66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake
Beats and headphone alternatives, Nintendo's situation, iOS 8 predictions, and the state of the iTunes Store infrastructure.
Episode 66 of the Accidental Tech Podcast podcast, hosted by ATP, titled "66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake" was published on May 22, 2014 and runs 122 minutes.
May 22, 2014 ·122m · Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode Description
- The modern Apple-store experience
- Follow-up:
- Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ever
- Headphones mentioned:
- B&O BeoPlay H6: Great comfort, but not sound.
- Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro (32-ohm version; Casey's headphones) for very good sound at a great value (when the price drops to $175).
- Sennheiser PX 200-II i: Marco's favorite portable set. Great portability, clicker, and value, but poor sound and durability.
- More picks from Marco
- Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 (Casey's earphones)
- Net Neutrality
- Nintendo's sad trombone
- Nintendo in Crisis
- PS4 outperforms Xbone
- Game Controller Programming Guide
- Nintendo 64 Accessories
- Kinect-free Xbone
- Beginnings of WWDC predictions
- Odwalla
- Healthbook
- The Prompt on Carousel, one of their many photo-management-related episodes
- The Infinite Version
- Casey and Marco explore mixed metaphors... politely. Ish.
- _ on the state of the Apple community
- WebObjects
- Fnd.io
- Multipath TCP
- After-show:
- iOS 8 split-screen multitasking
- John obliquely discusses some Overcast complaints.
- Wearables. Sorta.
- More on headphones.
- John was wrong about something.
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