10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are briefly amused by iPhone 5 rumors, then dive head first into a ruthless analysis of Apple's online services, past and present. The sad conclusion: Apple sucks at what Google is good at, and vice versa.

Links for this episode:

• July 2006: .Mac users mock Apple slogan during outage - CNET News
  
• June 2008: .Mac Outage Causes Stir - World of Apple
  
• June 2008: .Mac suffers 15th outage as MobileMe deployed - MacNN
  
• July 2008: MobileMe says sorry with a month of free service
  
• July 2008: Apple's report on the MobileMe Email service interruption
  
• December 2010: Apple retires .Mac HomePage
  
• iPhone 5 rumors: aluminum backside, redesigned antenna
  
• Square corners for Snow Leopard QuickTime player windows
  
• iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing - Techinch
  
• The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation - Audible.com
  
• The Name of the Wind - Audible.com
  
• Dropbox - Online backup, file sync, and sharing made easy
  

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