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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
by Warren Frey
Apple is unveiling…something on March 7th, and that something is likely a new iPad. Rumours abound of retina displays and increased horsepower, along with slightly less reliable rumours of a new Apple TV.
On the flip side, Eric Schmidt has a vision of the future that’s all at once dull, elitist, and somewhat ignorant. But all is not lost, as Photoshop Touch has landed in the App Store and Chip has decreed it Good.
But wait, there’s more! We also have an interview with Kirby Ferguson, the man behind Everything is a Remix. If you haven’t seen these excellent treatise on the Internet, creativity and copyright, you’re sorely missing out, and Kirby was a great interview subject, an erudite and talented fellow with something to say. Check it out, and thanks for listening!
Apple event on March 7th!
The future according to Eric Schmidt
Photoshop Touch on the iPad
Dell no longer makes PCs
Everything is a Remix
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
by Warren Frey
Clowntown gets a new mayor! The dual CEOs at RIM are out, only to be replaced by another guy mouthing the same tired platitudes. We also cover the SOPA blackout, the Megaupload shutdown, a kerfuffle over iBooks Author, some staggering tablet statistics, and Youtube hitting 4 billion views A DAY. That’s mental.
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
by Warren Frey
Jerry Yang is out at Yahoo, RIM is trying to sell itself, Sarah Lacy gets $2.5 million (!) to make a promotional…uh, I mean, informative new blog about startups, Rupert Murdoch is old and insane, and Google can’t stop screwing around with your search. Throw in cloud gaming with Onlive, pro video people moving away from Apple, and the Pirate Bay starting up a new promotional program for indies, and you’ve got yourself a podcast!
By the way, please note that we’ve switched feeds, so you can now get the Platformer Podcast by either searching for it on iTunes, listening to it at Platformer.ca or by using this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/platformer/OnDA
Breaking: Jerry Yang out at Yahoo
Clowntown: RIM trying to sell itself
Playbook update with email still doesn’t quite cut it
Sarah Lacy getting $2.5 million for Techcrunch clone PandoDaily
Murdoch wants to preserve media scarcity
OnLive expansion: live streaming gaming (currently on the Mac) will come to smart TVs, now Windows services over an iPad, iPad gaming app coming.
“Star Wars: The Dead Republic”
">Why pros are moving away from Apple
Pirate Bay launches promo program for artists
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apple, boot camp, ebooks, gaming, google, ipad, iphone, jerry yang, macintosh, onlive, pirate bay, RIM, samsung, sarah lacy, sopa, steam, yahoo
Monday, January 9th, 2012
by Warren Frey
A packed proceeding at Platformer, with news from CES, Barnes and Noble possibly selling off the Nook, Cable cutters uniting, and an offensive PSA from ICE.
We also go off on a rant about Thunderbolt, wax poetic about iMessage, and hail the return…of Clowntown.
Yahoo gets a new CEO
Why Google should buy Nook
LG Super OLED is super sexy
Cord cutters on the rise
iMessage decimates text messaging
Asinine PSA from ICE about piracy
Belkin’s Thunderbolt dock won’t be out until September 2012
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2mtl, apple, boot camp, ces, copyright, cord cutters, ebooks, fusion garage, gaming, ice, ipad, iphone, lg, macintosh, nokia, nook, podcast, radio free skaro, RIM, tech
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
by Warren Frey
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…..
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2011, 2012, anonymous, antisec, apple, boot camp, ebooks, gaming, hp, ipad, iphone, macintosh, predictions, protests, RIM, steam, steve jobs
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
by Warren Frey
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.
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
by Warren Frey
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.
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
by Warren Frey
Amazon sells Kindle Fires like, well, a house on fire, screenless games, Rovio tells Zynga to take a $2 billion hike, and Arkham City gets love from Warren and tough love from Todd. Also, Warren puts his foot in his mouth at least 10 times. Yum.
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angry birds, apple, arkham city, boot camp, ebooks, gaming, ipad, iphone, kindle fire, macintosh, rovio, zynga
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
by Warren Frey
Platformer…NEWS EDITION! With Chip out on assignment, Warren and Todd tackle the big issues of the week, including Facebook’s radical and frankly weird changes, Apple’s upcoming iPhone event, the Kindle Fire tablet, and the utter lunacy of Meg Whitman taking the helm at HP.
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
by Warren Frey
Windows 8 bursts onto the scene and only our intrepid squad of tech analysts (by which we mean Warren, Todd and Chip) have the savvy to suss out what really matters with Metro, sandboxing and pissed of developers. The Boston Globe got one hell of an HTML5 redesign, Rogers is told to stop throttling games, and we all discuss what we’d do if we were in charge of RIM and/or Nintendo. One of us would wear a lot of costumes, apparently.
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