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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.