John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin vow never to talk about physics again, then discuss the new iPad and, finally, how Apple's expansion into so many new businesses has created a series of conflicts of interest that could, at best, doom it to Microsoft-like stagnation in the long run.

Links for this episode:

• The Apple strategy tax
  
• Speed of electricity - Wikipedia
  
• Speed of electricity flow
  
• Apple iPad 2
  
• ARM Cortex A8 - Wikipedia
  
• ARM Cortex A9 - Wikipedia
  
• Apple A4 - Wikipedia
  
• Apple A5 - Wikipedia
  
• Speeds and feeds - Wikipedia
  
• Magnetic monopole - Wikipedia
  
• PAX East 2011
  
• List of The Incredibles characters - Wikipedia
  
• A sub-thread of the Hacker News discussion of the Apple Strategy Tax article
  

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