68: Siracusa Waited Impatiently For This

Our initial WWDC reactions.

Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell!

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67: Tim Said, Man

• We'll be guests on the WWDC live episode of The Talk Show: Tuesday, June 3, 6–9 PM. Get tickets here ASAP! John will be taking a plane... for you.
• Follow-up:
  • Which is faster: installing Showbot or reimplementing it?
    • Casey's open-source Node version
  • PHP isn't faster than Javascript, voiding Marco's accidental argument in the last episode.
  • Node.js uses CommonJS, not AMD. ECMAScript also adds formal module support, which es6-module-transpiler lets you use today.
  • To the great surprise of nobody except John, iPhones come with earbuds, and those earbuds come with clickers.
  • To the great surprise of nobody, including John, the Bluetooth-pairing interface in a car was terrible, and both Marco and Casey missed an obscure reference.
  • iOS games that support physical game controllers must also work without them.
• If the "iPhone 6" comes in two sizes, which do you buy?
  • Possibility of resolution scaling modes.
  • Would the cameras be different? (Marco on The Talk Show, starting around 01:26:00).
• WWDC product-announcement predictions:
  • New MacBook Airs or a 12" Retina MacBook Air? (Intel's Broadwell delay)
    • Macworld's slow SSD speeds in the new Airs may just be from different SSD manufacturers.
  • New Apple TV hardware or software?
    • The Apple TV 3's CPU was originally a dual-core A5 with one die disabled, but not anymore.
  • The iPod Touch still has an A5 LOL.
  • There may not be any new hardware announced at WWDC, just like previous WWDCs in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011.
  • New sensors to be taken advantage of, like Pedometer++ did with the M7 last year.
  • Craig Hockenberry on Apple wearables
  • Wearables, sensors, and watches in fashion and reality.
  • Bringing the new Mac Pro's dark-glossy-aluminum finish to more Pro hardware?
  • Retina Thunderbolt Display?
  • The Magic Mouse. Yes, we really talked about this.
• Drawing conclusions from the "To Be Announced" sessions in the WWDC schedule.
• WWDC predictions for Mac OS X 10.10:
  • Just a visual refresh, or notable improvements to the core OS as well?
  • Apple shuffling engineers around to work on the new hotness while neglecting its established platforms and applications.
  • Modernization or replacement of AppKit, possibly by bringing the relevant parts of UIKit to Mac?
  • Is there any hope for a new filesystem, possibly by evolving Core Storage?
• WWDC predictions for iOS 8:
  • Better inter-app communication:
    • A system like Contracts or Intents?
    • Involving remote view controllers?
    • Side-by-side iPad multitasking?
  • Springboard enhancements?
  • Please kill Newsstand. Please. Just make them normal app icons.
  • Could Remote View Controllers and Background Refresh be used for widgets, live tiles, or dynamic icons?
  • Customizable default browser, mail app, etc.?
• WWDC predictions for new or improved web services:

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66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake

• The modern Apple-store experience
• Follow-up:
  • Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ever
  • Headphones mentioned:
    • B&O BeoPlay H6: Great comfort, but not sound.
    • Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro (32-ohm version; Casey's headphones) for very good sound at a great value (when the price drops to $175).
    • Sennheiser PX 200-II i: Marco's favorite portable set. Great portability, clicker, and value, but poor sound and durability.
    • More picks from Marco
    • Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 (Casey's earphones)
  • Net Neutrality
• Nintendo's sad trombone
  • Nintendo in Crisis
  • PS4 outperforms Xbone
  • Game Controller Programming Guide
  • Nintendo 64 Accessories
    • Expansion Pak
    • Rumble Pak
  • Kinect-free Xbone
• Beginnings of WWDC predictions
  • Odwalla
  • Healthbook
    • VO2
  • The Prompt on Carousel, one of their many photo-management-related episodes
  • The Infinite Version
  • Casey and Marco explore mixed metaphors... politely. Ish.
  • _ on the state of the Apple community
  • WebObjects
  • Fnd.io
  • Multipath TCP
• After-show:
  • iOS 8 split-screen multitasking
  • John obliquely discusses some Overcast complaints.
  • Wearables. Sorta.
  • More on headphones.
  • John was wrong about something.

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65: The Year Of Casey

• Casey's big news! (Much better than The Year of Luigi.)
• Casey and John discuss Monument Valley, the Escher-inspired puzzle game. (Marco didn't do his homework.)
• Apple and Google agree to... something
  • "Fight the real enemy"
• Apple might be buying Beats: why, and what they'd probably do with it.
• WebKit optimizes Javascript with LLVM
  • Wat
  • The Birth & Death of JavaScript
• "Full-stack developers" keeping up with the crazy world of Javascript frameworks.
• Using third-party code.

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64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived

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• Follow-up:
  • Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers"
  • ComiXology
    • Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality?
    • Vihart Video
    • Internet2
    • Who should blink, Apple or ComiXology?
  • AppLinks
• App.net sunsets its employees
  • Brianna Wu's Post
  • Tent
• Chrome experiments with removing URLs from the omnibox
• Casey open-sourced his Camel blog engine
• After-show:
  • Casey's flower boxes
  • John's code on CPAN
    • Rose
  • Marco's bastardized K&R style wedged into his Objective-C code
  • Brent Simmons on Javascript integers

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