Accidental Tech Podcast (Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa)

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

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 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 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.

• 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.

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube, and check out his site if you or your company would like a catchy, fun song. Thanks for the ATP theme song, Jonathan!
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Special early WWDC episode this week:

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

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• 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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• John's review progress and show-duration predictors.
• The WWDC 2013 intro video. (Siri's WWDC 2012 intro)
• Apple's "Making a Difference, One App at a Time" video.
• "Designed by Apple in California".
• "Jobs" (Ashton Kutcher) trailer.
• Why developers should (or shouldn't) require iOS 7 this fall.
• "The Transporter" series.
• iOS 7 Calendar app UI.
• Cool-looking vs. well-designed.
• Our iTunes reviews.
• "Better" and "worse" programming languages.

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• Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch".
• Technological Conservatism.
• Panic's Lightning-to-HDMI-cable discovery.
• Chris Harris on iOS 7 icons.
• "Free-to-play" games.
• Coding for practice, and learning new APIs or languages.
• Overly specialized apps.
• Glympse (Casey's road-trip-tracking app).
• Feed Wrangler by _DavidSmith as a Google Reader replacement that's compatible with Reeder for iPhone.
• Lex Friedman's RSS-sync roundup.
• ReadKit for Mac as a potential NetNewsWire replacement.
• Dr. Drang's branch of Marco's RSS-subscriber-count script.
• Why is OS X version adoption slower than iOS, and could Mavericks be free?

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• iWatch follow-up.
• Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch.
• Eric Welander's thoughts on Siri for iWatch.
• iWatch as a means of identity.
• How regular people use iOS devices, as witnessed by John.
• Multitasking-switcher implications in iOS 7.
• iCloud's priority within Apple.
• Dropbox Datastore API, including its JavaScript API.
• Does the Datastore API obviate the need for a web service?
• Nerd-targeted products.

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• Marco's new-new app, Bugshot, and some of its design decisions.
• Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time.
• Bugshot gets the John Siracusa treatment.
• Exploring NAS options and initial impressions of the Synology DS1813+.
• Economics of FreeNAS or Mac Mini alternatives.
• iSCSI on Macs: the free $89 globalSAN initiator and the $195 ATTO initiator, which comes recommended by storage expert Dave Nanian.
• NAS backup options, since Backblaze doesn't do network drives: CrashPlan (with widespread upload-speed issues), or Arq (with potentially expensive Amazon Glacier or S3 costs).
• Backing up Mac filesystem metadata, Backup Bouncer, and current scores of online backup apps.
• Data hoarding and falling into John's backup vortex.
• The Apple Keynotes podcast feed.

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• FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine.
• iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme.
• Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this before we knew why it was down.)
• _DavidSmith on Logic X's pricing and what this might indicate for future App Store upgrades.
• Whether upgrade pricing is best for consumers, and the upgrade-pricing train.
• iOS developers acting like the RIAA in 2002.
• The complexity of modern software business models.
• The Wal-Martization of app pricing and how Marble Madness formed the modern Marco.
• Are Apple's policies really at fault for falling app prices?

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• Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB, SQLite, and implementing your own generic "model" class. Plus: Casey finally gets to talk about .NET. (Note from Marco: The day after recording, I rewrote my model class to rely on KVC instead of runtime tricks and reflection. Please email Casey.)
• The types of programmers who can and should write their own low-level classes.
• Casey's app, Fast Text, and why he wrote it in 2010.
• John's unfulfilled app idea and name.
• Getting yourself moving on an iOS app.
• Victory Lap for Ask Patents.
• A 29-minute after-show extravaganza about lazy input sanitization and parameterization, extremely difficult games, eggs, and beaches.

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• 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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• Instapaper's web redesign beta.
• Rewriting a codebase from scratch.
• Understandable code and writing for maintainability.
• The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
• The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup.
• How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's old two-hard-drives article.)
• Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
• Non-nerd backups.
• After-show: OS X Ivericks, Gruber on interface familiarity, Edge Cases on filesystems.

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• 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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• Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right!
• The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault?
• Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer.
• Microsoft's enterprise business.
• Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business?
• What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets?
• John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement. (Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand).
• After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

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• John's Mavericks review progress.
• iPhone event predictions.
• Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock.
• iPhone 5S colors.
• Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model?
• Cell towers near rich people.
• The Apple TV shipment rumor.
• Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"?
• Our Synology experiences and disk-layout strategies so far.
• The OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store saga.
• Microsoft and Nokia: Stratechery 1, Stratechery 2, Asymco: Who's buying whom?

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• iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
• The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice.
• AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video.
• Economics of iPhone cases.
• 64-bit in practice.
• Speculation on what the M7 does and its potential.
• White iOS devices.
• Apple secrecy.
• After-show: "non" vs. "hon" and the Micro-USB 3.0 connector.

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• Casey goes to an Apple Store.
• FU on SnappyCam, Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem.
• The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be overstaying their welcome.
• Each host's planned iPhone upgrades.
• How to get an iPhone on launch day.
• Long Island Lexus trim.
• Who's fabbing the A7? Intel? Probably not.
• iOS 7 adoption stats so far from Mixpanel and _DavidSmith.

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• Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S.
• Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations.
• How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) still is today.
• John's review of iOS 7.
• Locking your kitchen.
• Marco's upcoming podcast app, Overcast, as announced at XOXO 2013, and why he preannounced it.
• The parallels between Portland and the Hofbräuhaus.
• John's logarithmic-scrubber idea. (and Marco's logarithmic calendar)
• Dr. Drang on parallax.
• Post-show Neutral: the F80 M3/M4 specs.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop, Glide)
• Everpix's failure and impending shutdown:
  • The Verge's profile of the failure
  • Shutdown FAQ
  • Staff tweet about compression and average usage
  • Staff tweet about "3x userbase" needed
  • Somewhat similar services: Loom, Picturelife, Adobe Revel
• Everpix's critical strategic error, and how tech business and funding strategies should resemble Puerto Rico game strategies).
• Revisiting the challenges of online photo storage and why Apple isn't offering something like Everpix with iCloud.
• Answers to the last listener questions about John's Mavericks review.

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• John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices.
• The confusing Photo Stream limits, and all of these links in the show notes.
• Stephen Elop's If-I-Were-CEO Plan.
• A story about enterprise software.
• The four big assumptions about using enterprise software, why it's usually so terrible, and why big companies buy it.

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• 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.)
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• David Chartier's clarification on Photo Stream limits.
• Space Monkey, Transporter, Box, and Xdrive.
• Results of John's Disk Utility repair survey. (John on Debug)
• Xbox One launch sales.
• Apple buys PrimeSense.
• Apple's potential expansion into the TV business.
• Penny Arcade's job posting, Marco's reaction, and the outgoing employee's description.
• Extended after-show: how we deal with criticism, trolls, and our own flaws when facing our audience.

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• 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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• Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.)
• Desktop 4K/Retina resolutions hitting bandwidth limitations of Thunderbolt 2 and DisplayPort 1.2, and the Sharp/Apple non-news.
• John's Squarespace-reseller idea already exists.
• Why aren't iOS App Store purchases available for purchasing and management in the App Store app on the Mac?
• John's new TV:
  • Technological progression from CRT to plasma and LCD, and the many hacky tricks used by modern TVs to overcome limitations and look better in stores. See also: Hypercritical 16: The Soap Opera Effect.
  • The new John Siracusa TV.
  • John's TV-calibration regimen.
• Why we're not talking about the iOS notification sync in OS X that never shipped.
• Merlin's response to our criticism discussion, and how Casey reacts to little worms.
• After-show Neutral: the new M3/M4 and John's dead pedal.

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• What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning? (John Gruber on Lightning)
• Potential for 5120-wide Retina displays to overcome Thunderbolt bandwidth limits by using "dual-input displays"?
• John's "quick" tips for TV calibration. (THX TV-calibration app)
• "Rate This App" dialogs:
  • The Talk Show's excellent discussion.
  • Marco's post.
  • Underscore David Smith on App Store quality standards.
  • How Apple could process "report as inappropriate" at scale.
  • The effects of web popularity on Casey and Marco's respective unpopular apps (Fast Text and Bugshot).
  • 5 Whys exploring why developers use "Rate This App" dialogs.
• What could Apple do to improve this?
• App Store discoverability vs. search, and how search could be improved.
• How much developers should be responsible for their own app marketing, and the uncomfortable reality that many apps just aren't compelling enough to sell well.

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• Explaining our podcast artwork.
• Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness.
• Dual-input displays and how they enable the 5120x2880 display that John and Marco want.
• Turbo Boost and the Mac Pro's CPU options.
• Using a laptop on a stand with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
• The benefits of desktops and ECC.
• Mac Pro configurations for best value and future-proofing.
• Building separate gaming PCs, switching to iMacs, or trying to wedge PC gaming into Mac Pros.
• Mac Pro price stratification over time.
• Outlook 2011 for Mac complaints and John's multiple-selection-invalidation bug.
• Casey said some stuff at the end.
• Special holiday theme song by Jonathan Mann.

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• Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple parts.
• Scoring Apple's performance on John's 2013 to-do list.
• Concerns about Apple's recent Mac apps, including iWork '13 and Messages/iMessage.
• AnandTech's Mac Pro review.
• The Mac Pro's 4K/Retina monitor situation.
• The iMac vs. the Mac Pro, and the hardware needs of developers.
• Why do John and Marco care so much about Retina?
• What the next big computer-hardware shift may be.
• After-show: our future as old men, saturating USB 3, and the often-neglected Mac Mini.

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• Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store.
• Marco's Retina theory.
• PS4 and Xbone sales.
• Trying to care about CES.
• Who "needs" the Mac Pro? Justifying toys and improving quality of life with smart purchases.
• Panasonic’s new LCD TVs compared to great TVs of the past.
• 4K on Fox Sports, 4K's color space, and the chances of 4K catching on quickly.
• A Steam Box (its controller) as a replacement for a gaming PC.
• Three old men reminiscing about their teenage gaming years:
  • Null-modem cables, modems, and special networking software.
  • Modem initialization strings and SLIP.
  • What killed LAN parties? Perhaps it was great 4-player N64 games.
  • Three Moves Ahead Podcast.
  • Voodoo 3D cards, their silly cables, and Sound Blasters.

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• Follow-up: whether iMessage problems are widespread, reasons behind flattening the Mac Mini, and HDR TVs.
• The storage costs of Casey's emoji.
• Google buying Nest for $3.2 billion.
• Ben Thompson on Google's business model.
• Nest has over 200 employees, including many ex-Apple employees.
• The Target-pregnant story.
• Marco's critical reading of Nest's statements.
• Maintaining a skeptical but pragmatic relationship with Google.
• Stephen Hackett's pants and regrets.
• Modern expectations of privacy.
• Potential for privacy laws like HIPAA applied to consumer technology.
• Google's public opinion is turning, but stories like this will never be in USA Today.
• Thought experiments with Apple buying Twitter, Dropbox, or Intel.
• After-show: Marco's house is filled with LEDs, John's house is filled with CFLs, and Casey's house is filled with apathy.

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• 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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• Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people".
• Can iOS add more power-user functionality without harming its simplicity or usability?
• Whether Macs should ship with ARM CPUs, how such a transition would be challenging today, and whether Casey should just buy another power adapter.
• The 30th anniversary of the Macintosh and the experience of using its power switch (photo from iFixit's awesome teardown).
• Disk-ejecting usability.
• Using iStat Menus to monitor your performance and assist future hardware decisions. (Or not.)
• Lenovo buying Motorola's pillaged carcass from Google, and whether they ruined the IBM ThinkPad.
• After-show: What will we reflect on in 20 years as being the obvious sore spot with computers today?

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• 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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• 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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• 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:
  • An explanation of John's "schtick"
  • Some podcasts where John talks about things he likes:
    • Goodfellas
    • I Like My Coffee Like My Evil Sith Lords
    • Death Star University
    • Darth Vader's Office is Really Weird
    • Jedi Weekend
    • Wind is the Enemy
    • Skywalker's Eleven
    • Also Known as Endor
    • Journey: Then We Touched, Then We Sang
    • Professor Siracusa's Anime 101
    • Hangin' With the Totes
  • Masterpiece: Ico
  • The Incomparable #100: Who Cares What We Think? - Why we do podcasts about what we think of things, good and bad.
  • An ATP episode about how we deal with criticism
• 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:
  • John's original "Copland 2010" article from 2005
  • Copland 2010 Revisited (in 2010)
  • We Need to Replace Objective-C (Ash Furrow)
  • Replacing Objective-C and Cocoa (Steve Streza)
  • Objective: Copland 2010 (Guy English)
• Separating language shortcomings from API shortcomings.
• Casey got us to talk about LINQ briefly.
• Long-term evolution of programming languages.

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• Wolfram Language.
• The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an NSA effort, possibly as part of their $250 million annual budget for such operations.
• Apple's warrant canary.
• Casey's and Marco's hard-to-find bugs and language misfeatures. (Perl protects John from writing bugs.)
• Whether language-interpreter warnings should be treated as errors in production.
• The Scriptnotes episode with the Final Draft CEO, the follow-up in the next episode, and Kent Tessman's response.
• After-show: Google lobbying against Glass bans while driving, and Objective-C exception conventions.
• Next week will be the Software Methodologies show. For real this time!

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• Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production.
• Software methodologies. For real this time.
• Why don’t software development methodologies work?
• Evidence-based scheduling.
• Marco plugs FCModel, Casey plugs his Debug appearance, and John plugs bleeps and boops.
• After-show: CarPlay, and £1,600 audiophile Ethernet cables (via Dalton).

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• Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile manifesto, and what Agile has become.
• What we found most useful from our computer-science educations.
• Marco's impressions of his new Mac Pro.
• External disks, PCI-Express SSDs, and cable management.
• John buys a home-theater AV receiver. (The newer version he didn't need)
• Stereo vs. surround speakers, and integrated vs. external subwoofers. (Marco's tiny, buggy amp and great speakers).
• After-show: Pono, ABX tests, mp3ornot.

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• Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45).
• The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone.
• Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive book, the Jony Ive interview, access to Apple, and hiring hacks for tech stories.
• Sony's Project Morpheus VR headset and initial impressions
  • The Oculus Rift
  • Michael Abrash's blog posts:
    • Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing Part 1
    • When it comes to resolution, it's all relative
    • Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR
    • Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets the Eye
    • Game Developers Conference and space-time diagrams
    • Why virtual isn't real to your brain
    • Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder
  • John Carmack and his latency mitigation strategies
  • Casey's birthday party as a child
  • Why Oculus hopes Project Morpheus is good
• The GitHub hubbub, sexism, and how to get better (such as App Camp for Girls).

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• 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:
  • PHP is poorly designed but very practical.
  • The risks of using Hack (Marco's two posts).

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• Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus.
• Amazon Fire TV — no fan!
• USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector
• The giant anti-poaching collusion between Google, Apple, and dozens of other companies (Facebook apparently refused)
• Google checking with Steve Jobs first before making a hiring decision
• After-show: We tried to predict WWDC dates, not knowing that Apple would announce them 12 hours later, then discussed ticket lotteries and how Apple probably wouldn't build one. (Yeah.)

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• Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam
• WWDC
  • How to make a lottery work, like Shmoocon does
  • How to write a live blogging system for keynotes
  • Our winnings and losses in the WWDC Don't-Call-it-a-Lottery
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  • What's the right way to distribute tickets?
  • Is today's WWDC really tenable? What could be done?
  • AltConf and "CDWW"
• Heartbleed
• Dropbox's Announcements
  • Condoleezza Rice joins their board
  • Carousel, a new photo sharing app.
    • Some potential trademark issues with some friends of Marco and Casey's
    • Does this leverage Everpix IP?
    • How the UI is similar to Oldsmobile speedometers from the 80s
• Lightroom Mobile
• In an unusually angsty after-show, John takes Marco and Casey on:
  • Where do crashes really come from?
    • John on Debug #32
  • Is Vinyl really better than CDs?
    • IRL Talk #19
    • Casey on IRL Talk #21
    • Christopher “Monty” Montgomery's excellent video explaining audio sampling

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• Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites
• Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC)
• The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Samsung trial
  • Creativity, Inc., the book about Pixar by Ed Catmull
• Is Greg Christie's departure a contentious story or not?
  • This, too, relates to Pixar
  • Ken Ferry on getting ideas approved at Apple, as heard on Debug #33
• Artemis pCell (demo video)
• Scaling servers and how to use MySQL effectively
  • Marco's preferred book (but he prefers the second edition)
  • Perhaps not use MySQL?
  • A long list of MySQL gotchas
  • How FriendFeed did crazy schema-less MySQL
• After show: why Casey hates his car, thanks to a trip to the movies.

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• 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?
  • Second Crack
  • Fast Text
  • John's blog
• OS X Beta Program for End Users
  • What's coming on June 2nd?
• Casey and Marco make John proud (spoiler)
• New third-generation Thunderbolt details
  • MagSafe vs. MagSafe 2
• Overcast update
• Are iPad sales leveling off? Why?
  • How we use our iPads today
  • Limitations in modern iOS
  • Are iPad apps stagnating?
  • Jean-Louis Gassée's take
  • Gruber's response
  • Casey on T-Mobile's Free Internet (relevant T-Mobile info)
  • Apps mentioned:
    • Tweetbot
    • Twitterrific
    • 1Password
    • Fantastical 2
    • Threes
    • Monument Valley
    • Year Walk
    • The Room
• 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:
    • Ridiculous Fishing
    • Letterpress
    • Dots

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• Follow-up:
  • Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association)
  • Your favorite game genres going out of fashion
  • Apps and games Mentioned:
    • Metal Gear Solid
    • Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
    • Flight Control (iTunes)
    • The Incident
    • Letterpress
    • Tiny Wings
    • Ramp Champ
    • Threes
    • Total Annihilation
    • Supreme Commander
• Facebook App Links
  • MacStories
  • Rene Ritchie
• ComiXology removes in-app purchase
  • Back to Work
  • Office for iPad/iPhone
• After-show:
  • Burstly acquired by Apple, which brings TestFlight with it.
  • Casey's new website

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• Follow-up:
  • Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers"
  • ComiXology
    • Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality?
    • Vihart Video
    • Internet2
    • Who should blink, Apple or ComiXology?
  • AppLinks
• App.net sunsets its employees
  • Brianna Wu's Post
  • Tent
• Chrome experiments with removing URLs from the omnibox
• Casey open-sourced his Camel blog engine
• After-show:
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  • John's code on CPAN
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• Casey's big news! (Much better than The Year of Luigi.)
• Casey and John discuss Monument Valley, the Escher-inspired puzzle game. (Marco didn't do his homework.)
• Apple and Google agree to... something
  • "Fight the real enemy"
• Apple might be buying Beats: why, and what they'd probably do with it.
• WebKit optimizes Javascript with LLVM
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  • The Birth & Death of JavaScript
• "Full-stack developers" keeping up with the crazy world of Javascript frameworks.
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• The modern Apple-store experience
• Follow-up:
  • Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ever
  • Headphones mentioned:
    • B&O BeoPlay H6: Great comfort, but not sound.
    • Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro (32-ohm version; Casey's headphones) for very good sound at a great value (when the price drops to $175).
    • Sennheiser PX 200-II i: Marco's favorite portable set. Great portability, clicker, and value, but poor sound and durability.
    • More picks from Marco
    • Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 (Casey's earphones)
  • Net Neutrality
• Nintendo's sad trombone
  • Nintendo in Crisis
  • PS4 outperforms Xbone
  • Game Controller Programming Guide
  • Nintendo 64 Accessories
    • Expansion Pak
    • Rumble Pak
  • Kinect-free Xbone
• Beginnings of WWDC predictions
  • Odwalla
  • Healthbook
    • VO2
  • The Prompt on Carousel, one of their many photo-management-related episodes
  • The Infinite Version
  • Casey and Marco explore mixed metaphors... politely. Ish.
  • _ on the state of the Apple community
  • WebObjects
  • Fnd.io
  • Multipath TCP
• After-show:
  • iOS 8 split-screen multitasking
  • John obliquely discusses some Overcast complaints.
  • Wearables. Sorta.
  • More on headphones.
  • John was wrong about something.

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• Follow-up:
  • Which is faster: installing Showbot or reimplementing it?
    • Casey's open-source Node version
  • PHP isn't faster than Javascript, voiding Marco's accidental argument in the last episode.
  • Node.js uses CommonJS, not AMD. ECMAScript also adds formal module support, which es6-module-transpiler lets you use today.
  • To the great surprise of nobody except John, iPhones come with earbuds, and those earbuds come with clickers.
  • To the great surprise of nobody, including John, the Bluetooth-pairing interface in a car was terrible, and both Marco and Casey missed an obscure reference.
  • iOS games that support physical game controllers must also work without them.
• If the "iPhone 6" comes in two sizes, which do you buy?
  • Possibility of resolution scaling modes.
  • Would the cameras be different? (Marco on The Talk Show, starting around 01:26:00).
• WWDC product-announcement predictions:
  • New MacBook Airs or a 12" Retina MacBook Air? (Intel's Broadwell delay)
    • Macworld's slow SSD speeds in the new Airs may just be from different SSD manufacturers.
  • New Apple TV hardware or software?
    • The Apple TV 3's CPU was originally a dual-core A5 with one die disabled, but not anymore.
  • 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:
    • A system like Contracts or Intents?
    • Involving remote view controllers?
    • Side-by-side iPad multitasking?
  • 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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Our initial WWDC reactions.

Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell!

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• Follow-up:
  • It's OK if you got two T-shirts. Keep them both.
  • Marco was wrong about CloudKit limits.
• Casey's broken Showbot.
• Abusing new App Bundles and Complete This Bundle to achieve upgrade pricing in the App Store.
• The WWDC NDA is mostly gone.
  • WWDC 2014 videos
• Marco's likely filesystem corruption and restore.
  • SuperDuper
  • Bionic
  • HFS+ Bit Rot
• Apple's new Metal graphics API.
  • Debug
• Might the next Apple TV become a game console?
  • How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony (Ben Thompson)
  • TV "pucks" for gamers
• After-show special: Tiff and John discuss Journey.
  • The Incomparable: Journey
  • Strange Game

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• 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
    • Apple stores vs. U.S. population density
• 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.
  • OWASP top 10 web vulnerabilities

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• Pre-show:
  • Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia)
  • Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture
• 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
  • Overview
  • Material Design
    • Design Reel video
  • Android Auto
  • Moto 360 Watch
    • Panerai Watches
  • Lock-in by visual affordances
  • Gmail API
    • The API doesn't replace IMAP
    • Marco's prediction about IMAP support
  • ART Runtime
• 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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• Pre-Show:
  • Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs.
• Follow-up:
  • Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop
  • A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is
  • Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Griffel, biomedical engineer, and Per Östergren, MD
• Aperture and iPhoto's brands were sunset
  • Zoomed Photos UI screenshot
  • Apple tells Ars Technica of "plans for professional-grade features such as image search, editing, effects, and most notably, third-party extensibility."
  • We channel our our inner Prompt and discuss photo management techniques
• Wonky design choices
  • Jim Ray's tweet that started the conversation
  • OXO Good Grips
  • iFixit teardown of the AirPort Extreme
  • A geometry lession regarding the Back of Marco's trash can
  • Sharp edges got softer on MacBook Pros over time
• 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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• Follow-up:
  • Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates?
    • Framily
    • Google I/O Inclusiveness
    • Penny-farthing bicycle
  • RAW editing in iPhoto
  • Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones
  • More on health monitoring by Ben Griffel
  • Control Plane
  • The death of plasma
    • The challenges of making a 4K plasma TV
    • Are 4K TVs worth it?
    • Crutchfield
    • Netflix Shows 4K
• Leaked "iPhone 6" "Sapphire" Display Video
• Post-show:
  • Overcast and Content Security Policy
    • Github rolled out CSP
  • Firefox memories
    • Firefox's launch ad in the New York Times
    • Browser rendering engine timeline
    • XUL
  • Rescue Time
  • THE SHOWBOT SURVIVED!
  • Quick Neutral
    • F80 M3 vs. E92 M3 dyno comparison
    • F10 M5 Launch Control
    • Porsche 918
    • Casey's traction control in the snow

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• 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.
    • Silver Screen Queens Podcast
    • CGP Grey
  • 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
    • Some serious dedication on Hacker News
    • Posted after we recorded: Castro's response
  • Podcast directory design motivations
• Possible web-hosting on an A7-based Apple TV like at Mac Mini Vault
• After-show:
  • John gets Hypercritical about Overcast
  • Electric Shadow
  • Back to Work

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• Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
• Follow-up:
  • Overcast week one update
    • Server side vs. local feed crawling
    • XML wonkiness
      • XPath
      • XSLT
    • UI Changes in 1.0.1
      • What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app?
      • Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra
      • More on priority podcasts
  • Sapphire iPhone 6
    • Second Marques Brownlee Video
    • Mohs Hardness Scale
    • Gorilla Glass
• Apple & IBM Partner in the Enterprise
• Post-show:
  • Keeping devices & sceens pristine
    • Mac SE/30
    • Mac Plus
  • Used cars, kids, dings, and knicks
    • Bra Phase
  • John criticizes recent showbot changes
  • TV Talk
    • Which Mike Judge creations are funnier than others
    • Halt and Catch Fire
    • Silicon Valley
    • Veep

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• Follow-up on Overcast:
  • Debug
  • Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load
• Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing
  • Previously on ATP
  • The Incomparable
  • Top Gear Series 3 Episode 4
  • Sega Saturn
• Yosemite Public Beta
  • IMAP
  • VPN woes of the past
  • Radar
  • SuperDuper
  • OS/2 Warp
• After-show:
  • Marco rents crazy headphones from The Cable Company
    • Marco's original post
    • HE-6 headphones (the crazy way that planar-magnetic drivers work)
    • The massive EF-6 amp and its crazy audiophile volume knob (top center) — it's a stepped attenuator, since common potentiometers are considered inferior.
    • XLR plugs and balanced audio
    • Casey still loves in-ear monitors (probably while listening to vinyl), but many experts in both prefer headphones.
  • Casey surprises Marco and John by playing Journey
    • Casey drops hints on Twitter days before and John picks up on it
    • PlayStation Store Credit on Amazon
    • Journey Soundtrack on Amazon and iTunes
    • Monument Valley
    • John's blog post
    • Tiff plays Journey
    • The Incomparable on Journey
    • Inception

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• Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ
  • Journey Soundtrack
  • Transport Tycoon
  • TT Original MIDI Music
  • TT Remastered MP3 Music
  • OpenTTD
• Follow-up:
  • Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app
  • Apple and IBM
  • John's review status
    • Synergy
  • Overcast status
    • Mixing server roles for burst capacity
    • nice
    • Weighing feedback
• Macs with ARMs (in contrast to bubbles with feet)
  • Jean-Louis Gassée's article
  • MVNO
  • MacBook Air Specs
  • iPad Air Specs
  • MacBook Air Geekbench
  • iPad Air Geekbench
  • Mac Power Users
• Making money in the App Store
  • Jared Sinclair's blog post
  • Planet Money on discussing salaries
  • Fast Text (iTunes Link) sales
    • Opacity Express
    • Jakub Świadek
    • topLayoutGuide
    • Justin Williams on business
    • Jazzychad's post on games
    • Stephen Orth on a different kind of App Store success
    • Justin Williams - "90 days"
    • Stuart Hall - "An App Store Experiment"
• Post-show:
  • Rube Goldberg Machine
  • Casey's terrible fast-food preferences
    • Fazoli's Ultimate Sampler
    • Casey's "breadsticks"
    • Sonic Drive-In
    • Shake Shack
    • Five Guys
    • Cook-Out
    • Boar's Head Natural Casing Beef Frankfurters
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• Pre-Show:
  • Casey's New Podcast
• Follow-Up:
  • USB Type-C connector finalized
    • Peter Bright's comment
    • xkcd
  • ARM Macs
    • Summly
    • WIMP
    • _DavidSmith's Version Stats
  • More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy
    • Jared's new job
    • Release Notes #65
    • _DavidSmith's Developing Perspective #192
    • Early Instapaper screenshots
    • "App Rot"
    • Capo
  • TiVo Premiere UI update
    • TiVo ditches Flash
    • Haxe (həvər)
  • Account-free Overcast
    • Jalkut theory on App Store review
• Post-show:
  • Casey sells his soul for symmetric internet via Zac Bir
    • A Cry in the Dark
  • Casinos
    • Boiler Room
    • Leftovers
    • Casey on Debug
  • Wii U Games
    • Mario Kart 8
    • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
    • Playstation 4 Sales
    • Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
    • Nintendoland
    • Mario Kart Wii
    • Mario Kart 64

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• Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings
• Follow-up:
  • Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too
  • Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff
    • PVC
    • Apple's official cable
    • Amazon's knockoffs
    • Monoprice's knockoffs
  • Cables' Springy Bits
    • TRRS connector
  • Non-spammy Verizon DNS
  • Console sales
  • How do you pronounce "Haxe"?
• Twitter continues to try to ruin itself
  • Being a completionist versus following Glenn Fleishman
  • Twitterrific with unified timelines and Tweetbot without
  • Build an Acura in a tweet!
  • App.net and Tent
• iTunes 12
  • Will iTunes ever get a complete rewrite or have functionality spun off into multiple apps?
  • Photos in Yosemite
• Post-show:
  • Non-ideal times to decide whether to have another baby or write another OS X review
  • How old is Stephen Hackett, really?
  • Could you use an iOS device as a media-sync host for an iPod?
  • Transferring large files over wireless (including Eye-Fi cards)

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• Follow-up:
  • iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C
  • Lightning cables
    • Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar
    • When to ask for a replacement
    • Strain relief design
    • USB icon on the cable
  • There's still a Mac with an optical drive
  • CD-ROM nostalgia
    • CD caddy
    • Math co-processor
    • Kenwood TrueX 72x CD-ROM with 7 laser beams
  • When will Apple let spinning hard drives die?
    • What size drives do iMacs use?
  • Verizon "SpeedMatch"
• Merlin Mann asks about the new TiVo Roamio OTA
• Version Numbering
  • The Infinite Version
  • Do people care about pretty URLs.aspx?
• Podcast Patent Troll
  • Ars Technica
  • Hypercritical #67
  • Hypercritical #68
  • Ars on Carolla Settling
  • Adam Carolla discusses the case starting around 40 minutes
• Marco's headphone review
• Post-Show:
  • John's review status
  • Amazon buys Twitch
    • Twitch Plays Pokémon
    • Isometric
  • Marco.☕️
  • Bad.☕️
  • Explanation of John's joke domain for The Flop House

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• Follow-up:
  • TiVo service charges and OTA channels
  • Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr
  • Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch
• Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple
  • Anand's announcement
  • Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III
• Hackers steal photos from celebrities, apparently by phishing their iCloud accounts or answering security questions
  • Possibly similar to Mat Honan's hack
  • Find My iPhone was missing rate-limiting
  • Apple says the rate-limiting flaw wasn't involved
  • Ben Thompson on iCloud's reputation
  • Tim Cook responds in WSJ interview
• Next week's Apple event
  • Feld & Volk video of an assembled 4.7" iPhone 6
  • Relative seating capacity of Apple event venues
• Recent attacks of women in gaming
  • An overview on The Guardian
  • Another good overview
  • Feminist Frequency (YouTube channel)
  • Isometric: Brianna Wu, Maddy Myers, Georgia Dow, and Steve Lubitz
  • Susan Arendt
• "Common Markdown", née "Standard Markdown"
  • John Gruber's official Markdown
• That word for when "I know that you know that I know…" and so on that John couldn't remember: Yomi

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• Follow-up:
  • Marco and John get excited about a monitor
  • Sexism epiphanies
  • TiVo Mega
    • SnapStream
    • Kaleidescape Disc Vault
• Macworld layoffs
  • Jason Snell
• iPhone 6/Apple Watch Event
  • iPhone 6 & 6+
    • Ill-informed stream theories
    • Samsung's cheesy S4 intro
    • @forgottentowel on iPhone design priorities
    • Printable iPhone 6/6+ templates (or this alternate)
    • ATP #1
  • Special guest appearance by Tiffany Arment
  • Apple Watch
    • EVT Leak
    • "Antacid Tablet"
    • Printable Apple Watch templates
    • Apple PR Announcement
    • A high-end-watch nerd talking about the Apple Watch
    • Walkie-Talkie feature

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• Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
• Follow-up:
  • More on Retina displays for the Mac
    • Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake
  • iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
    • Optical image stabilization
    • Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review
    • Barefeats benchmark
    • Marco teaches Casey about photography
  • Android Wear versus Galaxy Gear
  • Apple's and Google's rates on payments
    • Quora article
    • Financial Times
  • Whether we're blind to Android doing things first
    • ATP #1
  • Apple Watch's potential pricing
    • Solid gold cases
    • Veblen goods
    • Gruber's analysis
    • Buying experience
      • Scott McNulty's tweet
      • Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal
    • Cases, fashion, and personalization
    • Closeup of Apple Watch Sport
    • Stickers commercial
    • Offline features
    • Send text messages in languages with pictographic/Logogram alphabets
      • Graffiti
    • Battery indicator
      • Charging Citizen Eco Drive watches
• Post-show:
  • The U2 thing
  • Apple Privacy Announcement
  • Charlie Rose Part 1 and Part 2
  • Marco accidentally releases an iPad app
    • Replacing launch images with storyboards

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• Follow-Up:
  • Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs
  • Upgradeable Apple Watches
    • Apple S1
  • How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store?
  • Apple Watch Edition's special box
  • Apple Pay and banking
  • The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling
  • Trade names and the NFL
  • If Steve were alive...
    • Ben Thompson's take
• Tim Cook's Charlie Rose interview
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Apple's diversity report
• iPhone 6/6+ impressions
  • Apple iPhone 6 leather case
  • Hello, Internet #21
  • Virginia Roberts
  • Stephen Hackett
  • 17" MacBook Pro
• Post-show:
  • iPhone 6 Plus bending video (follow-up with more phones, Galaxy Note 3)

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• Follow-Up:
  • John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger
    • Thumb commercial
• Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI
  • Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape)
  • iPad resizable-apps video by Steven Troughton-Smith
• Designing Applications
  • Vesper
  • Unread
• Continued Follow-Up:
  • NFC around the world
  • iPhone 6+ scaling
    • Original tweet
    • Source
    • John on Mac resolution swapping
  • Bendy iPhones 6
    • Consumer Reports bends phones
    • Anecdotal evidence
  • iPod Touch people
  • Marquetry (via @sjsyrek)
  • Proprietary eponym
• Jonathan Mann's Harry Potter EP on Kickstarter
• Post-show Follow-Up:
  • The Invisible Spreadsheet
  • Update on John's review
  • Slippery iPhones 6 and cases

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• Trends in social networks
  • App.net Broadcast
  • Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm)
  • Cupcake
  • The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
• Follow-up:
  • iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research)
    • Dev Forums
    • Hendrik's video
    • Test pattern
    • Source of the image-of-text from last week
    • Forum post about scaling adding detail
  • More on the bendy iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
    • Consumer Reports
    • Uri Gellar
• Continued iPhone 6 impressions
  • Grips
  • Apple Leather Case
  • Apple Silicone Case
  • Valentine Goods leather backs
  • Louie Mantia on sizes
• Post-show:
  • More on the iPhones 6 screens
  • Gamecube controllers
    • Adapter for Wii U
    • It is supposedly compatible with more than just Super Smash Bros
    • F-Zero

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• Follow-up:
  • GameCube controllers only work with Super Smash Brothers
• Apple's event: Yosemite, iPad Air 2, Retina iMac
  • Unfunny funny skits
  • Retconned Retina iPad Mini
  • The A5 lives on for another year or two
  • Apple's ASP strategy tax (John, previously)
  • The new iPads
  • John's iOS device plans
  • Authy two-factor auth app
  • iMac Retina 5K
    • Marco on 5K iMac vs. Mac Pro
    • Developing Perspective
• John's Review
  • Buy the iBook!
  • Buy the Kindle eBook
  • Buy Ars Premier to get all the things
  • About John's review
  • xScope
  • Lattner's tweet
  • Mike Ash's Friday Q&A

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• Follow-up:
  • SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury)
  • Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping?
  • Dropbox versus iCloud Drive versus OneDrive
    • Dropbox document picker
  • Bluetooth mesh networking
• Twitter's developer conference
  • Twitter Digits
  • Marco on developers trusting Twitter
  • Dave Winer's response
  • Verge article
• Yosemite Review recap, one week on.
  • Does anyone really care about the Mac anymore?
  • iMore's iOS 8 Review
• Yosemite first thoughts
  • Casey uses GitHub's Atom text editor
  • Aero Glass
  • Chromatic aberration
  • Super close-up of close button
  • Early OS X transparency
• Apple Pay
  • Target Cartwheel
  • Target reveals daughter's pregnancy
• iMac with Retina 5K display
• Post-show:
  • John is iPhoneless again, but for how long?
  • More on GamerGate
    • New York Magazine article by Jesse Singal
    • Felicia Day posts on GamerGate
    • Doxing
    • No true Scotsman
    • Deadspin summary
    • Brands and GamerGate
    • Twitter statistics
    • Designing social systems to reduce abuse vectors and incentives
    • Marco and The Wirecutter
    • Isla Vista Shooting (more)
    • Perks of verified Twitter accounts
    • Kirby Ferguson
      • This is Not a Conspiracy Theory
      • Everything is a Remix

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• Casey's new arrival
  • Some background
  • The Jackal
• Follow-Up:
  • Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat
  • The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated
  • FCC sues AT&T for heavy throttling of their "unlimited" plan
  • ECC RAM is actually worth it
  • Marco's intentions for his Mac Pro
    • iFixIt's Teardown of the iMac with Retina 5K Display
    • _David Smith's screenshot of Xcode and iOS Simulator
    • Fan noise thoughts and recording
  • Casey has used Apple Pay
  • More on App Store bundles as upgrade pricing
    • Unread's move to Supertop
  • Continuity hardware-requirements Knowledge Base entries (via @MCRascasse)
    • Get help using Continuity with iOS 8
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  • Restricting apps from A5 and A6 devices by requiring Metal (via @lmarburger)
  • GamerGate
    • FILM CRIT HULK
    • The DeHulkifier
    • WHY HULK WRITES LIKE THIS
• Tim Cook announces he is gay
• Post-show:
  • Microsoft Band, extremely briefly
  • John's new arrival
    • Disk Inventory X
    • John's selection
  • Casey's newfound picture-taking modus operandi, and tips from Marco
    • Casey's camera
    • Shawn Blanc's Review
    • Casey's quick thoughts
    • Casey's wedding pictures vs. baby pictures
    • Bokeh
    • John makes a shocking confession
    • Neven and Christa Mrgan
    • Baby Sandwich

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• 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.
    • Saturday Night Live
    • Brooklyn Nine-Nine
    • "Lazy Sunday"
    • "On a Boat"
    • "[Cheney] in a Box"
    • T-Pain
    • Autotune
    • "Semicolon"
  • App store prevents too-expensive bundle purchases (via @walruscp)
  • TRIM support and John's SSD
    • Trim Enabler and a related Yosemite FAQ
    • AHCI
    • Ars on the rise of SSDs
    • SandForce
  • Source list opacity in Yosemite (1 2)
    • This was also covered on John's recent appearance on The Talk Show
    • Ancient GameCube controllers in modern times
• Microsoft Band
  • _David Smith's thoughts on his blog and podcast
  • Exploded diagram
  • Ars Review
  • Nice summary by Manton Reece
  • WebOS
  • Courier
  • Kin
  • Surface product placement goes wrong
    • House, M.D.
    • Parks and Recreation
• iWork file-format support
  • InfoWorld article
  • iWeb
  • Tower of Babel
  • iLife
  • ADA
• Post-show:
  • Wii U Pro Controller versus GameCube Controller
  • John has a surprise
  • iPhone 6/6 Plus sales ratio
  • Tweetie
  • UIRefreshControl
  • RiMac First Impressions
    • Monaco
    • Inconsolata
    • Menlo
    • Handbrake

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• Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement
  • Demotivational Poster
  • Should we use a carousel?
• Follow-up:
  • More on app bundles
  • Does iWork help Apple sell hardware?
  • RiMac GPUs are throttled?
    • It's possible to get hot even in OS X
    • Gaming benchmarks
    • More from Ars
    • iStat Menus
  • Why TRIM isn't widely supported on OS X
  • iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus sales (via @_ryanbrodie)
    • More from Localytics
• Overcast 1.1
  • CarPlay
  • Marco's testing setup
  • Pioneer SPH-DA120
  • MPPlayableContentManager
  • We covered in-car user interfaces before
• Microsoft open-sources more of .NET
  • More from Ars
  • More from Miguel de Icaza
    • Xamarin
  • RyuJIT
  • Hadouken
  • Clang
  • LLVM
  • .NET on Github
  • Darwin
  • KHTML
  • WebKit
  • CLR
  • TCL
  • GNUstep
  • Examples of software established in Linux
    • Wireshark
    • Audacity
    • Adium (or, really, Pidgin)
    • git
    • Selenium
    • phpBB
  • Titanium
• The good, the bad, and the ugly of source control
  • DVD-RAM and DVD+RW
    • Turns out Marco's "DVD-RAM" emoji (💽) is really a Minidisc, which was moderately popular in Japan.
  • Perforce
  • SVN
  • CVS
  • Mercurial
  • Betamax
• Post-show
  • Baby Update
    • The Analog(ue)-ATP Baby Treaty (@31:00)
    • Casey's fancy camera
    • Scammy in-hospital newborn photography
      • EXIF
      • Tiffany Arment Photography

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• Follow-up:
  • Inside info on why iWork seems so screwed up
  • More on open source .NET, from @Scionwest
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • Discourse (source)
  • Germany's equivalent of Consumer Reports tests the bendiness of the new iPhones (link in German)
• Nokia's new tablet features the USB Type C connector
• WatchKit
  • _DavidSmith's Predictions
  • _DavidSmith's Initial Impressions
  • GEOS
  • Craig Hockenberry on UI consistency
  • Pete Burtis expands on the idea
• Post-show:
  • John's iPhone activation woes
    • SIM removal tool
  • John critiques cutting-edge apps:
    • Instagram
    • Vine
    • YouTube

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• Follow-up:
  • Correction on battery increases year over year
    • Hypercritical #74
    • Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs
      • The Prompt (succeeded by Connected)
      • Palm V
  • IIS on !Windows
    • Kestrel
    • libuv
    • nginx
    • Scott Hanselman's summary
  • Casey can't manufacture that thing like Apple does
  • Homescreens
    • Some people like them empty
• Group homescreen shaming
  • #Homescreen and the top apps
  • John
  • Marco
  • Casey
• Why there isn't an Overcast Mac app (yet?)
  • Tumblr Backup
  • Chameleon
  • Overcast iPad
  • Core Intuition
  • Pod Wrangler Mac
• Post-show Neutral:
  • VW Golf R
    • Autoblog photos
    • Interior photo
  • Flat-bottomed steering wheels
  • Possible upgrades for Erin's car
  • Oxymoronic Cars
    • X5
    • SRT-8
    • Tesla Model X
  • Other options:
    • 3-series GT
    • Outback
    • CTS-V Wagon
    • Lexus ES
    • Honda Accord
    • Volvo V60
    • Honda Odyssey
    • F-150

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• Follow-Up:
  • Casey clears up his car intentions
    • Golf R Wagon/Estate
• Apple using push notifications for an advertisement
  • App Store Rule 5.6
  • Paul Haddad's Idea
• Drafts' Today Widget fiasco
  • Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts
    • One, two, three, four
  • PCalc's Today Widget brouhaha
• Should one create an app for creating podcasts? Are niche professional apps worth creating?
  • Well, maybe...
  • Final Draft
  • John August's Scripnotes Podcast
  • Quark XPress
  • Logic Pro X
  • Hindenburg (Why the name "Hindenburg"?)
  • Fog Creek Copilot
  • Core Intuition on App Windfalls
• Game monetization and Crossy Road
  • Frogger
  • Team Fortress 2
  • Clash of Clans
  • The danger of Touch ID for sleeping parents
• Post-show:
  • Jason Snell dominates Crossy Road
    • (John's son dominates Jason Snell)
  • More on profitability (AppFigures)
  • Desert Golfing
    • Up Up Down Down Interview
  • Frog Fractions
  • Scorched Earth
  • Super Gravitron
  • Super Hexagon
  • VVVVVV
  • Threes!

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• Follow-Up:
  • Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.)
  • Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response
• Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps
• This week's App Store drama
  • The phone call to Launcher's developer
  • Apple's questionable decisions recently
  • Friction within Apple?
  • Stratechery: App Store Anguish, Old Apple's Last Stand, Time for a Change? (membership required)
• Obligations to maintain your apps
  • Why Casey discontinued Fast Text
  • Open-source time commitments
    • Casey's Accidentalbot and Camel
    • John's CPAN modules
    • Marco's FCModel and BugshotKit
• Post-show:
  • John has some opinions on his PS4 so far.

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• Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience
• Follow-up:
  • App Store Woes
    • Panic's Transmit woes reversed
    • DragonDrop
    • Timebar
    • Launcher
  • Crossy Road financials
  • PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_)
  • Plex has announced PS4 support (via @returnedlast)
    • However, rollout will be staggered
  • Sleazy Twitter app scans
  • Nick Arnott corrects Marco
  • Christmas comes early for John, perhaps because of Romain Moisescot
    • Pastebot (RIP)
• Microsoft Acquires Hockey App
  • Azure Mobile Services
• Should HTTP or HTTPS be the default browser state?
  • HTTPS Everywhere
  • Eric Schmidt is confused, as usual
• Finally, a very special after-show, starting with John missing WindowShade (image).

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• Follow-Up:
  • Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey)
  • Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs
  • Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately
• Marco expands his horizons
  • POODLE attack
  • cURL
  • SSL/TLS
  • Node.js
  • supervisord
  • beanstalkd
  • curl-multi
  • camo
  • Heroku
  • memcached
  • nginx
  • JavaScript prototypes
  • Pentium Pro
  • V8 Engine
  • setTimeout()
  • Go
  • NSURLSession
  • MacMiniColo
  • Linode
  • Zend Framework
  • Hack
  • HHVM
  • CloudKit
• Holidays as the family tech support expert
  • Fill Your TV
  • DiskWarrior
  • Communication Pyramid
• Casey tries Workflow and channels his inner Federico Viticci
  • Casey's Review (posted after this show was recorded)
  • Analog(ue)
  • Synology NAS Devices
• Post-show:
  • Holiday equipment physical inspections
  • Hopscotch
    • Turing completeness
  • 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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• Follow-up:
  • More on John's windowing strategy
    • Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down)
    • DragThing
  • Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites
• Marco (mostly) hates new things again
  • Node
  • Go
  • Python
  • Generics
  • C Macros
  • Operator overloading
  • Rails
  • John's thought on Twitter
  • AnyEvent
  • libev
  • libevent
  • Shifty Jelly & Pocket Casts
  • Core Intuition on Swift
  • Garbage Collection in Objective-C
  • Apple Java Bridge
  • CodeWarrior
• Apple's Marketing Survey (via Joe Sieger)
  • App Store Review Guidelines, specifically 5.6
  • Apple's humorous announcement
  • Pointy-haired boss
  • Panic
• Marco's new thoughts on his new iPad
  • Tweetbot
  • The Incident
  • Space Age
  • objc.io
  • phpBB
• Post-show
  • Textshotting
    • Example from MG Siegler
    • Example from Farhad Manjoo
    • WAP
  • Boar's Head Pancetta
  • Oxford comma
    • Examples
  • When to give up on a language
    • Node Timers module

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• Follow-Up:
  • SSL
    • In schools & corporations
    • Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL
    • SOCKS
  • Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger)
  • Marco's Go feed poller update
    • IDE
    • Eclipse
    • Rust
    • Communicating sequential processes
• Apple's Software Quality
  • Marco's post
  • Marco's retrospective
  • Mention on CNBC
  • Hypercritical #55
  • Casey's response to Marco
  • Glenn Fleishman's list
• How to write for understanding
  • Marco laments about software quality in the past
• Rumored 12" MacBook Air
  • PlugBug
  • Chockenberry on a potential ARM transition
  • Fat binary
  • Special thanks to _DavidSmith for finding "bezels" in Hypercritical #22

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• Pre-show:
  • 🎉 Episode 100 🎉
    • Hypercritical
    • Build and Analyze
    • Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels
  • Showbot woes (again)
    • Camel updates
    • marked
    • markdown-it
    • Showbot issue screencap
• Follow-up:
  • Anecdotal evidence of USB usage
  • Context of the 12" Air discussion
    • Keynote
  • Thinness
    • Jason Becker reminds us of Hypercritical
    • John's post on thinness
    • Hypercritical #91
    • Solving for x
  • Powering a 12" Air
    • Troy Gaul's first theory
    • Troy Gaul's second theory
  • Does the 12" Air compete with Chromebooks?
    • Molar
    • Stampede for iBooks
  • Are Thunderbolt and Lightning dead? (via Oliver Agar)
• What can Apple do to fix reliability issues?
  • Interview with Andy Matuschak
  • Marco on The Talk Show
• Post-Show Neutral
  • New NSX
    • Intro video
  • New Ford GT
  • CTS-V
  • RC F
  • BMW at CES recap video
  • C7 Corvette
    • Ferrari FF

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