John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Apple’s hardware blind spots: keyboards, dock connector, iPod/iPhone cases, laptop designs, and more.

Links for this episode:

• Ars Technica review of the original Aluminum PowerBook G4
• Apple's Mac OS X Lion web page, which mentions Spaces
• SMART Utility - hard drive hardware diagnostics
• S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
• Subtraction.com: Designed Deterioration
• Apple's 30-pin dock connector
• SCSI - Kids, ask your parents about it
• Light Peak - A New Hope for connecting computing peripherals with wires

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