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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.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby Mar 18, 2011

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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. The sad conclusion: Apple sucks at what Google is good at, and vice versa.

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Sponsored by Sourcebits and Audible.

Episode 9: 9: No iLife is an Island Mar 11, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin further opine on the iPad 2 and the Apple Strategy Tax, then discuss Apple's anachronistic views on digital media management as embodied in the iLife suite and the iPod product line.

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Sponsored by FreshBooks and Rackspace.

Episode 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale Mar 04, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin vow never to talk about physics again, then discuss the new iPad and, finally, how Apple's expansion into so many new businesses has created a series of conflicts of interest that could, at best, doom it to Microsoft-like stagnation in the long run.

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Sponsored by MailChimp and CodeConf 2011.

Episode 7: 7: ThunderCats Feb 25, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about connectors before moving on to 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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Sponsored by Typekit and NZ Red Cross.

Episode 6: 6: Frivolous Things Feb 18, 2011

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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: RSI, travel phobia, a personal history of computer ownership, and more.

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Sponsored by Shopify and King of the Apps.

Episode 5: 5: Slippery Little Pill Feb 11, 2011

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

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Sponsored by MailChimp and Sourcebits.

Episode 4: 4: iOS vs. The World Feb 04, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Mac OS X Lion and TV devices, then discuss what it would take for iOS to achieve iPod-like world domination.

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Sponsored by Screens and Campaign Monitor.

Episode 3: 3: The Mouse is Not a Finger Jan 28, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin do some follow-up on the topic of backups, then talk about possible motivations behind the Mac OS X Lion features Apple has revealed so far, the future of desktop computing, and what might have caused iPhoto '11 to be worse than the previous version.

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Sponsored by Sound Studio 4 and MailChimp.

Episode 2: 2: Backup Vortex Jan 21, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin tie up some loose ends from the TV show before talking about backups, the onus on Apple to make them work, Apple's past and present attempts, the failings of external hard drives, personal backup regimes, and online backups.

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Sponsored by Postmark and Rackspace.

Episode 1: 1: Dream Crusher Jan 14, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the sad state of TV technology, why the TV situation is worse than music and even phones, why Apple has decided it can't solve this particular problem right now, why TiVo sucks (but is still better than all the other alternatives), and which box, of the ten connected to your TV, is the best one to use to watch Netflix.

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Sponsored by Sourcebits and Campaign Monitor.

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