44: The Bones of Lex Friedman

Recurring special guest Guy English joins us as Lex is out striking important business deals (http://www.midroll.com/pr/). We recorded this before Apple's results were announced (http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/07/appleq3results/) but as Apple was having some uptime issues with its online services (https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/). People may really like their Apple Watches, if you believe surveys (https://techpinions.com/the-state-of-apple-watch-satisfaction/41126). Does the iPhone really make up 82 percent of podcast listening? http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/20/report-82-of-mobile-podcast-listening-happens-on-iphone-mostly-using-apples-podcasts-app/ Apple has hired a quality control executive from Chrysler: http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/20/apple-hires-former-fiat-chrysler-exec-for-its-rumored-electric-car-team/ A Google self-driving car has gotten into an accident but it's the human's fault: http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/17/autos/google-self-driving-car-injury-accident/index.html Dan will one day be the last man driving around with robot cars but it'll be like that episode of the Twilight Zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last Which is not the same as the one with the stopwatch that stops time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Peace_and_Quiet Who buys iPods? These people: http://www.birchtree.me/blog/who-buys-ipods Apple Watches may not cause health problems but licking radium brushes certainly does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls Please gaze upon the Sinclair radio watch: http://www.ledwatches.net/articles/sinclair-fm-radio-watch/watch-photos1.htm