Episode 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby
- Author
- 5by5
- Published
- Fri 18 Mar 2011
- Episode Link
- https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/10
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.
Links for this episode:
- July 2006: .Mac users mock Apple slogan during outage - CNET News
- June 2008: .Mac Outage Causes Stir - World of Apple
- June 2008: .Mac suffers 15th outage as MobileMe deployed - MacNN
- July 2008: MobileMe says sorry with a month of free service
- July 2008: Apple's report on the MobileMe Email service interruption
- December 2010: Apple retires .Mac HomePage
- iPhone 5 rumors: aluminum backside, redesigned antenna
- Square corners for Snow Leopard QuickTime player windows
- iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing - Techinch
- The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation - Audible.com
- The Name of the Wind - Audible.com
- Dropbox - Online backup, file sync, and sharing made easy
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