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Simple Beep
Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius
92 episodes
2 months ago
We're celebrating another major milestone in Apple history: the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the iPod. We cover its incredibly rapid development, its worldwide popularity, and the fact that we still carry widescreen iPods with touch controls today.
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We're celebrating another major milestone in Apple history: the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the iPod. We cover its incredibly rapid development, its worldwide popularity, and the fact that we still carry widescreen iPods with touch controls today.
Show more...
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Simple Beep
e90 – The iPod at 20
We're celebrating another major milestone in Apple history: the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the iPod. We cover its incredibly rapid development, its worldwide popularity, and the fact that we still carry widescreen iPods with touch controls today.
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4 years ago
1 hour 25 minutes 21 seconds

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e89 – Mac OS X at 20
We're back with a special episode to mark the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X. We remember what it was like to enter the lickable world of Aqua, leave behind our Classic apps, and grow with macOS over two decades.
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4 years ago
1 hour 44 minutes 4 seconds

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e88 – The iPad at 10
In our final regular episode, we celebrate a great milestone: the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the iPad.
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5 years ago
1 hour 59 minutes 38 seconds

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e87 – Desktop Publishing
This episode we cover the desktop publishing revolution, the Apple-led trifecta that kicked it off in the late '80s, and how it's evolved over three decades. For a holiday bonus, Ed talks about how he used a Mac to design and lay out his family's Christmas cards in the '90s. And finally, we wrap up the year with an announcement.
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5 years ago
1 hour 22 minutes 4 seconds

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e86 – General Magic
A team of ex-Apple engineers in the early 90s made a product that flopped worse than the Newton but might be the reason we have iPhones today. We look at the little-known history of General Magic and the newly released documentary about the company.
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6 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes 19 seconds

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e85 – Apple Kremlinology
Apple hardly ever gives away information about upcoming products…unless you believe that there are secret clues in hidden places. We look at what Apple may (or may not) have signaled in event invitations and product codenames over the years.
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6 years ago
1 hour 13 minutes 57 seconds

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e84 – Apple.com
Apple's online presence has evolved significantly since the days of the early web. From rainbow imagemaps to WebObjects to epic scrolljacking, we tour the technology and content of Apple dot com.
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6 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 47 seconds

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e83 – Mac Mods
Brian made a summer project of putting a Mac Mini in a Macintosh Classic and it got us thinking about all kinds of mods people have done with old Apple hardware. Besides the "Classic Mini", we cover Macquariums, unexpected iLamps, weight-bearing cheese graters, and more.
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6 years ago
1 hour 16 minutes 5 seconds

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e82 – Pro
The announcement of the 2019 Mac Pro got us thinking about what Apple has called "Pro" in the past. That includes incredibly expensive hard drives, printers with RAM slots, an OS patch release, and even its employees!
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6 years ago
1 hour 14 minutes 51 seconds

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e81 – The NeXT Transition
Mac OS as we know it today can be traced to one major event: Apple's decision to scrap internal attempts at creating a new operating system and to acquire NeXT instead. We look at how influential NeXTSTEP was in the creation of Mac OS X and just how much of it still lives on in Apple's products…sometimes in surprising places.
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6 years ago
1 hour 29 minutes 19 seconds

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e80 – Fictional Mac Draft
As Apple turns its attention to TV and movies, so do we! In this episode we pick our favorite appearances by Macs and other Apple products on the big and small screens.
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6 years ago
52 minutes 51 seconds

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e79 – Bungie
This episode is all about the venerable game developer Bungie and how they got their start on the Classic Mac. We cover all their titles, including a trio of Marathons, terrible code names, and the coolest game Steve Jobs had ever seen.
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6 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 22 seconds

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e78 – Apple Audio
Apple has been building computers — and standalone products — with sound capabilities for over 40 years. We discuss 1-bit audio, incredible hardware hacks, usable and unusable old speakers, a CD drive with a horrible logo, and even the HomePod.
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6 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes 18 seconds

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e77 - Word Processors
This episode, we trace the evolution of Mac word processing from MacWrite to the present. Along the way we find a secret moose, complain about Microsoft, and learn that some apps have true staying power.
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6 years ago
1 hour 38 minutes 47 seconds

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e76 – System Alert Sounds
For our 4th anniversary episode, we return to our roots of discussing classic Mac sound design. We cover the tragic backstory of the Wild Eep, the immortal Sosumi, the poorly named "ChuToy", and much more.
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6 years ago
56 minutes 22 seconds

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e75 – MacAddict
This episode we revisit MacAddict magazine and its freakin' awesome coverage of the Apple world in the late '90s.
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7 years ago
1 hour 16 minutes 28 seconds

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Myst 25th Anniversary on Twitch
We'll be doing our first live event on Twitch, on Monday September 24 at 8:30 PM Eastern time. We'll be streaming Myst on its 25th birthday!
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7 years ago
51 seconds

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e74 – The Rumor Mill
With an iPhone event right around the corner, the rumor mill is operating at full capacity. We examine how this important part of the Apple world got to where it is today, from wild speculations, to Apple lawsuits, to outright hoaxes.
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7 years ago
1 hour 12 minutes 19 seconds

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e73 – The iMac at 20
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the original iMac, tracing how the revolutionary Bondi gumdrop evolved into flagship desktop Mac of today.
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7 years ago
1 hour 2 minutes 3 seconds

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e72 – The App Store at 10
We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the App Store launching on July 10, 2008. After a brief history of the store itself, we pick some of our favorite, most influential early iOS apps.
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7 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes 49 seconds

Simple Beep
We're celebrating another major milestone in Apple history: the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the iPod. We cover its incredibly rapid development, its worldwide popularity, and the fact that we still carry widescreen iPods with touch controls today.