Hypercritical

Episode 88: 88: Nobody Leaves Email

October 5th, 2012 | 1 hr 55 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest events in the burgeoning App.net community, then explore the competing(?) Tent.io protocol for decentralized real-time social networking.

Episode 87: 87: Smarter and Harder

September 28th, 2012 | 1 hr 30 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on Apple's slippery little devices and Apple's mapping woes, then discuss the new iPod touch and iPod nano. John's hypothetical Ferrari is briefly mentioned.

Episode 86: 86: Naked Robotic Core

September 21st, 2012 | 1 hr 25 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss thew new iPhone 5: its physical design, the case for cases, the new lightning connector, and Apple's trouble with maps. Let the iPhone 6 speculation begin?

Episode 85: 85: Just Check the Checkbox!

September 12th, 2012 | 1 hr 41 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss all the things that went wrong during John's Mountain Lion ebook publishing experience. Please note that this episode was recorded before the September 12th Apple event.

Episode 84: 84: Spared No Expense

September 7th, 2012 | 2 hrs 8 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon's new Kindle and Kindle Fire products and make their predictions for next week's Apple press event. Is Amazon Apple's most dangerous competitor? Who is Amazon's ideal customer?

Episode 83: 83: Dishonorable

August 31st, 2012 | 1 hr 29 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Apple v. Samsung court case, the rumors and leaks about the next iPhone, the possible internals of the rumored iPad mini, and which company we'd like to buy Twitter.

Episode 82: 82: The Opposite of Comprehensive

August 24th, 2012 | 2 hrs 6 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin complete their discussion of John's Mountain Lion review. Topics include power management, UI simplification, automatic termination, Facebook integration, and plagiarizing from yourself.

Episode 81: 81: Channels of Control

August 17th, 2012 | 2 hrs 3 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest round of Twitter API changes and their effect on third-party clients, and inevitably follow up about App.Net.

Episode 80: 80: Memory Palace

August 10th, 2012 | 1 hr 39 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue to discuss John's review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Episode 79: 79: Grandpa Uncle Joe

August 3rd, 2012 | 1 hr 44 mins

John Siracusa is on vacation this week, so we instead present its ersatz replacement, 'Kindacritical', with Dan Benjamin, Marco Arment, and Merlin Mann.

Episode 78: 78: Sins of the Father

July 27th, 2012 | 2 hrs 26 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss—what else?—John's review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. There's so much to cover that this will have to be a multi-epsiode topic. On this episode: purchase and installation, interface and document model changes, and b

Episode 77: 77: Nucleation Site

July 20th, 2012 | 1 hr 46 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about a potential smaller iPad, OUYA's challenges, what makes a successful Kickstarter project, how the Penny Arcade Kickstarter could have been more attractive to funders, and finally, the strange case of App.net.

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