AirPods arrive (and pop out), and the DMV runs over Uber [episode 19]

It’s the first day of winter. Warm up with a toasty, new Mallercast:

We talk about dog walkers with AirPods and a guy named Chet.

AirPods shipped to regular people
-In general, people like them
-If you bend over, they fall out of some ears
-Both Marco Arment and Jason Snell had them fall out when bending to pick up dog poop
-John Siricusa can’t wear them in the kitchen, hates tapping them in his ear

just had my first spotting of airpods on the street

they look as dumb on normal people as they do on journalists

— indifferent penguin (@dcseifert) December 21, 2016

iPhone 6S battery replacement debacle
-My phone is finally updated, it was a pain in the neck
-Shannon had a rough time at the Apple store

Uber forced to take 16 self-driving cars off the road
-Cali DMV revoked registrations because Uber failed to apply for $150 permit
-DMV wants to work with Uber, says it can get the forms process in 72 hours
-Uber spokesperson said “We’re now looking at where we can redeploy these cars…”

Chet Kanojia is back in the news
-His 2-year old startup Starry Internet raised $30M in funding
-This company wants to sell high-speed internet through the air
-The Starry Station Wi-Fi router actually exists (it’s $249)
-Cool idea, but this just reminds me how much I liked Aereo
-Here’s my post from 2014 about Aereo’s Supreme Court battle

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Next week we’ll publish the final episode of Mallercast for 2016. It will also be the final episode of season two. This is a big, big deal. Momentous. Tune in on Wednesday, December 28th to hear it.