About the show
A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
Episodes
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Episode 28: 28: Trust, But Verify
July 28th, 2011 | 1 hr 23 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Lion, following up on the animation and disk encryption topics from last week, then diving into sandboxing and the state of the file system.
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Episode 27: 27: Nakedly Optimistic
July 24th, 2011 | 1 hr 36 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's review of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Topics covered: autosave, scroll bars, scroll direction, graphical changes, animation, disk encryption, plus some details of the publication and error correction process.
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Episode 26: 26: White Smoke
July 13th, 2011 | 1 hr 7 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue to wait for the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. In the meantime, topics include Facebook's use of MySQL, some of the technology behind Google+, and new Mac hardware on the horizon.
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Episode 25: 25: Invisible Software
July 6th, 2011 | 1 hr 16 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about why webOS is slow, what's wrong with Apple's digital distribution mechanisms, why Google+ is a really big deal (for Google, anyway), and the hidden world of server-side software,
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Episode 24: 24: Sometimes It Hurts
July 2nd, 2011 | 1 hr 12 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Mac speech recognition software, how webOS is or isn't like Mac OS X, Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable, how Google+ is different from Facebook, and what John thinks Apple's really trying to do with Final Cut Pro X.
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Episode 23: 23: No Sentence Left Behind
June 24th, 2011 | 1 hr 42 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's data center software, Pixar's weaknesses, lame Mac malware, obnoxious Twitter integration, and (one last time!) toasters, then talk about how and why John writes.
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Episode 22: 22: I Would Not Build Underground
June 17th, 2011 | 1 hr 17 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin decompress after WWDC, then discuss Apple's (apparent) iCloud data center strategy, comparing it to other successful online service companies: Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
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Episode 21: 21: Reading Playboy for the Articles
June 10th, 2011 | 1 hr 43 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about WWDC: iCloud, iOS 5, Lion, and yes, John's toaster, a gift from fellow 5by5 hosts Marco Arment and Merlin Mann (a.k.a. The Best Guys Ever).
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Episode 20: 20: I've Got Nothing
June 4th, 2011 | 46 mins 1 sec
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's upcoming trip to WWDC, Twitter's strange gaps in functionality, and the sale of NetNewsWire to Black Pixel.
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Episode 19: 19: Don't Make Me Read
May 27th, 2011 | 58 mins 14 secs
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk toasters again, then discuss John's first computer love, the classic Macintosh Finder.
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Episode 18: 18: Worse and More Diverse
May 20th, 2011 | 1 hr 13 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin put the TV technology and PHP topics to bed, then discuss what's wrong with Twitter and why toaster ovens are worse today than they were a few decades ago.
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Episode 17: 17: Intruding Gooseneck
May 13th, 2011 | 1 hr 34 mins
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk some more about TV technology, elaborate on why, exactly, PHP is a bad programming language, and ponder the place of SSDs in the lives of computer users who are not independently wealthy.