Technically Correct

This week is all about fast food and cacti, wherein we pick apart The Ringer's 'Top 50 Fast Food Items in America' and look at Uber's cavalcade of PR crises over its questionable corporate culture. Astute listeners have had the inside track on the sketchy Uber beat for years though, 🌵. Plus: iPhone 8, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Game Pass and a sponsor break sponsor break. 💰.

Links:

• Academy apologizes for Oscars best picture fiasco, vows 'action' - USA Today

Growing up means accepting many hard truths: that life is finite, that right doesn't always conquer wrong, and that IKEA is for meatballs and not your marquee home furnishings. This week, those unsettling realizations plus: immersive business 3-in-1s from HP, WWDC moves back to San Jose, Tim Cook says "let's meet at Apple [Park]", smart home shower thoughts, and Ryan's gigantic phone has an unfortunate run-in with the sidewalk.

PS: @darth is back and Carly still won't help with his printer. 🖨.

Links:

• darth™ (@darth) - Twitter

It's been another exhausting week. First the FTC fines Vizio $2.2M for tattling to advertisers that you just watched thirty eight episodes of the West Wing in a row while crying under a blanket. Then Travis Kalanick gets thrown under the uberX for participating in Trump's economic council while Elon Musk rides away scot-free in his self-driving Model X. And now the leader of the free world is tweeting about waiting around for Easy D? Save us, Martin Sheen — you’re our only hope.

Those stories plus: IoT privacy concerns, ARM Macs, and our quarterly Apple Watch check-in.

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• Sean Spicer Press Conference (Melissa McCarthy) - SNL - YouTube

Episode 💯. When we started out two and a half years ago, we famously said: "...we choose to record this mostly weekly program and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Suffice it to say, mission accomplished.

This week, we get around to some long overdue introductions and take a look back at what stuck and what didn't. Wait… which one are you again? 🤔.

Links:

• Apple's record quarter by the numbers - Six Colors

Due to San Francisco voters failing to support construction of our new podcast studio with taxpayer money, we are saddened to say we have no choice but to relocate to Los Angeles. We're still working on how to adapt the PSL scam for podcasting — stay tuned.

This week: COnteMplaTinG ThE trUmP inAUgural, A TImely FlAShBAck to 2008 COURteSy OF goOGLe PhOtOs, applE's 2016, aNd ryaN TrIeS tO wATCH 4k. If that was hard to read, just pretend it’s all uppercase. Your bank already does.

Links

Facebook Support Password Response

Google Photos

Los Angeles fans boo Chargers’ logo at Lakers-Clippers game - Fox Sports

The Bill Simmons Podcast - Ep. 161: NFL Divisional-Round Lines With Cousin Sal and Joe Buck - SoundCloud

4K on Xbox One S - Xbox Support

Can I stream Netflix in Ultra HD? - Netflix Help Center

Apple in 2016: The Six Colors report card

Everything We Know About Nintendo Switch - Kotaku

The Economist Espresso

Ally Bank

As the state of our political discourse continues its descent to new and previously unfathomable lows, riding on a golden escalator, we look back to a simpler time ten years ago before the smartphone was made great.

This week, your hosts talk a decade of iPhone and share their memories of it's introduction at Macworld 2007. Plus: Alexa everywhere, recanting picks of the week, and Carlos wins the medal for wrongest prediction ever.

Пристегните ремни, это будет долгие четыре года. 🇷🇺.

Links

How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump - NY Times

NBC didn’t stream the Golden Globes because NBC didn’t have the rights to stream the Golden Globes - Recode

[HD] Steve Jobs - iPhone Introduction in 2007 (Complete) - YouTube

Ford vehicles will soon have Amazon Alexa on board - Engadget

Dell’s 8K monitor is a sublime $4,999 luxury for the pros - The Verge

The Dell 27 Ultrathin monitor really lives up to its name - Engadget

Harmony experience with Amazon Alexa - Harmony Support

Just Press Record

New year, same us. We go back to basics this week as we struggle to find common ground over Apple's tumultuous 2016 and who their products are actually for. Those arguments plus: an expanded ‘Picks of the Year’ for 2016, curating the proper pup to human follow ratio on Instagram, social networks for cars, and more tales from middle age. 🍾.

Show Notes

Fuelly - Track and Compare your MPG

wilson.goldenretriever - Instagram

How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists - Bloomberg

Apple’s 2016 in review - Chuqui.com

Consumer Reports Fails to Earn MacBook Pro Credibility - iMore

Omnifocus

Mophie Power Capsule

Withings Wi-Fi Scale

Photive 60 Watt 6 Port USB Desktop Rapid Charger - Amazon.com

In the thrilling final episode of 2016, Ryan attempts to recreate in his apartment the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie 'Smart House'. Plus, we welcome the future in the form of Amazon's cashier-less utopian retail concept store, red-light runnin' driverless Volvo Ubers, and a CarPlay integration that works 82% of the time. 🚨.

Show Notes

Meet Hue - Philips Hue

Logitech Harmony Elite

Amazon Echo

Canary

Amazon Go

Uber cancels self-driving car trial in San Francisco after state forces it off road - The Guardian

The Hazards of Going on Autopilot - Daring Fireball

Moral Machine - MIT

Fitbit Buys Software Assets From Smartwatch Startup Pebble - Bloomberg

Super Mario Run - iOS App Store

Cookie Monster - Wikipedia

Henge Dock - Vertical Docking Station for MacBook Pro with Retina Display

“This is Fine Plus Dog - Kickstarter

In light of president-elect Trump's intent to pull out of NAFTA, Carlos takes the first steps in ending his cold war with Canada's second most famous singer/songwriter/hockey player, Michael Bublé. Life is too short, and as a wise man once said — it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new liiiiife. _oh god please let us make it to 2020.

Plus, eero and a smart apartment updates from Ryan, DirecTV Now, Designed by Apple in California, and much more. 🌳.

Show Notes

Sir Jony Ive reflects on the nature of objects, the fragility of ideas, and 20 years of Apple design - Wallpaper

Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers - Bloomberg

DirecTV Now: everything you want to know - The Verge

Hackers Hold SFMTA's Computer Network Hostage For $73k Ransom - Hoodline

Eero Home WiFi System

Forest for iOS

weratedogs on Instagram

After a bitter and prolonged presidential contest, Ryan and Carlos reflect on the results of Tuesday’s election, America in 2016, and try to understand how we got here.

Alas, being the patriots we are — resolute in not succumbing to complete disillusionment and despondency, we manage to pick up the pieces enough to complain a bunch about Apple TV, a product so flawed only Paul Ryan won't unendorse it. 🇺🇸.

Links and Images

Bill Simmons' Show 'Any Given Wednesday' Canceled: Latest Comments, Reaction - Bleacher Report

What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes - FiveThirtyEight

A few quick thoughts about Thursday’s Mac event in Cupertino - Six Colors

Apple's October TV Surprise - Joe Steel