93: A Magic Elf in My Computer

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Forstall's departure from Apple, Surface storage, and Fusion Drive, then discuss US voting technology, Google voice search, and how Apple's design problems are more than skin deep.

Links for this episode:

• Why Executives Are Never Fired - Michael Camilleri
  
• Gardening leave - Wikipedia
  
• Available disk space on Microsoft Surface - Microsoft.com
  
• SDXC - Wikipedia
  
• Apple fusion drive on late 2010 MacBook Pro - Tomasz Korwel
  
• Fusion drive on a pre-10.8.2 version of OS X - Alexandre Torres
  
• Achieving fusion—with a service training doc, Ars tears open Apple’s Fusion Drive - Ars Technica
  
• End-to-end auditable voting systems - Wikipedia
  
• David Bismark: E-voting without fraud - TED.com
  
• Google Voice Search vs. Siri - Daring Fireball
  
• Google Voice Search vs. Siri: Who’s the Best... - Gizmodo.com
  
• Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic - counternotions
  
• Frogger! The Frogger Musical - Paul and Storm
  
• Konami Code - Wikipedia
  
• BYOD Fusion
  
• Do It Yourself Apple Fusion Drive on Your Mac - YouTube
  
• AppleCD Audio Player
  

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