This week’s podcast is mostly focused on Apple’s announcement. We fully deconstruct the iPhone’s headphone jack and the new direction of the Apple Watch. We also talk about Intel’s latest purchase and Sony’s new console. See below for all the notes.
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We cover a ton of news this week because so much of it is interrelated. If you take away one concept from this week, let it be this: Artificial intelligence continues to expand it’s capabilities and is aiding on the road, in the classroom, and on your face. AI will struggle to make surprise moves that turn out to be genus, and we need to often ask ourselves if it’s worth it.
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Episode 52! Apple releases iOS 6 and the world explodes off the maps! We talk about why it’ll be OK for Apple, and why Google will still be OK too. The only real loser is RIM, who suffered another outage while losing the lead in security. Facebook continues to be creepy by asking friends to snitch, AT&T continues to be a jerk.
We also talk about the possibility of a Star Trek like Warp Drive, Verizon CFO’s comments about Unlimited Data, Phil Schiller’s comments about wireless charging, and Sony’s redesign of the PS3. Finally, Matthew shares his experience completing the Tough Mudder.
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- Star Trek had it right, Warp Drive is totally possible
- HP smartphone showed up in Benchmarks under code name: Bender
- AT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking
- Facebook testing mobile ads on third party apps
- Verizon CFO claims that “Unlimited” is just a word and doesn’t really mean anything
- PlayStation 3 redesigned again, launching Sept. 25
- Samsung manages to out-smug Apple
- The new Apple Maps App is awful
- Google has already submitted an iOS 6 Google Maps App- supposedly
- Phil Schiller: “As for wireless charging, the wireless charging systems still have to be plugged into the wall, so it’s not clear how much convenience they add.”
- Facebook wants you to snitch on your friends to get your real name
- iPhone 5 ad gets Dumb and Dumber
- RIM fixes blackberry outage that hit Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Security experts believe iPhone on par with BlackBerry
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