203: Don't Mess With Big Encyclopedia

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Following on from our consideration of Google's many terminated products in episode 74, we turn our attention to another graveyard this week, one with a big "Microsoft" on the sign. The company's decades-long policy of trying to supplant market leaders with Microsoft-made equivalents has left us with plenty to talk about, from phones to joysticks, questionable Windows add-ons, an actually superlative streaming service, some very brown portable media players, and plenty more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	I kind of wonder if internet can be too fast.
0:03.6	I don't, but I'll hear you out.
0:06.7	Well, okay, so like when I download a game from Steam or Epic or something now, the CPU spins up because the compression is so hard.
0:12.5	And like, the fans turn on to download files now because my internet's so fast.
0:17.1	If you're an internet, the internet is faster, they wouldn't have to compress the data so much.
0:20.0	And then your CPU wouldn't spin up as much because it doesn't have to decompress it.
0:22.6	I don't think they're compressing the data so much to save me time.
0:26.1	I think they're saved.
0:26.9	No, I know.
0:27.5	I know.
0:28.6	I'm just saying the possibility would exist.
0:31.4	So I just saw Dane, the CEO of, of, I was on X looking at the latest disaster over there.
0:38.4	Sorry, I was on 10.
0:39.8	Look at the latest disaster over there.
0:41.3	And I saw that Dane Jasper, who's the CEO of Sonic, had done a 10 that said,
0:47.5	if you've got Sonic fiber at one gigabits per second,
0:50.3	I'd like to put in a request for upgrade to 10 gigabits per second.
0:52.9	That's now possible here.
0:54.0	And then there's a link to your like sonic profile page you may have just changed my life I am so
0:58.9	sad because I'm on AT&T I'm sorry I think you're on are you on sonic lines or they are you on
1:03.7	no some some part how what is it it's the other way some sonic leases some AT&T lines oh that's what
1:09.9	it is not not the other way around turns out AT&T lines. Oh, that's what it is. That's right. That's right. Not the other way around.
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