13: Animated Kale

  • Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube, and check out his site if you or your company would like a catchy, fun song. Thanks for the ATP theme song, Jonathan!
  • Casey and Marco get deluged with to-do app recommendations.
  • The difficulty in getting people to change to a new app, but conversely, the potential success for slightly differentiated apps in an otherwise crowded market.
  • Google I/O keynote reactions.
  • Localizing apps to different languages.
  • The sad state of iTunes Connect.
  • Staged rollouts, purchase analytics, beta testing, and the different developer attitudes of Apple and Google.
  • Why Google is consistently able to kick Apple's butt in services (and engineering?).
  • Google Play Music All Access, Hangouts, and the new Google Maps.
  • Apple's Objective-C to Javascript bridge.
  • The App Store UI.

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12: Accidental Server Hardware

  • FU on Apple's tick-tock pattern.
  • Marco's PHP framework and sponsor-tracking web app, and why both exist.
  • Usability and security implications of passwordless login systems.
  • The Mac Mini's seemingly accidental success.
  • Podcasters who hate the word "podcast", its quality connotation, efforts to invent alternative names, and barriers to entry.
  • Brent Simmons' 30 Minutes To Sync proposal.
  • Building web services on Apple's infrastructure.

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11: A Particularly Exuberant Adolescence

  • The WWDC ticket lottery and potential solutions, or a merit system.
  • Why Marco sold Instapaper. (See also.)
  • Prospects for replacing Instapaper's income.
  • Speculating on today's app market.
  • The Magazine's app and Newsstand quality.
  • Motivation, development, and homework.
  • iOS 7's rumored visual overhaul and other speculation.
  • The transition away from Steve Jobs' influence.
  • What's left for iOS 7 to add?

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10: Gradual Ramp Up To Nothing

  • Laptops in school.
  • Getting a tech job with and without a college degree.
  • Running mail servers in today's spam environment.
  • Steve Jobs' unauthorized talking points.
  • The WWDC announcement and trying to get tickets.
  • Going to WWDC vs. a ticketless trip vs. watching the videos at home.
  • Apple's Q2 earnings and hints dropped during the call.
  • The tech industry's holding pattern with bored consumers.
  • Marco's mom buys her first smartphone, ignoring Marco's advice. Which one did she get?

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9: Fish Bicycle Scenario

  • Why are PC sales down?
  • Why and when people have bought new PCs in the past.
  • Forgoing or neglecting PCs today.
  • PCs in businesses.
  • Apple and IT departments.
  • Last decade's Tablet PCs.
  • The outlook for Windows 8 tablets in businesses.
  • What will change if Microsoft Office is released for iOS?
  • What AirPrint and black CD-Rs have in common.
  • Still using (and abusing) Jonathan Mann's awesome ending song. Follow him and check out his other songs on YouTube.

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