188: $850 Fidget Cube
Casey almost loses a bet, Marco tries to buy an iPhone, and John thinks he won't scratch Jet Black.
Episode 188 of the Accidental Tech Podcast podcast, hosted by ATP, titled "188: $850 Fidget Cube" was published on September 22, 2016 and runs 109 minutes.
September 22, 2016 ·109m · Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode Description
- Follow-up:
- "Far East" → "East Asia"
- The Casey/John Bet
- Assistive Touch and East Asia
- Scott O'Reilly discovers a Lightning → Headphone adapter quirk
- There is a DAC in the headphone adapter
- Three amplifiers in the iPhones 7?
- Jet Black iPhone 7
- John on worn iPhones looking like the Millennium Falcon
- Worn original iPhone
- Designed Deterioration
- Fingerprints
- Poor Christina Warren 😢
- John on designing electronics for wear and tear
- Hypercritical #5 (starting at 37:05)
- Hypercritical #74 (starting at 1:46:04)
- Hypercritical #86 (starting at 28:00)
- Transcoding and Bluetooth headphones
- Our new phones
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show:
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