Hypercritical

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

100 episodes of Hypercritical since the first episode, which aired on January 14th, 2011.

  • Episode 16: 16: The Soap Opera Effect

    May 6th, 2011  |  1 hr 42 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin repent after two episodes on programming languages by discussing TV technology…after about 45 minutes of follow-up.

  • Episode 15: 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County

    April 29th, 2011  |  1 hr 43 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue their discussion of high-level programming languages, now focusing on why all popular languages suck in some way, then transition into a hard look at Perl.

  • Episode 14: 14: A Dark Age of Objective-C

    April 15th, 2011  |  1 hr 26 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's GUI history, complain about TiVo some more, then explore the possibility of another Copland-like crisis looming in Apple's future.

  • Episode 13: 13: The Tortoise and the Hare

    April 8th, 2011  |  1 hr 24 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Pixar, Facebook's open datacenter initiative, Star Wars, and, finally, Apple’s philosophy and practice of UI consistency over the years.

  • Episode 12: 12: Nothing Is So Perfect

    April 1st, 2011  |  1 hr 12 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.

  • Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich

    March 25th, 2011  |  1 hr 18 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's iLife island and Google's operational secret weapons, then talk about the nature of criticism, online and offline.

  • Episode 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby

    March 18th, 2011  |  1 hr 25 mins

    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.

  • Episode 9: 9: No iLife is an Island

    March 11th, 2011  |  1 hr 5 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin further opine on the iPad 2 and the Apple Strategy Tax, then discuss iLife's anachronistic media management capabilities.

  • Episode 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale

    March 4th, 2011  |  1 hr 16 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin vow never to talk about physics again, then discuss the new iPad and, finally, how Apple has set itself up for a Microsoft-like dark age.

  • Episode 7: 7: ThunderCats

    February 25th, 2011  |  1 hr 30 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about the big Apple news: new MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt i/o and the first developer preview release of Mac OS X Lion.

  • Episode 6: 6: Frivolous Things

    February 18th, 2011  |  1 hr 43 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin reveal the many prosaic reasons for not owning an iPhone, then veer off on several non-tech tangents and never fully recover.

  • Episode 5: 5: Slippery Little Pill

    February 11th, 2011  |  1 hr 1 min

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple’s hardware blind spots: keyboards, dock connector, iPod/iPhone cases, laptop designs, and more.