Episode 49
49: Roamio and Siracusiet
iOS storage management, dark times for TiVo and Nintendo, net neutrality, and "pro" iPads.
Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP
January 24, 20142h 6m
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Show Notes
- Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups, and storage limits, iExplorer for exporting iMessages.
- iOS' storage model is a leaky abstraction.
- Google may have wanted Nest for its smart-home project as well as the more obvious reasons.
- TiVo may be exiting the hardware business, or maybe not.
- Nintendo continues to hurt.
- Why was the first Wii really successful, and what really held back its long-term usage?
- Matt Drance, Fred Wilson, and Nilay Patel on the net neutrality news.
- After-show: The Prompt looks back on the iPhone keynote, The Prompt on an iPad Pro, The Talk Show on crossing iOS and OS X, Not Playing podcast.
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