Show Notes
“Google Keep” | Droid Life
“Google Now (not) on iOS” | The Verge
“I Survived the Samsung Galaxy S4 Launch” | Curious Rat
“Samsung Galaxy S4 Launch video” (about 1:10 in)
“Statamic“
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We wish everyone recovering from Hurricane Sandy well, and episode 65 of inThirty goes out to the team at PSE&G for getting power back to Chaim, Harry, and Justin in time to talk about tablets. Google didn’t fair as well and their scheduled Android event was moved from IRL to online. Chaim managed to collect all of the sweet details about the dot 2 update to Jelly Bean and the hardware that’ll accompany it before he was knocked off the grid but Harry is not impressed. We pit the new Android tablets and the Kindle Fire against the recently announced iPad Mini and discuss price point, features, design, and determine along the way that this holiday season Amazon, Google, and Apple will duke it out in in the less than ten inch category. Chaim and Justin were introduced to a new contender in the ring, the Microsoft Surface, at Microtropolis (go on, Google it), while Harry went undercover at a Microsoft Store to try it. Harry likes its kickstand, Chaim says it’s revolutionary, Justin says it’s mutant disaster of a device. Take some aspirin (that’s a really subtle tablet pun), put on your headphones, and listen up.Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
We’ve all played a little Xbox, but how many of you ever got your hands on a Zune, or a Kin? Microsoft’s getting back into the hardware game with the Surface tablet and on episode 63 of inThirty we get into, about, and under the soon to be released device. We talk pricing, features, make predictions on future market share, and add to the overall confusion about the two different versions of Windows, RT and 8, that’ll run on this new entrant to the tablet market.
Episode 63 Hangout: http://youtu.be/6pxvOYZyAJg?t=5m22s
Show Notes
Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe with Apple iPad | Slashdot
Surface with Windows RT | Microsoft
“Surface RT: Pricing details, spec updates...” | PCWorld
“Microsoft fails to explain Windows 8 vs. Windows RT…” | The Verge
On the Recent Microsoft Surface Announcements | Curious Rat
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While it’s still a possibility that an iPad with a 7 inch screen may never make it outside of Jonny Ive’s secret industrial design compound, it doesn’t stop us from talking about every inch of the yet to be announced device on episode 62 of inThirty. Whether it’ll be called the Mini, Nano, Small, Little, Micro, or Petite, Chaim, Harry, and Justin conjecture, speculate, and postulate about how the device’ll fit into Apple’s current range of mobile products and analyze the impact of screen size on how users consume their digital diets. Want to find out the best screen size for playing Solitaire or reading the Wall Street Journal or mixing the musical score for a feature film? You better search Google for the answer because we come to no conclusions on this episode of inThirty. Oh, and less is more, sometimes.
Episode 62 Hangout: http://youtu.be/0x8lrwHSMHc
Show Notes
Apple Likely to Unveil “iPad Mini” at October 23 Event | All Things D
7.85-Inch iPad Mini Screen Size Compared to Other Tablets [Diagram] | iClarified
Small iPad, Smaller Minds | CuriousRat.com
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Patents, piracy, probate, and prudence, jurisprudence on this week’s podcast. Please don’t take the title too seriously – on inThirty episode 56 we examine the red tape that’s been sticking to things all over Silicon Valley lately, and try, as only we three can, to cut through it. Apple sues Samsung, Google sues Apple, the RIAA sues Joe Schmoe and we take a look at the impact overall. We also try to figure out if you really can patent curved corners on rectangles.
Show Notes
“Court Upholds Colossal Song-Sharing Penalty” | E-Commerce Times
“Apple vs. Samsung: the verdict” | The Verge
“Who inherits your iTunes library?” | Wall Street Journal
“And Now Google Sues Apple” | Forbes
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All rested up and jetlag free, Chaim shows us the swag he managed pilfer from I/O. Episode 48 of inThirty (that’s right, you can now listen to a full 24 hours of our yammering) makes Chaim out to be like a kid on Christmas morning as he gives his thoughts on the Nexus 7 and whether it’s cool even for those of us to have to actually buy one, the Nexus Q and its curious spherical shape, the best way to sell a Galaxy Nexus on Craigslist, and the best way to earn Google merit badges at a developer conference.
Also, Chaim promises that if enough listeners review and subscribe, he will auction off one of his Android jelly bean containers.
Episode 48 Hangout: http://youtu.be/eikIhFX1a6k
Related Episodes
#47: Chaim at Google I/O
Show Links
“On Google’s I/O 2012 Keynote” | Curious Rat
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Watch out Jim Cramer, on episode 42 the boys of inThirty are here to milk your bull and shave your bear. We get to the bottom line and cover the Facebook IPO (find out if any of the hosts have a finger or two in Zuckerberg’s pie), Samsung’s contract to build memory for Apple, layoffs at HP, and advise our listeners on how to setup tax shelters in the Caymans.
Maybe we should have called this episode IPO: We Don’t Know, instead but we’d already used that line.
Show Notes
“Facebook IPO: What the %$#! happened?” | CNN Money
“The inside story of Facebook’s IPO” | MSNBC
“Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple order report” | Reuters
“HP Announces Organizational Realignment” | HP.com
“Fact-Checking Digitimes, the Taiwanese Apple Rumor Source That Keeps Crying ‘Wolf!’” | TIME
“Digitimes on Digitimes: We Know What We’re Doing, and We’ll Try to Do Better” | TIME
“MPU 086: Workflows with Wendy Cherwinski” | Mac Power Users
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