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Back to SearchGradual Ramp Up To Nothing
Episode 10
Laptops in school. Getting a tech job with and without a college degree. Running mail servers in today's spam environment. Steve Jobs' unauthorized talking points. The WWDC announcement and trying t…
Published on 12 years, 4 months ago
Fish Bicycle Scenario
Episode 9
Why are PC sales down? Why and when people have bought new PCs in the past. Forgoing or neglecting PCs today. PCs in businesses. Apple and IT departments. Last decade's Tablet PCs. The outlook for W…
Published on 12 years, 5 months ago
Hold Me!
Episode 8
Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt on that Vanity Fair trainwreck. Who Facebook Home is for and why Facebook made it. Whether Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, etc. could or should make their own O…
Published on 12 years, 5 months ago
The Forecast For iCloud
Episode 7
Summly's acquisition by Yahoo, and what could have justified its price. (Marco, WSJ) The quality of speech recognition. Challenges of big tech companies such as Apple hiring and retaining great tale…
Published on 12 years, 5 months ago
Live Like Other People
Episode 6
How Marco buys a TV (unlike how John does). Regular people noticing and caring about high-DPI screens. The amazing Mac lineup that few care about. Which Mac would we tell people to buy? Marco revisi…
Published on 12 years, 6 months ago
Negativity, Skepticism, and Doubt
Episode 5
The upcoming Google Reader shutdown. The market for RSS today, and the way forward. Client-side vs. server-side feed crawling. Addressing excessive demand for WWDC and Google I/O tickets. Apple pess…
Published on 12 years, 6 months ago
The Bridges
Episode 4
The role of the Mac Pro today. How Apple might manage the launch of a bigger iPhone. App design and auto-layout if the iPhone moves to multiple sizes and resolutions. Visual Studio's learning curve …
Published on 12 years, 6 months ago
Conditions Led To Freecell
Episode 3
The Nifty MiniDrive The challenges of small-camera design Sony RX1 and Sony's camera-business revival Apple in the gaming market and the evolution of casual gaming Solitaire, Minesweeper, and the fi…
Published on 12 years, 6 months ago
The 7th Guest
Episode 2
The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, dumping old games onto iOS, dial-up modems, and the annoyance of gaming occasionally on a modern cons…
Published on 12 years, 6 months ago
iPhone Plus
Episode 1
Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.
Published on 12 years, 7 months ago