This week on Ctrl-Walt-Delete, the duo discuss the recent Apple news regarding encryption, and also talk in depth about the Nextbit Robin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nilay talks with Walt about his criticism of Apple lately regarding the decline in quality of software on both mobile and desktop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt and Nilay talk twitter; discussing problems with it as a product and suggest improvements in features and strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After almost a year since the Apple Watch has been released, Walt and Nilay question the nature of the smartwatch and analyze how we use it today while also discussing what we should see in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ctrl-Walt Delete returns from CES to discuss the integration of the car industry with the tech industry, leading to the rise of smart technology in cars and the new competitors into the field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt and Nilay meet at the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2016 and discuss what the Consumer Electronics Show means to them, along with analyzing what they've seen so far. A new year of Ctrl-Walt-Delete starts off with Nilay finally paying his debt to Walt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As the iPhone battery case is released and external battery packs are a now a customary tech accessory, Walt and Nilay stop and think about the current status of phone and device batteries. Why is there a struggle for better battery life and what is it doing to the future of technology? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What happens when new technology no longer wows us? Walt and Nilay discuss the lack of enthusiasm over Google’s Pixel C, suggesting that we may be in a technological lull. Can Ctrl-Walt-Delete save us or are we doomed to live with tech mediocrity? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt delves into his past as a national security reporter, weighing in on the modern encryption debate. What is the balance between privacy and national security? We'd also like to bid a fond welcome our newest podcast subscriber: the FBI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is a computer? Can a $150 laptop be any good? Are netbooks back? Walt and Nilay tackle all these questions and more in this week's episode, and it turns out none of the answers are as simple as they seem. And that $150 laptop might be the start of something much, much bigger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's iPad Pro week, and that means Walt and Nilay are talking about the future of computing — a tiny little subject of discussion that leads finally to the first fundamental disagreement on the show. Can our hosts survive? Can the show survive? Will anyone use a mouse ever again? Let's find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Another week, another heated agreement. Walt and Nilay both think Google should leap directly into the fray of making its own hardware, but there are lots of challenges involved. And what does it take to get a T-shirt business off the ground and then pivot into smartphones? We're going to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The new Apple TV came out this week, and both Walt and Nilay wrote reviews. Will they finally disagree? And can anyone crack the TV puzzle? It’s all up in the air, or in the cloud, or wherever stuff goes now, in 2015. Join us, but not on your new Apple TV, which lacks a podcast app for some reason. Airplay. Use Airplay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In what might be Walt’s first ever movie review he writes about the new Steve Jobs film, and he and Nilay chat about how screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s artistic liberties are flawed, and how the movie completely missed Jobs’ humanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt reviewed the Toshiba Radius 12 4K this week and he wasn’t impressed, which brings on a conversation about laptop deficiency in the last few years and how that may just be entering a rotund moment of change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt and Nilay talk about the state of ads today, Walt’s 1999 column on shoddy advertising, and the possible solution to the tracking pandemonium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt and Nilay deconstruct the TiVo Bolt, the 1999 TiVo, its ad-skipping features, and Nilay’s recurring debts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Walt and Nilay kick things off with a discussion of the iPhone 6S, the weird new prices of phones, the 2007 iPhone, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
