Episode 5: 5: Slippery Little Pill
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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple’s hardware blind spots: keyboards, dock connector, iPod/iPhone cases, laptop designs, and more.
Links for this episode:Ars Technica review of the original Aluminum PowerBook G4Apple's Mac OS X Lion web page, which mentions SpacesSMART Utility - hard drive hardware diagnosticsS.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting TechnologySubtraction.com: Designed DeteriorationApple's 30-pin dock connectorSCSI - Kids, ask your parents about itLight Peak - A New Hope for connecting computing peripherals with wiresSponsored by MailChimp and Sourcebits.
Episode 5: 5: Slippery Little Pill