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59: The Little Puck That Could

 

00:00:00   I saw the the Ashton Kutcher Jobs movie finally because it was free and flicks. [TS]

00:00:04   I did as well and it was actually well you go ahead you go ahead. [TS]

00:00:09   It sounds like you're about to give it a semi decent review I think one of the most frustrating things about it is that [TS]

00:00:15   even if you ignore some of the some of the little inaccuracy that ends it seemed overall to get the big stuff right. [TS]

00:00:24   Even if you ignore all that it's not even a good movie because it takes like two hours. [TS]

00:00:31   And right towards the end in like the last fifteen minutes they have this eight second montage that covers the entire [TS]

00:00:42   time span from when he was fired from Apple to when Apple bought next [TS]

00:00:47   and so not only to the gloss over a pretty significant part of Steve Jobs his life and career [TS]

00:00:55   but it was also like here's the big gloom and doom Apple is failing. [TS]

00:01:01   It showed all of that into eight seconds to mount a show like it appears chronological it like as you're watching a [TS]

00:01:07   movie it's like here's Apple here's the big villain Apple firing Steve Jobs because they think they know better. [TS]

00:01:14   And then eight seconds later Apple's you know on the floor dying and they need him [TS]

00:01:21   and they beg him to come back somehow and he somehow save them. [TS]

00:01:23   You know like they it's not even good storytelling because they just kind of like snap their fingers [TS]

00:01:30   and all of a sudden everything's fine again. It clearly was done down which is as you would expect. [TS]

00:01:37   But given that everyone handed in said it was like the worst thing committed to film ever. [TS]

00:01:43   I didn't think it was nearly that bad. [TS]

00:01:45   As someone who has a reasonable amount of Apple history in my head I thought it was mildly enjoyable [TS]

00:01:52   and the one thing I will say that was extremely positive was I feel like Ashton Kutcher just nailed Jobs's walk [TS]

00:01:58   and I didn't even know the job title. [TS]

00:02:00   Nick walk and film watching Ashton Kutcher pace around the stage and whatnot and I don't know why [TS]

00:02:06   but it just really reminded me of the one W.D.C. [TS]

00:02:10   I saw where job or jobs was there and he just has this weird like gate to him that I never noticed before. [TS]

00:02:17   Yeah I mean I give them credit. [TS]

00:02:18   I agree that the movie was not as bad as I thought it would be based on what people were saying about it. [TS]

00:02:24   But back when it came out but to be clear it was not good but it was not terrible. [TS]

00:02:29   It seemed like they worked so hard to get overall details right [TS]

00:02:32   and then just blew some of the really easy ones that they could've gotten right you know with no additional cost [TS]

00:02:37   or anything that they could have got these things right and they didn't but you know more. [TS]

00:02:41   Moreover I was just kind of annoyed that it was just weird so weirdly paced [TS]

00:02:47   and that you know they if they want to tell the story in detail they could have you know glossed over certain parts of [TS]

00:02:53   it faster [TS]

00:02:54   or you know added ten minutes to the movie to you know to get it to get a little more detail into the story as to how [TS]

00:03:01   these things happened you know that whole middle era you know maybe do a forty five second montage instead of an eight [TS]

00:03:06   second montage something like it just seemed like there was a lot of low hanging fruit that they could have grabbed to [TS]

00:03:12   make to make it a better movie and the and for whatever reason they didn't. Now John did you see this movie. [TS]

00:03:19   No nor do I plan to but just got the Sorkin one left to endure [TS]

00:03:23   and then to clear this for a little while this is true and as K.G. [TS]

00:03:28   Points out Tom Bombadil is an even esteemed Jobs movie. It is totally unacceptable. [TS]

00:03:33   Who is well I don't even know if you were just going to keep going we got one of those every show guys that may have [TS]

00:03:37   been the one for the show. Good job so do we want to do any follow up. [TS]

00:03:44   We do we always do we always do John would you like to do some follow up care for a spit a far post from Mike the eye [TS]

00:03:52   roll or from last week. He sent an e-mail with some clarification a bit from the e-mail. Here's a. [TS]

00:04:00   Things you mentioned the bar is set to hide you know everything about gender issues [TS]

00:04:03   or anything else you guys talk about that aren't core expertise [TS]

00:04:06   but that's exactly what I was trying to get out of my feedback. [TS]

00:04:08   If to hide any sort of knowledge about gender issues beyond what is observable in our lives then yes I set the bar too [TS]

00:04:13   high. I don't think any of the three of you would accept that in any sort of technical field. [TS]

00:04:18   Women in the workplace is probably one of the most studied sociological topics of our generation [TS]

00:04:22   and want to learn about it just like they can learn about C.P.U. Design. [TS]

00:04:26   I think we very much agree on this topic I was just trying to point out this doesn't need to be some sort of nebulous [TS]

00:04:30   idea that can only be solved by talking through it. There is data supported answers out there. [TS]

00:04:37   Basically I thought his first email about the eye rolling we start to talk about this topic was that he thought we had [TS]

00:04:44   met whatever bar he was setting as I go boy you go you guys go start [TS]

00:04:47   and talk about this thing they don't know anything about and not to speak for you too [TS]

00:04:51   but I certainly pass the test of the bar of having any sort of knowledge I have read tons about this all over the place [TS]

00:04:56   like this. [TS]

00:04:57   Blogs articles flame wars for years and years like I have I feel like I have read a lot of us [TS]

00:05:02   but that's all informal like you know just on the internet but I've definitely definitely crossed that bar. [TS]

00:05:07   That's pretty setting it too [TS]

00:05:09   and as for like the the whole idea that like we don't need to just talk about it as sort of vague concepts like the [TS]

00:05:16   data out there [TS]

00:05:17   and there's things you can learn stuff like that during the whole conversation of sexism of the past two shows I've [TS]

00:05:22   been intentionally avoiding vocabulary that I know is sort of that are sort of you know terms that are common within [TS]

00:05:28   this topic right now for two reasons one the people who are familiar with those terms I didn't want to use them because [TS]

00:05:34   using them sort of slots into people's brains in certain areas if I say certain words they mean they think they know [TS]

00:05:40   that we're on the same page we may be talking about different things so by entirely avoiding those words I was forced [TS]

00:05:45   to explain myself you know in sort of plain language [TS]

00:05:48   or from first principles of the out relying on jargon that we may or may not agree on the meaning of. [TS]

00:05:53   And two was if I use those words a shorthand jargon then I'm not communicating with the people who don't know any of [TS]

00:05:58   those words. So that way. [TS]

00:06:00   I had to stop myself many times from saying the words that all the people into the conversation probably expected to [TS]

00:06:05   hear [TS]

00:06:06   and maybe some people heard that interpreted as these guys don't know the talking about they don't even know the vocabulary [TS]

00:06:12   I definitely didn't have a cab there but I was consciously avoiding it I don't know if that was a good move [TS]

00:06:15   or a bad move but it's what I chose to do [TS]

00:06:17   and I think I think it's for the best because in a topic like that where there's less expectation that our listeners [TS]

00:06:23   have the same background I get we can use terms about C.P. [TS]

00:06:26   Using an Apple jargon stuff because presumably people know more about that [TS]

00:06:30   but this topic was a far afield that I want to just talk about it using you know just regular vocabulary to describe [TS]

00:06:36   things and to be honest I'm not even familiar with what vocabulary you were dodging [TS]

00:06:42   but I would hazard a guess that it is probably for the best that you did indeed force yourself to explain yourself the [TS]

00:06:49   entire time you do you know about as a handle I get I mean I didn't say the word ally I didn't use the word privilege [TS]

00:06:55   like you know those like any of them are going to get it all sorts of even fancier terms but like [TS]

00:07:00   when you say any of those things people people sort of click into whatever little slot they have in their brain for [TS]

00:07:07   those terms and then sometimes you get out of whack [TS]

00:07:08   and I think it's better to just explain things the second bit of follow up is that after talking about Oculus [TS]

00:07:14   and Facebook buyout my glabrous should we also mention the passion is now working for Oculus instead of valve which is [TS]

00:07:21   kind of a bummer for valve because they were working on V.A.R. Stuff as well but hey what can you do. [TS]

00:07:25   So now it's car McNabb rush back together again trying to change the future of course. [TS]

00:07:32   People get excited about that is like all those guys they did so much together earlier in their careers like now it's [TS]

00:07:36   like two old men doing it [TS]

00:07:38   and it's kind of like what me expect next revolution run by two young men another begrudging the old man as of being an [TS]

00:07:44   old man myself like you know hey we can still do stuff we saw stuff in us [TS]

00:07:48   but it's kind of weird that like these people who brought us the revolution of three D. [TS]

00:07:54   First person you know hard work so I read it three games are now trying to bring it to the next red revolution as well. [TS]

00:08:00   Well instead of it being the next generation you know what I mean so that's I think is a testament to these two guys [TS]

00:08:05   and it's a little bit weird like you know I expect that was the thing with like scientists there is I go you done all [TS]

00:08:12   your best work by the time you're twenty or thirty you never have a second big breakthrough [TS]

00:08:15   or whatever the cliche is I don't know that's true in technical field open Steve Jobs certainly had two very big acts [TS]

00:08:21   in his life one very early and one much later so maybe this is the new normal. [TS]

00:08:26   I think it actually could be really nice to have people with a lot of experience and wisdom [TS]

00:08:31   and who are real experts in their field which these two guys. [TS]

00:08:33   By all measures are to be tackling the problem because the art has been tried so many times in the past [TS]

00:08:41   and it has failed so many times in the past that like the league they were around for all those failures in the [TS]

00:08:46   ninety's and beyond like they were they saw all those things they might have tried some of those things [TS]

00:08:51   or started developing for some of those things and they've seen all of these failed attempts [TS]

00:08:56   and so having that wisdom in people who are working on the new thing rather than just some twenty year old is going to [TS]

00:09:03   recreate all the same mistakes over and over again like Unix [TS]

00:09:06   and Lisp that it's that will benefit the effort I think tremendously. [TS]

00:09:12   It's kind I think lot of the guys result oversea doing go like they have the experience. [TS]

00:09:17   I think my favorite thing both about go and about like Oculus stuff is that these guys are Russian comic. [TS]

00:09:24   They're not like the C.E.O.'s are like they're not building like a team or like comics [TS]

00:09:28   and they're writing code like you doing the same thing I mean I was in a slightly higher level but more [TS]

00:09:32   or less doing the same thing he's writing code he hasn't like just travel up that like now I'm big powerful [TS]

00:09:37   and I run the company I'm a venture capitalist and I'm a master of the universe is there in keyboard typing code right. [TS]

00:09:43   And that's refreshing. [TS]

00:09:45   Mike average is going to be Don't like they're going to be writing code they're so refreshing to see that you don't [TS]

00:09:50   have to like the only path is like you have the beginning you write COBOL and you move on [TS]

00:09:54   and you do you become like the C.E.O. or The C.T.O. [TS]

00:09:57   I mean I think the titles probably are something like that but I do. Do you John Crumb I could be writing code. [TS]

00:10:01   That's why he's a hero to so many programmers that you know even now is an old man he's still getting it done [TS]

00:10:09   and then what else about Oculus and Kickstarter. [TS]

00:10:13   One more feedback feedback from another person in my call probably only get feedback from people in my from Michael now [TS]

00:10:20   which is fine you know if I thought I was going to be were talking about the Oculus and Facebook [TS]

00:10:26   and so as you guys are explicit almost exclusively characterize the outcry as being from jilted Kickstarter backers. [TS]

00:10:33   Maybe I'm an edge case but many of my friends who don't share my extreme privacy concerns were also not backers [TS]

00:10:39   and were nevertheless saddened by the Facebook news as well. [TS]

00:10:41   So what are you getting out of so you don't think we talk enough about people who don't care one way [TS]

00:10:45   or the other by Kickstarter backers or you know feel like they've been betrayed [TS]

00:10:48   but just basically people are creeped out by Facebook [TS]

00:10:51   and are worried that now I don't I don't know that I guess they're worried about like Facebook ads being in their face [TS]

00:10:58   and I'm not going to buy any product that's associated in any way with Facebook was Facebook Facebook is not careful of [TS]

00:11:04   my personal information I feel like they're invading my privacy I mean maybe Marco can address this if he is afraid [TS]

00:11:09   that I Google is constantly invading his privacy. [TS]

00:11:12   Well I mean what is there really to address I mean Facebook now owns a company that has a lot of potential privacy [TS]

00:11:19   invading stuff in the future. What else is new. [TS]

00:11:21   I mean the fact is you know it's it's going to get increasingly more difficult. [TS]

00:11:26   It already is very difficult now to try to live a life online [TS]

00:11:31   and use modern technology without having your stuff be in some giant creepy company's database. [TS]

00:11:39   That's just the reality of how we live you know you can you can go as I previously for two hours the full Stallman [TS]

00:11:43   route which is you know increasingly like Albany to live in the woods [TS]

00:11:47   and be off the grid like there it's it's becoming increasingly more disconnected from the rest of the world technology [TS]

00:11:55   if you want to go that route. And so you know. [TS]

00:12:00   If you want to try to avoid Facebook stuff Google stuff Apple stuff you know there's Amazon stuff. [TS]

00:12:08   There's only so far you can run really. [TS]

00:12:10   And so you know my my philosophy with these things though it has been as I said on the on a previous show used to keep [TS]

00:12:15   a healthy distance like not to be totally off these things not to be totally invisible not to try to conceal my [TS]

00:12:21   identity from these companies but that's mostly a waste of time they probably know more than you think. [TS]

00:12:25   Or they can infer what you don't tell them based on your other behavior [TS]

00:12:29   but you know I think it's important for people to be healthily skeptical of these companies [TS]

00:12:39   and critical of these companies and to point out things like hey you know what X. or Y. [TS]

00:12:44   Is going to really give them a lot of information about you [TS]

00:12:46   or they're going to use the information they have a need to do X.Y.Z. [TS]

00:12:50   and Those are all kind of weird and creepy and maybe we don't want that that's fine but I think we have to admit [TS]

00:12:56   and realize that's just the world we live in and that that's going to happen and we just have to keep tolerating it [TS]

00:13:01   and making a stink where we can [TS]

00:13:04   but it's we're not going to always win every case of Oculus though it seems weird to me because like just because [TS]

00:13:10   Facebook does its main product that we all know about is you know not privacy everything it doesn't mean that that's [TS]

00:13:16   there that's the only way they know how to do it. [TS]

00:13:18   Like any product they get they're going to meet or they suck into the Borg and make it you know show Facebook ads [TS]

00:13:24   and play Facebook games to see your private personal information [TS]

00:13:26   and Oculus is so far removed from Facebook the product the Web site that [TS]

00:13:30   when you go to receive pictures of your friends and stuff that there's not even a line you can draw on dotted [TS]

00:13:35   or otherwise it says and therefore our Facebook wall [TS]

00:13:39   and we are like they're obviously special in the short term Oculus is going to make a thing you put on your face to [TS]

00:13:45   play first person games [TS]

00:13:46   and I can imagine it having any connection for years to anything having to do with getting any personal information to [TS]

00:13:53   any degree greater than say what Steam does now or anything else like it just it doesn't seem connected [TS]

00:13:59   and so like to me. [TS]

00:14:00   They say Facebook blog and therefore I'm never going to end it with Oculus that seems way premature to be like. [TS]

00:14:06   Sure don't use it if they doing something you don't like [TS]

00:14:09   or if they could potentially be doing something you know like you're not sure [TS]

00:14:11   but it just seems like they're not connected at this point I mean I don't use Facebook I'm not I have a Facebook [TS]

00:14:18   account but I don't use it for anything. [TS]

00:14:20   I'm just not into it [TS]

00:14:21   but it doesn't mean that I automatically assume that every company Facebook acquires will suddenly be pulled into [TS]

00:14:27   exactly the same sort of privacy destroying vortex that their main [TS]

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00:16:52   Imagine wrangling analog modems in Iraq in a data center. [TS]

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00:17:13   It was awful in every possible way [TS]

00:17:15   and I would never recommend using Pay Pal for anything to anybody especially subscriptions which is specially bad at [TS]

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00:17:28   Right so Amazon decided to get into the console T.V. Sort of game today and they released the Amazon Fire T.V. [TS]

00:17:40   Which apparently involves neither terminations of employment nor flames. [TS]

00:17:48   We call call these television parks but a name for this category. [TS]

00:17:53   I don't know I don't know if it's ever been used before but I dig it. So let's go with it. [TS]

00:17:57   I don't know puck to me seems round it's like a slice of it. So owner would be a puck. [TS]

00:18:01   How would you describe the shape. Well this is not a park like but the Roku and Apple T.V. [TS]

00:18:06   Are [TS]

00:18:07   and they kind of define the first segment so now I am that's what I think that's why Amazon thing looks like about well [TS]

00:18:11   two reasons one because it's cheaper to build that way and I was a lot of things to be cheap [TS]

00:18:15   and to it's visually distinct from the two other big market leaders to be an oracle. [TS]

00:18:21   Fair enough it is it is a rectangular solid state of actually the square I don't know from the top of the square it [TS]

00:18:30   looks like it or it either way I think you're right it looks like all the edges are hard angles and it is just a box. [TS]

00:18:37   I think think of an Apple T.V. but Not rounded in anything just flat side six flat sides not around to direct. [TS]

00:18:44   Although I like the Roku and the Chromecast because it's remote does not need line of sight. [TS]

00:18:50   You don't have to put it anywhere you can see it and that is nice. [TS]

00:18:53   Yes I like it so much so one of the attributes of the thing only went over them on Twitter Mark OK how is it [TS]

00:18:58   distinguished from the apple theory. [TS]

00:19:01   Basically it's I mean it's not as a thing which you might think it has a lot of the same Absalom the same billet is [TS]

00:19:08   it's the same price. It's the same category of device. [TS]

00:19:13   Many of the same you know channel kind of things [TS]

00:19:15   but the biggest difference they put in beefier hardware into it so we can play games. So that's one thing. [TS]

00:19:21   So it has more RAM bigger C.P.U. [TS]

00:19:23   Probably And it also has this remote that if it works the way they advertise could be pretty cool because it is a [TS]

00:19:29   Bluetooth remote. [TS]

00:19:31   So doesn't need line of sight and it has voice input [TS]

00:19:34   and you can apparently search by voice for what you're looking for which will be really nice. [TS]

00:19:40   So you know all that to me. [TS]

00:19:45   Oh and they're selling an extra like game controller for it which John I'm sure you'll have a lot to say about maybe [TS]

00:19:50   but to me the game's part of it is probably not that important because I just I don't know. I think. [TS]

00:20:01   I could be totally wrong with this I think will will end up seeing what happens especially if Apple also makes like an [TS]

00:20:06   upgraded Apple T.V. [TS]

00:20:07   They can play games will see like how that market panned out of like the super cheap game box on T.V. [TS]

00:20:12   That happens to be for the purposes kind of like the opposite of the X. [TS]

00:20:16   Box approach where the X.-Box is like the big beefy gaming machine that happens to have media functionality also that's [TS]

00:20:23   kind of a side effect of it. [TS]

00:20:24   This is coming from the opposite direction this is like a media box that happens in a place and some games on. [TS]

00:20:30   So we'll see if that takes off. [TS]

00:20:31   Assuming that's irrelevant to you [TS]

00:20:33   or it doesn't take off looking at just the media side of this I think you know you can look at this look at this [TS]

00:20:39   landscape and none of them offer everything that's so true. [TS]

00:20:43   If you want to buy anything from i Tunes You can only play it on the Apple T.V. [TS]

00:20:48   If you want to watch things on Amazon streaming video you can't do that on Apple T.V. [TS]

00:20:53   and Almost everything else can do it but he can't. And so that's the main disconnect. [TS]

00:20:58   So if you want both Amazon Video and i Tunes compatibility you have to buy two devices. But don't forget H.B.O. [TS]

00:21:07   Go which is not on the Amazon thing as you pointed out on Twitter right now Carrie and I don't I don't have that [TS]

00:21:13   but a lot of people like it so yeah that's that in there so I think you know right now there is no one device that [TS]

00:21:20   covers everything. Well you said true though I agree with you but it doesn't by virtue of the Apple T.V. [TS]

00:21:28   Being able to receive airplay. Doesn't that to some degree make it an omnivore. [TS]

00:21:32   Now yes it's no longer a standalone thing. I'm not arguing that at all. [TS]

00:21:36   But for example to me I oftentimes find a use for airplay and I use it a lot. [TS]

00:21:43   And so even though there's other boxes that I think I'd like like the Roku [TS]

00:21:48   and even this is on fire box I keep coming back to no matter what I'm going to want to have an Apple T.V. [TS]

00:21:56   Connected to my T.V. So I can do air play either streaming or mirroring. Well if I've already got this Apple T.V. [TS]

00:22:01   Connected to my T.V. [TS]

00:22:03   I can play Amazon Instant Video I'm assuming through their i Pad app or i Phone app I can use plaques [TS]

00:22:09   and throw plex to the Apple T.V. [TS]

00:22:11   and In the grand scheme of things I wanted Hill to have native plaques and support within the Apple T.V. [TS]

00:22:19   but I can get pretty close by using my i Pad so it's not standalone which I wish it was [TS]

00:22:26   but it's still sort of an omnivore. [TS]

00:22:28   Yeah [TS]

00:22:28   and that's that's going to be a popular option I think a lot of people like our friend Jason Snell in chat says that he [TS]

00:22:34   does Amazon's video using airplay to the Apple T.V. [TS]

00:22:37   and He says quote It's not ideal but it works and I think you're right. [TS]

00:22:42   That's you know no question I think you can do that you can do airplane. I think any robust home T.V. [TS]

00:22:49   Solution if you're at if you have anything in the Apple ecosystem you're you are very well survey having Apple T.V. [TS]

00:22:55   and I think if you want complete coverage I would say the Apple T.V. and The Amazon Fire T.V. [TS]

00:23:02   Are probably going to be the that's going to be the combo that's good I think is going to is going to like for people [TS]

00:23:07   who are going to have model boxset [TS]

00:23:09   and that's going to be the company sets in because with Roku it seems like I've never used so maybe I'm missing the [TS]

00:23:16   appeal but it seems like the Amazon Fire T.V. [TS]

00:23:20   Pretty much encompasses all the benefits to get from a Roku another of who has cheaper models [TS]

00:23:25   and an Amazon right now is not going cheaper than a hundred bucks which is surprising. [TS]

00:23:29   But that's that's where they chose to go. [TS]

00:23:32   So if you if you ignore the price difference between the cheaper of who's And this I would say you know you you cover [TS]

00:23:40   basically everything with an Apple T.V. Plus the Amazon Fire T.V. [TS]

00:23:44   and So I think that's really where people go who want to cover everything with the hardware. [TS]

00:23:50   I don't have a Roco either but everyone I know has one says that it that it has tons of content [TS]

00:23:56   and that they like it better than their Apple T.V.'s in terms of the end. [TS]

00:24:00   That's in fact what I was going to say any other really neat thing about some if not all the modern Roku is is that [TS]

00:24:05   they have a headphone jack on the remote and having never used a Roku. [TS]

00:24:09   But I'm at least familiar enough to know that you can actually sit in bed for example. [TS]

00:24:13   Maybe your wife or husband or whatever is passed out next to you but you're still watching T.V. [TS]

00:24:18   and Keeping it quiet because you've plugged your ear buds [TS]

00:24:21   or headphones into the remote which is you know within a foot of where you're sitting. And that's really cool. [TS]

00:24:27   Yeah I'll give you that. [TS]

00:24:29   So it all these things I think the real barrier may be the only barrier that Apple's put up is the whole ecosystem by [TS]

00:24:35   anything because in the Amazon videos what they want to show you is like. [TS]

00:24:38   And look you can have a second screen experience with X. Ray which is really cool like their X. [TS]

00:24:42   Ray stuff is actually cool you know but your second screen experience like this or using your Kindle Fire [TS]

00:24:47   and you can take a video with you and watch it on your fire and then resume and in watching on your big T.V. [TS]

00:24:51   and It's like yeah but what I want to have an i Pad [TS]

00:24:54   and I'm assuming Amazon bore them to come out with apps for the i Pad to do all these things but Apple T.V. [TS]

00:24:59   Is big advantages. [TS]

00:25:01   Hey you buy stuff on the i Tunes store and you've got on your i Pad and you've got it on your phone [TS]

00:25:05   and you go I called all Apple's cloud stuff saying yeah you can only buy stuff on the i Tunes Store on Apple T.V. [TS]

00:25:11   but Once you buy it there you can use it all you know as long as all your devices are Apple [TS]

00:25:16   and Amazon want to say the same thing. [TS]

00:25:18   Oh you can buy your stuff [TS]

00:25:19   and you can use all your devices they're not going to force you to buy a can of are they going to try to be everywhere [TS]

00:25:24   but maybe you don't want to have a Kindle Fire like like well I'd rather have an i Pad [TS]

00:25:29   and it's kind of like Amazon can't Amazon doesn't have a top to bottom ecosystem [TS]

00:25:33   or they've got a phone a tablet computer and and a T.V. Thing they just have a small portion of that it's pretty cool. [TS]

00:25:40   Well they tried to be everywhere [TS]

00:25:41   but it's kind of like it spreads them thin air whereas Apple's us like what we're going to make sure it's the best [TS]

00:25:45   experience on your Apple T.V. [TS]

00:25:47   and We're going to make that available on your mac and on your phone on your tablet [TS]

00:25:50   and on whatever else we come out with. [TS]

00:25:53   And that's tough to compete with that big ecosystem because I'm I'm going to I still want an i Pad instead of a Kindle [TS]

00:25:59   Fire so there's no. [TS]

00:26:00   Advantaged for me to get him is noble it has integration with a kind of farm I don't care about that you know I don't I [TS]

00:26:05   don't care that my Apple T.V. [TS]

00:26:07   Doesn't have Kindle Fire integration I don't and is not going to make me buy this to get you know so I feel better [TS]

00:26:12   when they try to show that integration because it's like not a selling point [TS]

00:26:15   but a couple of different other differences between the same empathy that I think are worth pointing out both good [TS]

00:26:20   and bad. [TS]

00:26:21   One is that this does have a warrant apparently at the power supply is not internal so you have to have another one as [TS]

00:26:27   big plug shoving into the big power strip that's behind your entertainment center which is kind of annoying [TS]

00:26:32   or kind of a shame since it does look like it's actually a little bigger than Apple T.V. [TS]

00:26:36   We're just lucky to even include the AC adapter in the box. Yeah the R.F. [TS]

00:26:40   Remote is great [TS]

00:26:41   and embarrassing the Apple still does not have that you know I think it has no fan inside it someone's posted a link to [TS]

00:26:49   an exploded view from the presentation it looks like there's no place for a fan in there [TS]

00:26:54   and it makes sense if it's using like you know cell phone caliber parts that it would need to fan the box is plenty big [TS]

00:26:58   to have you know passive cooling for the for the insides there but I think the whole reason this box [TS]

00:27:04   and the Roku exist. [TS]

00:27:06   It's Apple's fault for not making apple he better fast enough like the whole thing with Apple's i go they keep you know [TS]

00:27:11   proving their products incrementally [TS]

00:27:13   and before you know they're so far from where they've gone just look at how much more amazing the i Phone five is than [TS]

00:27:17   the original i Phone. Sure that's for the products they care about but for these hobby products of Apple T.V. [TS]

00:27:22   Has stagnated like crazy like it's ancient hardware [TS]

00:27:25   and the software features like this is worse than like I was one point no one there oh you got a big grid of icons that [TS]

00:27:30   you have limited control over [TS]

00:27:32   and we keep adding new icons to it kind of sort of like think of how much better could be we should have search across [TS]

00:27:37   all services. [TS]

00:27:38   Voice support all these things that we see an apple all the apples other devices [TS]

00:27:42   and I'm not asking for a thumbprint center on a remote [TS]

00:27:44   but give us something like There's nothing that that Amazon a Roku has done that Apple couldn't have done years ago [TS]

00:27:49   they just didn't and I don't know they're just not prioritizing it [TS]

00:27:52   or if they have some other grand plan that is yet to be revealed [TS]

00:27:54   and it will make sense that they've been you know like they're going for such a huge jump over what's come before it [TS]

00:27:59   but they have not. Incrementally made Apple T.V. [TS]

00:28:01   Better at a rate that is they've let competitors catch up to them [TS]

00:28:05   and pass them in so many areas for for no good reason other than just not putting the resources toward that no good [TS]

00:28:11   reason that we know of yet again if they come up with some like and here's our grand plan for T.V. [TS]

00:28:15   and It's likely to unbalance beyond that it's like OK well it took them a while [TS]

00:28:18   and that's where they were considering all they are right now just like they are letting people catch up with them [TS]

00:28:22   and letting people do things that they should have done a long time ago. [TS]

00:28:25   It's you know whether or not I buy one of these devices it's making me less satisfied with my Apple T.V. [TS]

00:28:29   To know it's like come on Apple everyone else is doing this you've got your stupid you know. I.R. [TS]

00:28:34   Remote no voice command telep terrible interface [TS]

00:28:37   and occasionally as Merlin will point out occasionally I see the stupid little spinner [TS]

00:28:41   and it gives me an obscure our message and I have to go unplug lamp T.V. and It annoys me and it makes me sad. [TS]

00:28:47   So you love your Apple T.V. Is what you're saying. [TS]

00:28:49   It's still my favorite Netflix clan I still go to internet place because it has no fan in it [TS]

00:28:53   and because it's better than that sucks client built into my television which has to be on so that's its competition [TS]

00:28:58   it's got to be on anyway so I could use it as a client [TS]

00:29:00   and it's second place because it has no fan so what you think about this controller the game controller. [TS]

00:29:07   I mean you can't you can't tell without holding it but it does not look good [TS]

00:29:10   and the history of non gaming companies making game controllers is not good. [TS]

00:29:14   So I'm assuming the game controllable not be all that wonderful at their gaming ambitions that kind of reminds me to [TS]

00:29:21   remember that thing the kick started Android based console used on that thing also apparently had a terrible controller [TS]

00:29:27   but like it's tough to break into the game business like especially We just want to go casual like oh [TS]

00:29:32   and by the way I play games. [TS]

00:29:33   You'll get like it's like being a mac gamer you get maybe if you're lucky you'll get a pop. [TS]

00:29:38   The most popular three games from a couple years ago and other platforms that all real gamers have already played [TS]

00:29:43   and maybe it'll be OK for you kids to play them [TS]

00:29:45   and I know I am of the hired a bunch of gaming people to write games for their platform or whatever [TS]

00:29:49   but I think I did something similar [TS]

00:29:52   and it's like it's really difficult to to get critical mass in gaming you really need to be dedicated to it if you want [TS]

00:29:57   to be like in like you know AAA papa. [TS]

00:30:00   Again if you just want to be the kind of casual games then you competing with the i O. S. [TS]

00:30:03   Ecosystem or you know like cell phone games [TS]

00:30:05   and stuff that's difficult to do to the controllers are forty bucks each if you buy two controllers you're almost [TS]

00:30:11   doubling the cost of the entire thing [TS]

00:30:13   and they're not that appear not to be very good controllers from looking at how they're shaped [TS]

00:30:18   and I can imagine shape aside that Amazon's first controller is up to the standards of a good controller from Microsoft [TS]

00:30:26   Sony and Nintendo [TS]

00:30:27   but also I mean it's a type of thing where it's like if they didn't do it it's just like Apple I mean [TS]

00:30:33   and the Amazon way is like look we've got the hardware there you can play games we can still sell for ninety nine bucks [TS]

00:30:37   why not I think it's a good move Dad and I think it's smart [TS]

00:30:40   and it takes off fine if it doesn't then it's just another little thing that your T.V. [TS]

00:30:43   Can do like there's so many things that are devices or go to our T.V. Can do like my T.V. Can do the T.V. [TS]

00:30:49   Not anything else but just held in a cell can do like Amazon [TS]

00:30:52   or Netflix I can stream from my phonology I can pull things from my mac like it does just the television does that like [TS]

00:30:59   everything everything is Netflix built in tuner you can have Amazon Video built [TS]

00:31:03   and everything is as support for a deal on a server as it just is just a question of which box you want to use [TS]

00:31:08   and it's it's just you know who who has the exclusives well i Tunes stuff is only from Apple [TS]

00:31:14   and Amazon seems to be pretty permits us but something like something like H.B.O. [TS]

00:31:20   Go or only on certain platforms [TS]

00:31:21   and it's just like it's enough already like they're not I'm glad there's a little bit of competition here to try to [TS]

00:31:26   keep Apple honest and try to make their puck better get a really needs to be improved sometime soon [TS]

00:31:32   but having more little pucks to connect to my T.V. Is not really solving my problem. [TS]

00:31:38   Yeah and that's that's the frustrating part is you know because honestly this is a lot like cable T.V. [TS]

00:31:43   It's like the entire T.V. [TS]

00:31:44   Business always always has been and still is you know we we ask these tech companies Oh please come in [TS]

00:31:50   and save us from bad T.V. Companies. [TS]

00:31:52   But they're just doing the exact same thing which is company A has exclusive content X. You know Company B. Has it. [TS]

00:32:00   Platform why. And all these things make it so that there is no like one good solution for everything. [TS]

00:32:05   It's just it's annoying because you know these problems are pretty much doomed to happen you know because these [TS]

00:32:15   business models because of just what happens with publishing content owning content you know making ecosystems on [TS]

00:32:21   ecosystems it will never be in any these companies' best interests to make something that is actually good for us [TS]

00:32:28   because they'll make it because somebody will have less control or make less money as a result of that. [TS]

00:32:32   Well these cable companies like who you got your cable home for so you had a few choices but everybody offered to H.B.O. [TS]

00:32:38   Maybe the prices vary slightly [TS]

00:32:39   but you get you going to be an everywhere like there's no way if you lived where if you cable T.V. [TS]

00:32:45   You couldn't get like H.B.O. Showtime E.S.P.N. M.T.V. Like you can always get those things. [TS]

00:32:48   This the exclusive her money more like the game console space where like if you want to love to get a magazine console [TS]

00:32:54   it's never going to be able to sell so you know Microsoft owns them right. [TS]

00:32:57   Or pick whatever you know Mario and and oh [TS]

00:33:00   and Sony games it's There was you know exclusives to try to bring to the platform [TS]

00:33:06   and it would annoy like real hardcore gamers who have to buy multiple consuls just for the three [TS]

00:33:11   or four games that were exclusives because they were good [TS]

00:33:14   but there's a constant battle to see how many big players in the game console space can can be sustained. [TS]

00:33:20   You can have fifty of them there's just not enough people are going to buy fifty console so the numbers seem to be [TS]

00:33:24   around two or three and the T.V. [TS]

00:33:26   Connected puck market we had apple and Roku basically and a couple of the people coming here [TS]

00:33:32   and there so maybe it's going to be Amazon Apple [TS]

00:33:35   and Roku I think you could probably sustain them with them jockeying for exclusive content [TS]

00:33:40   but then you've got companies like Netflix that want to be everywhere that also are trying to get exclusive content [TS]

00:33:44   but then they're selling house of house of cards to Comcast for on demand [TS]

00:33:48   and it's it's a weird weird situation that hopefully going to resolve itself sometime in the next decade or two [TS]

00:33:56   but right now it is everyone is jockeying for this and I think people better. [TS]

00:34:00   Your position as hard as they can because if you don't you're slow I google it. [TS]

00:34:03   Google doesn't have a pocket about Chromecast may have got their fibre T.V. [TS]

00:34:07   Thing but they don't seem to be in the POC market at all [TS]

00:34:11   and it could be that by the time the dust settles they are just fenced out by whoever the two [TS]

00:34:15   or three big people who won that race are oh yeah I don't see that Google being present in this in this race at all [TS]

00:34:21   because it's always been like you were not always obviously this is everything in tech is pretty young [TS]

00:34:26   but it's been pretty obvious for a while that the online media market of you know video video content mainly is really [TS]

00:34:36   a two horse race. It's Apple versus Amazon you know Microsoft has their own deals with like X. [TS]

00:34:41   Box Live they used to have I don't know if they still do they probably do [TS]

00:34:43   and you know Google has a couple of things in the Play Store and stuff or Google's got You Tube though [TS]

00:34:48   and you would think like you know you choose not the same thing You Tube is just a bunch of videos there's not T.V. [TS]

00:34:53   Shows [TS]

00:34:53   but the amount of like video that my daughter now watches it's You Tube I think it's long since clips television she [TS]

00:35:01   she watches you tube instead of watching television I don't know that's a trending thing and it will go away [TS]

00:35:05   but You Tube can't be discounted. [TS]

00:35:08   And I mean Amazon basically I mean Amazon and on [TS]

00:35:11   and on Google is trying to do Google Video remember that before they bought You Tube Well they made their mother said [TS]

00:35:16   yeah never mind we're going to we're going to buy You Tube but I mean [TS]

00:35:19   and You Tube is everywhere You Tube is available on my T.V. Is available on my Apple T.V. [TS]

00:35:23   I'm assuming it's available on Amazon things so Google kind of as a worthless race [TS]

00:35:27   but not a hardware thing they don't have a talk. [TS]

00:35:29   Well and it's probably not in Google's best interest to ever withhold You Tube from a platform and they had Google T.V. [TS]

00:35:38   Like they did make they were the only people to actually try to do my own Everest boxing and I did a bad job of it [TS]

00:35:43   and nobody liked it [TS]

00:35:44   and it was never going to work because everybody entire industry hates the idea of such a thing even if it worked well [TS]

00:35:48   which it didn't so that kind of went away. [TS]

00:35:51   I don't know if they'll make another run at it but they were early [TS]

00:35:54   and they were early with like a big giant platypus awkward thing and it didn't work out for them till they were done. [TS]

00:36:00   Try now I don't I feel like all of this is really about licensing and I say that because the Amazon Fire T.V.. [TS]

00:36:09   Isn't available outside the US right. I don't know that Amazon is historically very bad at non-U.S. [TS]

00:36:15   Media availability precisely and so if this isn't available anywhere else [TS]

00:36:21   and additionally I think you're right John in saying that we're just kind of running in circles around just getting [TS]

00:36:27   streaming things to our T.V. [TS]

00:36:29   In different ways but the only way I think there's going to be a monumental shift in how T.V. [TS]

00:36:34   Works is if licensed licensing deals change so for example I can go online and order a league [TS]

00:36:42   or a season pass for getting the New York Giants on my Apple T.V. [TS]

00:36:48   and May be off to pay for that and that's fine but I don't need to worry about whether [TS]

00:36:51   or not they're playing the Redskins or what blackout situation there is. [TS]

00:36:54   It's just I get to see the Giants always Or perhaps you know you could buy a season pass for How I Met Your Mother [TS]

00:37:01   which obviously just ended but just for the sake of discussion you have met your mother [TS]

00:37:05   and you can get those episodes either as they are live or moments after and I think without probably sports [TS]

00:37:12   and if not sports more widespread stream a ball traditional T.V. [TS]

00:37:17   or Game of Thrones is another great example of not seen it but I understand it's wildly popular [TS]

00:37:21   and you can't get anywhere but the U.S. [TS]

00:37:24   So without fixing them I don't really feel like any of these pucks are really going to make a tremendous difference in [TS]

00:37:31   our worlds but fixing that as you said John is just a total bag of hurt. [TS]

00:37:35   Well the pucks to the pucks are important because the pucks give you something they can get better at a faster rate [TS]

00:37:41   than your television and that is extremely important as well [TS]

00:37:44   and one of the Apple four is like they have that advantage [TS]

00:37:46   and they're not taking advantage of they have three generations of the puck [TS]

00:37:50   or maybe only two generations of the little Black Hawk before they went from the big giant crazy thing like of Iowa [TS]

00:37:55   space Apple T.V. and They haven't made it better at the same. [TS]

00:38:00   It's like the slowest moving i Pod Touch I complain about. [TS]

00:38:03   It's been like five hundred days since an update but like Apple T.V. [TS]

00:38:06   The ten update wasn't that long ago but it was like a nothing update and they keep channels [TS]

00:38:11   but like How far as I was itself [TS]

00:38:13   or the i Phone come in that same distance this obvious features that their competitors are getting I mean an hour mode [TS]

00:38:19   Voice Search notion U.I. Games support anything like all these things with there for the taking and not taking it like. [TS]

00:38:25   And so I'm glad to see the parks out there trying like a broker who has improved its hardware and software by leaps [TS]

00:38:31   and bounds of the same period Apple has not and this is Amazon's first go [TS]

00:38:35   but these little parks give the market an opportunity to churn. [TS]

00:38:40   You know it's cheaper now you know about that you can buy a new one of these every two years not feel bad about it [TS]

00:38:44   and you're not going to buy a new T.V. Every two years unless you're me. [TS]

00:38:49   It lets it lets them chase each other make the tech better make it faster maybe maybe it is more fun to game consuls [TS]

00:38:55   maybe they don't like maybe these things get better than the T.V. [TS]

00:38:58   when They reach a certain point [TS]

00:38:59   but like getting a better new television like the worst thing that could happen at this point because you want these [TS]

00:39:02   guys to compete [TS]

00:39:03   and aerated iterate to get through this awkward beginning period just to kind of settle down to like the feature set [TS]

00:39:10   and you know if they end up being gaming devices they can never settle down because games we always need more power for [TS]

00:39:15   like you'll never say well this game consuls good novel uses the next twenty years you will not it will not be good [TS]

00:39:19   enough for twenty years like do you want the newest thing eventually so I'm glad these parks exist as an external thing [TS]

00:39:26   but like it's not going to be some consolidation coming and I think is going be a long way off. [TS]

00:39:33   You mentioned sports with a local blackout that's probably not going to go away in our lifetime just because of the [TS]

00:39:38   huge amount of money in local television that's going to take forever to get rid of [TS]

00:39:41   and so there's so many barriers to actually you know if you can just wipe the slate clean [TS]

00:39:46   and say we have the internet pretend there is no pre-existing video let's make a system built on it you could build [TS]

00:39:52   something that's nice and even and gives consumers choice [TS]

00:39:54   and as competition never get every content they want for a reasonable price but we don't live in that world. [TS]

00:40:00   We're going to transition from what we have now to take a long time you know I completely agree [TS]

00:40:05   but is there someone is there a sport that like Team Mobile where they're just seriously desperate to get viewers [TS]

00:40:13   and it's like I think the A M L B is done this and also N.H.L. [TS]

00:40:17   To some degree I guess from what I'm told I'm not a baseball nor hockey fan [TS]

00:40:22   but from what I gather they're there streaming apps and plans and so on and so forth are actually fairly good [TS]

00:40:32   and I think there are still black outs for sure but they're relatively future looking [TS]

00:40:38   and I'm wondering obviously the N.F.L. [TS]

00:40:40   Never got to this point but wellness all this stuff about concussions actually people pay attention to it [TS]

00:40:46   but anyway you know maybe maybe the young L.B. [TS]

00:40:49   For the sake of conversation get so desperate that they're like you know what screw the local channels let's just do [TS]

00:40:53   this right. [TS]

00:40:54   I'm always going to be the last one to divert from OK maybe I was a poor choice [TS]

00:40:57   but you know what I'm driving at right is there any sport like that yellow there's W W E which I read an article by [TS]

00:41:03   recently that's a sport Well you know I get it. [TS]

00:41:08   It's entertainment anyway like [TS]

00:41:10   and they embrace the Internet as a way to get their content to their viewers because they couldn't get a challenge of [TS]

00:41:16   trying to get like a channel or wrestling channel on cable naked getting a rebuff so they go on the Internet. [TS]

00:41:21   There's also e-sports which is watching people play video games for people who don't know the terminology I think of [TS]

00:41:28   getting it right that's what I call e-sports anyway. It's wildly popular in other countries. [TS]

00:41:32   It's somewhat popular here. That's a natural medium for the Internet Twitch T.V. [TS]

00:41:36   and All that stuff incredibly popular among a certain set of people. [TS]

00:41:41   Yeah there's an opportunity for for sports markets that aren't [TS]

00:41:46   or in any way to send a video to people that don't have a president regular television aren't entangled in these crazy [TS]

00:41:52   relationships for things like baseball and football and you know in the rest of the world I don't know that there are. [TS]

00:42:00   The world is like for soccer and everything [TS]

00:42:02   but I suppose if you wait for the current generation of people to all die maybe two generations [TS]

00:42:09   and for people to die then people won't care about watching things on local television anymore [TS]

00:42:15   and I'll just be so incensed that they can't watch their local team on their i Pad that it will just have to change. [TS]

00:42:20   But certainly for the people who are alive today you got to wait for pretty much all everyone who was an adult [TS]

00:42:26   when the Internet came into being to die before we can get like a local television out from the local television [TS]

00:42:31   markets for things like baseball because like how much money the Yankees make from selling exclusive rights to local [TS]

00:42:37   television broadcast their games is just enormous. [TS]

00:42:40   Yeah I know you're right I'm just I kind of hope for some sport that's the sporting equivalent of T. [TS]

00:42:46   Mobile to be so desperate to just shake things up to just say you know what screw T.V. [TS]

00:42:51   Let's in I think W W E was actually very good example where you just say Screw T.V. [TS]

00:42:57   Let's do it our way and see what happens [TS]

00:42:59   and I don't think there's going to be anyone that people care enough about kind of like T. [TS]

00:43:04   Mobile to really get a groundswell to push the N.F.L. or M L B or whatever into being more progressive. [TS]

00:43:13   See what happens with the mobile first strategy seems to be employed Altucher point for point. [TS]

00:43:18   Nigga still he's doing things that that at launch sound like oh my God this is this is really going be a big deal [TS]

00:43:24   and then ends up just not really being a big deal [TS]

00:43:26   but because there are I mean there are barriers infrastructure it's like you know they would never do that if they had [TS]

00:43:31   the cell towers that horizon but if they had the cell towers that Verizon has they wouldn't you know need to do that [TS]

00:43:36   and it's just it's a chicken egg thing so I think it's good that you have you know competitors who need to do more [TS]

00:43:41   radical things [TS]

00:43:42   but it doesn't it doesn't solve their sort of structural weakness like suddenly your signal doesn't get better [TS]

00:43:49   depending on where you live you know you just there's no getting around physical structure the wires to the old houses [TS]

00:43:53   or cell towers. Thanks because cell tower that put piece somewhere way down a topic that we happened to get to it. [TS]

00:44:00   Here sponsor this week also once again by our friends at Pixelmator also known as picks on the tour. [TS]

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00:44:58   or They don't play nice when Apple releases new A P I's [TS]

00:45:01   or they don't optimize Pixelmator is basically the opposite Pixelmator is it has full maverick support it had full [TS]

00:45:09   maverick support as far as I remember like from day one of mavericks being out it's a ports file ties the ports [TS]

00:45:14   multiple displays. [TS]

00:45:15   It's very it's very optimized for app nap [TS]

00:45:19   and the power management stuff in Maverick So if you're going out on a laptop which most people will be it's very very [TS]

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00:45:25   You can always see you can go to the battery shame meter as John says [TS]

00:45:29   and you can see you know what programs are being shamed into using too much or because there's too much power. [TS]

00:45:35   You can you can compare compute computing prospects [TS]

00:45:37   and you can see Pixelmator really is very heavily optimized for power saving for all the new stuff. [TS]

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00:46:23   Are Pixelmator dot com to learn more Thanks a lot to Pixelmator for sponsoring our show once again. So the U.S.P.S. [TS]

00:46:31   Consortium people have decided they would like a lightning connector you know [TS]

00:46:38   and we actually talked about this back before they had an idea what it would look like back [TS]

00:46:43   when they announced the U.S.B. [TS]

00:46:45   If announced that they would be looking into this [TS]

00:46:48   and creating a new kind of connector that would be small reversible [TS]

00:46:52   and you know non sucky because everyone agreed to the U.S.B. [TS]

00:46:56   Three plugs suck especially the many ones which are ridiculous. [TS]

00:47:00   So they went off and I were going to buy one of these is going to come out soon. [TS]

00:47:05   So this what's new now is that we now have a rendering of what it might look like from the U.S.B. [TS]

00:47:13   If so I'm not sure if this is actually news or not what I think of News of it if it's accurate. [TS]

00:47:22   Yeah like if they ran the rendering is not just fantasy but just like this is what we planned to build [TS]

00:47:27   and we haven't built it yet but it's going to look like this when we build it. [TS]

00:47:30   That's my impression of what this rendering is. [TS]

00:47:33   Yeah pretty much and you know the rendering basically looks like the halfway point between lightning and mini U.S.B. [TS]

00:47:42   or Micro U.S.B. Two. [TS]

00:47:43   Well [TS]

00:47:43   when we first talked about it I think I said that like it has to look like a lightning connector because what else can [TS]

00:47:48   you do in anything that small it has to be like Oh I think that trees are so darn small Certainly you can't make it [TS]

00:47:52   like a shrunken version of the regular U.S.B. [TS]

00:47:55   Connector will work at those sizes which is why lightning looks like it does but then a. [TS]

00:48:00   Bill said I think you guys about it like well lightning is expensive to make and you can't be as precious [TS]

00:48:05   and beautiful Lightning connector has to be cheap for everybody to make I just think they can come up with a connector [TS]

00:48:11   that was that small [TS]

00:48:12   and also not pretty much exactly like a lightning connector like a solid piece of metal with contacts side [TS]

00:48:17   and looks like from these drawings that they've somehow decided that they're going to make it the size [TS]

00:48:23   and shape of lightning connector but still have it be hollow. [TS]

00:48:26   So the in the connector slot is a little more must be a microscopic extremely thin little thing with contacts on it [TS]

00:48:33   that goes into the hole in the connector in a grand and it fits both ways and it should be pretty easy to line that up. [TS]

00:48:38   But boy I'm worried about that in terms of durability like [TS]

00:48:41   but once you get down to that size the lighting had to make so much sense it's like it's going to be so small anyway [TS]

00:48:46   you better make it solid for the kind of from the outside. [TS]

00:48:49   I can't like I don't I will have to see the real I guess is conceivable that it could be done [TS]

00:48:55   but I'm super worried about having to shove a little tiny thing inside a little tiny microscopic hole even if it fits [TS]

00:49:01   both ways. [TS]

00:49:03   Yeah I think about too that the Jack side of it is going to be on phones which means we're going to be in people's [TS]

00:49:07   pockets get filled up with lint [TS]

00:49:09   and the hat like to have the tolerances be so small like you know we saw some of this with the old thirty pin dock an [TS]

00:49:16   actor which had a similar kind of design but it was larger of course was way bigger way bigger than this look. [TS]

00:49:23   Yes but [TS]

00:49:23   but you know you can see like OK if you have a really really thin you know flat car type you know connector on one side [TS]

00:49:31   and then like you know a jack on the other side like you know cable doesn't get in there it's going to have weird [TS]

00:49:37   contacts going to have weird you know pressure issues it might snap it or bended or whatever like [TS]

00:49:42   and that was at that thickness for the dock connector that that actually happened didn't happen a lot [TS]

00:49:46   but it did occasionally happen. At this this is an even smaller connector by a lot. [TS]

00:49:52   It's narrower sibilant there's less area to bend and it just seems that looks like if they can. [TS]

00:50:00   Old us off it's going to be great it's going to be [TS]

00:50:01   and not as lightning because of that because of that you know more complicated physical design in the connector [TS]

00:50:08   but if they actually pull this off great good for them. [TS]

00:50:12   I just have doubts that they will be able to or that if they do I have doubts it'll be very durable. [TS]

00:50:16   That's the big thing. [TS]

00:50:18   I'm going to go around everyone's laptop or our Smart roll on these connectors on a stick by fingernail [TS]

00:50:23   and there you go snap you know you can actually broken right interesting region there with different email snap every [TS]

00:50:30   one of those who wants a little printed circuit board snaps that like it's such a small opening and dust [TS]

00:50:35   and everything. The stopping small of any way that I think dust might might even be a problem. [TS]

00:50:39   People who keep their like i Phones in their pocket now I don't know what gets shoved to the Lightning connector. [TS]

00:50:44   But at least you got the full width [TS]

00:50:45   and height of that connector this year less than having it something's less than half the width of that connector can [TS]

00:50:52   get jammed in there because jammed between the internal tongue and the top [TS]

00:50:55   or bottom that's you know that's a small margin there [TS]

00:50:59   and what could that time be made out of such that it stiffen up to go into the little hole in the line up correctly. [TS]

00:51:04   But not so stiff that I can break it off with my fingernail. Right and U.S.B. [TS]

00:51:08   Also you know as we discussed previously one of the reasons why the U.S.B. [TS]

00:51:13   Centers were always so plain and bland [TS]

00:51:16   and crappy is because one of their design goals has always been to be very very cheap [TS]

00:51:20   and that's one of the reasons why U.S.B. Has become universal. [TS]

00:51:23   Why live a little to its name because it was really cheap to implement and the harbours are really cheap [TS]

00:51:28   and the connectors Rob really cheap [TS]

00:51:29   and there are you know the tolerances were pretty big in some of these things that you could make a pretty whacked out [TS]

00:51:34   connector or cable and it would still work. [TS]

00:51:37   And obviously as things get better faster more advanced that you know the tolerances are going to have to shrink [TS]

00:51:41   and get tighter [TS]

00:51:41   but this I am I'm afraid to see how this will be implemented badly because it will be everything the U.S.B. [TS]

00:51:50   Standard ever U.S.B. [TS]

00:51:51   Standard becomes implemented badly among a lot of devices that are out there [TS]

00:51:56   and you're going to buy like a ten dollars card reader or a fifteen. [TS]

00:52:00   Our external drive enclosure or something like those are going to have not the best quality connectors on them [TS]

00:52:06   and if this becomes a new standard which you know if it doesn't it's kind of pointless. [TS]

00:52:11   You kind of want to become the standard. All those super cheap U.S.B. [TS]

00:52:15   Devices out there that work that are part of what makes us be so great. [TS]

00:52:19   Those are going to have some really dodgy connectors I think I think about this I think about this is the present Apple [TS]

00:52:26   devices which I think we would all agree have extremely precise cut outs for the connectors on them like a laser cut [TS]

00:52:34   things that usually line up pretty darn well. [TS]

00:52:36   But Apple also has a tendency to you know design it's things without regard to connectors so for example on the back of [TS]

00:52:42   a twenty seven inch thunderbolt display or any of those curved displays they have U.S.B. [TS]

00:52:47   Ports on the back but the back is curved [TS]

00:52:49   but the ports obviously have to be you have to plug the plugs in perpendicular to the connector [TS]

00:52:55   and these are big chunky full size U.S.B. Know the a type connector like you know regular U.S.B. [TS]

00:53:02   Connectors very often I find it difficult to plug in the connectors because you're not sure what angle it supposed to [TS]

00:53:08   go out and I've seen Apple displays where people have done that struggle like trying to get the thing plugged in [TS]

00:53:14   and not that they've suddenly bent the little plastic thingy that's inside a U.S.B. [TS]

00:53:19   Connectors to make makes it even more difficult to plug it in because now it's kind of like bend in the wrong direction [TS]

00:53:23   he had to kind of get past that little threshold to go in and these are the big humongous chunky U.S.B. [TS]

00:53:29   Connectors that they have they haven't broken. But they're knowing to plug in because you have to line something up. [TS]

00:53:34   And by people struggling with it they've made it worse by bending something in the wrong direction this is going to be [TS]

00:53:40   that same problem on Apple devices anyway multiplied many times over by the way I know this is a ridiculous thing to [TS]

00:53:47   complain about but try having a cylindrical computer it's actually substantially worker. [TS]

00:53:51   Oh you have if you had to guess what angle they have to go and I don't like you deserve it. I do you're right. [TS]

00:53:57   If you're having trouble with this when you can get it. It's under my way whether or not your hand. [TS]

00:54:02   But like the beauty of the Lightning connector is that if you can find the hole just start shoving [TS]

00:54:08   and it will align itself like there's nothing you have to line up it within the hole you have to get the metal thing [TS]

00:54:13   into the slot and just press and it will it will light self up which is not true of U.S.B. [TS]

00:54:17   or Firewire eight hundred even worse like five or eight hundred connector needs to be burned with fire I guess. [TS]

00:54:24   So hard to plug things into they have so many little details that have to be lined up. [TS]

00:54:28   Try pulling on one of those in the back of an apple Thunderball display most of that is Apple's fault [TS]

00:54:32   but I'm just saying like a connector that can tolerate that type of environment is best [TS]

00:54:38   and I'm not sure about this one. [TS]

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00:55:12   like almost every eyeglass store [TS]

00:55:15   and almost every company is owned by like one big company like looks like I think it's in any way. [TS]

00:55:21   It's like I didn't realize a quite how much consolidation there is in this business but worry Parker is independent [TS]

00:55:25   and this is why to be able to bypass this tremendous distribution system by this conglomerate. [TS]

00:55:31   I didn't say that in fact I hope I don't get in trouble for saying that [TS]

00:55:34   but that's why they're able to do this because there's a huge monopoly power there [TS]

00:55:39   and they're just bypassing completely [TS]

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00:56:02   There's no like well you can get the base price model which sucks [TS]

00:56:05   or you can get the one that you actually want it won't fall apart in two days for you know six hundred bucks. [TS]

00:56:10   Nothing like that. [TS]

00:56:11   Buying glasses online sounds like it would be risky so you know how would you know where the fit or how to look on you. [TS]

00:56:17   Well they had you covered with these two pretty impressive things so number one it is tools on their site where you can [TS]

00:56:23   use your webcam. [TS]

00:56:24   You take a picture yourself you can take an overlay [TS]

00:56:26   and it can show you exactly how the glasses will look on you right from the webcam [TS]

00:56:30   and then they have this even better thing which is the home try on program. So here's how this works. [TS]

00:56:36   You go to their site you pick out up to five pairs if you don't pick out all five they'll send you five anyway they'll [TS]

00:56:40   take a picture for you. [TS]

00:56:41   You pick out five pairs [TS]

00:56:43   and they will send you the frames you can try on for free right in your home heating for a couple days if ever you need [TS]

00:56:50   decide decided home askers living another walk around asking people to work whatever you want to do. [TS]

00:56:55   Decide on whatever these frames you want and if you don't like any of them that's about decision too. [TS]

00:56:59   But I bet you like one of them at least. So take out the one you want. [TS]

00:57:04   Send them back the box and then you can place an order to have that with your prescription in it. [TS]

00:57:08   All that is free there is no charge for the home Tran program they pay they pay to ship it to you. [TS]

00:57:13   They pay to ship it back. [TS]

00:57:14   All that very very simple very very good [TS]

00:57:17   and you can do a couple of these if you want to if you don't find what you want the first time. [TS]

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00:57:48   Thanks a lot to worry Parker for sponsoring our show once again so we should probably at some point talk about this [TS]

00:57:56   employee poaching thing. That seems to have started in the valley but spread quiet a long ways away from there. [TS]

00:58:06   So what this is about is Apple and Google especially seem to be pointed at the most. [TS]

00:58:12   But many companies I think the number was like twenty or thirty companies something like that were accused of [TS]

00:58:18   and from all accounts seem to have tried to avoid hiring from each other [TS]

00:58:26   and made agreements that they would try to keep wages the same not hire from each other it really is extremely crummy [TS]

00:58:34   And so this is false it's in trial now is that correct. Neither of us have been a no I don't know. [TS]

00:58:42   I I don't know enough about this. Do we know for sure the articles I've read which admittedly have not been enough. [TS]

00:58:50   I keep seeing it being referred to as a wage fixing cartel [TS]

00:58:53   but I haven't actually seen anything about the way things have seen anti-poaching agreements which you know might have [TS]

00:58:59   the effect of keeping wages down [TS]

00:59:00   but is there actual were they actually agreeing to like keep salary levels at a certain range [TS]

00:59:07   and the same thing has been labeling with a secondary effect [TS]

00:59:10   but it's all it's all the same thing you can agree with a bunch of companies all can't agree with each other. [TS]

00:59:14   I want I want higher from you [TS]

00:59:15   and you want higher for me in that way we will have to pay our people more like us the implied secondary effect [TS]

00:59:20   and it's actually even worse than that if you saw some of the e-mails I think it's going to be in trial now because I [TS]

00:59:24   don't want to be seen as a one of them. [TS]

00:59:25   One situation that was detailed in these it was either a deposition or e-mail or both. [TS]

00:59:30   It was like a bunch of people left Apple and went to work for Google So Google didn't post them. [TS]

00:59:36   They left apple of their own accord and went to work for Google [TS]

00:59:40   and Google wanted to set them up I forgot the skills group be able to set them up doing something in an office [TS]

00:59:46   somewhere. [TS]

00:59:47   And before they did that they were in touch with Steve Jobs and say hey we've got some people here [TS]

00:59:52   and they used to work for you [TS]

00:59:53   and they want they want to set them up in an office here is that OK with you Steve I know you were close to these [TS]

00:59:58   people whatever it is I want to make sure. [TS]

01:00:00   And and they're like well you know they were talking myself I was one of those and I work in an i Phone stuff [TS]

01:00:05   or whatever I bet it will be OK with Steve like. So first of all the whole premise that you have to call the C.E.O. [TS]

01:00:10   Of your competitor to make sure that you are allowed to hire his employees who left of their own accord. [TS]

01:00:15   It's crazy and then saying well we can we can hire them make sure they're not working [TS]

01:00:18   and you know make Steve angry so we can have them work on mobile phone or anything like that. [TS]

01:00:22   But surely if we agree they're not going to work in a mobile phone starts they will be OK with it [TS]

01:00:25   or whatever in the end. [TS]

01:00:26   Steve Jobs then so I said I would prefer you don't hire those people and so he didn't like it [TS]

01:00:31   and they didn't put in the work and that office they were going to set up for them like that is that's crazy. [TS]

01:00:36   That is super illegal and terrible handy competitive [TS]

01:00:40   and just like what's going through these people's heads these companies are that this is the way things should be done [TS]

01:00:45   that you know that you would like get the OK to look at what your employees are going to do [TS]

01:00:53   or whether you're going to hire people from your like your fiercest competitor obviously this is maybe before they [TS]

01:00:58   already tell this throat but it just make you sick to your stomach to think about that like these people's lives [TS]

01:01:04   and careers are altered by the whim of like a person who runs the company they don't work for anymore. [TS]

01:01:11   Right and the other thing I saw was that apparently Facebook basically said screw that tough no B.S. [TS]

01:01:17   and Because of that apparently Google decided Well a lot of our people are going to Facebook [TS]

01:01:24   and since we can't get Facebook to agree not to poach our people can we do. [TS]

01:01:30   We should probably try to convince our people to stay although we could pay them more. [TS]

01:01:35   That's what we could do [TS]

01:01:37   and so they just they gave everyone I think in the entire company a thousand dollar spot bonus [TS]

01:01:43   and raise salaries ten percent. [TS]

01:01:46   I'm almost sure that's right it was in one of the links open the show notes [TS]

01:01:49   but yet because they weren't poaching I'm sorry because they were poaching Facebook was poaching Google people. [TS]

01:01:57   Google suddenly realized we should probably pay our people more. [TS]

01:02:00   So markets your point earlier you know even though it may not enjoy saying this even though it may not on the surface [TS]

01:02:06   sounds like wage fixing the net effect was wage mixing [TS]

01:02:10   and this is totally like I mean this is not just an apple problem as many companies involved will [TS]

01:02:15   and many others like them go get it is the most famous and they're in the headlines right [TS]

01:02:18   but like regardless of all the other companies involved this is one hundred percent a Steve Jobs thing to do because in [TS]

01:02:24   his mind like he's like look I'm trying to do great things here and I need great people do great things [TS]

01:02:28   and you stealing my people piss me off [TS]

01:02:30   and makes harder for me to do great things so why don't we all captains of industry get together just agree not to [TS]

01:02:34   steal each other's people because it'll make everybody's life easier we all hate it now finally we can get back to work [TS]

01:02:39   which is basically putting Steve Jobs desires a desire to change the world Apple above the lives of all the employees [TS]

01:02:45   of all these companies like we don't care if you can get make more money or you can move to a different city [TS]

01:02:49   and get equal you know tech job like or a different country [TS]

01:02:53   or whatever because I don't care about your mobility in your life I just care about doing great things [TS]

01:02:58   and so my demands as C.E.O. [TS]

01:03:00   Are trump all these employees and this is the way it should be [TS]

01:03:04   and like someone in the chair asked why on earth would it would do go ask Apple if it was OK if they're legally in the [TS]

01:03:09   clear [TS]

01:03:09   when they just hire the person like the whole point googled in one apple stealing it's people Apple did my Google thing [TS]

01:03:13   it's people who think that churn turnover the problem for both companies a raise they would have to raise all their all [TS]

01:03:18   their payroll to keep the people that they wanted [TS]

01:03:20   and they just like look at these are for both of us if we just agree that still it has people [TS]

01:03:24   and Facebook didn't agree to that. [TS]

01:03:25   Mostly people think because most people want to go to work for Facebook alias maybe they're that point they're like pre [TS]

01:03:31   I.P.O. [TS]

01:03:31   Shares or it was there was more upside to Facebook [TS]

01:03:34   or like Facebook was stealing people because they were offering more stuff [TS]

01:03:38   and Facebook's like we're not going to Grizz because we're stealing all of your people you and I still in our people [TS]

01:03:42   and the reason I think Facebook was stealing all their people because they offered the more you have attentional to be [TS]

01:03:46   richer if you come to work for Facebook like they were younger company maybe you'll get some pre I.P.O. [TS]

01:03:51   Shares maybe you'll get some shares of that much bigger upside than these more mature companies will pay you more it's [TS]

01:03:56   more exciting maybe your boarded up or Google or whatever. [TS]

01:04:00   Facebook was hiring people the old fashioned way and stealing people from everybody [TS]

01:04:03   and of course Facebook's not going to great with their whole strategy is we're going to steal all your employees by [TS]

01:04:07   offering them better stuff which like Casey pointed out made Google say well I guess the only until we have a retention [TS]

01:04:12   against Facebook is to pay our employees more [TS]

01:04:14   and in a competitive market where people of these skills are in high demand they're supposed to get paid more the [TS]

01:04:19   companies aren't supposed to collude to make sure that these people can't be mobile in their careers it's this whole [TS]

01:04:24   whole story of infuriating as [TS]

01:04:26   and I totally see it as like the the worst it's kind of like the good side of Steve Jobs [TS]

01:04:31   or you just want to get the job done [TS]

01:04:32   but the worst side of the jobs is he doesn't care you know what kind of damage he leaves in his wake to get what he [TS]

01:04:38   wants and neither do any of the other companies as well not to Steve Jobs [TS]

01:04:41   and all the other people who agreed to this it's it's a terrible attitude just makes me sick reading this whole story [TS]

01:04:48   John Gruber's been doing some great commentary on this because it really does show like this is the kind of thing that [TS]

01:04:55   you know Apple is not worse off in every way with Tim Cook. [TS]

01:05:00   There are there's a few ways that they're better off with Tim Cook [TS]

01:05:02   and I think this is one of them where I don't allow out of people I really don't think this would have happened with [TS]

01:05:08   Tim Cook at the helm because he's it's not really his style he's very careful he's like he's very pragmatic he's he's [TS]

01:05:15   very kind of unemotional about these things he seems he's also very cutthroat So I not sure about this because he he is [TS]

01:05:25   very demanding and cut throat. Thus far it's a good bet like this from the outside. [TS]

01:05:30   The image that Tim copra Trey's we all have trouble seeing him doing stuff like this where we don't have trouble seeing [TS]

01:05:35   Steve Jobs but I think the jury's still out. [TS]

01:05:38   It's not quite accurate to make this all about money and wages because he's for all the companies involved. [TS]

01:05:44   Like I don't think Steve Jobs give a crap about what he was paying his engineers [TS]

01:05:49   and whether this to keep their wages down. I don't think that has anything to do with his end of it all. [TS]

01:05:52   I think his and if it was all about like vengeance and control and he didn't want to boil tea right. [TS]

01:06:00   Didn't want to lose his people to like to this evil company Google that was stealing his products from him like that's [TS]

01:06:05   it was probably it was almost certainly like this emotional [TS]

01:06:09   and controlling thing from Steve Jobs not at all about salaries [TS]

01:06:12   and salaries were simply a side effect of it that he probably didn't even think or care about. [TS]

01:06:16   Well that's a thing he thinks you should stay there because you want to like he's like I shouldn't have to pay you more [TS]

01:06:21   you should stay here because the working rapport you had to work for the best company in the world [TS]

01:06:25   and it's insulting to me that you expect me to pay you more money to stay here. [TS]

01:06:29   But at the same time he also didn't want to lose those people who is like well it's a he's Of Two Minds who thinks like [TS]

01:06:34   you should be should be staying here because you love it so much [TS]

01:06:36   but I'm going to make sure that even if you want to leave you couldn't because you wouldn't get anything better [TS]

01:06:40   anyplace else you might want to stay so being crap [TS]

01:06:42   and you're like if you really want to be able to stay here just pay them more money. [TS]

01:06:46   Well no see no that's the problem that's the other flaw in this argument is that engineers especially people who are [TS]

01:06:53   out on the West Coast you can choose between many very well known tech companies to work for without really uprooting [TS]

01:06:59   their life too much. [TS]

01:07:01   It's like these companies get employees they get talent because of what they're doing [TS]

01:07:07   and what they're you know what's interesting about them. [TS]

01:07:10   Engineers are famously not as motivated by money as you would think [TS]

01:07:13   and generally speaking if somebody is thinking about leaving Apple for Google say giving them ten thousand dollars more [TS]

01:07:19   an apple is not going to really change that decision that for that long or at all. [TS]

01:07:23   It's really it's not a very effective way to keep people if you have people like looking around because they're bored [TS]

01:07:30   or unhappy at their job. [TS]

01:07:31   Money is a terrible way to fix that because it just doesn't work that well in the individual level maybe not [TS]

01:07:36   but in the grand scheme of things it does like that's why Facebook was able to grab these people like Apple is a more [TS]

01:07:41   exciting place to work than Facebook you're going to work in more interesting things that are more appealing to the [TS]

01:07:45   average engineer than you with Facebook like that's not even that depends on what kind of engineer your team your site [TS]

01:07:52   I think like even even if you get to be unlike the glory team where you get to like make the new cool paper app [TS]

01:07:57   and everything like that there's equal glow. [TS]

01:08:00   We've positions that Apple [TS]

01:08:01   and probably if you really care about your thing being used in a long term buy a lot of people you have to put your [TS]

01:08:05   money on Apple like you design the next version of i O. S. [TS]

01:08:08   Is probably going to have more longevity in impact than design even the very tip top flagship cool new U.I. [TS]

01:08:14   Thing like paper or the Facebook Phone [TS]

01:08:16   or whatever think like you know Apple has the Apple has the projects to offer people. [TS]

01:08:22   Facebook should never be able to steal people from Apple except on the server side which obviously that's a whole [TS]

01:08:27   different story. [TS]

01:08:28   And you get retention there is probably not just money but all I have heard [TS]

01:08:33   and I know so little about what goes on in Apple but everyone I know who has work there like we see people coming go [TS]

01:08:42   and they go not because they don't like apple anymore [TS]

01:08:44   but dislike because you burn out on it like it's tough to work with an apple is a hard job it's hard work. [TS]

01:08:50   There are crunch times kind of almost like a game developer you know like this this sort of crunch time that everyone [TS]

01:08:56   except they're going to exist and you just do what you have to do [TS]

01:08:59   and that can really bring you right after we're on someone you just want to relax [TS]

01:09:02   and also you want to just do your own thing [TS]

01:09:03   and within Google I think there used to be more latitude to do your own thing and less of a crunch time. [TS]

01:09:10   There's a lot of factors that contribute towards you know deciding whether you want to stay [TS]

01:09:14   or you know leaving come back [TS]

01:09:17   but this type of agreement doesn't allow you the mobility shuts out all of those because they all agree not to hire [TS]

01:09:24   anyone else. [TS]

01:09:24   Like then you don't have to worry about making your employees happy or is in any way giving them more money [TS]

01:09:29   or giving them more flexibility to do interesting projects on their own [TS]

01:09:33   or not not subjecting everyone to the massive crunch times. [TS]

01:09:37   All those tools like it's like oh we don't worry about that anymore because where that where the heck are they going to [TS]

01:09:40   go we have this agreement with all the companies in the area. Yeah. So you go back a step. [TS]

01:09:46   This was all happening in two thousand and eight. Well all these e-mails that are coming out and Facebook I.P.O. [TS]

01:09:53   Was in twenty twelve. So it actually Facebook being able to poach all these people may have been. [TS]

01:10:00   Financially related [TS]

01:10:01   and additionally from the pandal Daily article that put the show notes the combined work force of just these eleven [TS]

01:10:07   companies I'll read in real quick the second totaled over seven hundred seventy five thousand people in two thousand [TS]

01:10:12   and eight. Those companies are Apple Comcast doubleclick Genet Genentech I.B.M. [TS]

01:10:19   Illuminati excuse me illuminate Intel Intuit Microsoft ugly V W P P and Google. [TS]

01:10:26   So that was nearly a million people in two thousand [TS]

01:10:30   and eight that were all at least in some capacity being shrouded beneath this do not poached agreement thing that's off [TS]

01:10:39   people. [TS]

01:10:41   Yeah I mean there's nothing about this that's that's good [TS]

01:10:45   or encouraging about these companies at all it's likely Johns I just it's kind of a growth story it's just it's not [TS]

01:10:55   it's just it's just kind of sad [TS]

01:10:57   and it shows a lot of arrogance on all sides that like this is I mean obviously this is illegal. [TS]

01:11:02   All this collusion is obviously a problem [TS]

01:11:05   and I'm I'm very surprised that any of these companies were stupid enough to do it especially by email for God's sake. [TS]

01:11:14   Yet To that end I was just going to read this. So this is a quote from an e-mail from Eric Schmidt C.E.O. Of Google. [TS]

01:11:21   Quote I would prefer that omit do it virtually since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued [TS]

01:11:26   later. Question mark. Not sure about this two periods. Thanks Eric of course is a two period guy. [TS]

01:11:34   He means a literal paper trail I guess but I mean do you not realize as the C.E.O. Of Google. [TS]

01:11:41   It is delicious delicious irony that this president doesn't care about anyone else. [TS]

01:11:47   I don't [TS]

01:11:48   and this is the same guy who was like oh privacy doesn't really matter it's not a thing nobody will really have privacy [TS]

01:11:53   anymore. God so ridiculously arrogant. Yeah I like the whole fact that they are in the thing I was talking. [TS]

01:12:00   Where the trying to talk about this Steve give the OK Can we hire these people and it looks like those can be OK [TS]

01:12:05   but in Steve Jobs and the rack one of his tours emails I prefer you know highs people I also want to [TS]

01:12:09   or we can't we can't do it then like that's all happening over email too like it's almost as if not the ignorance of [TS]

01:12:15   the was a defense but if you read this you know do you guys not know that what you're doing is both illegal [TS]

01:12:21   and immoral like wouldn't you. [TS]

01:12:23   Back Like if you going to rob a bank don't email your fellow bank robbers back [TS]

01:12:26   and forth about it for the months leading up to it like that then seem like a good idea like so we're going to a bank [TS]

01:12:30   right OK I'll send you an email as a new tech start like you know like I said it's just they're so casual about it [TS]

01:12:38   and they like they communicate to each other you mail so casually about is like it's almost like they must not know [TS]

01:12:44   it's illegal because if you did know. No email. [TS]

01:12:47   It's just so incredibly incriminating isn't like they were secretly taped there anything they're e-mailing each other [TS]

01:12:52   about it and they haven't they didn't delete the emails like it's just mind boggling and it really is ridiculous. [TS]

01:12:59   The more of the story is don't work for any of these. [TS]

01:13:03   As you point out this was in two thousand and eight [TS]

01:13:05   and I imagine that even this collusion was in effect once the big falling out between Apple [TS]

01:13:10   and Google like you know post i Phone like those agreements were off like last one Steve Jobs is saying to everybody [TS]

01:13:16   you know we're going to bury Google and they betrayed us they backstab those or whatever I imagine he also said [TS]

01:13:22   and forget it we're approaching other people like you know delay your T. [TS]

01:13:25   Broke the law and if there's a paper trail in electronic form you can get screwed for it anyway. [TS]

01:13:30   It's kind of a shame that like Tim Cook is left holding the bag in this type of deal like whether he knew anything knew [TS]

01:13:36   about it was part of it you know then maybe it's fitting but if he didn't know about it and or wasn't a part of it [TS]

01:13:42   or disapproved of it now he's the guy holding the bag on this [TS]

01:13:45   and so whatever I mean I'm assuming will be a risk because it's always a risk lap of these big rich companies [TS]

01:13:50   but it's a shame. [TS]

01:13:52   Yeah I don't know I'm guessing it says I think I read somewhere that apparently a lot of the companies involved is [TS]

01:13:58   already settled. I'm really surprised that Apple didn't like the it seems like that with a pragmatic approach here. [TS]

01:14:05   Just settle this just take whatever it costs settle it quickly and quietly as well as weak as you can at least [TS]

01:14:11   and just get it get it past you because you had this is obviously like is obviously a thing of the past for most of [TS]

01:14:16   these companies because of the relationships that have changed [TS]

01:14:20   and especially as I really can't see Tim Cook wanting to be a part of this because he's he's too smart for that I think [TS]

01:14:27   the whole thing just grows the revenue Apple generated while we were discussing this would be enough to pay for the [TS]

01:14:33   settlement. So they're all set. Anything else. And we good. When I have a short one this week. [TS]

01:14:42   All right well thanks a lot two or three sponsors this week to check out Pixelmator and Warby Parker [TS]

01:14:48   and we will see you next week or so and you are sitting on the learn from my sister that skill list [TS]

01:15:24   and the team are actually what we should talk about is to be able to see theories you have that that should be pretty [TS]

01:15:57   quick for now. OK so I have an insane. [TS]

01:16:00   Theory so if you go to the Moscone schedule let me find a link and stall for a moment while I'm doing that. [TS]

01:16:08   There's a meeting in June that's the American Association I believe. [TS]

01:16:13   And that goes on from the Friday that everyone expects it talking seventh or tenth [TS]

01:16:19   or fourteenth through thirteen through seventeen. I first the previous week June second or sixth. [TS]

01:16:26   OK that that corroborates my theory is your thing that has the Friday included. [TS]

01:16:30   Does that involve Moscone West because there's three Mosconi Now that's the thing. [TS]

01:16:35   So here you've hit the nail on the head so I see that I actually saw a few weeks ago that the American died of diabetes. [TS]

01:16:41   I'm sorry. [TS]

01:16:42   The American Diabetes Association seventy fourth lines of accessions that is in Moscone north south [TS]

01:16:48   and west from the thirteenth of June which is that Friday through the seventeenth which is the following Tuesday. [TS]

01:16:55   So there you go at the previous week. So. Well but no it's not quite so simple because what I know the D.C. [TS]

01:17:02   Ends on Fridays and it ends around midday [TS]

01:17:05   and so let's assume for the sake of conversation for just a moment that maybe they could flip it [TS]

01:17:12   or perhaps maybe the rest of the time the eighty eight needs west [TS]

01:17:17   but they made some agreement with Mosconi where they don't need it Friday. [TS]

01:17:21   So I go digging around to look at what is the American Diabetes Association. [TS]

01:17:27   Seventy fourth scientific sessions and I'm trying to figure out OK is there [TS]

01:17:32   or is there not anything going on in Moscone West [TS]

01:17:35   and I'm looking at looking at all sorts of things I'm looking at vendor maps [TS]

01:17:40   and I don't think that was West I'm looking at schedules [TS]

01:17:42   and they say well on Saturday there's absolutely something in Moscone west [TS]

01:17:45   but there's no real talk about Friday in Moscone west until I find what I just put in the chat special opportunities. [TS]

01:17:54   World Cup viewing room since Scientific Sessions will once again fall over fee for World Cup matches will set aside. [TS]

01:18:00   Miriam us in Moscone West so that attendees can catch up on the latest action without leaving a conference center [TS]

01:18:05   and I'd seen a convention center. [TS]

01:18:07   So with that in mind one's World Cup start and I didn't verify this myself [TS]

01:18:12   but I was talking with underscore earlier earlier today and he said it starts on like the twelfth [TS]

01:18:16   or something like that or that [TS]

01:18:17   or the eleventh I forget exactly what day it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things with the point as it [TS]

01:18:21   starts before the thirteenth. [TS]

01:18:24   So if you put all of this together that says to me that Moscone West is going to be clogged up on Thursday on Friday [TS]

01:18:32   the thirteenth of June so that eliminates the week of nine through thirteen the following week it is still covered by [TS]

01:18:43   the same eighty eight meetings so we've got nine through twenty all booked up which leaves twenty three thru twenty [TS]

01:18:50   seven which is already been booked for Google I O. [TS]

01:18:54   Which means by process of elimination it's the second through the six or eight in August. [TS]

01:18:59   If it's in June and if it's still it must go on and I think that's I mean that's a problem. [TS]

01:19:03   I think being at my schooling is a pretty safe bet. [TS]

01:19:06   Just because there's you know where else they gonna do it there's talk of this before so that it's almost certainly [TS]

01:19:10   still at Moscone. It doesn't necessarily have to be in June. [TS]

01:19:15   It's just very likely it will be because that's how they've done it and it works out in a number of ways. [TS]

01:19:20   I suspect it'll just be the first week June second through sex [TS]

01:19:24   but it doesn't really matter where the dates are because then we all assume they're going to preannounce the dates in [TS]

01:19:27   the tickets and everything but he's not going to it's not going to be a surprise anymore. [TS]

01:19:31   It's like it's the only question now is like is there going to be like last year is there going to be a lottery [TS]

01:19:36   or whatever but I really doubt they would ever go back to the thing where it's like oh here it is [TS]

01:19:40   and go by like it's always going to be pre-announced So we just sit around and wait for them to preannounce [TS]

01:19:44   and say tickets will be on sale at X. Date and hears them are going to use and then we just all deal with it. [TS]

01:19:50   Yeah [TS]

01:19:50   but it's nice to try to figure out what what the schedule is for example you know I was thinking of flying Arun out to [TS]

01:19:57   meet me late in the week and then we would spend some the following week. [TS]

01:20:00   Go out there together but yeah I looked at both the plane tickets and hotel fare a little while ago [TS]

01:20:05   and the prices look crazy [TS]

01:20:06   and bad so well the prices are terrible the one hundred thirteenth they're almost livable the second to the six AS Per [TS]

01:20:13   underscore only or today. [TS]

01:20:15   Yeah I saw the park fifty five hotel is almost exactly the same price now as it was last year. [TS]

01:20:22   Downs as I look at the last of us I was looking it was like a hundred bucks more per night. [TS]

01:20:27   It was like it was like in the high hundreds like one hundred ninety two hundred ish like in that all that's really [TS]

01:20:32   good. [TS]

01:20:33   Now that's yeah we will see effort for the second to say it was substantially I was talking underscore over to him [TS]

01:20:37   and he and he suggested to let you know maybe we'll do a lottery this year [TS]

01:20:42   and I think honestly you know the more I think about the more I think that's really the only good option at this point [TS]

01:20:47   like anything that involves everyone rushing at this particular time. [TS]

01:20:52   That's going to always be problematic you know if you want think if it was like are going to open at this time. [TS]

01:20:59   First come first serve. [TS]

01:21:00   Go [TS]

01:21:01   and it sells out in ten minutes so everyone has ten minutes like you can do YOU CAN A lot of people can get in ten minutes [TS]

01:21:06   but if it sells out in like forty five seconds again like it did last year before being short of breaking [TS]

01:21:11   and failing that's that's tough. [TS]

01:21:15   That way you know it's what you want is for all the people who really really want to get in to be able to get tickets. [TS]

01:21:22   But there's not enough tickets for that anymore. [TS]

01:21:24   Like there's there's too many people who qualify for that who people who really want to go. [TS]

01:21:29   There's just too many of those. And any system you make is only going to have a random subset of them effectively. [TS]

01:21:37   So you might as well do it in a way that feels fair [TS]

01:21:40   and make it a lottery it's not truly random anyway I like the idea of people being really rewarded for their enthusiasm [TS]

01:21:47   for buying tickets available could just make a web application doesn't die. [TS]

01:21:51   Then you could in theory give people tickets on a first come first serve basis [TS]

01:21:56   and then like the people who are sitting there hovering over the button as a second stick. [TS]

01:22:00   On there you know synchronized clock they will be rewarded for their crazy enthusiasm for getting tickets [TS]

01:22:06   and they will be more likely to get tickets [TS]

01:22:08   and the people who stroll in thirty seconds later I know I know it's a small window and it's crazy [TS]

01:22:13   but if you could eliminate the error a lottery is truly random like the people who just like I guess I'll put my hat in [TS]

01:22:18   the ring and they do that like three days after they were announced. [TS]

01:22:21   They have an equal chance with you who is like their you know the second [TS]

01:22:25   and I don't think I like seeing some weight given to people who are more enthusiastic about going [TS]

01:22:31   and there's no way to express that enthusiasm if there's a four day window for you to put your hat in the ring for a [TS]

01:22:35   lottery for a ticket. I completely agree. [TS]

01:22:38   So I would prefer to think it is merely make a web application to work correctly [TS]

01:22:42   and have it so out in ten seconds is fine with me ten seconds is more than enough for him to like all the people who [TS]

01:22:47   are there you know trying to get him that ten second window. [TS]

01:22:52   Maybe it's all that in five seconds and three seconds like if they had to get an application that wouldn't break. [TS]

01:22:57   You could get you could reserve people spot and then a time [TS]

01:23:00   and so your spot of reserve you have five minutes a checkout and then the application won't fail [TS]

01:23:04   and you've got you know like there we have somebody has technology perhaps not Apple. Yes the problem here. [TS]

01:23:11   You're asking Apple for like a really complicated web app to be super reliable and fair and you have it right. [TS]

01:23:18   Right the whole thing and like it doesn't seem like how many people could there possibly be. [TS]

01:23:23   Let's say there's a million people who want to go to a really see I think that's way too big. [TS]

01:23:27   I feel like with with Apple's budget it is possible to set up a bunch of servers that serve like text only no images [TS]

01:23:33   just like a button and like click this button to reserve your ticket [TS]

01:23:36   when it's like I feel like I could write this thing for a million people or be ugly but it would work. [TS]

01:23:42   Give me give me Apple's budget and a couple months to do this [TS]

01:23:45   and I can make a fair system for reserving your spot for to be every see that me like gives you a token [TS]

01:23:53   and it sends you off to the real checkout process during which we checked in you know like it's not rocket science [TS]

01:23:58   doesn't have to be a big fancy. [TS]

01:24:00   You know the store checkout process or whatever that's not used to this kind of onslaught [TS]

01:24:04   but well I mean I think I think the reason why it broke so badly last year is that Apple really didn't seem to do it to [TS]

01:24:11   do a lot of custom work for it. [TS]

01:24:12   They've basically is trying to wedge it into their regular checkout process [TS]

01:24:16   and it just was not designed will work whatever system whatever backend stuff was involved with those tickets in [TS]

01:24:23   particular just they didn't put enough effort into it you know. [TS]

01:24:26   In short they half assed it right [TS]

01:24:28   and Apple half ass in the web service especially one meant for developers is nothing new at all [TS]

01:24:34   and there's no signs ever from Apple. [TS]

01:24:38   There's no sign that their priorities have changed in such a way that making a really amazing web service for [TS]

01:24:45   developers a sort of the really important thing. [TS]

01:24:47   So I don't see that happening at all [TS]

01:24:49   and that's why I think if you assume that it's going to be no better than last year if there's a big rush point like if [TS]

01:24:56   they say Our show up at this time first come first serve. [TS]

01:24:58   Just like last year I don't have any reason to believe that reasonably speaking it will be any better than last year [TS]

01:25:06   and last year was pretty bad. [TS]

01:25:08   Well last year was terrible in a while [TS]

01:25:10   and I say that because I'm still grumbling about the fact that I had major ticket acquisition issues [TS]

01:25:16   but it was really rough. [TS]

01:25:17   But that being said how come we don't have the same problems with the last one or two i Phone [TS]

01:25:25   and i Pad pre-orders like if I recall correctly the five S. Did not have an online pre-order is that right. [TS]

01:25:31   Way more capacity though like the I don't think you have the the emphasizes rush because people know that there's not [TS]

01:25:38   five thousand i Pads available. [TS]

01:25:39   There's five thousand i Pads value [TS]

01:25:41   and people knew there were five thousand i Pads available who would be the same disaster [TS]

01:25:44   but you know the millions of i Pad felt sure [TS]

01:25:47   and it spread out over you know like even people like waiting up till three am or whatever and getting through [TS]

01:25:52   or maybe your shipment date moves out if you're in the first five minutes or two [TS]

01:25:55   but it's not like this is so much more capacity to such a limited number of tickets for this. [TS]

01:26:00   Right but what I'm saying is let's say there's fifty thousand people that really want to go in. [TS]

01:26:04   Obviously I made that up at a thin air. [TS]

01:26:06   Don't you think there'd be a lot more than fifty thousand people trying to pre-order a new i Phone [TS]

01:26:10   or i Pad on the moment at three am that it's available. Well but they have to make that work really well. [TS]

01:26:16   They have I mean John I think you're right that yes the demand probably is a little more spread out in that it isn't as [TS]

01:26:23   urgent that everyone who wants one get there at second zero. [TS]

01:26:27   But I also think that Apple puts a lot more resources into that and into testing [TS]

01:26:34   and deploying that because it's way more important to them think about how much of their revenue is directly from that [TS]

01:26:41   process on those couple days or even that night. But there's a lot of money that's a huge very important thing. [TS]

01:26:47   If it fails also it's a major P.R. [TS]

01:26:50   Blunder that they will be raked over the coals for all the tech sites [TS]

01:26:53   and everything saying how they're doing because they can't keep a store up for their most important product Meanwhile [TS]

01:26:58   if developers get you know a couple of their pages and everyone everyone's carts timeout [TS]

01:27:03   and there's always errors buying data about the conference. The Wall Street Journal doesn't give a crap about that. [TS]

01:27:09   No [TS]

01:27:09   but I guess what I'm saying is if they clearly have conquered this for i Devices Couldn't you use some of the same either [TS]

01:27:19   servers or tech or something for W W D C [TS]

01:27:23   and also consider that from everything we can tell from the outside it seems like it was a pretty labor intensive [TS]

01:27:31   aftermath last year when everyone got half cooked on their orders and then people from Apple had to either email [TS]

01:27:37   or call everyone in fact I thought they called a lot of people saying hey we see you got halfway through this order do [TS]

01:27:44   you want to finish it and that is not something I would assume they expected to need to do [TS]

01:27:50   and if that's a ton of people you know it's a few thousand I mean a few thousand if it's only two interns doing all the [TS]

01:27:56   calls for the sake of conversation. That takes some time. [TS]

01:28:00   And I remember hearing about these calls happening I would say at least a couple weeks if not a month after the tickets [TS]

01:28:05   went on sale. [TS]

01:28:05   Well all of this argues in favor of Apple doing the lottery because if you think about it from Apple's perspective a [TS]

01:28:10   lottery is the best for them it makes them not be embarrassed about having a crappy thing that falls down [TS]

01:28:16   and avoids all those work for years ascribe K.C. [TS]

01:28:19   and The third advantage that it gives Apple is that it lets them cherry pick like they can you know. [TS]

01:28:25   Oh yeah it's a random quote unquote but behind the scenes Apple has the ability to go in that one and that one [TS]

01:28:32   and that one and now an OK And then you do the rest of them random and they do that anyway. [TS]

01:28:36   Oh they were they were doing that with the people who had problems like a lottery is by far the best from Apple's [TS]

01:28:42   perspective because it solves all the Apple's problem to does not solve all of the customer's problems [TS]

01:28:46   and I don't think it's more fair than the system I described [TS]

01:28:49   but if you just go about like what's best for Apple a lottery is it so if you if you want to take the easy bet it's [TS]

01:28:55   like Will Apple do the thing that's best for Apple [TS]

01:28:57   or will they care about how developers feel so it's you know we'll say well with Cabot that the thing is best for Apple [TS]

01:29:05   require them to do a little bit more work on the server side which makes a lot less likely. [TS]

01:29:10   Well the thing the thing the bus route doesn't require them to do any more server is really easy to get a little sign [TS]

01:29:16   up form and is connect the name to collect the names and send out the emails [TS]

01:29:19   and you know say oh congratulations you've been selected [TS]

01:29:21   and check out at your leisure with a special token code that you know like it's so much easier for them. [TS]

01:29:26   Oh didn't they do that the last iphone pre-order I did which I did the five S. In line but I believe for the four S. [TS]

01:29:34   or Maybe it was the it doesn't matter for something I got a kind of sort of token it basically said OK we see that you [TS]

01:29:42   want an i Phone and we know that we can't handle it right now [TS]

01:29:47   but we have reserved one for you we will email you a link and let you finish the process later [TS]

01:29:52   when we think we're good and ready. [TS]

01:29:54   Do you remember that Marco I don't although underscore said earlier that he thinks that how tech talk. [TS]

01:30:00   Were were done that tech talks were done by a lottery where you just like you enter your email [TS]

01:30:05   and then it is there I will let you know if you can come back out to have a system for us. [TS]

01:30:10   Even if the system is simply will take provisional orders [TS]

01:30:12   and will just like cancel the ones that we don't pick somebody within the bounds of like it is there's no time you know [TS]

01:30:18   it's like for ever and get your tickets in over the course of the next week no rush. [TS]

01:30:22   Doesn't matter when you do it like they have no problem supporting this and using whatever system they decide to use [TS]

01:30:27   and it definitely makes their life easier [TS]

01:30:29   and I think the extra control of them being able to cherry pick like the people who they want [TS]

01:30:34   and who they don't want they're just like they must be like yeah that's great we're going to do that [TS]

01:30:39   and so I fear that's what will happen this year [TS]

01:30:42   but I mean like like Marcos the realistic alternative is a repeat of last year because none of us believe that they can [TS]

01:30:48   make a server [TS]

01:30:49   or have the guts to make like a simple text only no javascript really tiny one button click this thing to reserve your [TS]

01:30:57   ticket you know like they would never do that because it wouldn't be the Apple way it would look all pretty [TS]

01:31:02   and like have check shiny about Clinton even the problem. [TS]

01:31:06   I mean that the way you can solve it with C.D.'s I mean that's that's not a problem can you apparently Apple can't [TS]

01:31:11   figure that out I have to have the pages during my check out last year had no C.S.S. [TS]

01:31:16   and I just blindly plowed all I'm going to help. That's exactly right. [TS]

01:31:20   I just I can't you know as a developer of systems that handle these kind of traffic in the past I can't imagine like [TS]

01:31:27   the kind of like weird ancient limited infrastructure they must put in this task last year that caused this problem. [TS]

01:31:34   Unless there were like millions of people hitting at once. [TS]

01:31:37   But there weren't because I mean the total demand has to be under a million half the total demand. [TS]

01:31:42   You know they have five thousand tickets they saw very quickly how many people do you think are actually trying to get [TS]

01:31:47   those tickets. Ten thousand twenty thousand fifty thousand maybe at most like how many could there really be. [TS]

01:31:54   How long ago was the first sellout Wasn't that like twenty and twenty eleventh's. [TS]

01:32:00   Thing like that I think it was earlier I think was like No nine but it was it was like a month [TS]

01:32:04   and a half after the ticket months right. [TS]

01:32:06   So you look at you know the for I think it's twenty twelve was the first one that happened really fast [TS]

01:32:11   and that was like ten minutes something like that yeah. [TS]

01:32:14   And so I can't imagine we went from twenty nine let's call it where it took a month to sell out to twenty ten where it [TS]

01:32:22   was quick. Can I refuse to call it twenty nine. Yeah. Well while this is accidental you know that's the way this. [TS]

01:32:30   Anyway the point is in two thousand nine hundred twenty twelve it was really uncomfortable and quick [TS]

01:32:37   and then twenty thirteen it was just unbearably quick I can't imagine that means there's more than fifty thousand [TS]

01:32:43   people and even now I feel like it's pretty aggressive that are there looking for tickets. What do you think this year. [TS]

01:32:51   Knowing what happened last year knowing what people did last year will you be going if you don't get a ticket. [TS]

01:32:58   I probably won't because like the videos are are so much you know the real time video that we didn't know were coming [TS]

01:33:05   last year that Apple surprised us with assuming they're going to do them again. [TS]

01:33:09   That's probably enough for me to like I don't and I'm not sure if I need to be there for a minute. [TS]

01:33:13   I guess it depends on what gets announced [TS]

01:33:15   and like if there are things that I would want to talk to people you know sort of behind the scenes about our in person [TS]

01:33:21   or whatever that that that experience. [TS]

01:33:24   I can't get with the videos but depending on what the nouns that experience may be less important. [TS]

01:33:29   Yeah I mean it's not always about the sessions like like if I don't get a ticket I think what I'll be most disappointed [TS]

01:33:36   about missing whether I'm there [TS]

01:33:38   or not is the socialization that happens like in the common areas in Moscone during the day between the sessions I see [TS]

01:33:44   so many people there I talk to so many people. I've made deals there like that. [TS]

01:33:50   That's a very important thing to me is like that community engagement like had being around people of you know of our [TS]

01:33:57   industry and media. New people like being in the building to be there for all this. [TS]

01:34:03   If you just go and go for the social elements and you know drinking at the bar his friends afterwards [TS]

01:34:08   and stuff you get some of that [TS]

01:34:10   but it's not nearly as much rain in that's the thing is that I feel like I want to go for at least maybe two thirds of [TS]

01:34:19   the week even if I did never take it but oh my goodness. [TS]

01:34:23   Telling them work I like you know if I told work hey all funded from a financial perspective [TS]

01:34:28   but can I I'm kind of not work for a week and not have thinking isn't that going to be a tough sell. [TS]

01:34:34   I don't know if I mean for me like I'm trying to just justify a large expense of the trip [TS]

01:34:40   and everything as part of work on you know a ten radio so that's like it's like a business trip I have to take off from [TS]

01:34:45   work from my real job that just you know it's vacation from that. [TS]

01:34:49   But like am I going to spend a week of vacation [TS]

01:34:52   and also spend all this money to do this thing that has to be in service of some things I need to like I can just be [TS]

01:34:57   like oh I just want to hang out my friends like yeah if I was it if money was no object [TS]

01:35:02   and I didn't have any other responsibilities just go there to have a fun week. [TS]

01:35:05   Right but even if even if I didn't have to take it which some people did last year [TS]

01:35:08   but I don't I don't think I have that luxury around and I'm fifty fifty. [TS]

01:35:14   Knowing me I'll cave and go but that's a tough sell but it sounds like Mark or you'd almost certainly do it. [TS]

01:35:22   I would definitely go but I I would really be I would probably end up being really bored during most of the days. [TS]

01:35:31   So supposing it is last year they release the videos what was it like like the evening early the next morning there [TS]

01:35:36   were the videos in the previous day it was it was like it wasn't real time was it was pretty soon afterwards I think [TS]

01:35:42   you're right I think it was within twelve hours. Yes I'm like that. [TS]

01:35:46   So you could like you know you could on any given day you can watch at the previous day's videos. [TS]

01:35:51   So yeah maybe I could do that but where am I going to do that. In what context. [TS]

01:35:56   My going to sit around in another teller Malone watching videos all day like that's going to suck. [TS]

01:36:00   On crummy wife I write that well you go meet people for lunch and may be able for dinner but you know [TS]

01:36:05   but yeah there is a time to be sitting in a hotel room or in some coffee shop [TS]

01:36:08   or something trying to stream that is right [TS]

01:36:11   and that sounds that sounds like a pretty miserable week honestly so you know if that's the alternative that's pretty [TS]

01:36:17   bad if people if there's a lot of people who are in this situation who are all going in the you know then maybe you can [TS]

01:36:24   try to organize something a little more reasonable than that for the day times [TS]

01:36:28   and you know for the night doesn't matter the Moscone after after four P.M. Anyway but what do you do from nine A.M. [TS]

01:36:35   To four P.M. [TS]

01:36:36   That's that's a big question and and if you want to and if you don't watch the videos [TS]

01:36:42   when do you watch the videos like that like if you're one of the great things about being there is that your job during [TS]

01:36:49   that week is to go to the sessions so you will go to the sessions maybe not all of them about every slot [TS]

01:36:54   but you'll go to the sessions you have nothing else to do that we do that. [TS]

01:36:58   Whereas if you wait until after that week if you're say Oh well I want to sessions [TS]

01:37:03   when I get home we know a lot what sessions later in the year. [TS]

01:37:06   You'll just probably never do it because there's never a time where it's your job to watch that session right there was [TS]

01:37:12   old D.C. Last year which from everything I've heard was actually very very good. [TS]

01:37:18   So you could presumably go to that in spend your time there during the day [TS]

01:37:22   but I agree in the other thing to consider is that despite San Francisco being this hotbed of Internet everything the [TS]

01:37:29   hotel wife in any hotel lobby ever stayed in is just crummy as every other hotel anywhere in the country. [TS]

01:37:35   Oh it's miserable. [TS]

01:37:36   Right so what do you do to get the videos even if you could get them I mean you'd have to go to a market you would you [TS]

01:37:42   go to Starbucks to get the videos also I would probably just ask like MacWorld [TS]

01:37:47   or an office that's nearby that we're friends with I would preach ask them if I go there often use their [TS]

01:37:52   or their internet connection at least and also that you know [TS]

01:37:56   and that might be the answer right the answer might be you know small groups of people. [TS]

01:38:00   All who know someone in San Francisco get together in various people's offices or apartments and have little parties [TS]

01:38:05   or gatherings or you know wife I download sessions there I mean it's. [TS]

01:38:09   But the problem is like that's not really that's not really like a big community event. [TS]

01:38:14   It breaks up into smaller communities [TS]

01:38:16   and it also makes it much harder for people who don't know anyone yet if you know who are new to the community who [TS]

01:38:23   don't know anyone who was here we don't know anyone who is big companies it makes it much harder of a sell for them to [TS]

01:38:28   do it to be any part of us really and that's that's a shame. [TS]

01:38:32   And so you know it's you know it's one thing like you know we can go out there and. [TS]

01:38:36   Yeah Jason cell already said we can use their office so we know we know we went out there we have somewhere to go. [TS]

01:38:43   But that's not going to apply to everyone and that's right. [TS]

01:38:46   It just it just it just it's unfortunate situation that it has to be limited like this [TS]

01:38:50   but you know unfortunately it does like there are there are no bigger venues there are no you know there's even if they [TS]

01:38:59   can find a bigger venue like you really want to convert twenty thousand people [TS]

01:39:02   and you know we've been to the South by Southwest is is giant and it's terrible. [TS]

01:39:07   No it isn't spread out over all of Austin I've never been [TS]

01:39:09   but my understanding was it's like a good zillion different locations all around Austin is that correct. [TS]

01:39:15   Yeah pretty much spreading out to like in that now you have to take buses across the river to go to some weird hotel [TS]

01:39:22   for session one of the like. [TS]

01:39:24   It's so it's so weird I mean like that's the problem is that this it's like forms like discussion forums have certain [TS]

01:39:32   sizes above which they just do not scale very well [TS]

01:39:35   and once a community gets beyond that size there's kind of no turning back there's no rescuing it. [TS]

01:39:42   It just gets out of control [TS]

01:39:45   and you know its conferences are a similar thing is there are certain natural sizes after which it's just really really [TS]

01:39:50   hard to make it good and to make it work. And and I think they definitely have reached that point with D.C. [TS]

01:39:58   With you know we see. [TS]

01:40:00   How it's very hard to get into a lot of the sessions because there's lines out the door you can't even get into so many [TS]

01:40:06   of the like it's so it's already bursting at the seems like they can't really make it bigger [TS]

01:40:13   and have it be the same kind of thing. [TS]

01:40:16   And there's lots of you know they can try to split it up [TS]

01:40:17   and various ways with that kind of ruins other aspects of it as well including some of that some of the community [TS]

01:40:23   aspect. It's one of those things that there's just no good option here you have to pick between bad options. [TS]

01:40:31   And on that partial. [TS]

01:40:34   Speaking of picking between bad options what about those three cars it's got there so bad there is so bad. [TS]