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34: Made The Dot Smaller

Oct 10, 20131 hr 7 minEp. 34
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Episode description

  • Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture.
  • Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so?
  • The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe, and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash.
  • The Mavericks GM.
  • Drawbacks of a Readability-like model for paying podcast producers in Overcast, and Instacast's 2012 rejection for Flattr integration.
  • Different priorities for podcast playback and management.

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