Hypercritical

Hypercritical

About the show

A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.

Episodes

  • Episode 28: 28: Trust, But Verify

    July 28th, 2011  |  1 hr 23 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Lion, following up on the animation and disk encryption topics from last week, then diving into sandboxing and the state of the file system.

  • Episode 27: 27: Nakedly Optimistic

    July 24th, 2011  |  1 hr 36 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's review of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Topics covered: autosave, scroll bars, scroll direction, graphical changes, animation, disk encryption, plus some details of the publication and error correction process.

  • Episode 26: 26: White Smoke

    July 13th, 2011  |  1 hr 7 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue to wait for the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. In the meantime, topics include Facebook's use of MySQL, some of the technology behind Google+, and new Mac hardware on the horizon.

  • Episode 25: 25: Invisible Software

    July 6th, 2011  |  1 hr 16 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about why webOS is slow, what's wrong with Apple's digital distribution mechanisms, why Google+ is a really big deal (for Google, anyway), and the hidden world of server-side software,

  • Episode 24: 24: Sometimes It Hurts

    July 2nd, 2011  |  1 hr 12 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Mac speech recognition software, how webOS is or isn't like Mac OS X, Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable, how Google+ is different from Facebook, and what John thinks Apple's really trying to do with Final Cut Pro X.

  • Episode 23: 23: No Sentence Left Behind

    June 24th, 2011  |  1 hr 42 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's data center software, Pixar's weaknesses, lame Mac malware, obnoxious Twitter integration, and (one last time!) toasters, then talk about how and why John writes.

  • Episode 22: 22: I Would Not Build Underground

    June 17th, 2011  |  1 hr 17 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin decompress after WWDC, then discuss Apple's (apparent) iCloud data center strategy, comparing it to other successful online service companies: Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

  • Episode 21: 21: Reading Playboy for the Articles

    June 10th, 2011  |  1 hr 43 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about WWDC: iCloud, iOS 5, Lion, and yes, John's toaster, a gift from fellow 5by5 hosts Marco Arment and Merlin Mann (a.k.a. The Best Guys Ever).

  • Episode 20: 20: I've Got Nothing

    June 4th, 2011  |  46 mins 1 sec

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's upcoming trip to WWDC, Twitter's strange gaps in functionality, and the sale of NetNewsWire to Black Pixel.

  • Episode 19: 19: Don't Make Me Read

    May 27th, 2011  |  58 mins 14 secs

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk toasters again, then discuss John's first computer love, the classic Macintosh Finder.

  • Episode 18: 18: Worse and More Diverse

    May 20th, 2011  |  1 hr 13 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin put the TV technology and PHP topics to bed, then discuss what's wrong with Twitter and why toaster ovens are worse today than they were a few decades ago.

  • Episode 17: 17: Intruding Gooseneck

    May 13th, 2011  |  1 hr 34 mins

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk some more about TV technology, elaborate on why, exactly, PHP is a bad programming language, and ponder the place of SSDs in the lives of computer users who are not independently wealthy.