwater I don't think that you know I really really would be
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shocked if they went full on like like Windows 8 no depth chart me no i didnt i
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didnt i didnt notice that until now but now that you mention looking and on the
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corners unless I love you can see there is there are shadows between each layer
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so it does show death that this isn't just a pile of of lighting gels are
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better just flattened have no meaningful death this is a pile of suck it more
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likely depress tiles right because they know it's a stack of things that have
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some depth to them but the things themselves are flat interesting yeah it
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really is an indicator I'm stealing from our friend Brad Ellis craig used user
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interface designer now at Pacific but he is that line I've heard from him is
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if you're gonna have something stacked visually on the easy access in your UI
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and its gonna have a shadow it doesn't have to be four inches off the surface
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like just just a tiny little bit goes a long way whereas it you know i think
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that that original 2007 iOS designers everything if it's if it has a shadow
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it's like four inches of shadow right exactly now and six actually made that
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worse six made the shadow depth bigger on some things and even added shadows
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where there weren't any before like under under navigation bars above
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toolbars there's now a by default there's a shadow there and and before
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sex that wasn't there
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me take a take a break here in and thank our second sponsor our second sponsors
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very interesting company transporter company name the product and company is
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connected data and is a team you go to the website you can check it out they
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they tell you this is the team that originally made the Drobo and what
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they've done is they've they've the team that made the Drobo it's got together
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and they've made it things it's a device you buy it is called the transporter the
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physical device that you have in your hand but a hard-driving you connected to
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the Internet and you sign up with transporter and that drive is accessible
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any winner
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so and and they'll say this to its not like I'm mentioning Dropbox and it's
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it's own kuthe because you know sort of a computer competitor know they actually
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it's sort of like having your own private Dropbox they sent me one as a
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pet let me try it out and it works great
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it's it's very simple to setup you buy it you just plug it in
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you install the software on your computer and it's like you have your own
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little private Dropbox and so instead of cloud access being the access is
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everywhere and where is your stuff stored is I don't know it's out there
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the where is my stuff stored is right here in you know where it is and so
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there's a privacy layer and the cloud aspect that they've solved is punching a
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hole through your local network to the Internet at large so that you can access
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the stuff from anywhere and what you can also do is if you anybody else have you
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sign up for their service you don't have to buy the transporter you can just go
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to their website and sign up for an account once you're signed up I can
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share stuff with you from my transporter and you can access it on a folder by
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folder basis so I could just say just for this folder invite Marco and then
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you're in and you can you can use it if you have a transporter yourself then
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it'll also mirror it'll sync to your device the shared folder so that you'll
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be faster if you to access when you're at home because it'll be right there on
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your local network
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if you have two of them you can mirror them so that you could say have one at
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home and one at your office or one at your parents home or something like that
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and it'll mirror both of them and it's effectively like backing up the data
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that you have on one transporter will be exactly the same on the other one really
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really simple the big pitch is that it's private because they don't have access
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to any of your data your data is only stored on your actual transporter
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devices which are completely under your control so for some people that might
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just be personal privacy like stuff that you just don't want to put on Dropbox on
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some kind of cloud-based service because you don't trust it or you know for
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whatever reason for a lot of people though it's actually a legal type issue
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if its medical data and stuff like that and you have these days lost to comply
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with you have to have physical control of where the stuff is stored so you get
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cloud style access from anywhere over the web or on your Mac or Windows
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through the transporter software which you know put the folder right in your
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so you can see it on but you get the privacy of storing your data on your own
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hard drive so it's really really interesting works great
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they have apps for the iPad iPhone no surprise you can use it it's great for
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stuff like storing and sharing photos all sorts of stuff like that and you get
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to put your own hard drive in it so you can have as much data as you want this
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big hard drives you can put in it as much data as as you can store it's
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pretty cool very cool see what I like about this is that they they don't need
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to like act in denial that Dropbox exists exactly a lot of things are like
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you know you hear about something illegal water and I just use X you know
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and and access better or free or whatever and in this case I think this
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is like this is really concrete advantages over Dropbox and so they
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don't they don't have to like hope you don't hear about Dropbox that's exactly
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that's exactly why I brought it up let me tell you what to do to find out more
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here's the URL it filed transporter dot com slash talk file transporter dot com
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slash talk they have an overview video
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good video it's very short but it really you know it it gives you the gist of
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what the heck they're doing why you do it very very succinctly and they have
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three different configs to buy and the first is when I was sort of going on
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which is the zero terabyte model you supply any 2.5 inch drive at 299 bucks
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but you could also if you want just save the hassle you can buy a one terabyte or
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two terabyte version that will just ship with a drive already in it for
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299 or 399 respectively and the most important thing for listeners of this
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show you can save 10% by using the discount code talk ta el que all lower
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case after you select your model of transporter they want to buy so go there
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if you're interested you want to buy one but your cart and use the discount code
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talking you'll save 10% oh and the other thing I should definitely mentioned to
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is it's sort of an apple like model where their business model is selling
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used these transporters right you buy it you by the tank for 199 299 399 use the
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code save 10% talk but there is no charge for the service you buy the thing
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and then it just works and so if you want to share it like if you're sharing
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with clients or friends or something like that who don't have a transporter
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doesn't cost them any money to sign up for the service so there's no monthly
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fee just buy the device and then you get to use it
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my thanks to transporter first one tradition and see what else we got Winky
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Winky apt as creepy as it sounds yet it isn't what it sounds like week is is a
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nap somebody's developed for Google glass that lets you take photos by
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winking so you don't have to say okay glass take a photo you your eye and it
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starts snapping photos
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you know i i think you can I mean I think every generation as we get older
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looks at you know the new to the newest technology at some point in their lives
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and says I don't understand why anybody would want that that's going to be so
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problematic for our culture whatever and I and maybe this is my moment to do that
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but I just can't understand Google S III don't understand why anybody would want
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to wear them on their face all the time I don't understand why any
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right-thinking person would trip would trust Google with all that extra data on
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and I don't understand why Google thought it would be a good thing for
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society and everybody started wearing these things and then there's so many
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problems including the picture taken aspects of like you know that there's a
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problem enough for you kind of don't know if someone's paying attention to
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you even for looking right at you sort of end the secondary problem of like now
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it's even easier than it was and it's we've already made it pretty easy as a
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society to take photos and videos
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covertly with our phones but now it's Google is trying to bring it even more
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mainstream in a way that is even easier to take photos or videos of people
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without their knowledge and and that's why I just think that's kind of creepy
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in so many ways plus I mean you look ridiculous thing on but besides that I
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think it's just it is kinda socially Canada gross I want to write about this
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I have to get out of my system is sort of why I'm so down on Google class and
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I'm not against heads-up displays in general right and I dot denying that
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there's a bright future and that you know that amazing stuff is going to
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happen in the next decade or two along the lines that this it's this particular
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products in the current configuration that I just think is absurd
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right and it gets back on if you listen to last week's show but like most
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pointed out I wrote back in 2003 about the quote-unquote iPhone
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and that I said it was like a New York Times story thats that claimed in 2003
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that Apple was working on a I think that they call the iPhone that ran a stripped
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down version of Mac OS 10 involved apps like Sherlock and stuff like that and
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then what they said was you know the article made it seem as though it was
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something that might come out like next year and it wasn't true but that's
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impossible there is no technology that would do it and I was right there was no
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nomads lame right but it wasn't I didn't say that Apple would never be able to
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make a device that would run a stripped down version of OS 10 and you know a
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cell phone or something like that and that would have suffered like that what
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I was saying was impossible was that in 2003 that was impossible and that they
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weren't working on anything like that and in fact they weren't right it was
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they were working on a tablet type thing like that thing that eventually became
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the iPhone was in some level of work but there was more like a had the idea that
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was like a tablet the story they said wasn't true in 2003 wasn't true it does
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seem funny in hindsight though because that is actually what they ended up
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doing for years later it's the same thing with Google glass where I'm not
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denying that there won't be cool and maybe even possibly useful wearable had
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said type things eventually but this one is not this one is is is it is
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ridiculous
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it looks stupid it's a medical device doesn't like some kind of like enhanced
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hearing and visual aid but not in a text not in the tech way in a medical
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assistance way or something that you might have to wear for certain jobs you
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know inspecting a plane at the airport runway wearing when these things of the
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clipboard and you're right and and and i cant even see that that there are used
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to especially the camera part that if you even if you look stupid I could see
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it how it for certain people it might be useful to have a stupid looking camera
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that we're like this over your eyes
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so that you can get first-person perspective while you do something where
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you want your hands free right like say you can make like the one that Google
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even made like if you're gonna take a video I you jump out of an airplane with
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a parachute
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well i i dont you don't have a camera in your hands that's for sure and you you
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you you can look at aspects of this and you can say okay well the technology
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will get better in area acts so you know that's not going to be a problem for law
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and I think you can look at especially things like size and battery life
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because I okay well those will get better over time it will get smaller it
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will look sleeker the battery life will get longer but I think I think the
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social aspects of it are the big long-term what the fuck moment and you
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know I guess you know and again I'm I'm right there with you or maybe it's just
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that we're tooled getting
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gently and we just you know stuck in the mud and where you know already
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old-fashioned cause I could see how if you know you went back to the eighties
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and told somebody about how all of us have little pocket computers with 34
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of everybody you know always looking at these computer screens
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phone while we're at the table together but if I'm out with one person and that
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person gets up I usually take out my phone
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yeah I do that and I can see how that's you know there's like a slope along the
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lines of how far away is that from having your computer always in your
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same continue but to me that goes over this border that to me is just
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ridiculous and you know we don't know how that's going to change over time
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your show notes but there is a free video where this guy was talking about I
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his pictures of his junk to people and they got out he was congressional
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representative from new york new york city so there is a big deal about that
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continue to somewhere I gotta find it I think it's Dan Savage but I'm not
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positive on that and and he basically said like you know yet today our
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if it does happen then you're like well you know that's pictures of someone's
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junk you know i i dont know you know try to deny it and at some point the tide
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will change socially because everyone's having picture of their junk all over
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the place especially if your honor and sending it all over the place I'm so
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glad to know that this did not exist when I was younger
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and eventually you know a politician can get up there and say yeah that's my job
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eventually the times will shift in in social tolerance of certain things that
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that it will become normal and so I think with with my concerns with Google
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glass of like it kind of sucks when you when you can't tell someone's looking at
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a screen overlaid over your face or looking at you and it kind of sucks if
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everyone can be taking pictures or video all the time and you can you can't even
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tell if they're doing it or not you know all those things make me nervous but
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having a cell phone in my pocket that can take a quick picture video makes
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other people nervous especially older people into in other contexts
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you know it's like everything we're doing is adding more things that make
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people uncomfortable who are older or who are more conservative and we keep
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pushing that boundary back in all these other ways we've been pushing it back
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for four decades so maybe this is just the next step of that but I don't know I
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i this this to me seems like a cross a line that that shouldn't be crossed and
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why people are exactly the thing about camera phones yeah probably you know I
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see my difference but that is and what's his name I don't know his name is the
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guy who writes the OS news site
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Tom hole where do Thoi you do you know who I'm talking about another site
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Twitter reply to me yesterday after I had linked to the winky app and and and
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my my only comment was fake quote from a hypothetical glass users ok glass led to
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be creepy
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and his Twitter thing was oh come on like because he's a he's have huge glass
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enthusiasts he's super excited about class and and thinks that I am being
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either like a pollyanna or some combination of a prude and a if it isn't
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from Apple it's crap zealot which the Pollyanna part the approved part maybe
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is true that's what we're talking about the apartment I would be so depressed if
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Apple came out with Google Glasses exactly like this I would think I would
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then thats in some sense it would be great then I got talked about this
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before because man I nothing would be better for my reputation than for me to
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have something to really dig into it just ripped apart on you know I don't do
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it because they haven't released anything that i think is terrible you
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know but they haven't even smaller for the iPod hi-fi was a massive flock but
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who cares it was a speaker dock you know one it wasn't like a big PR problem for
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them to speaker dock that was actually a pretty decent speaker dock just too
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expensive but the difference and the difference in his reply me was so come
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on like nobody's taken as a surreptitious picture before
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like it's not happening all the time now and that is true people do sneak photos
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you know and and you can be creepy by taking photos with your phone now but
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there's a physical there are physical limitations to it right
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like you you you have to be sly about it so yes somebody could take a picture of
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you you know if you know some place where you don't want to be photographed
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in you don't know it you may not notice them doing it you know
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presumably you know especially if the flashes off on the computer obvious are
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on the camera obviously but they have to be still have to work at it it's not
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strapped to their forehead always constantly like I don't find it so
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uncomfortable if I went out to dinner and somebody just had their phone up you
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know in a position that looked like it was filming a video of the entire meal
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and I don't know if they're exactly I don't know if they're doing it or not
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but they're holding it up the entire time will tell me that's what it'd be
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like going out to dinner with scoville with his glasses on glass on I guess I
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have to say I think also it's worth considering if you are a user of Google
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glass you know do you want Google getting all the information from your
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face all the time right
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you know do you want Google to know that you can look at the waitresses but and
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what are they gonna do with that information like it there in advertising
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there's people people think Google just does some of the stuff for the fun of
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doing it and and some of the projects do seem like they're just kind of
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engineering for fun although since Google+ come out on the company's focus
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has been shifted you could help us be lessened in the company but at the end
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of the day they gotta make this a business somehow to make it work with
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the rest of their businesses and the way they're going to do that in all
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likelihood is high time this an extremely deeply with everything they
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know about you which is their business their business is to know as much as
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they possibly can about you so they can charge more for the ads shown to you and
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so when you look at it from that perspective
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it just feels kind of dirty like we do I really wanted to go to know like every
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minute of every day of my life what I'm doing
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you know it's bad enough that I'm carrying a phone in my pocket right now
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if you have an Android phone
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they can already do quite a lot of that stuff today but it's it's different when
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it's your face you know when your phone is this thing you can kind of put away
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and and technology is such that phones can't really afford the battery problems
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of keeping GPS on all the time so they only start like live tracking you
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precisely yet but who knows in the future like you know there was a thing
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this week with the Google now a burning battery time and that's exactly what I
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was perfectly into the next thing well and there's a thing that there's a I'm
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not even sure I completely understand the why of it like and the way that
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knowing your location
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helps Google's Sergey you ads and stuff better and spite of it obviously is not
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even about advertising are creeping in really is an and you know this is why I
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think it is so insidious because there's obviously usefulness to it where you
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know in theory if they know where you are and you say hey I'm hungry and I'm
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in the mood for pizza but I don't you know this is not familiar with this
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neighborhood it's useful if they know where you are and can say you know
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there's a well-regarded Pizza Place two blocks over to the left right and you
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know and if they know even more about you and they know and you've you have
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you know
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Google+ the pizza restaurants that you've been to in the past and said I
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like this one and I don't like that one that they can if they have millions of
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users that they can correlate all of that and say given the type of pizza
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that you've said you've liked before in the ones you've said you don't like this
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is almost certainly a pizza place that you're going to like and that if it's
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accurate and it works thats that is I do understand that is useful right that's
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the whole program Google argument right well as useful sometimes you know it's
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it's useful when you have purchasing intent and and so if you think about
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these these examples and which people you know and that makes sense you think
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the examples of where should I go eat pizza right now you know you have
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purchasing intent and that's what this is Seth Godin to talk about this a while
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ago as a video of it online somewhere but there is you know that's what Google
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and our advertising model excels at and that's why Facebook's advertising model
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advertising model excels at that because it's a really easy to sell ads against
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purchasing intent if you're searching for something like what kind of coffee
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maker 222 get from my office then that's a great place for not only Google to
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recommend things to you based on our audit has from you know Yelper user
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reviews or whatever but they can also then integrate ads really well into that
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in a way that the ads are not trying to distract you the ads are actually
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possibly helpful to you and same thing with you know that's why that's why
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local search matter so much to them because it's the same kind of thing
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where if you are looking for a pizza place around you that's a great time for
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Google to not only use of this data they know about you to give you better
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recommendations but then for them through them to be able to go and sell
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that to the advertisers them to go to that local advertising for local
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advertisers to be able to say I'll pay you a dollar fifty to put my ad on top
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of a box around it and so it all those contexts that's great it's great for
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Google and actually is kind of helpful for the user at those times the problem
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is all the other times when you don't have a purchasing intent or when you're
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doing something that is not commercial nature or that you don't think of US
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commercial in nature
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and that kind of surprise you with either an ad that you weren't expecting
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or a surprise you with knowledge that they have that you didn't think they had
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about you are you did or what you intend and that's when it that's when it gets
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creepy yeah and you know and amy has run into this recently where she's noticed
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and she's you know caught my attention to it with her computer where it like
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she should have searched for and who knows even if it's Google you know I
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don't even know my beats or some other similar type aggregate collection of
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stuff we're like she's searched for product acts like four days ago and now
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she's on this other website that isn't even related to that product and here
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are ads for exactly what she was searching for four days ago right and
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not like a general audience they maybe it was definitely not a coincidence
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right and it the the result is not all yeah I should buy that the result is I
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am creeped out and I'm gonna tell my husband and and you know this is
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freaking me out right it is creepy and that to me is where I see that Google
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and you know I really do think Google has has shifted over the second half of
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its life like in the first couple of years of its life is it just seemed
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amazing and helpful and in the second half of its life and especially i think
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even I think Eric Schmidt is a pretty creepy guy and I think it's really
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accelerated those since Larry Page took over as CEO it really accelerates its
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Facebook really you know since becoming obvious threat to many of their core
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market yeah you know I think that really is the guy I think you know again
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correlation is not causation but boy the correlation is very strong that when
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Facebook got big and if and when it became clear that Facebook was not the
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next myspace but was going to be a stand-alone thing and you know they're
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not gonna be acquired their Dave reach the critical mass where there were gonna
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IPO which was far in advance of you know years in advance of when they actually
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did IPO like it was a long you know there are a couple of years there where
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it was clear that Facebook was going to eventually IPO and nope you know Google
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wasn't gonna have a chance to buy facebook that's when they it does seem
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like that they really had like a freak out and have really gotten creepy about
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the personal stuff and any end and so it all goes back to the location where I
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mean not all but in terms of what we're talking about here is that they really
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wanna know where you are like all day every day and I find that in the context
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of everything else Google is doing very very disturbing and it it I think it's
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actually the route I think you know in terms of their desire to know where you
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i think is the entire reason that Apple maps exists
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oh yeah definitely you know and I feel like everybody has this why and you know
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and and it's held up as you know that criticism of Tim Cook as a as a CEO and
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that Apple you know it's it's all of this story is
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these you know hey Apple has had a rough patch Apple's doing poorly inevitably
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they bring up Apple maps and that Apple maps is a disaster should show and it's
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you know terrible and inexplicable what's not inexplicable I think it's
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that Google and some of this actually knows that google 22 up the offering in
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terms of the getting the vector maps instead of the bitmap map tiles and turn
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by turn direction for driving which was sorely missing from from iOS that they
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wanted they were you know their deal was that if you want that from us you've
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gotta let us let people sign in to their Google account and you know and that'll
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let us track their location through their iPhone through the built-in maps
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functionality the ties to our maps and Apple was not willing to budge on it and
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so they were so unwilling to budge on that in terms of the privacy
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implications that they went ahead and shipped a map service that they you know
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and I know that I think it's probably a little bit worse than expected in terms
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of the reaction but I think that they knew that it wasn't gonna be it wasn't
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going to be as good as Google Maps and they did it anyway for the privacy
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reasons I don't for some reason Apple it's very very clear to everyone where
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they make their money so its most people don't ascribe weird motivations to
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Apple's business decisions usually just well okay they want to charge more for
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that or they want you to buy this thing but yet with Google it seems like most
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people just kind of given in the past especially especially nerves cuz you
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know that Google did have a very long period where they really did things that
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really appealed to people like us you know that the first half of the life
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they really really appeal to people like us because they were an energy company
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doing dirty things and with seemingly little care about making money because
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they own the online ad business pretty early on in their lifetime
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especially the search and business at least not not display ads for a while
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but they own the search and business pretty quickly and they were making tons
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of money
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and so it was easy to stay in that kind of small geeky engineering German spirit
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and keep making things that endeared them to us but now that spirits been
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gone for a couple of years at least probably longer than that certainly it
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that's the spirit is certainly not there at the moment and and I think you can
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to make a lot of these moves but so many people in our circles or so many nerds
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like us still kinda give them a pass on their motivations and why they are doing
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things and where the money is going to come from it's not that they look at
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what Google is doing and say I'm ok with that case that they don't even think
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about in their mind like wait so what what's the motivation for doing this you
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know what's in it for them here how are they going to pay for this
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etcetera and so Google can can be doing some pretty creepy or questionable
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things and get relatively little skepticism or relatively little scrutiny
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yeah in a way that like Facebook doesn't because Facebook has somehow like the
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initial first impression of them was that there were counted do these sort of
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things right and I think you know to be fair I think face because it's pretty
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creepy overall as well and and what you know Facebook one of the design
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challenges faced because I always had and you you can see this failed a few
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times on this is that Facebook and Google the same way date they both have
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enough data on you that if you knew what they knew you'd be creeped out and so
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they always have to you cannot hide what they know or use restraint in designing
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new features a design the interface that things are designing how they reveal
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what they know about you to avoid creeping you out with data they already
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have or or inferences they can already draw about you and like I i heard
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have or or inferences they can already draw about you and like I i heard
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something like you know Facebook can tell when you're on a break up with your
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girlfriend like before you can you know there's like all sorts of things like
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that there's like Facebook knows a lot about you but it in the recent history
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rubles been kinda pushing into social so hard I think we've seen a pretty clear
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pattern that while they both have enough data on you to appear quite creepy if
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they do it wrong
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Facebook is generally a little bit better at avoiding that problem faced
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because a little bit better at designing in such a way that doesn't feel as
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creepy as as it really is a Google is not quite get that you had a dream where
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they really want to know where you are they really totally using Google Apps
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the new Google app now so it's not it's not called the features called Google
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now but the new feature on iOS is just in the Google app it's just in the
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regular which originally was just a way to do Google searches and but you open
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it up and if your knots or even if you are signed in
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there's a big button at the bottom that says location services off like and they
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don't let you use I think some of them a lot of the now features unless you turn
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location on and I realized and and it seems to me and some of them obviously
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require location but I think the thing that's weird though is that it by
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default if you turn location on its not just for this get back to your thing
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about Lake Seth Godin think about when you're in the mood to buy something yet
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like it's like person tent or a permission-based marketing right it's
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it's it's not just when you're asking for something you know and if I'm asking
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for pizza now will now we need your location to see where you are and will
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give you the recommendation because that's what you're looking for is that
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they want to know where you are all throughout the day where you've been
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right and that to me is the difference that's like the line that I i very
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comfortable with and so I don't have it
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location turned on in my Google App you know there's a huge difference between
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granting them permission to your location right now when I'm asking where
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can I get coffee vs granting them permission to track me throughout the
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day and one thing to that you know iOS is always kind of felt like a safe place
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to experiment with new apps because after so heavily sand box and restricted
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with what they can do and and you know when they can run even its iOS is lack
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of of fully permission to background modes for apps where you can run in the
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background indefinitely doing anything you want I was lack of that and all the
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heavy sandboxing makes it ok as a consumer to say you know what I can try
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this Google app even though I don't really love Google you know that much I
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don't trust them to to know everything about me I can launch this happen when
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I'm done with it I can shutdown that's it I'm good and you aren't you aren't
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surprised a month later to learn that it's been running in the background for
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a month or knows everything everywhere have gone for the last month right you
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know I was by design kind of limits that but location services are an exception
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and and I hope everything you want to recap the well you can ok so basically
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comes out everyone's reporting massive drops of battery life when it's on and
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Google issued a statement basically saying we don't constantly monitor the
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location so therefore you're all wrong and batteries finally tested but it
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seems pretty universal from almost everybody using it that it is indeed
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doing bad things to battery life and I think it's important from you the
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developer clarify what is out there doing because when you before you do
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that this is just reiterate that I'm always a little suspicious of when when
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software updates come out and there's vague arguments that hey this you know
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the iOS 4.1 point whatever is killing my battery
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and it wasn't before and a lot of times when this happens it just seems like
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whenever any new software comes out somebody has something wrong with the
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battery and false you know they they is a correlation causation thing when I
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just upgraded to this thing so that must be the reason and it doesn't seem to be
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a lot of any kind of cause and effect proof whereas with this Google now thing
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it's a lot of people telling the exact same story which is that I upgraded to
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the new Google app my battery life went to complete shed I uninstalled the
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Google app and my battery life going back to expect and Google and then we're
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not as the Google is really
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adamantly saying no not us and I can't help but think that it's a effectively a
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please don't turn off location right so here's here's what I'm thinking here I
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don't I haven't used the app so I can confirm this and we'll have a chat room
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so they can confirm either and you don't have a location services you can compare
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me there are no more research on this beforehand but oh well there are three
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different ways you can track location and iOS with very very different battery
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applications one of them is full on GPS tracking we are continuously track my
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location so you pretty much only need that if you do let me turn by turn
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navigation app or something like that that destroys the battery as you have
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the GPS radio running constantly itself is a huge battery battery drain + your
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app is running constantly so any processing you're doing you know if the
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user has something else in the foreground you have two apps being fully
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active so that that destroyed better life as anyone knows if you've ever done
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to my turn even with Apple's own stuff you know
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constant GPS fixes are very very expensive for the battery life and
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Google says they're not doing that great that's fine I believe them they don't
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need to be doing that but on the other end there's the geofence which is what I
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did it with Instapaper to do the background update when you cross a
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certain threshold news dot me actually invented that it's funny actually the
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guy who invented a new date me is now working on Instapaper app it works I
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stole the speech of moment and now he now it's great it's like if you steal
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something
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from somebody and you keep it and then you get married to that person when I
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would expect the joint property exactly so anyway so it's a feature where you
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can end and their various reminders apps have this too including apples and
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almost every to-do list has this kind of thing where you can you can say wake up
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my app when you enter or leave this particular set of radii and points so
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you can see like you know when it when I leave my house by more than 80 metres
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wake up my app and so it kind of looks like a border crossing things like
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sometimes I don't call but it's it's a very low-power way to monitor for
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locations and and the phone and the radios are optimized to make this very
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very low power and I believe it only is the radios and doesn't even turn on the
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GPS chip at all
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yeah it's it's a loose enough offense where I can for example can't use it to
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remind me to buy stuff at the supermarket because the supermarket is
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about two and a half block from my house and then goes off it goes off at home
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yes two and a half blocks in his way to class so I can use any critically if
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you're using the geofence API you can only monitor to 10 locations at once so
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you can't just say you know notify wake up my apt free to do whatever I want
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every time you moved 10 feet you know that's that's different so there is not
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an NGO fencing doesn't have much of an effect on battery life because it's not
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really keeping the radios on more than they otherwise would be on if you have
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cell service so it's really it's almost free and if you have your fencing active
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in an app you'll see the location services arrow just as an outline in the
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status bar will be the solid white it'll be just the outline of white around it
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indicates something is using geo fencing but the battery life for that is pretty
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much free because again you like you are waking up at often and you aren't using
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any you are using GPS radio no radios are more active than they otherwise
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would have been but
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what Google's probably doing with the Google now app is the significant
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location change service which I believe it uses the same radios and the same
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method of monitoring location as Gio fencing so it's not using the GPS chip
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so that when they say we are not consumers you track your location that
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is technically correct but if what they're doing with that information is
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waking up the app every time you move like a hundred feet if the abbot woken
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up on every single one of their doing some processing and possibly sending
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your new approximate location to a server then that's keeping other parts
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of the phone
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lead busier than they otherwise would have been even if it's not using the GPS
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chip it is at least using data radios its transmitting things including the
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CPU so that is probably to call if I had to guess having not run this by myself I
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would guess they're doing that service which they can say technically is not
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continuous tracking by Apple's definition it's not continuous tracking
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its not using the GPS chip but if they're waking up the app constantly
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every time you go anywhere it's gonna destroy your battery life no question I
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wonder too then if it therefore it's also true that it doesn't destroy the
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battery for everybody
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which i think if that were the case is shipped it it's maybe its people
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affecting people who who move a bit you know he said 150 200 feet but like me
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who wakes up makes a pot of coffee in sits down in a chair for eight hours
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maybe wouldn't trigger it but somebody like a college student who's going
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between buildings all day or somebody who works at work in a big office
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officers can be hundreds of feet long you know it's it's pretty easy to
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trigger trigger changes with just walking on your own office at exactly
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going to meetings are going you know walking to the restaurant
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going to the review go to eat lunch etc etc
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exactly right you might be gauging this you know once an hour or something like
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that and driving the phone and and if that is what they're doing that I think
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it is a little bit disingenuous to say we are tracking application constantly
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right or imagine imagine what would happen in that case on a commute right
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if you have an hour drive to work
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yeah that's basically running constantly and if they are submitting that to a
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server or saving that information in any way every time they get woken up for a
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quote significant location change then I would say they are continuously tracking
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you just not very precisely but its precise enough to get to know what
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neighborhood you're in and it'll tell them that they will tell them you know
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what what restaurants and and subways you're near you know that it's a it's
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precisely for that kind of use its you know within a few hundred feet as
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opposed to whatever GPS's like 3 feet you know it's it's very very percentage
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for advertising purposes and the bottom line is that as this Abbas evolve the
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Google app and Google now is just with the locations of his latest part of the
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app is almost all of the new stuff requires you to be signed into your
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Google account even if you're not even you know and you can sign in and be
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signed in and not and and do the location preference separately although
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in my opinion they actually they they kind of very the preference for the
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location stuff in a sort of Facebook EADS sort of way of making it not that
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obvious where you go and language surrounding it is slightly obtuse in my
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opinion which I don't think it's a coincidence I get his heart it is really
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hard to do this box to disable location-based privacy settings yes or
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cancelled gas are ok it's a little like that but boy that the whole thing if
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you're not signed in
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that really doesn't do it anywhere near as much work as you know when they first
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came out it was just like google.com where
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r being signed in London remember stuff but for the most part you could do the
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whole thing without being sign that I don't i I don't even keep a Google
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account logged in on my main browser like I have so far as my main browser
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and I have grown as like my my ghetto and Chrome has flash and a Google
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account sign in or anything I need that requires those things like to switch
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over to come forward most my brother I'm doing not there and just because you
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know and I know Google knows who I am attracting anyway you know it gives me a
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little bit of peace of mind cuz it just seems like overtime Google just wants
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more and more and more from us and you're right that they're they're
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bringing the Google account
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in a more heavy-handed way into more of their stuff and they really want you to
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be signed in so they know exactly who do it should be obvious behavioral data to
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and they don't have to just inferred but with less confidence and it just seems
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like you know you give them an inch they take a foot like every time I sign in it
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prompts you to add a phone number and they say it's for security that's great
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but I don't trust their advertising companies so you know what my phone
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number four oh I don't give it to them and I'm sure they could I'm sure they
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found it there some other means
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show that something I've done somewhere on the internet has given them my phone
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number and some other way but it's not the same and so I know I try to I try to
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keep my privacy to you no reason to believe mine recently mind if I can with
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Google and every time they had a new feature if I want to use it usually got
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to get a little more that and and you can say oh you know that's fine I trust
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them more than you know they're not gonna do anything with it but you never
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know and people are not skeptical enough I think of companies like this and even
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if you say I hide what's the point is it you know like I feel like you know what
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are their any people in your life besides your wife and four other people
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even that's not the case where you would want them to know to have a record of it
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where you have you ever go like for them to have at that location like member
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number when the application database got out they were accidentally keep it on
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the phone
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you could like uploaded and see a map of where you went that was creepy as hell
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and you know is there anyone in your life that you know besides your spouse
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who you would want to have that information like if there's no people
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who would trust that people who you know who you know what their motivations you
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information if anything you wouldn't trust people at that why do you give it
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to you know I just it just seems like people don't look at this with my
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skepticism that's why that's why the model works but increasingly I find
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in with people and say no we are minimum distance is now shorter totally I
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as I do have Google Maps I do have the app installed on my phone but I'm not
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signed in
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because you know I although I'm pretty happy with Apple maps there are times if
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it doesn't work right then it you know I want Google Maps to do it for example
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when I was in actually in Dublin Apple maps did pretty good but I was in New
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Zealand for web stock AAPL search was just not that good and Google's was
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great in terms of like fining everybody says they're going to such-and-such
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restaurant but in Instagram I'm just made my famous Instapaper Instagram
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inflation Instagram the other day I clicked on a map on somebody's photo I
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wanted to see where they were and when I tap the map in Instagram it took me to
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it to Google Maps not Apple maps
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and I I'm betting that they're doing the thing that you did with I think the
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magazine or chrome is actually a mistake we are you do you you which is not a bad
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idea but in practice is not it was not what people want to hear you made this
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decision that if chrome was installed assume that they want to use it as their
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default browser it was a way to work around the fact that Apple doesn't let
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you specify non Safari default browser but the downside of it is there's a lot
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of people who do have chrome installed but don't want to be there to fall
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browser and I kind of think that that's what Instagram is doing with maps
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you mean you would think because that's a facebook on property now you would
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think they would want to be overly friendly towards Google right I don't
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understand why we do that but anyway any other than its weird even a little I
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know it sounds weird but it's an emphasis that though is that inside the
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app they're using the OS mapping service which therefore looks like Apple maps
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you're not looking at a bigger version of the map you so you're looking at the
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different map that's weird that I would like something some kind of old part of
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the code that they forgot about that sucks and yeah I wonder if maybe you
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should shoot off the URL in a certain way that it does go to Google Maps I
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don't know maybe maybe that's what it is I don't know what we're doing anyway I
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call the show that it's a good long show solid almost 200 thank you very much for
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your time
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thankful can find people can find out more and the magazine what's the URL for
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magazine it's a terrible demand it it's the dash magazine dunno hurt when you go
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just go to the App Store and look at them we're going to talk about that but
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we're and time I really like that PC guys had i think is the most recent
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issue the one with the doctor on vaccinations yet how's my favorite piece
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of that was that was the best one I was the best sorry not just in the magazine
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but it was I want my favorite articles of the week so anyway
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everybody if you want some good Rico check out the magazine and look at this
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