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    Hypercritical

    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.

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    Latest Episodes:
    Episode 80: 80: Memory Palace Aug 10, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue to discuss John's review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. On this episode: iCloud storage APIs and user interface, sandboxing, Gatekeeper, Retina/HiDPI, Scene Kit, Objective-C enhancements, and a bonus diversion into one of John's pet OS X topics: spatial interfaces.

    Links for this episode:

    • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review
    • danbenjamin's Flixel, image 1
    • danbenjamin's Flixel, image 2
    • Memory Palace - Wikipedia
    • Avoiding Copland 2010 - Ars Technica
    • Copland 2010 revisited: Apple’s language and API future - Ars Technica

    Sponsored by Flixel, Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME8 for 10% off), and Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off).

    Episode 79: 79: Grandpa Uncle Joe Aug 03, 2012
    Show notes

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

    Links for this episode:

    • Macintosh 512K - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Timpani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • 70Decibels - CMD+SPACE - 001 - I'm Yelling At Me, With Merlin Mann
    • Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking | 43 Folders
    • Report: iPhone 5, iPad Mini Possible Debut on September 12
    • kung fu grippe • Sure. Thanks. Burst mode.
    • Apple - Siri - Frequently Asked Questions
    • Macworld: Developers dish on iCloud challenges

    Sponsored by Smile, MailChimp, and Shopify.

    Episode 78: 78: Sins of the Father Jul 27, 2012
    Show notes

    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 bundled applications.

    Links for this episode:

    • About My Mountain Lion Review - John Siracusa
    • gfxCardStatus - codykrieger.com
    • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review
    • Stickies (software) - Wikipedia
    • Central limit theorem - Wikipedia
    • Law of large numbers - Wikipedia
    • RestoreMeNot preference pane

    Sponsored by DocuSign, Sourcebits, and Hover (coupon code DANSENTME for 10% off).

    Episode 77: 77: Nucleation Site Jul 20, 2012
    Show notes

    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.

    Links for this episode:

    • Overcompensating for the Length - 2000 Nickels
    • Penny Arcade Kickstarter
    • OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA - Kickstarter
    • App.net
    • HBO GO Android app
    • Great apps for your new Nexus 7 - TechHive
    • OUYA CEO: We're Confident We Will Deliver - Mashable
    • Only 25% of Kickstarter Tech, Design Projects Deliver on Time - Mashable
    • Letters.app on Twitter
    • Letters.app web site
    • Sparrow Was Born From Letters.App, And Why Tweet-Like Email Is Just The Beginning - Cult of Mac
    • Rage against the Mail machine: the genesis of Letters - Ars Technica
    • Some Letters.app source code - GitHub
    • The iPhone Battery in Mike Matas's portfolio
    • Marco Arment's answer to What is the Readability & Instapaper business model?
    • Dreamcast WinCE games list
    • Brent Simmons's "Email init" post that led to the Letters.app project
    • 5by5 show length stats - Kieran Healy
    • More 5by5 Data - Kieran Healy

    Sponsored by Rackspace, Squarespace (coupon code DANSENTME7 for 10% off), and Hover (coupon code DANSENTME or 10% off).

    Episode 76: 76: Selling a Dream Jul 13, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the OUYA Android-based TV gaming console Kickstarter project, the unprecedented Penny Arcade Kickstarter project to remove ads from its web site for a year, and the Kickstarter phenomenon itself. Also, check the show notes to find a poll about doing an episode all about the PlayStation 3 game Journey.

    Links for this episode:

    • The reality of the OUYA console doesn’t match the hype: why you should be skeptical - The PA Report
    • Tweet from Minecraft creator Markus Persson about Minecraft on OUYA
    • Penny Arcade's Kickstarter
    • Community Guidelines - Kickstarter
    • Penny Arcade's comic for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
    • Poll: Journey on Hypercritical?
    • At $152 in cost, Google’s Nexus 7 leads way for cheaper tablets - Mobile Technology News
    • Hypercritical duration trend (scatter plot)
    • Hypercritical duration spreadsheet
    • The Pipeline #30: Markus "Notch" Persson
    • Hypercritical Length - 2000 Nickels
    • OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console - Kickstarter

    Sponsored by Freshbooks, Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off), and Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME7 for 10% off).

    Episode 75: 75: Just a Dinosaur Jul 06, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss rumors of a new, smaller iPad, Marco Arment's experience with and reporting of this week's App Store data corruption problem, Apple's response, and the continuing, unhealthy separation of developers and their customers in the App Store.

    Links for this episode:

    • Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch - Marco.org
    • Android Developers Blog: Replying to User Reviews on Google Play
    • Replying to App Store reviews - Matt Gemmell
    • John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory - Penny Arcade
    • Aged to Perfection - Design Mind
    • Creating the first laptop (GRiD Compass) - YouTube
    • Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
    • GRiD Compass - Wikipedia
    • “iPad Nano” Images - ZooGue
    • Apple Preps for Smaller Tablet - The Wall Street Journal
    • Apple Said to Plan Smaller IPad to Vie With Google Nexus - Bloomberg
    • The case for a 7.8" iPad - Joel Bernstein
    • How to pronounce Matt Gemmell's last name (MP3) - Paul Kafasis
    • Apple responds to App Store download corruption - Marco.org
    • Apple’s fix for corrupt binaries - Marco.org
    • Dublin Dr. Pepper - Wikipedia
    • Trixie - Pixar Wiki
    • Velocistar237 - Pixar Wiki
    • Twitter thread detailing the various sites that rewrote Marco's blog post

    Sponsored by Zoompf, Sifter Stickers, and Dark Sky.

    Episode 74: 74: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Jun 29, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss alternate motivations for the Microsoft Surface, Google's new Nexus 7 tablet, the history and value of reparability in computer hardware, and the possibility of electronics that "age well." Also, there's a robot that feels no shame.

    Links for this episode:

    • Designed Deterioration - Khoi Vinh (2007))
    • Built to Not Last - Khoi Vinh (2012)
    • The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable - Wired.com
    • Follow Up to “Built to Not Last” - Khoi Vinh (2012)
    • Nexus 7 - The new Android tablet from Google
    • Replicant - Wikipedia
    • Nexus One - Wikipedia
    • 'There's No Margin' - Daring Fireball
    • Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% Of The Time - IEEE Spectrum
    • Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
    • An Update on Flash Player and Android - Adobe.com
    • How Microsoft Lost the API War - Joel on Software
    • Mandrill - Wikipedia
    • Microsoft PlaysForSure - Wikipedia

    Sponsored by Shopify (use code 5BY5 for 3 months free), Igloo Software (they're giving away an Aeropress to a Hypercritical listener), and MailChimp's new Mandrill email service.

    Episode 73: 73: 22 Degrees Jun 22, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet! It's an ultrabook! It runs Office, Windows, and your existing x86 applications…unless it's the ARM version. And why is Microsoft making hardware, anyway? It's all very intriguing.

    Links for this episode:

    • Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' - Engadget
    • John's Tumblr blog, also titled Hypercritical
    • Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life - Computerworld
    • Microsoft VP creates perfume that smells of money - CNet
    • Microsoft's Surface event video - YouTube
    • Capacitive touchscreens - Wikipedia
    • Surface by Microsoft
    • Six Flags Great America
    • Microsoft Technology Centers in Cologne
    • Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty At Stealing from Apple
    • PowerBook G3 - Wikipedia
    • Limited-slip differential - Wikipedia
    • John's Surface-like hardware musings from 2010 - Macworld
    • Windows for Pen Computing - Wikipedia
    • Inkwell (Macintosh) - Wikipedia

    Sponsored by Harvest, and Squarespace (use code DANSENTME6 for 10% off).

    Episode 72: 72: Seven Levels of Air Quotes Jun 15, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss—what else?—WWDC: the hardware and software announcements, John's chances of getting his review done on time, John's WWDC survival gear, and the one time a year where he meets the fans face to face.

    Links for this episode:

    • Retina MacBook Pro display handling - AnandTech
    • The WINGStand
    • WaterField iPad slip case
    • Tim Cook: New Mac Pro coming “later next year” - Marco.org
    • The new retina MacBook Pro - Apple.com
    • iOS 6 - Apple.com
    • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion - Apple.com
    • Mac Rumors Mac Pro buyer's guide
    • Tweet about external monitor support on the new MacBook Pro - joelhousman

    Sponsored by FreshBooks, and Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off).

    Episode 71: 71: Bristling With Controls Jun 08, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest crop of iPhone 5 and WWDC rumors, E3 2012, the current state of the traditional game console market, and the elephant in the gaming living room: Apple.

    Links for this episode:

    • Build and Analyze #80: Please, Go to Starbucks
    • E3: Electronic Entertainment Expo - Wikipedia
    • Video game console - Wikipedia
    • Hypercritical #48: Blue Ocean
    • Xbox 360 technical problems - Wikipedia
    • Quantic Dream's Kara - YouTube
    • Game Boy line - Wikipedia
    • Nintendo DS - Wikipedia
    • Wii U - Wikipedia
    • Wii U GamePad - Wikipedia
    • Wii U Pro Controller - Wikipedia
    • Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
    • Xbox 360 Controller - Wikipedia
    • iPhone 5 Back Cover or Middle Plate/A new iPhone Part Leaked - YouTube
    • Hypercritical #50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
    • Viral Video of Shell Oil Party Disaster Is Fake, Unfortunately
    • Squarespace Community for Developers and General Users
    • Atari Lynx - Wikipedia
    • Nintendo reveals new Wii U Gamepad: NDTV Gadgets
    • Nintendo Wii U GamePad arrives for hardcore gamers
    • Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Interview - Eurogamer.net
    • Nintendo Wii U - Amazon.com

    Sponsored by Appsfire, Squarespace (coupon code DANSENTME6), and Hover (coupon code DANSENTME for 10% off).

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