WEBVTT - TechStuff Looks Back at 2013 Part One 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.760 Get in tech with Technology with Text stuff from stuff 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:14.800 dot Com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.439 I am Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren and we wanted 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.320 to take a look back at the year what was 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.800 two thousand thirteen and some of the big tech news stories, 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:26.480 and it turns out there quite a few. So we're 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.040 gonna divide this up into a couple of episodes, And 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.159 before we get started, I wanted to do just a 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.640 little bit of explanation of how some of this is 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.080 going to play out. In the past, we have often 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.880 kind of commented on the stories as they happened throughout 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.360 the year. That's generally what we're going to do today. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.480 But for any story that continued to develop throughout the year, 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.159 we're just gonna tell as much of that story as 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.680 we can when it first started happening, more or less, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.880 because we find that that's a lot easier to follow 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.680 than to say this happened in January than we do 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.160 stories for February, March and in April. Hey you remember 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.640 the thing that happened in January, Well here's where this happened, 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.920 all right. Yeah, there's a couple of places where we 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.760 either are are waiting until a larger event in the 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.440 chain happened to to break it during our timeline or 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.480 exact yeah, exactly. In some cases we'll be talking about 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.240 the biggest part of the story and we may say, oh, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.000 early in the year this happened, but we wanted to 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.800 do it in such a way where you could get 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.880 kind of the encapsulated version of that news story all 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.360 at once, as opposed to spread out throughout the whole year. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.560 So any um, alien historians listening to this for like 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.720 extreme accuracy purposes, just you know, slow down and take 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.800 it all in. Also, welcome to the Gregorian calendar. Yeah, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.760 that's exciting. So let's start, I suggest starting with January two, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.760 an excellent month of the Gregorian calendar to start with. Yes, okay, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.480 So the first thing that I have written down, we 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.120 we kind of we didn't go day by day for 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.160 the year, but we kind of lumped them together and 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.720 stuff that happened in various months. The first story I 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.639 wanted to mention was that that was when Kim dot 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.520 com did a little press event where he unveiled his 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.239 plan of the mega website. And you know, Kim dot 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.480 Com of course was one of the founders of Mega upload, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.320 and a year earlier, back in two thousand twelve, had 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.080 his home rated by various law enforcement officials, and so 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.440 this was on the anniversary of that big raid. He 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.200 unveiled this new service called mega which is a file 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.359 hosting service that also includes encryption so that you can 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.680 share files. You can you can upload a file and 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.000 share it with people, and you can encrypt it so 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.280 that anyone you don't want to share it with doesn't 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.440 know what the heck you're messing with. So it's kind 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.000 of a work around on some of the issues that 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.560 Mega upload had where, you know, anyone who owned copyrighted 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.239 material and saw it up on Mega upload would say, hey, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.240 you've got to take that down that belongs to me. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.880 This way they can all they can say is there's 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.760 stuff up there that may or may not belong to me, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.320 but I can't tell because it's all encrypted. Yeah, this 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.760 this is part of a kind of law your theme 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.880 of of a encryption and be uh file sharing kind 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.280 of issues. It turns out that that's something that I 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.080 doubt is going to go away anytime soon. Yeah. When 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.960 we next have a story that has kind of one 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.600 of the tragedies of this one is so close to 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.480 your heart. Um. This was a research in motion or 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.000 a rim renaming itself BlackBerry and uh and launching the 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:31.799 BlackBerry ten os UM and then kind of not really 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.760 going anywhere after that. There were if you remember, back 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.880 in two thousand twelve, there were a lot of analysts 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.960 saying that BlackBerry ten os was going to be the 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.800 make or break product for BlackBerry, that it was only 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.600 if that that that new overhaul of the smartphone operating 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.600 system that would be what would end up either saving 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.080 the company or it wouldn't be enough. And while BlackBerry 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.840 is still around, it's certainly had a really rough year. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.640 In two thousand thirteen, they went so far as to 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.320 say they were entertaining offers for people to come up 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.240 and buy the company. However, uh, just recently, relatively recently 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.800 as of the recording of this podcast, CEO John Chen 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.680 sent out a letter to customers, enterprise customers meaning giant companies, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.200 saying that BlackBerry was no longer looking for a buyer. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.320 They were going to to go this alone. They were 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.279 going to continue to cater to their enterprise customers, but 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.440 they were not going to try and sell off the company. UM. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:36.360 However they are basically any investors are being um, it's 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.120 being recommended that investors sell off their BlackBerry stock. Things 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.840 are not looking in the business industry like this is 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.800 fun to go. When city groups said they're changing BlackBerry 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.159 to sell that was that was not a good news 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.799 item for BlackBerry. So it continues to be a really 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.240 rough year. Uh hey, you know what, have you ever 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.920 wanted to be in pictures? I am in picture sometimes? Yeah? 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.120 Have you what about moving pictures? I'm I'm in those 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.400 yeah occasionally. Yeah. I like I like being in them. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.479 I really like them when they are six seconds long. Well, hey, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:17.640 there's an app for that. What Twitter had purchased this 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.679 this little company called Vine in twelve and in January 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.680 unveiled the iOS vine app. Yep, And this was what 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.520 let all those would be iPhone movie makers out there 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.800 use their phones to create six second long looping videos, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.240 which some people did, and it was just kind of 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.839 like ridiculous stuff that hardly anyone outside of a small 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.320 group of friends would have ever taken notice of. Other 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.880 people were using it as an actual means of artistic 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.120 expression and using in a very kind of creative way. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.719 But I mean, it's challenging. Right. It's just like in 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.360 a way when you talk about the different types of 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.479 fiction and how the shorter you get, the harder it 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.240 is to write. So, for example, a good novel is 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.239 hard to write, a good novella is harder to write. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.799 A good short story is really hard to write because 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.880 as you're restricting yourself, every single word counts even more 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.800 than it would in a longer form. So you've got 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.120 a six second movie, You've got to find a way 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.160 of saying what you want to say in six seconds 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.360 that really has an impact. And there's some people who 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.280 are really good at it. Oh yeah, yeah, And it's 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.440 also a terrific medium for for just main kind of stuff. Um, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.680 that's that's short and easy. And I saw some really 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.280 cute ones this here. Yeah, I saw some great ones 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.120 as well. But you know, I I don't really feel 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.679 comfortable limiting myself to six seconds. I need a little 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.200 more than twice that, i'mount Is there anything out there 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.359 for me? Well? In June, actually Facebook kind of caught 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:48.200 up when they announced Instagram Video, right, that would allow 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.720 you to do fifteen seconds of video and see there 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.359 a lot of people were saying, you know, Facebook is 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.480 playing hardball here by not allowing Vine to live on 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.080 Facebook and instead having this competing product that could live 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.320 on Facebook. Meanwhile, Vine, of course, is doing quite well 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.599 on Twitter. So you've got these two giant social media 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.320 goliaths that are kind of, you know, trying to to 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.160 push the other one out of the picture. As it 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.920 turns out, I mean, I don't I don't know what 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.200 the figures are because I didn't look them up. All 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.520 I know is what my direct experience has been I've seen. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.920 And maybe it's because I'm not a big Instagram person, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.200 that's probably the main reason. But I've seen way more 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.440 Vine videos, and I've seen Instagram videos. I know more 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.280 people personally making Instagram videos than I do personally making 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.800 Vine videos. But overall, I have seen more propagation of Vine. Interesting. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.320 So you know, this obviously is all anecdotal, So it 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.720 could very well be that, you know, and I mean, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.560 there's way one of us is on the money here. Well, 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.480 those and and those are those are trends of two 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.840 you know, thirtiesome things who work in the tech sector, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.600 and and so you know this grain assault, but so 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.600 what about you know, sticking with Facebook, they also in 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.600 January launched something that I don't had a lot of 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.280 buzz around it at the time. That was an interesting idea. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.400 It was called graph search, and this would let you 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.720 use Facebook as a search engine to look for really 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.600 weird stuff. Like the examples they gave were always odd, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.480 so uh. An example I said was, I want to 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:23.160 know what kind of music people who really enjoy planetarium's 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.680 happen to like, and I could do a search on that, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.040 and Facebook has of course all that information of what 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.760 people have liked and you know anything. Yeah, so then 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.160 they would come back with well, people who said they 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.760 liked planetariums also said they really like you know, I 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.320 don't know Manner Asterman, which would make total sense that 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.880 that would be an example. But it's this kind of 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.000 deep graph search, whereas a social search kind of thing. Um. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.440 I've only played with it a little bit and it 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.640 doesn't seem to work that well for me. But it 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.560 may just be that I'm using it wrong and then 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.160 I'm too old. I haven't. I haven't experimented with it 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.240 very much. But um, but I think that since the 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.400 trends of overall Facebook getting older, I've probably indicates that 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.240 it's not that you're too old. It's just that it's 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.960 not as functional as they had perhaps hoped it might be. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.960 That's very kind of you to say. I'd like to 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.360 think that it's their fault, not mine. Also in January, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.840 Canonical announced that they would bring Ubuntu, the Linux distro, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.000 you know, it's a distribution of the Linux operating system. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.400 They would bring it to the mobile platforms. They would 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.679 create a smartphone version of a Buntu in the near future. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.920 That's the story would play out over two thousand thirteen, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.520 and it was not a particularly successful story either. In July, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.280 they announced a crowdfunding campaign to try and raise money 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.840 on I think it was Indie Go Go for what 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.439 they were calling the Ubuntu Edge, which would have been 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:51.920 the first smartphone to feature this operating system. However, they 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.360 hit a little bit of a roadblock. Yeah, they had 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.000 a thirty two million dollar goal and they only made 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.200 nineteen of that. Actually are they They fell short by 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.480 nineteen nineteen million dollars. I thought, I feel badly that 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.000 my kick started campaign didn't fund, But um I got 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.000 more than halfway to where I needed to be and 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.720 they didn't quite make that. So well, but that's still 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.280 I mean, they they still made. I mean, I'm having 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.720 a lot of trouble subtracting right now then. Um but 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.520 but I mean, but that's still you know what, like 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.320 like eleven million dollars that they raised. I'm just saying 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.240 that's not terrible. Yeah, no, it's they didn't they weren't 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.240 hunting for cash, but they didn't have enough to go 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:33.160 through with what they planned. Did some subtractions so hard? Yeah, well, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.959 you know, we only like to add on tech stuff. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.480 We hate taking stuff away. The Ubuntu Edge would have 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.559 been eight thirty dollars to buy outright if it had 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.560 come into existence now since then, back in December of 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.480 two thousand thirteen, Canonical announced that some other as yet 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.160 as of the recording of this podcast, and I should 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:57.319 say recording this on December twelve, so so and anything 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:02.360 that we get terribly weird of, especially towards the end, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.320 that's one of the reasons we're also terribly weird people. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.920 So that also plays the department. But anyway, Canonical has 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.600 said that some unnamed manufacturer would be producing the first 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.160 ubun two smartphones sometime in two thousand fourteen, and it 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.400 may very well be that by the time this podcast 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.400 goes live. We will know who that manufacturer is, but 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.839 as of the recording, we do not. Uh. And then 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.440 we have a very sad story to round out January 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.600 of two thousand thirteen, which was on January eleventh, two 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:36.200 thousand thirteen, Aaron Swartz committed suicide. Uh. Swartz was one 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.200 of the people who worked on Really Simple Syndication RSS. Uh. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.400 He was. He was a hacker and an activist. He 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.640 was He was a deep member of all of these 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.240 communities that were based around the building of the Worldwide Web. Yeah. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.920 He was very much involved in the development of Reddit. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.240 He was very active with Creative Commons, and he was 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.640 a proponent of the idea that information wants to be free, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.760 and in fact had been charged with breaking and entering 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.600 by m I T Campus police when he was using 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:12.120 unauthorized He was using a computer to download massive amounts 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.280 of documents from j Store, which is you know, you know, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:20.280 it's a it's an academic um database of papers, and 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:26.480 presumably with the intent of distributing them freely, because information 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.600 wants to be free. Uh. He you know. M I 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.240 T eventually decided not to pursue charges, but the federal 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.640 government did not have that same point of view. They 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.720 actually when after sworts On on multiple charges under the 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.520 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act UH Sports, his lawyers offered 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:49.160 to have a plea bargain, but the prosecutors refused the 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.319 plea bargain. Yeah, they were being really I mean, and 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.840 the sentence that they were putting out there was thirty 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.480 five years in prison and about a million dollars in 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.760 five Yeah, and there were other you know, things tacked 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.680 onto there. This actually prompted a big discussion in the 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.120 tech world about whether or not the federal government was 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.440 trying to use sports as an example to try and 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.880 frighten other people by going after sports with such gusto 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.160 and refusing to do any sort of plea bargain. And UM, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.600 two days after the denial of the plea bargain came through, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.599 that's when Sports committed suicide. And it was this is 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.560 a very complicated issue. You can't just point a finger 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.240 and say because of this, this other thing happened. I mean, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.240 it didn't stop people from trying. Oh absolutely, if you'd 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.480 like to learn more about sports and UM and all 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.000 of this this hubbub leading up to this tragic event. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.319 In particular, UM, we did a memorial episode on February six. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.559 That was during kind of my learning curve of the show. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.240 I will warn you guys, right, Yeah, so there are 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.840 several of the stories we'll talk about kind of relate 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.480 back to some of the episodes we've done. I mean, obviously, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.400 whenever anything really big happens, we like to try and 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.240 at least give some context to it on text. So 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.000 definitely check that one out. But now we're ready to 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.079 move on to February, which twenty eight days as a 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:13.000 rule are plenty. Yeah, February in this case, UM had 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.160 had the beginning of kind of the saga that Intel 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.720 went through during the course. Yeah, here's another one. Like 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.000 you know, BlackBerry had its own saga, Intel's had one, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.680 although Intel's is is definitely different from Blackberries. Blackberries the 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.120 company that people are always kind of predicting that this 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.240 year will be the end of BlackBerry type thing. No 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.800 one's predicting that for Intel. But yeah, they had announced 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.440 in February at the All Things deconference that they were 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.880 going to be launching an Internet TV service by the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.080 end of the year, and in July they had announced 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.840 that the name of the service was going to be 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.040 on que I didn't realize how quickly the story had developed. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.720 I mean, I didn't realize it was only July when 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.560 they named it and now actually a month ago back 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.760 in Nova Member, they started looking to offload it. Yeah, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.760 they're looking to try and sell it off to someone 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.200 for around five million dollars. And you might say, well, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.920 why would a company in the very beginning of the 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.800 year say they're really going to push to get into 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.400 this world, this internet television world that no one has 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.760 yet really cracked. You know, You've got a lot of 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.560 big companies that are all vying for this, including Apple 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.960 and Google. Why would they say they really want to 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.480 do it? And then they kind of bailed on it. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.800 And well, here's where the story is a little more complicated. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.960 It's because the people who were in charge at the 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.800 end of the year were not the same people who 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.200 were in charge at the beginning of the year. Yes, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.080 uh Ceo, Paul UHLINI thank you, I always I can 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.560 never say that, and yeah, well good luck on the 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.960 next one. Yeah, he stepped down and was replaced by 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:52.760 Brian Krisnitch. I'm gonna say it's Crescentitch, even though someone's 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.520 gonna tell me that that's an inappropriate pronunciation, but that's 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.280 what I'm going with. But yeah, it was, it was. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.880 It was a move where I'm with two minds of this. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.760 You know, I like seeing companies promote from within. I 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.880 think that that's a valuable thing to do. But there 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.920 were a lot of analysts who said that the problem 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.800 Intel faces is not that, you know, they are abusing 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.840 their their talent, it's that they have kind of adhered 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.960 to a similar strategy for so long that what's really 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.000 needed is some new blood to stir things up. And 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.480 they're look that as being a little bit old and 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:31.280 stagy in terms of management. Yeah. So, and Crecentag is 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.440 someone who has been with a company for more than 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.040 two decades. So when he stepped up a CEO, some 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.320 analysts were saying, well, this is a sign that Intel 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.120 is not ready to move forward. Uh and and some 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.360 have argued that the on q story where now they're 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.520 trying to sell off on q is, is evidence of that. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.840 So that's where they are right now. Um, something else 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.480 happened in February. We got our first look at one 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:01.080 of the next generation consoles now current generation console. Right, Yeah, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.400 Sony got the jump on Microsoft. There they announced the 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.600 PlayStation for at their own personal event in New York. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.919 It was invitation only and I didn't get an invite, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.160 so just follow along with all the live blogging. But yeah, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.560 they showed off the system. They really stressed that the 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.840 system was for gamers, and that's going to be important 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.600 later on in the year when we move on to 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.399 the other big console. They talked about how the PlayStation 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.199 four would allow you to not only play games, but 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.840 share your experience. You know, you could stream stuff on 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.320 things like twitch tv. I think it was twitch TV, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.399 and then they could all you could also, UH, at 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.119 least at some point, be able to hand over control 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.320 of your game to someone else. So if you just 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.920 can't get past that third level, if you just can't 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.359 get that boss fight, you can just pass. Everybody calling 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.560 Lauren up in the middle of the night. Lauren needed 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.760 to get past this guy for me. He keeps hitting 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.119 me on the head with a fish, and then she 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.000 would fix it for me, and then I could continue 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.400 to play UH and so owe me so many coffees 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.600 the next day. You'd be awake at three in the morning. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.840 If I had said ten in the morning, Oh snap, 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.640 a little inside looking I guess that's just me anyway. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.400 So Sony would go on to E three and uh 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.080 and after some pretty fierce competition between Sony and Microsoft. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.280 I would say that most journalists by the end of 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.119 E three were at least some might say prematurely calling 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:33.600 Sony the winner. Yeah, I mean the winner. Yeah, so 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.359 um yeah, and then it did. It did pretty well 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.359 on its release, although I mean it's hard to compare 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.200 to the Xbox One is we'll talk about a little 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.320 bit later because Microsoft isn't really releasing numbers. But um, 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.920 but Sony has said that they sold a hundred I'm sorry, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.800 I'm sorry, one million units um, and they were only 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.480 selling the console in two nations at that time. So yeah, 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.119 a good job for them. Uh. Next, we have one 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.400 of the spawns is of our show occasionally Netflix. Right, 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.560 they introduced their original series House of Cards. That was 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.320 the first original series that they had come out with. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.200 they and and of course the way Netflix does it 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.520 is different from the way you would watch a show 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.199 on TV. You know, on on television you get it 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.840 week after week, so you get one episode per week 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:20.800 and then you have to wait a week to see 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.360 the next one. Netflix said Okay, we've produced this series 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.480 and we're going to serve up the entire season at once, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.040 so so you can you can already mainline it just 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.479 and you can just set aside a weekend and just 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.360 watch Kevin Spacey be progressively more and more nasty. I've 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:41.560 watched some of this and he is amazingly amoral in 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.240 this in this show. I haven't caught it yet, but 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.600 um but they did. They did release also following that, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:52.840 um the next season of Arrested Development, and also the 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:54.879 first season of Orange is a New Black, which I 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.440 have not Oh it's so good. Um uh. And yeah, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.760 there was overall a trend in of more companies doing 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.000 more original series on streaming video on demand. Yeah, Hulu 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.080 had already launched a couple of scripted series in two 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.399 thousand twelve, and they continued to do that in two 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.879 thousand thirteen, and Amazon Prime same thing. They had produced 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.159 a couple and they were working on more. So you 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.200 can see shows on all three of those services. And 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.360 those aren't the only three, but those are the three big. Yeah. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.960 If you want to learn more about that, you can 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:31.760 see our episodes about streaming video on demand UMU. Primarily 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.320 videos in the stream which came out September. There you go. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.560 So before we get onto the next half of the 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.880 first half of two thousand thirteen, I think I think 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.200 the Q two is really what you would say, they're 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.520 Q two. Okay, before we go on to Q two, 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.639 let's take a quick break to thank our sponsored all right, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.560 let's march on with March of two thousand thirteen, and 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.440 Lauren judges me. Some things, by the way, remain consistent 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.959 throughout two thousand thirteen, including Lauren shaking her head and 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.560 just staring at me with disapproval. Hey, at least I 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:10.399 don't laugh uncontrollably anymore. I feel like that. Yeah, yeah, no, 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.120 just once she got over the the laughter thing, now 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.320 I just get the judging. So that's fine. That's my friend. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.200 Matt refers to that as my laugh number twenty one, 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.840 nervous laugh number twenty one. Apparently I have a lot 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.359 of them. Mll It's good to be versatile. So moving 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.919 on to March two thousand thirteen, Um, what just really quickly, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:33.000 T Mobile did something pretty pretty unheard of in the 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:37.000 four major carriers of cell phone services in the United States. Right, 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.520 Europe is gonna go like this is such old news 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.720 in the US, it was. It was pretty Uh, it's 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.119 like a Maverick move. Yeah, they introduced no contract service 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:49.600