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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 20: 20: I've Got Nothing Jun 04, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's upcoming trip to WWDC, Twitter's strange gaps in functionality (and the third-party developers determined to fill them), the sale of NetNewsWire to Black Pixel, and dealing with changes to your favorite applications.

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Sponsored by iStockphoto and MailChimp.

Episode 19: 19: Don't Make Me Read May 27, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk toasters again, then discuss John's first computer love, the classic Macintosh Finder. Time constraints cut the love affair short, but the passion burns beyond the bounds of the podcast.

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Sponsored by Harvest and Sound Studio 4.

Episode 18: 18: Worse and More Diverse May 20, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin put the TV technology and PHP topics to bed, touch on SSD reliability again, 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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Sponsored by Rackspace and Shopify.

Episode 17: 17: Intruding Gooseneck May 13, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk some more about TV technology, elaborate on why, exactly, PHP is a bad programming language, lament the "decontenting" of Apple hardware and the proprietary hard drives in the new iMacs, and ponder the place of SSDs in the lives of computer users who are not independently wealthy.

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Sponsored by FreshBooks and OmniGroup: OmniFocus.

Episode 16: 16: The Soap Opera Effect May 06, 2011

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin repent after two episodes on programming languages by discussing TV technology…after about 45 minutes of (so-called) follow-up on Apple's potential use of ARM CPUs in Macs, gaming performance in Mac OS X, and yes, a bit more about programming.

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Sponsored by Webtrends and MailChimp.

Episode 15: 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County Apr 29, 2011

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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, the black sheep of the dynamic language landscape.

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Sponsored by Worldview and Intuit.

Episode 14: 14: A Dark Age of Objective-C Apr 15, 2011

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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. What will replace Objective-C and Cocoa? What can?

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Sponsored by Shopify and King of the Apps.

Episode 13: 13: The Tortoise and the Hare Apr 08, 2011

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

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Sponsored by FreshBooks and MailChimp.

Episode 12: 12: Nothing Is So Perfect Apr 01, 2011

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

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Sponsored by Sound Studio 4 and Worldview.

Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich Mar 25, 2011

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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, from movies to cars to (finally) computers.

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Sponsored by MailChimp.

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