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:
Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote
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
Post-show
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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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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:
John's 802.11ac device (via @_adamluther )
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:
Language wonks
When do you adopt a new language?
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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Shopping in apps vs. websites, WWDC hotels, and MacBooks. Lots of MacBooks.
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Women-listeners followup, Mac App Store woes, watches and handbags, and Facebook Instant Articles.
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Pre-show: Marco defends his backyard duck from raccoons
Follow-up:
How do we encourage more women to listen to ATP?
Overcast changes for Apple Watch
Are watches destined to replace smartphones? What were the first iPhone apps we downloaded?
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Photos follow-up, Apple Watch impressions, and this week's Microsoft Build announcements.
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Bad Seagate hard drives
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Photos
Background processes
Hard links
Shared album photo limit (via Lance Hildebrand )
Performance
Deleted photos
Restoring from backups
Apple Watch, one week in
Microsoft Build
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NAS backups, battery life, WWDC ticketing, the new Photos app, and Casey's terrible mistake.
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Watch minutia, ATP Shirt, WWDC tickets, and John ends his series of OS X reviews.
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Apple Watch reviews and picks, and get your modern web design off of our lawn.
Follow-up:
There are some nice people on Twitter
MacBook Pros and external displays
Scrubbing streaming video
Koenigsegg "One to One" PowerPC Macs with x86 hardware compatibility, PC users, and the power button
Meta-discussion about the show format
Scroll hijacking and modern web design
Apple Watch reviews
Purchase intentions
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Apple TV vs. Fire TV and Roku, ARM Mac rumors, and weighing Twitter's usefulness against its abuse.
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Nintendo and DeNA, laptop docks and wireless charging, Tim Cook's model-lineup philosophy, and the abrupt end of Top Gear.
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MacBook follow-up, Tim Cook and the Edition, battery anxiety, and learning to appreciate the iPhone 6 Plus.
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Did you hear that larger iPhones were released last fall?
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In-depth coverage of the new MacBook and some other thing Apple showed at the Spring Forward event.
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Car follow-up, Spring Forward event expectations, and an anonymous tip perfectly suited for our show.
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Alternative Apple-car theories, Pebble Time, and Marco drives a Tesla.
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A car show we accidentally created while trying to do a tech podcast.
Follow-up:
Apple making a car?
Post-show:
What shape would an Apple car take?
Arguments about what cars are pretty
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Follow-up
Photos.app does exist!
UXKit
New UI Frameworks & Paradigms
Post show:
Marco GOes on another adventure
Titles
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Handwriting recognition, net neutrality, hosting Overcast, and a special post-show Neutral.
Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition
Marco hates everyone and their email
FCC and Net Neutrality
Apple sensor cars Running Overcast
Family Sharing woes
Post-show:
More Destiny woes
John's Destiny TV
UI issues
John teases Marco
Toaster judging criteria
Neutral :
Casey drove an M4
The referenced Car and Driver article is on page 24 of the March 2015 issue Elon Musk's tweet P85D launch reactions (NSFW)Cayman GT4
Maintaining old supercars
Car and Driver Ferrari 355 ownership article appears on page 112 of the March 2015 issue
Ferrari 488
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Whether it's worth answering email, learning new languages, using Apple's money to solve problems, and the British Isles.
Follow-up:
Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson )
Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations
How do you learn a new language?
Apple's earnings
What's going on with Photos.app? Fake sponsor break for two awesome conferences on the British Isles:
Familiarity and Progress (via Gary Bernhardt )
Post-show:
Microsoft today
John's sad TV news
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Who wants a stylus? You have to get ‘em, and put ‘em away, and you lose ‘em… yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Follow-up:
12" MacBook Air
Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port.
RIP Thunderbolt?
How do you power it?
Reliability Probability
iPad Pro with an optional stylus?
CES
Audio Hijack 3
Post-show:
How much is Marco saving by using Go?
WatchKit's limitations and what to expect from the first year of Apple Watch apps
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Our 100th Episode Spectacular!
Pre-show:
🎉 Episode 100 🎉
Showbot woes (again)
Follow-up:
Anecdotal evidence of USB usage
Context of the 12" Air discussion
Thinness
Powering a 12" Air
Does the 12" Air compete with Chromebook s?
Are Thunderbolt and Lightning dead? (via Oliver Agar )
What can Apple do to fix reliability issues?
Post-Show Neutral
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Adventures in Go, Apple's software-quality issues, Marco's blogging issues, and the rumored 12-inch MacBook Air.
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Marco's Node results, Apple's developer marketing survey, and getting back into the iPad.
Follow-up:
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Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
Marco (mostly) hates new things again
Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger)
Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad
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Marco leaves his house for the first time, Casey travels to Italy on his iPad, and John rescues his family from outdated operating systems.
Follow-Up:
Marco expands his horizons
Holidays as the family tech support expert
Casey tries Workflow and channels his inner Federico Viticci
Post-show:
Holiday equipment physical inspections
Hopscotch
Be sure to turn on relatives' iCloud Backups
John's etiquitte guide to real-time tweeting to podcast hosts while listening
Yes, John knows you can copy to the clipboard from Google Authenticator
IRLTalk
Hopscotch achieves Turing completeness
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We wouldn't use a Siracusa County title lightly.
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App Store drama, detecting push-notification spam, and obligations to maintain your old apps and open-source projects.
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