Push-notification ads, Apple vs. Today widgets, feasibility of pro podcasting apps, and Crossy Road.
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Homescreen shaming, why there's no Overcast for Mac yet, and a very special Neutral after-show.
Follow-up:
Group homescreen shaming
Why there isn't an Overcast Mac app (yet?)
Post-show Neutral :
VW Golf R
Flat-bottomed steering wheels
Possible upgrades for Erin 's car
Oxymoronic Cars
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WatchKit, the Nokia iPad Mini, and John's iPhone.
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Twitter's strategy, CarPlay development, and .NET open-sourcing.
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Marco hasn't seen it, Microsoft Band, iWork file formats, and the Retina iMac in reality.
Follow-up:
Declan night one
It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island , not "Adam Sandberg". Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics.
App store prevents too-expensive bundle purchases (via @walruscp )
TRIM support and John's SSD
Source list opacity in Yosemite (1 2 )
Microsoft Band
iWork file-format support
Post-show:
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Casey's new-parenthood, Tim Cook's coming out, iMac minutia, FILM CRIT HULK, and discovering f/1.4.
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Twitter and developers, Apple Pay, interest waning in OS X, and GamerGate.
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Chairman Honeycrisp let Granny Smith spend a bit too much time with the Supreme Allied Commander of Super Secrecy.
Follow-up:
Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac
John's Review
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Ello and Twitter, iPhone 6 Plus scaling, and the iPhone 6's appeal vs. usability tradeoff.
Trends in social networks
Follow-up:
iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik 's research)
More on the bendy iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
Continued iPhone 6 impressions
Post-show:
More on the iPhones 6 screens
Gamecube controllers
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Adaptive apps, iPhone 6 Plus scaling, invisible spreadsheets, marquetry, and proprietary eponyms.
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Upgradeable watches, Steve Jobs fan fiction, and of course, what three nerds think of the new iPhones.
Follow-Up:
Tim Cook's Charlie Rose interview
iPhone 6/6+ impressions
Post-show:
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Marco explains photography to Casey, John explains watches to Marco, and Casey explains credit cards to Europeans.
Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
Follow-up:
More on Retina displays for the Mac
iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
Android Wear versus Galaxy Gear Apple's and Google's rates on payments
Whether we're blind to Android doing things first
Apple Watch's potential pricing
Post-show:
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Our iPhone 6/6+, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch spectacular.
Follow-up:
Macworld layoffs
iPhone 6/Apple Watch Event
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Anand goes to Apple, celebrity photo theft and iCloud security, event predictions, women in gaming, Atwood Markdown, and the button-fly agenda.
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52X CD-ROM drives, TiVo Roamio OTA for cord-cutters, version numbers, podcast patents, and trolling via domain names.
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Reversible USB, Twitter further ruining itself, and whether we'll ever get a major iTunes rewrite.
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We've finally done it: an entire show of follow-up. Sort of.
Pre-Show:
Follow-Up:
Post-show:
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Transport Tycoon, sausages, ARM Macs, and making money in the App Store.
Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ
Follow-up:
Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app
Apple and IBM
John's review status
Overcast status
Mixing server roles for burst capacity
niceWeighing feedback
Macs with ARMs (in contrast to bubbles with feet)
Making money in the App Store
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Overcast post-launch, Pixar and wage-fixing, Yosemite beta, and a very special after-show.
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Summer amusements, server-side parsing, UI meets the real world, sapphire, and the Apple/IBM partnership.
Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
Follow-up:
Overcast week one update
Server side vs. local feed crawling
XML wonkiness
UI Changes in 1.0.1
Sapphire iPhone 6
Apple & IBM Partner in the Enterprise Post-show:
Keeping devices & sceens pristine
Used cars, kids, dings, and knicks
John criticizes recent showbot changes
TV Talk
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Unfortunately, it wasn't Fast Text for iOS 7.
Follow-up:
Showbot status and pull requests
Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S
Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies
Vindictive but self-defeating defections
Screen size, small hands, and pants/trousers/jeans/khakis/whatevertheyrecalled.
4K Plasma TVs , as pointed out by Awax , which lists for $500K
Overcast has shipped!
Planning for server load and timing a release in the App Store
Why require user accounts, and why not iCloud?
Why freemium?
What took so long? Why no streaming? Why does that even matter?
IRL Talk RSSRadio ARM SIMD Extensions AltiVec Features users will hopefully appreciate
Linking to other independent podcast apps
Podcast directory design motivations Possible web-hosting on an A7 -based Apple TV like at Mac Mini Vault
After-show:
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Product choices in social circles, 4K and plasma, sapphire displays, and a post-show in memory of Firefox.
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Follow-up from doctors and Android enthusiasts, Aperture and iPhoto parking their sunsets into Photos for Mac, and designing for aesthetics over usefulness.
Pre-Show:
Follow-up:
Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset
Wonky design choices
After show:
More Showbot talk (spoiler alert)
John complains about Safari
John complains about the Showbot
Casey self-censors
XSS by friend of the bot Jeremy Banks Marco circles back and exits the parking ramp regarding Overcast
The ghost of Jury
Marco's XOXO talk where Overcast was announced... in September 2013
Working around UIKit limitations with crazy hacks
Whether to wait for iOS 8
John's Yosemite review status
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Let's put Google I/O in the parking lot so we can talk about Million Dollar Homepage.
Pre-show:
Casey's Showbot returns.
SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology
Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point-S"?
Hat colors
Google I/O
Are web APIs still necessary?
Post-show:
"Follow-down" on Swift and openness (Lattner's comment on Mike Ash's Friday Q&A )
More silly business metaphors
Casey's Showbot: web sockets, error handling, and developing for work vs. "play".
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Are games more like apps or movies? Amazon Fire Phone, Mayday vs. Apple stores, Continuity, and playing to your strengths.
Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing.
Whether games are more like apps or movies.
Amazon's Fire Phone
Who's it for?
Mayday tech-support feature vs. Apple's retail stores
Amazon and Apple doing what they're respectively, exclusively good at.
Continuity and Handoff in Yosemite and iOS 8
Only Apple (John Gruber)
John's opinion of iMessage.
Casey's further adventures developing a small web app in a hostile environment.
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Casey learns web programming, App Bundles as upgrade pricing, HFS+ (of course), Metal, and the next Apple TV as a disruptive game console.
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WWDC reactions.
Our initial WWDC reactions.
Recorded live at Macworld 's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell !
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WWDC predictions.
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:
If the "iPhone 6" comes in two sizes, which do you buy?
WWDC product-announcement predictions:
New MacBook Airs or a 12" Retina MacBook Air? (Intel's Broadwell delay )
New Apple TV hardware or software?
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:
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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Beats and headphone alternatives, Nintendo's situation, iOS 8 predictions, and the state of the iTunes Store infrastructure.
The modern Apple-store experience
Follow-up:
Nintendo's sad trombone
Beginnings of WWDC predictions
After-show:
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Casey's big news, Monument Valley, Apple and Beats, and the crazy world of Javascript.
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Apple/Amazon as a net neutrality debate, App.net's grim future, Chrome beta's URL bar, and Casey goes open-source.
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ATP T-shirts (hurry!), average gamer age and game genres falling out of favor, Facebook App Links, and Apple's 30% commission vs. Amazon and customers.
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Developers learning new things, using OS X betas, Thunderbolt 3, what's holding the iPad back, whether tablets will be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops, and the Sega CD.
Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimization" tautology.
When and why do developers learn something new, and why does Marco keep using PHP for everything?
OS X Beta Program for End Users
Casey and Marco make John proud (spoiler )
New third-generation Thunderbolt details
Overcast updateAre iPad sales leveling off? Why?
Will tablets be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops?
After-show:
Sega CD , 32X , CDX (which Marco thought was codenamed Jupiter, but that was something else ), Saturn , and Dreamcast .Casey and Marco's video game history and why they don't bother anymore. What do the three hosts do during our free time, anyway?
Apps mentioned:
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Vinyl sound, Apple/Samsung trial documents, Greg Christie's departure, pCell, performance vs. scaling, and why Marco never uses JOINs.
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WWDC tickets, Heartbleed, Dropbox Carousel, and a spirited after-show about the causes of app crashes and Casey's phonographic tea ceremony.
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Amazon Fire TV and the rest of the puck landscape, tech giants' anti-poaching agreements, and WWDC ticketing (sort of).
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How and when to discuss sexism in technology, Facebook buying Oculus and having visions, and the Hack extension to PHP.
Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment , empathy, ad hominem tu quoque , and cultural rigidity.
Facebook buying Oculus :
Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch , and the expectations that Kickstarter creates in "backers".Why did Oculus sell ? How far into the future did Oculus' "vision" extend, and what will happen to its vision now?
Why did Facebook buy? Does Mark Zuckerberg have a clear vision for Facebook's future? Facebook's Hack language extension to PHP:
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Flexible phones, interviews and books by hacks, VR headsets, and sexism.
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Software complexity, comp-sci usefulness, Marco's Mac Pro, John's AV receiver, and home-theater speaker philosophies.
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Software methodologies. (Finally.)
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Wolfram Language, Apple's SSL bug and the NSA, warnings as exceptions in production, and that Scriptnotes episode.
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Flappy Bird hamburgers, things John likes, WhatsApp, and replacing Objective C (Copland 2010).
Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful.
Kieran Healy's excellent article with science .John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW '09 .Goofball Jones' anonymous criticism of John's "shtick", and John's defense including many links:
The massive WhatsApp acquistion by Facebook, the huge value of mobile messaging, and the web giants' chilling effect on competition.
The "Copland 2010" argument that Objective-C needs to be replaced:
Separating language shortcomings from API shortcomings.
Casey got us to talk about LINQ briefly.
Long-term evolution of programming languages.
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Gesture explanations, usability ceilings, Flappy Bird, Comcast, and beacon.plumbing.
Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface.
RootMetrics testing real-world wireless speeds.Despite constant effort to improve usability, what if computers just aren't for everyone? (There's a similar long-standing debate with programming. See 4GL .)
The Flappy Bird saga: Whether it's a good game and why the developer pulled it . (See also: Super Hexagon .)
Is free-with-in-app-purchase ruining the game industry? .Comcast buying Time Warner and the implications on U.S. broadband competition.
The stupid new top-level domains (TLDs).
iBeacons and Bluetooth LE in stores and .museums.
After-show: Bionic on new TLDs (at 26:50) and whether the TLDs are just a scam by ICANN, Patreon , and yet more on the Mac Pro.
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Microsoft's new CEO should relaunch the giant Surface table with an exclusive new app named Paper.
The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story .More FU on iPads going pro, giant-tablet-desk ergonomics, trying to understand John's theory again, and a train analogy from Casey.
New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Bill Gates' new wildcard role, and Microsoft's likely future direction. (Marco's post , John Gruber's post , Brent Simmons' post )
Paper , Paper , Paper , Fifty Three , and Figure 53 .Responsibly naming things by first searching for trademark conflicts and potentially applying for your own trademark.
Apple's role in App Store name conflicts.
Facebook Paper's opportunity cost to the world.
After-show: More on Microsoft and some Retina MacBook Air speculation.
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Making iOS more powerful, ARM Macs, the Mac's 30th anniversary, debating iStat Menus, and the Motorola debacle.
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iOS storage management, dark times for TiVo and Nintendo, net neutrality, and "pro" iPads.
Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups , and storage limits, iExplorer for exporting iMessages.
iOS' storage model is a leaky abstraction .
Google may have wanted Nest for its smart-home project as well as the more obvious reasons.
TiVo may be exiting the hardware business , or maybe not .Nintendo continues to hurt .Why was the first Wii really successful, and what really held back its long-term usage?
Matt Drance , Fred Wilson , and Nilay Patel on the net neutrality news.After-show: The Prompt looks back on the iPhone keynote , The Prompt on an iPad Pro , The Talk Show on crossing iOS and OS X , Not Playing podcast .
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Implications of Google buying Nest, balancing skepticism with pragmatism, modern expectations of privacy, and Casey's vast emoji archive.
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"Needing" the Mac Pro, 4K's chances in the market, Steam Boxes as gaming PC replacements, and a LAN-gaming retrospective.
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Reviewing Apple's 2013 releases, yet more Mac Pro discussion, and the iMac as an alternative.
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Marco talks himself into a Mac Pro, John talks himself out of one, and Casey fumes quietly.
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