42: The Ultimate Vanity Search

FU on PrimeSense.

Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why.

Apple's possible difficulty in getting and keeping enough engineering talent, and how they might make bigger strides in web services.

Which group wears the pants in a company?

Marco's embarrassing FiOS support calls.

How Apple's release and marketing schedule affects their web services.

Methodologies and vocabularies.

USB spec group will add a reversible connector, the history of terrible USB connectors (see also: Hypercritical #5 from around 45 minutes, Hypercritical #6 from around 9 minutes, and the entire rest of the series, too), Lightning epitomizing Apple.

Dell renews hope for desktop Retina with the new Mac Pro, single big monitors vs. dual smaller ones, and higher-than-native resolution scaling on the Retina MacBook Pro (see also: Eye-Friendly).

Waiting for a new technology to fully mature before switching, or adopting it earlier with tradeoffs and hacks.

Texas.