171: Built-In Babel Fish

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171: Built-In Babel Fish

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Jan 11, 2017

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This week we discuss how the iPhone has changed our lives, whether the Apple Watch has met our initial expectations, how we rely on product testing and recommendations, and a possible brain drain at Apple.

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Jan 11, 2017

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Clockwise is a rapid-fire discussion of current technology issues hosted by Dan Moren and Mikah Sargent and featuring two special guests each week. Four people, four topics--and because we're always watching the clock, no episode is longer than 30 minutes. Hosted by Dan Moren and Mikah Sargent.

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Clockwise 59: Everything's Weird: Flat iPad sales, accelerating Apple OS updates, Retina displays on the desktop, and room for improvement at the Apple Store. With guests Jessie Char and Paul Kafasis. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 64: Disposable Electric Car: Our backup strategies, subscription services for apps, the death of the tablet, and electric cars. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 56: Niche of Awesomeness: Apple Pay, Apple and software quality, adapting apps to the iPhone 6, and our nostalgia for unloved old tech. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 80: We're All Dying Slowly: Excitement over a new Apple TV box, what wearables may come, whether today's wearables incur health risks, and what service or piece of software we first paid for. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 66: Driving Through Magic: Apple's App Store rejections, early video game memories, Siri on the desktop, and why we should care about Net Neutrality. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 58: All My Money Is Gone: Live from Montreal: Expectations of Yosemite, dreaming of Macs with color selections, the Mac App Store, iOS 8, and keeping up with the Cardassians. With special Canadian guests Rene Ritchie and Georgia Dow. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 65: The Slovenian Perspective: Automating boring tasks, holiday shopping lists, favorite subscription services, and buying cheap tech accessories. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 61: Chancellor of Burberry: Taking stock of iCloud Drive, the Apple Watch gets "delayed," Christian Bale bails, and singing the praises of old technology. With guests John Moltz and Dan Frakes. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 113: A Bit of a Fatalist: iPad Pro size and productivity, a requiem for Rdio, and the Mac App Store goes boom. With Jeff Richardson and Shelly Brisbin. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 63: Uber, What's Up With It?: Apple's future plans for Beats, Uber everything awful somebody do something, Apple Watch as seen from a distance, and the future of encryption. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 54: Government in Exile: We've all left IDG but we're still here! This week we talk iPhone 6, compare the 6 to the 6 Plus, ponder an overabundance of apps, and talk about our favorite iOS 8 features. With guests Dan Frakes and Philip Michaels! by Clockwise
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Clockwise 90: Cord Nevers: Renaming the iPhone, dreams of cord-cutting nirvana, WWDC wishcasting, and Tim Cook's EPIC rant. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 60: Spite Corporation: How we read e-books, the future prospects of the Apple SIM, Apple Pay versus CurrentC, and the (now resolved?) PCalc widget controversy. With guests Christina Warren and Serenity Caldwell. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 57: Piegate: Our dreams of new iPads, Google's responsibility to patrol the Internet, a hail of technology scandals, and iOS 8's slow adoption rate. And be sure to leave room for pie! by Clockwise
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Clockwise 76: The Darkness: What's attached to our TVs, the prospects for an Apple stylus, Kickstarter as a store, and if the future of artificial intelligence threatens all humanity or is just another pipe dream. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 74: ?: Organizing your digital photos, managing your money, third-party iOS keyboards, and our desert-island games and podcasts. Plus some emojis. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 69: Quantum Dots and Kooky Segways: 12-inch MacBook rumors, why tech hipsters hate on Facebook, selling you a new TV, and the relevance of CES. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 82: Stunt Queuing: No more sleeping outside of Apple stores, the future of Periscope, whether Star Wars on iTunes matters, and our review of the early Apple Watch reviews. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 86: Buzzing My Wrist: The Apple TV might get a new remote control, Apple Watch faces and utility, and how we're making our homes into smart homes (or not). With guests David Sparks and Katie Floyd of Mac Power Users! by Clockwise
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Clockwise 88: A Hot Mess: We predict this episode is about Google I/O predictions, Apple TV WWDC predictions, our predictions about the future of human interface design, and the predictions we've made that failed spectacularly. With Brianna Wu and Glenn Fleishman. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 55: Extreme Physical Butt Force: Our favorite iOS 8 apps, loving and hating third-party keyboards, the first week with new iPhones (except for Lex), and Dan explains how many different objects can be bent if you put your mind to it. With guests Lex Friedman and Rene Ritchie. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 67: Disapproving Record Clerk: Excitement for 2015 technology, Apple OS features we don't use, a requiem for old media, and the Sony leaks. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 73: I Prefer My Cars With Backdoors: Converting paper books to ebooks, a requiem for The Shack, Apple's worst product, and self-driving Ubers. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 75: Aluminum Foil Everything: The Apple Car can't be real, right? Plus NSA and Samsung TV spying and Apple's greatest threats. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 94: Defend the Indefensible: Apple's role as Safari steward, the best Apple hardware ever, anticipating a new iPod, and the next big thing for smartphone technology. With Georgia Dow and Jeff Richardson. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 72: Robot Butler: Apple's huge quarterly results, the psychology of Kickstarter, Microsoft's holograms, and technology that cures life's annoyances. by Clockwise
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Clockwise 78: MacBook Nothing: Apple Watch value and pricing, MacBook sacrifices, Apple TV deals, and Uber's latest crisis. by Clockwise
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530: The Noise of the Youth: Choosing between noise cancellation and excellent audio quality in headphones, the impact of an unlimited supply of one thing on the world or your life, the significance of Apple's adoption of RCS, and recommendations for Black Friday deals. by Clockwise
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529: Dear Tim Apple, You Fix It: Capturing spatial video on iPhone, our font opinions, whether we use journaling apps, and when we tell our non-techy friends to update their software. by Clockwise
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528: The Jeweled Dung Beetle: Troublesome software bugs, our thoughts on tech companies' involvement in standards creation, iMessage interoperability, and what we think about video game movies and TV shows. by Clockwise
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171: Built-In Babel Fish

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