It’s our first annual year-end prognosticatin’ and predictin’ jamboree! We look back at 2011 and see RIM and HP in tatters, Apple on top but of the business world but without Steve Jobs, and protesters, hackers and the 1% all using the internet to further their goals.
We also turned our keen insight to 2012, where Warren boldly predicted several already heavily rumored things and Todd used reason and logic to extrapolate current events to the near future. Chip was, as always, our rock of serenity.
And if that’s not enough, how about our apps and games of the year? Including one we think you might find surprising…..
HP really screws up, Amazon wants to own everything, Thunderbolt ain’t all that, and the three of us discuss the Higgs Boson with not a hint of expertise or even informed wisdom. All this and Warren being a misanthrope, Todd swearing a blue streak, and Chip futilely trying to keep things under control.
Not to beat a dead horse, but…c’mon RIM! Drunk execs shutting down flights AND half a billion in Playbook losses? The boys spend a good amount of time musing on Canada’s one Great Technological Hope, before moving onto the CarrierIQ controversy, Firefox’s descent, Apple TV rumours, and Gowalla’s purchase by Facebook, which sets Todd off on a sweet anti-Facebook rant. All this and EA charging money for Tetris on a special “corporate evil” edition of the Platformer Podcast.
Standard Action is a fantasy web series shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. The show follows the misadventures of a quartet of Dungeons and Dragons-esque characters as they travel through a mythical land fraught with danger…and laughs!
Freyburg.tv was able to interview, Joanna Gaskell and Rob Hunt, two members of the creative team behind Standard Action, at the annual Vcon science fiction convention held in October in Vancouver.
The new Nook Tablets are out in the United States, and our august crew declared them servicable, even though two of us are in Canada and will thus never, ever use one.
We also delve into Apple’s App Store sandboxing, the controversy surrounding Growl (for more, listen to this podcast), how Siri is a danger to Google Search, and Warren rants about jetpacks. What more do you need?
The Mac Pro may be dead, iOS 5 battery life is running out, and Google TV is resurrected. With all this spookiness, it’s a shame we didn’t release this episode on Halloween.
Besides that, Todd’s playing Arkham City and reading about Steve Jobs, and Chip is playing with the Doctor Who Encyclopedia on his iPad. Warren couldn’t make this episode, but has regardless pronounced the new GTA trailer to be “rad.”
