State of the Net Podcast Euan Semple & Paolo Valdemarin

It's been a while so we ranged widely over everything from driving trucks, to Facebook's big outage, to a riff on Louis CK's But maybe", to health, and finally to the miraculousness of our devices. Hope you enjoy it. 

We normally manage to maintain a relatively positive outlook on the web and life in general but this time we struggled. Anti-vaxers, pumping shit onto the internet, and VR violence and pornography, we ploughed our way through it all ending up deciding that skepticism/cynicism was the only valid response. 

In this episode we chat about running beta version of Apple various operating systems on our devices, and our trust in companies, institutions and people. This takes us to some reflections on uploading our data servers of companies that might or might not loose it at some point. Finally we talk about Windows, and the always improving compatibility between applications and platforms.

In this episode we chat about privacy, facebook and the beauty of subscription models. Then we discuss about the good and bad of advertising (finding out that one of us has a background in this art). We move on to criticise the state of information and finally we provide the answer to life, the universe and everything.

In this episode we talk about getting older but no wiser, new Apple stuff that is incredibly cool but that we're not going to buy, an interesting new subscription support for podcasters, oh, and we almost fall out again, this time over consultancy. As a special bonus we both tell a joke and end up on the cheery subject of identity theft. 

In this episode we start with a chat about new listening habits, move on to innovation and new products, then we passionately argue and disagree about the state of text editing, finally we talk about Tim Cook’s recent interview.