April 2, 2011
A playful birthday message to Dr. Dave's son Nick leads into an April Fools discussion with an unexpectedly serious idea: a joke can reveal a product people genuinely want. Across several stories, Dr. Dave returns to the same practical standard—technology should account for ordinary human mistakes, marketing should be checked against real results and a repair should find the cause rather than keep replacing the symptom. The show captures major 2011 browser history as Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4 and Chrome competed for users, while a false keylogger accusation lets Dr. Dave explain why being first with a story can be worse than taking the time to verify it. An otherwise routine phone-syncing call becomes a durable warning that the cloud is useful but not a silver bullet.
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