John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss alternate motivations for the Microsoft Surface, Google's new Nexus 7 tablet, the history and value of reparability in computer hardware, and the possibility of electronics that "age well." Also, there's a robot that feels no shame.

Links for this episode:

• Designed Deterioration - Khoi Vinh (2007))
  
• Built to Not Last - Khoi Vinh (2012)
  
• The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable - Wired.com
  
• Follow Up to “Built to Not Last” - Khoi Vinh (2012)
  
• Nexus 7 - The new Android tablet from Google
  
• Replicant - Wikipedia
  
• Nexus One - Wikipedia
  
• 'There's No Margin' - Daring Fireball
  
• Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% Of The Time - IEEE Spectrum
  
• Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
  
• An Update on Flash Player and Android - Adobe.com
  
• How Microsoft Lost the API War - Joel on Software
  
• Mandrill - Wikipedia
  
• Microsoft PlaysForSure - Wikipedia
  

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