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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by Squarespace kindle fire apple and woz and dream cars jon rettinger zewail i'm noah kravitz and this is ask the Buffalo what is going on everybody happy monday of noah kravitz editor-at-large for technobuffalo welcome to another edition of ask the Buffalo I'm filling in for jon rettinger this week which is my pleasure it's a fun show to do he will be back so don't worry he reads your questions he wants to answer him and somebody asked had John how do you get your hair so perfect i'm obviously not equipped to answer that question i don't have to do anything i just look naturally that's good anyway let's get to the questions you can submit questions to ask the Buffalo via our website or via Twitter on Twitter use the hashtag ask the BAS Katie heb and on the website every week we put out a call for questions so just go over to TechnoBuffalo com just read everything because it's worth it it's you know it's great tech news and reviews and eventually you'll find the post that's asked the buffaloid ubique oh yeah that's what I came here for so there you go alright let's get right to it the first question comes from hits vara 51 he or she wants to know do you think the Kindle Fire will be a serious contender in the tablet market yes absolutely but it's going to be different the thing that Amazon is doing which is so smart and speaks to the ways that the other tablet makers not named Apple have so far failed to capture market share is they're playing to their own strengths they're not trying to outdo Apple Apple got the prime mover advantage they have the infrastructure with the iTunes Store the apps the success of the iPad and their ability to make very intuitive easy-to-use software for touchscreens and they took that and you know the story goes originally they wanted to release a tablet way back when but different you know different things the availability of large touch screen panels that were high quality other stuff in the market they decide you know what let's go with the smartphone first and so they released the iphone several years later ipad came out now they command something like you know 95% plus of the market so while you've got samsung in a sous and HTC and all these other companies trying to outdo the iPad on the iPads terms amazon is coming in and saying no no you know what we're gonna do a different way we're going to release a very low-cost tablet that's all about media media and services that we already offer so it's a shopping machine it's a video machine it's a book reading machine it's a music playing machine it's it's been you know there have been reports that amazon's losing money on each kindle fire they sell they've been reports they're making a little bit of money either way really what it is it's a hook to get you into the Amazon ecosystem because this thing is going to make it super easy for you to get everything through Amazon especially if it comes with a you know comes to the trial prime account prime is a prime is addictive to me like candy is to jon rettinger once you have prime you think to yourself oh well why buy it anywhere else amazon probably has it and i get free 2-day shipping anyway so I you know the Kindle Fire an interesting device on its own right it looks like the software is really well done ties into all the services that lots of people want web it's got an app store music video books magazines newspapers all that stuff but then it also serves as a front end for what really is you know one of the largest shopping malls in the world in amazon com so yes I think it will be a big content a big success definitely a contender but a little bit different than what we think of right now as a contender in the tablet device in the tablet market Matthew Jackson what do you think it's steve wozniak return to apple as a new spokesman what's the likelihood of this happening not going to happen woz has taken a different path you know Kathie Lee Griff Griff ered Dancing with the Stars gripper to set an anchor no Kathie Lee um talk about Dancing with the Stars all that stuff was just kind of on his own trajectory you know when you lose when a landmark event happens in a person's life you lose a dear friend family member someone like that you know sometimes people their lives suddenly take a different direction it's like they have a revelation or something happens they decide to you know sort of scrap the course that are on and go go somewhere else so I suppose that could happen with woz but I don't personally see Steve Wozniak coming back into the Apple fold in an official manner I think you know I think he's doing his thing he's more of the affable guy he likes to play with tech and do lots of different stuff and not kind of the hardcore businessman and visionary that that Steve Jobs evolved into in his time with apple and away from Apple and back with Apple so I don't think it will happen I think you know having was around in 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10 10 10 I feel like I'm on until you think you can dance quote from number two Danny mal has a question via technobuffalo calm and I I I stole this one away you probably want to know what car what John's dream cars maybe he can answer it as well in a future episode but I had this this one caught my interest because I become kind of a big car geek in my fantasy life not my real life so I will answer the question daddy wants to know what kind of car do you drive and what kind of car would you drive if you could have any car in the world assuming that you had to pay the insurance as the taxes and that sort of stuff good question i like these questions where it's not just like Fantasyland but there's a little bit of reality grounded to it like you can have any car you want but you gotta pay for upkeep and all that cast so currently i'm in a two-car household we have a 2009 toyota prius hybrid that was actually the first car that i ever bought right a hand and buying all the other cars I've ever driven have been either there's one hand me down and the others were like my family you know my parents car they let me drive that kind of stuff so we've the Prius and then we have a 1995 mercedes benz c280 which was a hand me down so we've got you know hybrid future tech the whole thing and then an older german car that's got like 140,000 miles on it and is still a blast to drive if i could have any car in the world to drive a dream car well i have to answer for one is i'm still enamored of the Tesla Model S I've never driven it never even been in one they won't let me go in at just stuff on the outside at CES but I think that car looks great i'm a big fan of the maserati quattroporte just the design of it and the s you know has similar lines to it with the fastback styling the hatchback adds a little bit of practicality it seats they say you can seat seven five adults and then two kids in the back facing backwards I don't know if I had two kids I don't know if I'd trust that but you know offers a little bit of practicality and then the performance package goes 0 to 60 in like 4.5 seconds and that's pure electric so assuming that thing drives like they're advertising when it finally comes out I think that would be the dream car because it's a combination of practicality functionality eco-friendliness future tech and sexy sexy lon that being said right now cars that are on the market I would go with a BMW diesel I would want a wagon imported from Europe because they don't sell that many Diesel's here in the states based on what they sell in the states i would get a 335d sedan because again you know have as much practicality that's what I want the wagon haul stuff around I'm a drummer and you just have more flexibility and that kind of stuff but those three series cars handle great fun to drive and the diesel you know makes it the most fuel-efficient car in the North American lineup the 335d but you have a ton of torque so even though you might not be able to take an m3 off the line once you're up to speed and you're driving sort of normally on the freeway you can pass anybody that kind of thing it's probably too much car for me to handle I'm not that great of a driver but I think that's what I would go with the Model S when they ship or for now you know I'd want to import a diesel in Billy wagon ride takes 335d there you go there's the answer John you know I know I know John has said some some he's whispered some sweet nothings into an Aston Martin's ear once or twice in his life so we have to get him to answer that question all right there we go it's asked the Buffalo again Noah kravitz sitting in for jon rettinger this week he will be back next week to take your questions but I had a blast doing it ought to see if I'll let me come back and do it again thanks again to the folks at square space for sponsoring this week's edition of ask the Buffalo and don't forget technobuffalo is on revision3 three times a week ask the Buffalo 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