Episode 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale
- Author
- 5by5
- Published
- Fri 04 Mar 2011
- Episode Link
- https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/8
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.
Links for this episode:
- The Apple strategy tax
- Speed of electricity - Wikipedia
- Speed of electricity flow
- Apple iPad 2
- ARM Cortex A8 - Wikipedia
- ARM Cortex A9 - Wikipedia
- Apple A4 - Wikipedia
- Apple A5 - Wikipedia
- Speeds and feeds - Wikipedia
- Magnetic monopole - Wikipedia
- PAX East 2011
- List of The Incredibles characters - Wikipedia
- A sub-thread of the Hacker News discussion of the Apple Strategy Tax article
Sponsored by MailChimp and CodeConf 2011.
