Marco Arment

i'm at the beach i've been working on the restaurant all week i'm making progress i still have not done dante of course i was about today i was about to but i have to set up the imac that's going to be in the office and it wouldn't fit under the office shelves and we lift up the shelf take everything off of it redo the office so everything has been like you know i'll have a list of you know

i'm at the beach i've been working on the restaurant all week i'm making progress i still have not done dante of course i was about today i was about to but i have to set up the imac that's going to be in the office and it wouldn't fit under the office shelves and we lift up the shelf take everything off of it redo the office so everything has been like you know i'll have a list of you know

five things I want to do each day and then I get through the first two and then I get sidetracked or they are more complicated than I thought or something doesn't work or something doesn't fit and I gotta do something else but I'm getting there making progress if anyone's listening to the show they may be forgiven for thinking that Marco is uh

five things I want to do each day and then I get through the first two and then I get sidetracked or they are more complicated than I thought or something doesn't work or something doesn't fit and I gotta do something else but I'm getting there making progress if anyone's listening to the show they may be forgiven for thinking that Marco is uh

I'll tell you what. No, there's a guest network. I'll tell you what, though. So I went through some crap with trying to get VoIP. So I haven't... I haven't dealt with VoIP since the old 2006 era Vonage service. Remember? That was the first consumer VoIP thing you could buy. You buy the Vonage box and plug your phone into it, and you get free long distance.

I'll tell you what. No, there's a guest network. I'll tell you what, though. So I went through some crap with trying to get VoIP. So I haven't... I haven't dealt with VoIP since the old 2006 era Vonage service. Remember? That was the first consumer VoIP thing you could buy. You buy the Vonage box and plug your phone into it, and you get free long distance.

It was. And in 2006, that was very novel. And in fact, my old boss, David Karp, he used his Vonage. This was 2004. He had a Vonage phone number in New York.

It was. And in 2006, that was very novel. And in fact, my old boss, David Karp, he used his Vonage. This was 2004. He had a Vonage phone number in New York.

And just moved to Japan with for like six months and didn't tell his employer and he was and he worked remotely and so he and he would just take calls like on his Vonage phone in Japan because it didn't matter like you could get your phone number in the US and then take the Vonage box anywhere and that you had internet service and you know it would ring just the same.

And just moved to Japan with for like six months and didn't tell his employer and he was and he worked remotely and so he and he would just take calls like on his Vonage phone in Japan because it didn't matter like you could get your phone number in the US and then take the Vonage box anywhere and that you had internet service and you know it would ring just the same.

So nobody would know where you were with your, like, you know, allegedly local phone number. Anyway, you know, now cell phones just work that way. But in 2004, 2005 era, this was pretty novel. Anyway, the restaurant has, you know, it's a pretty basic need for a phone. But...

So nobody would know where you were with your, like, you know, allegedly local phone number. Anyway, you know, now cell phones just work that way. But in 2004, 2005 era, this was pretty novel. Anyway, the restaurant has, you know, it's a pretty basic need for a phone. But...

most of the time they're busy they don't have time to answer the phone and they don't take reservations anyway so there's not a lot of reasons people could be calling and doing something on the phone so the staff was like could we please have like one of those messages when you call saying you know hi thanks for calling we don't take reservations here's our hours you know then if you if you want to talk to somebody press one or something like that to just deflect a lot of the most common calls because literally almost every call comes in it's sorry we don't take reservations like it's almost every call

most of the time they're busy they don't have time to answer the phone and they don't take reservations anyway so there's not a lot of reasons people could be calling and doing something on the phone so the staff was like could we please have like one of those messages when you call saying you know hi thanks for calling we don't take reservations here's our hours you know then if you if you want to talk to somebody press one or something like that to just deflect a lot of the most common calls because literally almost every call comes in it's sorry we don't take reservations like it's almost every call

So I'm like, all right, I can do that. Like, there's a thousand services that offer, you know, that kind of thing these days. Well, the VoIP industry has grown a lot since Vonage in 2005-ish. So I looked around and I'm like, all right, well, and they have just like a regular wired phone behind the bar and then one in the back office. This is very, very simple needs. We don't need extensions.

So I'm like, all right, I can do that. Like, there's a thousand services that offer, you know, that kind of thing these days. Well, the VoIP industry has grown a lot since Vonage in 2005-ish. So I looked around and I'm like, all right, well, and they have just like a regular wired phone behind the bar and then one in the back office. This is very, very simple needs. We don't need extensions.

We don't need a big menu. We just need something that can pick up and give a pre-recorded message and then ring the phones. This should be very, very simple. So I ask my friend Chatty G to give me some VoIP recommendations.

We don't need a big menu. We just need something that can pick up and give a pre-recorded message and then ring the phones. This should be very, very simple. So I ask my friend Chatty G to give me some VoIP recommendations.

Well, and in this case, I asked for what are the big providers because I don't want to pick wrong. And this is an industry that I have not been following for the last 20 years. I don't know what's good and what's not. Frankly, I don't really care about most of the features that it would offer because if you're buying like a VoIP platform for either your home – or for an office full of people.

Well, and in this case, I asked for what are the big providers because I don't want to pick wrong. And this is an industry that I have not been following for the last 20 years. I don't know what's good and what's not. Frankly, I don't really care about most of the features that it would offer because if you're buying like a VoIP platform for either your home – or for an office full of people.