Accidental Tech Podcast

222: As Thin as Humans Will Tolerate


Follow up:  Revisiting <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/10/technology/Ranking-Apple-Amazon-Facebook-Microsoft-Google.html">the quiz</a> from last episode
<a href="https://marco.org/2017/05/15/mp3-isnt-dead">MP3 is dead; long live MP3</a>
<a href="https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html">Fraunhofer's announcement</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0004LYFKQ/?tag=siracusa-20">Cookies</a>
<a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/">LAME encoder</a>
<a href="http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_about_audacity.html#mp3">Audacity 💔 MP3</a>
<a href="https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/search_play/what-bitrate-does-spotify-use-for-streaming/">Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis</a>
<a href="http://opus-codec.org/comparison/">Opus codec</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX">DivX codec</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX">DIVX disc format</a>




<a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/16/ipad-mini-discontinued-report/">iPad Mini is dead?</a>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-16/apple-said-to-plan-laptop-upgrades-as-microsoft-enters-market">MacBooks and MacBook Pros are alive?</a>
Ending theme by <a href="http://jonathanmann.net/">Jonathan Mann</a>
Post-show:
<a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus">Apple Park</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_and_Maria_Stata_Center">MIT Stata Center</a>



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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.