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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John buys a TV.
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PrimeSense and Topsy, Apple's engineering talent and web services, reversible USB plugs, renewed hope for desktop Retina displays for the new Mac Pro, and Texas.
FU on PrimeSense.
Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why .
Apple's possible difficulty in getting and keeping enough engineering talent, and how they might make bigger strides in web services.
Which group wears the pants in a company?
Marco's embarrassing FiOS support calls.
How Apple's release and marketing schedule affects their web services.
Methodologies and vocabularies.
USB spec group will add a reversible connector , the history of terrible USB connectors (see also: Hypercritical #5 from around 45 minutes, Hypercritical #6 from around 9 minutes, and the entire rest of the series, too), Lightning epitomizing Apple .Dell renews hope for desktop Retina with the new Mac Pro, single big monitors vs. dual smaller ones, and higher-than-native resolution scaling on the Retina MacBook Pro (see also: Eye-Friendly ).Waiting for a new technology to fully mature before switching, or adopting it earlier with tradeoffs and hacks.
Texas.
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Disk Utility repair results, Xbox One launch, PrimeSense, Apple's potential in TV, Penny Arcade's job posting, and facing trolls.
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Why enterprise software is hard, game-console sales, Retina iPad Minis, image retention, the A7's awesomeness, and repairing HFS.
Follow-up on Cisco VPNs on Mavericks and [photo backups] to SkyDrive on Windows Mobile Phone Series Metro Not-Metro Phone Windows .
Why enterprise software is so hard, and the barriers to entry for small companies targeting the enterprise market.
Game-console sales by generation , Nintendo In Crisis , and AnandTech's Xbox One and PS4 mini-review .Casey's new Retina iPad Mini, Marco's accidentally popular image-retention test , DisplayMate quality analysis , free data with a T-Mobile SIM, and choosing between the iPad Air and Retina Mini.
A7 thermal throttling in iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and Retina iPad Mini , and deeper analysis of the A7 .John's disk-corruption adventure and why you should "repair" your HFS disks. Take John's disk-repair results survey!
Ending Theme Song 2.0 by Jonathan Mann . (We still like the old one, so we'll keep it but rotate this in sometimes.)After-show: Fraser Speirs producing his podcast on an iPad , Back to Work 146 with Dan possibly going iPad-only , SimCity 2000 on SNES , Lex's Logitech Ultrathin Mini keyboard review , Apple refurb discounts , and the Casio B.O.S.S. , which can even exchange data with a PC!
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John's new Kindles, Photo Stream confusion, Elop's plan, and a story about enterprise software.
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Why Everpix failed, photo storage woes, and final Mavericks scraps.
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Red Mac Pro, iOS 7.0.3, and more on John Siracusa's Mavericks review.
Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one .
iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode.
Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his OS X Mavericks review .
Noodling John with random questions.
Dragon Drop and Cocoapods don't suck.The big potential section of the Mavericks review that John omitted.
Choosing high-level and low-level details to include in the review.
Tags and the filesystem.
Publishing the review ebooks, and relative sales between iBooks and Kindle.
Marco's postmortem on his past Kindle efforts. (Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices , CueCat )
Mavericks' theme and the Mac's constant battle between power users and ease of use.
Will John keep doing OS X reviews?
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John Siracusa's Mavericks review, Apple's event, and the Mac and iPad updates.
The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up !Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the dots video .
The Retina MacBook Pro update.
The Mac Pro base price, CPU options , and speculation on SSD pricing.
The iPad Air, Retina iPad Mini, iPad 2 (LOL), and iPod Classic.
Apple's prod of free software.
John's high-level summary of Mavericks and recommendation on upgrading.
Listener homework: Read the review before next week's episode.
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Ebook-publishing woes, stealing Burberry's CEO, ARM MacBooks, and speculation on next week's announcement.
Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date.
Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis Vuitton logo .
The challenges of retail leadership.
Touch ID impressions after a weekend of heavy use, and whether you should keep your phone secure for other people's benefit.
How Touch ID could be used in Macs, and whether ARM MacBooks would be worth the transition costs.
Speculation on next week's product announcements.
Where a potential 12" Retina MacBook Pro could fit in the lineup.
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Siri expectations, the future of Apple web services, payment-processing and money-transfer services, Mavericks GM, and a Readability-like payment model for podcasts.
Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture.
Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so?
The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe , and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash .
The Mavericks GM.
Drawbacks of a Readability-like model for paying podcast producers in Overcast, and Instacast's 2012 rejection for Flattr integration .
Different priorities for podcast playback and management.
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More Mac Pro speculation, podcast scrubbers and ad-skipping features, iPhone 5S cases, and automatic battery conditioning.
When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this ).
Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in Geekbench and what CPU tradeoffs to expect in the new Mac Pro.Speculating on the new Mac Pro's fan noise, rotating cable management, and intended desk location.
FU on John's podcast-scrubber idea. (Spoiler: he knows about the vertical speed-scaling that's been in Apple's scrubber for years, and it's not what he wants.)
Experimenting with new UI controls and behaviors: some end up being cool and useful in practice, but many don't .
Marco's brief adventure in designing a custom binary sync protocol.
The potential conflict of interest of avoiding automatic ad-skipping features in Overcast since Marco gets income from ads on this podcast, and the ethics of publishing all podcasts' subscriber stats on the site.
iPhone 5S cases.
Laptop battery health and potential automatic battery conditioning .
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Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S, John's review of iOS 7, and Marco's new podcast app.
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Casey goes to the Apple Store, filesystem FU, iPhone capacities and upgrades, Long Island Lexuses, A7 fabbing, and iOS 7 adoption so far.
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iPhone 5c and 5s, SnappyCam, Touch ID, 64-bit in practice, M7 speculation, and white iPhones.
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iPhone event predictions, fingerprint security, new product categories, using our Synology NASes, and what Nokia does for Microsoft.
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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's predicament and potential future directions, the Nintendo 2DS, and ergonomic keyboards.
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More on photo storage, whomever sent Casey the Oatmeal comic, IFTTT and Twitter, gold iPhones, and the new TiVo.
Querying Florida.
Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore, using web services as backups, and Ogg-encoded tinfoil hattery.
The Time Capsule's tough sell.
Casey's helpful fans .IFTTT and Twitter .The gold/"champagne" iPhone, not getting a larger iPhone this year, and the future of the Lightning connector.
The new TiVo .After-show: John's ebook-testing setup, the awful Kindle Previewer , and technical ebook woes. (See also: Serenity Caldwell at Cingleton 2012 .)
Plus, a very special after-after-show Neutral loosely about the M4 .
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Instapaper's web redesign, rewriting code, code maintainability, the mess of smartphone photo management, and backup challenges for non-nerds.
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Marco's new-new-new app and distractions, measuring desktop productivity, Fast Text and Bugshot sales, iOS 7's UI longevity, Chrome's plaintext passwords, lakes, and an epic rant on Minecraft mods.
Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks.
Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful to a very small number of people.
Why Marco has been procrastinating from the big app by making small apps.
Good app names as motivation.
Desktop Twitter distraction and measuring desktop productivity with RescueTime .
Casey's sales of Fast Text since last week's promotion, Marco's sales of Bugshot , and the potential economic upside of promotion for niche apps.
The fashion longevity of iOS 7's default UI.
Chrome's controversial plaintext-password feature and Chrome security leader Justin Schuh's defense of the design .Lakes.
An epic, half-hour Siracusa rant on the state of finding and installing Minecraft mods.
Kali .caseyrumors : Is this the future of Fast Text?
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