Episode 74: 74: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- Author
- 5by5
- Published
- Fri 29 Jun 2012
- Episode Link
- https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/74
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.
