Casey's fans at WWDC, Mac Pro followup, Xbox 180, revisiting larger-screen iPhones, predicting iOS 7 adoption, and pushing the boundaries of graphic design.

• Casey's fans at WWDC.
• Mac Pro followup. (John's halo-car post)
• The Xbox 180.
• Revisiting the potential for a larger-screen iPhone after having seen iOS 7.
• Predicting iOS 7 adoption.
• Neven Mrgan on iOS 7's icon grid and a rebuttal.
• New Mac Pro appears in Geekbench
• parallelize.c/xargs parallel processing

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Special early WWDC-week episode: Reactions to the keynote, new Mac Pro, and iOS 7.

Special early WWDC episode this week:

• Reactions to the keynote.
• New Mac Pro
• Initial iOS 7 design impressions.

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Modernizing AppKit, wrapping old C APIs, type inference, Haswell and 15\" Retina GPUs, Mac Pro speculation, WWDC predictions, and iOS 7 wishes.

• Opening theme by Larry King (@laking).
• The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon/TwUI.
• The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrappers around old C APIs such as Keychain and Address Book.
  • Springboard #10
  • SMOP
  • Underscore
• Should Apple add type inference to Objective-C?
• Haswell Retina MacBook Pro predictions and the possibility of having only the integrated GPU in the 15".
  • gfxCardStatus
  • The only 15" with integrated-only GPU
  • The first unibody 15" with high-res, matte LCD
  • Haswell integrated GPU explained
• Mac Pro speculation.
  • John on Ad Hoc
  • Larrabee
  • Intel's custom CPU for the first MacBook Air
  • Thunderbolt problems on Xeon boards
  • Marco's Mac Pro post this week
  • Scaling down the Mac Pro/"xMac" challenges
  • Thunderbolt 2
  • Asus' 4K monitor
  • The first 27" iMac's panel economics
• Major iOS 7 API wishes: better inter-app communication mechanisms, "default app" associations, and periodic background updates.
• Quick WWDC tips.
  • Casey's WWDC predictions
  • Casey's WWDC tips from last year

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Why Marco sold The Magazine, teasing apps before launch, Tim Cook at AllThingsD, and WWDC predictions for OS X.

• Why Marco sold The Magazine.
• Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass.
• Tim Cook at AllThingsD.
• Cook's presence and speaking style.
• What Cook implicitly said about future Apple products.
• WWDC predictions for OS X.

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Money and happiness, Tumblr and Yahoo, the Xbox One, and the messy world of TV-connected boxes.

• Marco visits Siracusa's house and the car-assaulting tree.
• Transcendental Money.
• Square Cash.
• B2W 120 on financial "safety nets".
• Tumblr, Yahoo, and not screwing it up.
• Cloud hosting and moving up the stack.
• The modern game console's role. the Xbox One's hardware design, and the messy world of TV-connected boxes.

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Our theme song, too many to-do apps, Google I/O keynote reactions, localization, Google kicking Apple's butt in services, Google Play Music All Access Glass Map Hangouts, and Apple's quietly updated Javascript bridge.

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• 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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Tick-tock in iOS, PHP framework theory, passwordless logins, the Mac Mini's accidental success, the word "podcast", and Apple providing a sync platform for developers.

• 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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The WWDC ticket lottery, why Marco sold Instapaper, future app prospects, developer motivation, and iOS 7 speculation.

• 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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Laptops in school, getting tech jobs, mail servers and spam, Steve Jobs' direct commentary, WWDC tickets, going ticketless or watching WWDC videos at home, Cook's hints on the earnings call, bored consumers, and Marco's mom's first smartphone.

• 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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The PC-sales downturn, PCs in business, Apple and IT departments, past and future Tablet PCs, and predictions for Microsoft Office for iOS.

• 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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Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt, Facebook Home, tech giants maintaining their own OSes, Google forking WebKit, and Panic's Status Board.

• Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt on that Vanity Fair trainwreck.
• Who Facebook Home is for and why Facebook made it.
• Whether Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, etc. could or should make their own OS or maintain completely diverged Android forks.
• Google forking WebKit, Chrome vs. Safari, and the fork's likely implications for Apple and web developers.
• Debug #11: Don Melton and Safari
• WebKit contributors by company
• Panic's new Status Board app (and IAP reaction).
• We included Jonathan Mann's ending theme song again. Thanks, Jonathan!

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Summly and Yahoo, retaining good tech talent, why iCloud sync doesn't work well, whether it's fixable, and whether you should use it even if it gets fixed.

• Summly's acquisition by Yahoo, and what could have justified its price. (Marco, WSJ)
• The quality of speech recognition.
• Challenges of big tech companies such as Apple hiring and retaining great talent.
• Why iCloud sync works so badly for developers and whether it's fixable.
• Why developers shouldn't use iCloud even if it worked.
• Jonathan Mann's ATP Ending Theme Song and the More Bleeps version.

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Buying a TV, regular people and high-DPI screens, the amazing Mac lineup that we barely care about, revisiting the Microsoft Store, and why Garageband's support of Audiobus is so interesting.

• How Marco buys a TV (unlike how John does).
• Regular people noticing and caring about high-DPI screens.
• The amazing Mac lineup that few care about.
• Which Mac would we tell people to buy?
• Marco revisits the Microsoft Store.
• The Surface Pro's uniqueness.
• Why GarageBand's adoption of Audiobus is so interesting.
• How exposed filesystems and iCloud's document model both fail users.

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Google Reader shutting down, the RSS market and client architecture, demand for Google I/O and WWDC tickets, Apple pessimism, and diversifying the iPhone line.

• The upcoming Google Reader shutdown.
• The market for RSS today, and the way forward.
• Client-side vs. server-side feed crawling.
• Addressing excessive demand for WWDC and Google I/O tickets.
• Apple pessimism is at an all-time high, even in the mainstream.
• What could Apple do to turn the pessimism around?
• Apple and web services.
• The Apple TV's interesting new A5.
• Diversifying the iPhone line.

The Mac Pro's future, launch and app considerations for a bigger iPhone, Visual Studio's ease of use, the future of Objective C, and migrating a platform's API to a new language.

• The role of the Mac Pro today.
• How Apple might manage the launch of a bigger iPhone.
• App design and auto-layout if the iPhone moves to multiple sizes and resolutions.
• Visual Studio's learning curve vs. Xcode and Interface Builder.
• The future of Objective C and the challenge of migrating a platform's API to a new language.

Small-camera design, Sony RX1, Apple and casual gaming, Solitaire and Minesweeper, original Game Boys, iOS default mail/browser/calendar apps.

• The Nifty MiniDrive
• The challenges of small-camera design
• Sony RX1 and Sony's camera-business revival
• Apple in the gaming market and the evolution of casual gaming
• Solitaire, Minesweeper, and the first time anyone has mentioned FreeCell in 2013
• The bad old days of Game Boys, lead-acid "portable" computers, and mouse-pointer trails
• iOS' refusal to let you pick default browser, email client, calendar app, etc.
• Mini-web-browsers inside of iOS apps
• How iOS could adopt Contracts or Intents, and the problems that might arise

The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, dumping old games onto iOS, dial-up modems, and the annoyance of gaming occasionally on a modern console.

The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, dumping old games onto iOS, dial-up modems, and the annoyance of gaming occasionally on a modern console.

Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.

Speculation on what a bigger iPhone's screen might be and why.