Server days from hell, Apple as a services company, Marco's new Mac app, and multiplying Casey Lisses.
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WWDC 2016 tickets and changes, the MacBook Two (?), and John's vacation in California.
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Bleeps and boops, remembering the original iMac, and whether it's trendy to hate the Apple Watch.
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Home automation with Amazon, TextExpander's pricing controversy, and the state of USB thumbdrives in 2016.
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USB ports on future iPads, Marco's love of wires, and John's opinion of the JavaScript community.
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Our timely coverage of this week's Apple's event.
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Predictions for the Apple event, why we don't have cellular MacBooks, and why John hates NATO watch straps.
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Mac ransomware, the future of Mac OS X, and a surprising product review.
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The Ferrari Siracusa, the history of HFS+, and TVs. Yup, John was here.
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Apple and the FBI, Microsoft and Xamarin, and the origin of Comic Sans.
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Federighi and Cue on The Talk Show, Adobe deleting the .functionalhighground, and Microsoft Bob.
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Casey got a new job, then couldn't figure out how to use his iPad.
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Trying to find the functional high ground in a long, horizontally scrolling list.
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Why are iPad sales declining?
Follow-up:
Apple Earnings
Will the next iPhone be waterproof?
Post-show: Inductive iPhone charging
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The decline of iAd, iOS limitations vs. powerful Mac hacks, and saltines.
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Casey bought an iMac. You won't believe what happened next!
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We spend CES 2016 talking about USB-C hubs, Swift, and semi-smart watches.
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Our wish list for 2016. (With very specific parameters.)
Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores
Casey gets a new Apple TV
Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini
What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016?
Marco — Apple TV: get better
Casey — App Store: get better
John — Mac Pro : get newer
Marco — Finish the Retina transition
Casey — Swift on the server
John — New filesystem (🔔)
Marco — Apple Watch: get better
Casey — Unification of the package management
John — Apple Pencil for non-Pro iPads
Marco — iPad Pro : get better
...and an Instagram app for iPad
Bonus: iPhone 7 wishes
Casey — iPhone battery: get better
John — OLED screens in iPhones
Bonus: non-curved OLED TVs with best-in-class picture quality
Bonus: TV stations: stop with the logo bugs
Marco — Apple: show more focus
John — squash more bugs
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Phil Schiller would never order a webfont with egg salad.
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Managing and understanding negativity about Apple and technology today.
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Did you hear that Apple released a battery case?
Follow-up:
Apple iPhone 6S battery case
Apple updated all of their OSes
State of our Watch usage
What the future may bring for Watch apps
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Open-source Swift, iPhone headphone jacks, and the final toaster review.
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2015 tech we’re most thankful for.
Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
Follow-up:
iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays
iMac insomnia
What 2015 tech are we thankful for?
Post-show bonus items:
‡: Still not Siracusa-approved
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Tiffany Arment joins us to talk iPad Pro and Apple Pencil after we lament the Mac App Store's latest woes.
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iPad Pro impressions, multitasking paradigms, and Marco actually played a game.
Follow-up:
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John's children react to the remote
Marco and Apple TV gaming
iPad Pro
Multitasking UI paradigms
Post-show: Neutral
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Experiences with the Apple TV so far, the best toaster yet, and an after-show Neutral.
Follow-out*:
Follow-up:
Apple TV
Post show:
Follow-up on TV audio and sound bars
Casey reads the manual for Marco's car
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NAS vs. externals, Google cares about podcasts now, and John teaches Marco what a "sound bar" is.
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Expensive trackpads, Facebook's battery drain, and whether Apple properly balances usefulness, looks, and profit.
John tries to buy Star Wars tickets
Follow-up:
Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive?
iMac revisited
Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit
Facebook battery usage Post-show: Perl 6
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Overcast 2 challenges and lessons learned, avoiding the Facebookization of podcasts, and trying Medium.
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Microsoft Surface Book, iPhone 6S CPU differences, and the challenge of being Twitter's CEO.
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Ad-blocking estimates, Apple Music three months in, iPhone 6S first impressions, and John doesn't review El Capitan.
Follow-up:
Apple Music trial ends for day-one adopters
iPhone 6s
El Capitan
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Lessons learned from Marco's Peace ad-blocker saga.
Follow-up:
watchOS/2 and colored activity rings
Peace
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iPhone batteries, WebKit on Apple TV, over-criticism of Apple, iPad Pro apps, and follow-up from last week.
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Follow-up:
CEC Unicorns
_David Smith's 16 GB iPhone Research
iPhone 6/6S battery numbers
Casey's crescent moon and Genius Bar policies
Purchases
Apple TV
Pessimism
iPad Pro
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Apple event analysis: iPad Pro, new Apple TV, and the iPhone 6S.
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Also consider:
Amazon and tech workaholism, Apple's recent changes in judgment, Force Touch, and the iPod Hi-Fi.
Follow-up:
Apple, attitude, "cool", and change
Force Touch and Taptic Engine in the iPhone 6S
New York Times on Amazon's stressful culture
Post-show:
John's well-honed capacity for doing nothing
Addiction to coffee and large monitors
Follow-up on Casey's computer options
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iPad "Pro" challenges, which Mac to buy for home, mouse design, and what John's doing this summer.
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Follow-up:
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John's Wi-Fi Routers
What computer should Casey buy?
Mouse design
Overcast upgrades at Linode
John's adventures with Safari pinned tab icons
Challenges of an iPad "Pro"
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Skylake power savings, John's superior ECC RAM, iPhone rumors, and Marco's obscene power switch.
Pre-show:
Microphones and Electronics
Follow-up:
iPhone rumor time!
Post-show:
John, the FiOS Fairy, and wireless routers
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Notebook Xeons, ad blockers, and various letters of the Alphabet.
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Upside-down mice, plastic iPhones, cracked screens, and Casey's buttonless welcome to 2012.
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Rootless in El Capitan, the sad state of the Mac App Store, and more on Reddit.
Pre-show:
Invisible formatting
Chapter markers and Germany
Follow-up:
Reddit
El Capitan's Rootless Mode
Mac App Store... still stinks.
Post-show:
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There's no hole count on Twitter.
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New iPods are actually released, sort of, and Marco compares web apps to Visual Basic.
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On an infinite timescale, is Safari obligated to implement all web standards?
Follow-up:
Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
Honda Fit cameras
Classical music on Apple Music
Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
American radio sucks
Safari is the new IE
Microsoft eviscerates their phone business
The frustrating comedy of business speak
A brief history of John's feelings about Microsoft
Post-show: the ridiculous comedy of Windows 8
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Apple Music, Beats 1, and why you may not want to force TRIM on your SSD.
Follow-up:
Bitcode and portability
10.10.4 and TRIM support
Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities
Apple's use of Samsung SSDs
The comedy of updating hard drive firmware
Apple Music
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Bitcode follow-up, ad-blocking in iOS 9 and El Capitan, and how not to insulate your house.
Follow-up:
Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting
Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR"
John, his watch, and his nose
Safari Content Blocking API in iOS 9 and El Capitan
TRIM ) on non-Apple SSDs
After-show:
Casey, John, and Marco attempt to modify their houses.
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Bitcode, Swift 2, and slim wallets.
Follow-up:
Bitcode
Developing for future, especially new screen sizes
Swift 2 and Swift for Linux
Protocol-Oriented Programming at WWDC
The future of Swift, and when to dive in
Post-Show:
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Signs that point to Swift
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Our WWDC 2015 special from San Francisco.
Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco:
The keynote presentation
Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Natural-language search
Window management
iOS 9
iPad enhancements:
Keyboard navigation gestures
Side-by-side apps
Will these revive iPad sales growth?
New Notes app
Apple Instant Articles News app
Swift going open-source
watchOS 2.0
Third-party complications
Initial thoughts on the native API
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Google Photos, Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C, WWDC predictions, and pears.
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John starts two new podcasts:
Follow-up:
Google Photos
Photos.app performance and using it with a keyboard
Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C
WWDC predictions
Post-show:
John has thoughts about Velveeta versus Kraft
The relative advantages and disadvantages of fruit (Bosc pears are the best pears)
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Christina Warren joins us to discuss Pebble Time, the Apple Watch native SDK, and Jony Ive’s promotion.
This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl) . Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired .
As a part of this podcast exchange program, John joined Rocket for this week's episode .
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