Hypercritical   /     92: The Tim Cook Era

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest information about Apple's Fusion Drive and the first big executive reshuffling at Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era: Forstall and Browett are out; Ive, Cue, Federighi, and Mansfield are in.

Links for this episode:

• AnandTech - The Windows RT Review
  
• Tweet from Tanner Silva about the cost of a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement
  
• Tweet from Stephen Hackett about glass-covered MacBook Pro screens
  
• Tweet from Thomas Brand about screens glued to laptop lids
  
• Tweet from jackslash about the Apple logo on the front of the iMac
  
• Mac notebooks: About the"Ignoring accidental trackpad input" option - Apple.com
  
• Fusion drive on older Macs? YES! - Patrick Stein
  
• More on BYO Fusion drive - Patrick Stein
  
• Fusion Drive - loose ends - Patrick Stein
  
• Core Storage in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
  
• Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software& Services - Apple.com
  
• Apple CEO Tim Cook: Steve “taught me that the joy is in the journey” - Ars Technica
  
• Op-ed: Apple Store may be shifting from customer experience to profit machine | Ars Technica
  
• Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement of Apple's Bob Mansfield - AllThingsD
  
• Skeuomorphism in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
  
• Skeuomorphic applications in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
  
• Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple - Telegraph
  
• File system API unification in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Ars Technica
  
• Daring Fireball: Forstall Out; Ive Up
  
• Neven Mrgan's post on App.net about Jony Ive's car
  
• Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple - Apple.com
  
• Avadis Tevanian - Wikipedia
  
• Craig Federighi - Wikipedia
  
• Bertrand Serlet - Wikipedia
  
• Daring Fireball: The Good, the Bad, and the Avie
  
• Apple Technical Note 2034 (PDF)
  
• The Incomparable #114: When You Wish Upon a"Star Wars"
  
• From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout - Om Malik
  
• Hypercritical #45: Star Wars is Not a Blog Post
  
• Fusion Drive quick look: Our predictions confirmed! - Ars Technica
  
• Browett seen as bad for Apple thanks to Dixons’ poor reputation - Ars Technica
  

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