The Engadget Show - 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G

Greetings people of Earth. The Engadget Show is back in a big way with this latest episode! First, Josh sits down with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to tackle a handful of thorny questions, from Flash vs. HTML5, to the smartphone revolution and his company's relationship with Apple. Then Josh, Paul, and Nilay welcome editors Chris Ziegler and Laura June for a special editor's Q&A, answering all your burning questions about news, culture, and what it's like to write for Engadget. We've also got a tour of AT&T's Global Network Operations Center (GNOC), which is essentially a war-room for networks that has to be seen to be believed. All that, and music from minusbaby and visuals from noteNdo. Okay that's enough reading... time to watch!

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Special guests: Kevin Lynch, Chris Ziegler, Laura June
Produced and Directed by: Chad Mumm
Executive Producer: Joshua Fruhlinger
Edited by: Glenn Gapultos
Music by: minusbaby
Visuals by: noteNdo
Opening titles by: Julien Nantiec

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The Engadget Show - 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A,

[AA Alex Posted May 24th 2010 4:35PM]

God Bless Engadget!

[blenderman345 Posted May 24th 2010 4:41PM]

@AA Alex: dang, so wanted to be there. Wantzted that iPad.......

[blenderman345 Posted May 24th 2010 4:45PM]

@AA Alex: dang, waht, they gaveaway an EVO????

[Xega Posted May 24th 2010 4:35PM]

I wasn't there

[Dante of the Inferno Posted May 24th 2010 4:35PM]

Finally, something to make this unbearably slow news day go by a bit faster.

[spartandre217 Posted May 24th 2010 4:39PM]

Interesting....Nilay has a pretty consistent dress sense :-P lol

Evo 4G is definitely YUM hardware and Sense is even more YUM

[JW Posted May 24th 2010 5:40PM]

@spartandre217
It's formal at JoshT, but as you go out it gets more and more casual. Chris is wearing jeans, and Nilay wearing some sort of military jacket. On the outer layer we've got Laura in a slayer tee and Paul in a plaid shirt.

[psp888 Posted May 24th 2010 4:42PM]

why don't you make a Android compatible video format to download.

oh that's right we don't need it we have full Flash 10.1 !!! hahaha...

[Chad Mumm Posted May 24th 2010 4:49PM]

@psp888 You can stream the show in the Android app. You should do it. Do it now.

[TheSunman89 Posted May 24th 2010 4:45PM]

awsome

[Johnny Rockets Posted May 24th 2010 4:51PM]

The show was very misleading in terms of the Evo.

In all of the posts leading up to the show, it mentioned that it would be featured as a segment on the show or something. But there was nothing of the sort. It was given away as a prize to the audience, but it wasn't even in NY; it was to be mailed out later.

Look at the first paragraph of this article; the Evo isn't even mentioned.

Why is it in the title??

[mikemick Posted May 24th 2010 6:07PM]

@Johnny Rockets

Completely agree.

[rav97 Posted May 24th 2010 6:14PM]

@Johnny Rockets They had an EVO in studio (not the giveaway one), which they showed at 32:28. My impression is that they wanted to do a segment, but the Q&A session went long and they ran out of time.

[Myst3ry Posted May 24th 2010 7:41PM]

@rav97 Yeah that's what i thought too... and that's the main reason i wanted to watch this episode!! haha

but... i really didn't care, it was a great show either way. i love the Q&A

[Johnny Rockets Posted May 24th 2010 8:19PM]

@rav97

Yeah, Paul showed the Evo for literally less than 10 seconds. They didn't even talk about it.

It just seems odd that it's advertised on the show, but I have no idea why.

[TechHead2 Posted May 25th 2010 7:27AM]

@Johnny Rockets Totally agree! My main reason for watching was to see some EVO 4G action. Loved the program anyway, but still disappointed a little :( Wassup with that Josh?

[Cicatrize Posted May 24th 2010 5:00PM]

Awesome. I wanted to watch this on Saturday but couldn't. Will watch when I get home. :)

[hammydbest Posted May 24th 2010 5:09PM]

Yessssssssssssssss! Finally.... this + mw2 = awesome

[iSmug Posted May 24th 2010 5:12PM]

Kerry King approves of Laura June

[Nitesh Posted May 24th 2010 5:13PM]

I like his glasses. Much better than Jobs.

[protolink Posted May 24th 2010 5:33PM]

Josh. You still need to DJ the next Engadget show. That would be epic. You know you want to.

[solidunit Posted May 24th 2010 5:34PM]

Nilay gets all his studded bracelets at Hot Topic

[Phenomenon Posted May 24th 2010 6:03PM]

Lol @ the AT&T segment.

It's literally "The Death Star"!!

[Deus Veritas Posted May 24th 2010 6:03PM]

How do I get a job at Engadget? :P

[Libertine Lush Posted May 24th 2010 6:41PM]

Is there any iTunes link to subscribe to the HD version? Or is the only way to get the HD version by downloading via the the link in each show's site post?

[dlove Posted May 24th 2010 7:12PM]

Ziegler is such a mushmouth it makes every podcast so annoying...

[Ezye1313 Posted May 24th 2010 8:33PM]

Well what do you know, 4 of 5 engadget editors/writers prefer the iPhone.

[MattsBeacon Posted May 24th 2010 9:45PM]

I was really disappointed with Kevin Lynch's interview. He said what a CTO is expected to say...so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It was very evident that he fumbled about the Mouse Roll Over effect on a touch screen device! Good job Josh, for putting him in a tough spot.

There was something really fishy about the 'moving dots' demo on the iPhone and the Android device. Is he saying that a flash app performs better (more frames per second) than a native app on the iPhone?!

I wish Kevin understood that by 'performance', we usually mean, how effectively and efficiently their technology utilizes the resources on a computing device! 25 frames/sec moving dots that drain the battery life faster than you can wink.....no thanks!

I wasn't wowed by Kevin at all! Maybe Adobe deserves a more charismatic and straightforward CTO (& CEO?).

[Shravan Posted May 24th 2010 10:23PM]

Why is the scrubbing on the player so bad ?
It skips just 4 seconds at a time for me and trying to seek it to a particular time just hung up the whole process. Guys, please get back to vimeo or heck even youtube ! It just refuses to scrub/skip to various parts of the vid ! I'm gonna have to sync this up with Zune to watch.
Please change the player guys.

[DirtyVegas Posted May 25th 2010 12:08AM]

You get a female editor on the first time and you don't let her talk. LET THE GIRL SPEAK!!

[nailerr Posted May 25th 2010 2:13AM]

Adobe opted to demo the power of flash by comparing a 1GHz Nexus One with Flash to a 600mhz iPod Touch with HTML5? Wonderful example, Adobe.

[cherubdawg Posted May 26th 2010 1:47AM]

I don't want to be *that guy*, but the comments towards Laura made me uncomfortable. She even looked like she didn't take it well, but just kept quiet to not make a scene. Please be careful of sexism guys, even when you're joking around.

[ousmane Posted May 26th 2010 4:19PM]

Three people I'd invite to a dinner: Ballmer, Woz and Stringer with lots of drinks.