559: All Fingers Are Digital
After nearly 500 episodes away, Scott McNulty returns to the podcast to discuss the resilience of babies, dysfunction at Apple, the future of the Vision Pro, and (of course) ebooks and e-readers.
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Books
Jason:
M.R. Carey’s Pandominion duology (Infinity Gate/Echo of Worlds)
James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series (9 books, “Leviathan Wakes”)
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Final Architecture series (3 books, “Shards of Earth”)
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series (3 books, “Children of Time”)
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter (5 books, “The Long Earth”)
Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross (6+ books, “The Family Trade”)
Scott:
Jo Walton’s Small Change (Farthing, Ha’penny, Half a Crown)
Yoon Ha Lee’s The Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, Revenant Gun)
The Culture novels by Ian Banks (not really a good fit, but sort of!)
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Jason and Myke are joined by follow-up guest Scott McNulty to review the Kindle Oasis (including its Kindle hump), then switch gears to break down the complexities of Apple’s quarterly results, Dropbox’s infinite solution to an old conundrum, and Jason’s review of USB audio interfaces.
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Jason and Myke are joined by follow-up guest Scott McNulty to review the Kindle Oasis (including its Kindle hump), then switch gears to break down the complexities of Apple’s quarterly results, Dropbox’s infinite solution to an old conundrum, and Jason’s review of USB audio interfaces.
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85: Talk to this Cylinder
With Myke away, Scott McNulty and Dan Moren join Jason to talk about two different Amazon hardware products, Kindle and Echo.
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Special guest Scott McNulty joins Jason and Myke to talk about the new Kindle Voyage and why we use Kindles. Plus follow-up about TestFlight, annoying things people do in the Apple Store, and the introduction of our new cheese vertical.
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