Engadget Podcast 137 - 03.13.2009
By Trent Wolbe 
posted March 13th 2009 4:20PM
posted March 13th 2009 4:20PM
When not hobnobbing with Jimmy Fallon and unreleased Palm devices, Joshua likes to sit down with salt-of-the-earth folks like Nilay and Paul to chat up the week's gadget news and recount the tales from his jet-setting lifestyle. It was a fairly slow week overall, so the guys got some time to answer a reader question and let their indomitable personalities shine through. We're not going to lie, it's some pretty awesome stuff.
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: What You Know / Gold Digger
01:09 - In case you missed 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' last night
18:58 - iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th
48:30 - Reader question
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what no palm pre discussion? lol
"An Apple a day keeps the doctor away"...
Looks like I've 3 day's worth of good health from that AppleCast! Engadget playing the Apple card again!
(Nothing against Apple, just sayin').
I hate the way these guys have such a hard-on for Apple.
Is this seriously all about yourselves(on Jimmy) and Apple? How do you continue to believe yourselves when you say 'we are not apple fanboys'?
Like the new shuffle, what the? Why wasn't that ripped apart in engadget's post? Gimme a break. I'm just about done with engadget. Gizmodo may not be hitting Hollywood, but at least they're not owned.
You didn't listen, did you?
:) Actually I haven't listened (I was just going by the TOC). ...just ranting, I am now listening to the podcast - which I find odd because normally I just listen on my ancient iAudio U2 mp3 player (nothing to do with ipod-Apple- or the rock band). But I normally speed up all my podcasts (mostly nerdy Science podcasts). So until late night, I hadn't heard Josh's real voice! Now I am hearing all of your real voices - it's crazy - I usually hear this high pitched whiny sounding voice, I'm not nearly as Apple enraged with you deeper voices :)
I'm listening - I realize you feel like you are ripping it apart, but the reality is that if this was Sony or MS, you would really rip it apart and you wouldn't spend very much time on it at all. You guys need to just accept that you are hugely apple biased (but then overpriced equipment isn't a big deal when you get to play with everything for free). I'm a lowly Neuroscience Researcher trying to cure Epilepsy who went to school an extra quarter century and get paid nothing - Apple to me is obscene in it's pricing. I will admit they have some (very few) good things going for them, but they can kiss my...
@Shawn, not cool man.
You called them out for being pro-Shuffle when you had not listened to the podcast. Then you did listen, and you realised that they were not pro-Shuffle.
At that point, the decent and correct thing to do would be to apologise for your mistaken assumption. Instead, you've basically said, "No, I was right, because you were not anti-Shuffle *enough*."
That is pathetic - you have no way of establishing that they would be "harder" if it were an MS or Sony product (it does not even sound remotely accurate to me); that was just a weasel claim to attempt to get out of admitting your mistake. Have some decency, man.
@Vanilla
Look at my first post...no, no, now look again lawyer. When I referred to the shuffle, I was referring to the engadget POST on the shuffle - which IS way to lenient (BTW-I never say they are pro shuffle)! I never said in my first post that I had listened to the podcast (it normally goes to the mp3 player and I listen when I have time). I was going by the outline in this post - which was Fallon, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple....
I'm not in court here, I don't have to 'establish' that they would be harder on Sony or MS, my observations have been that they are. But even more than that, I am saying they spend all their time talking about apple. Sure they throw in some 'negative' apple time --- 'I wouldn't buy this shuffle, I would buy a Nano'... what the!? Sure they tell themselves that was 'negative', but it's positive as well.
I'm trying to point out to these guys that they have become very one dimensional, and that they are not helping the gadget world by comparing everything to apple, talking almost solely about apple, and constantly denying their apple fanboydome (or sarcastically saying that they are fanboys - thinking that because they said it sarcastically that that somehow proves they are not fanboys?).
Decency? How about Engadget starts showing some decency!
...And Vanilla - it looks like almost ALL your comments on Engadget are on Apple, so stop with your agenda and get back to work in your Apple cubicle. Engadget may actually look unbiased when compared to you.
you guys should do a podcast with Engadget's readers...
I love the 8 bit intros, lat ep was the best to date.
Great job at the end about Netbooks. Being portable and affordable
makes them very attractive. I take my Lenovo S10 lots of places and
if it gets stolen I'm out $400 instead of $$$$. I also use Firefox in
full scrreen mode(F11 key) with the autohide extension to get the most
of my 1024x600 screen. Keep up the good work!!!!
Personally I think netbooks are a fad. A fad which is going to be slowly pushed out by phones. My netbook is my iPod Touch (would be an iPhone if AT&T didn't suck in my area... and likely will be a Palm Pre as soon as possible). I use a "real" laptop to do gaming and editing and whatever but I can get all of my Twitter, Facebook and Email fixes straight from the iPod Touch. No need for a netbook. Now all Apple needs to do is add a physical keyboard and Flash support.