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Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores
Casey gets a new Apple TV
Plex
Harmy's Despecialized Editions
Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini
Apple SIM
Steven Troughton-Smith making windows on iOS
Cintiq
What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016?
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149: Everyone’s on Vacation
- Casey's reconciled differences
- Three truths and a lie
- Marco experiments with his website
- Chrome vs. Safari on the desktop
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Phil Schiller takes over the App Store
- Ben Thompson's take (Stratechery members only)
- Apache Mesos
- Les Moonves
- CBS/60 Minutes feature on Apple
- Upthere
- Post-show:
- Neutral: Marco has ordered a Tesla
- The great bagel dispute
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148: Your Feelings Are Real
Follow-up:
Green shifting (see also)
Continuous release schedules
Jeff Atwood's Infinite Version
iPhone 7 battery theories
4-inch iPhone 6S predictions
Marco's SOLEMEMO battery case
Marco's slim battery brick
Negativity about Apple
Apple TV App Store challenges
Ctr...
147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery
Follow-up:
The iPhone Lightning Dock exists
Benefits of Lightning headphones
USB Type C supports analog audio
Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV
Swift/Foundation bridging
Apple iPhone 6S battery case
Porsche Panamera
...
146: Control + Money + Smallness
Follow-up:
iMacs and IR ports
mDNSResponder gets fixed by a phone call to Tim Cook
German video
Vint Cerf
DARPA
TCP/IP
IETF
Stuart Cheshire
iPhone 7 rumored to drop the headphone jack
Existing Lightning-equipped headphones
Slimmed-down headphone jack
Lightning Di...
145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens
Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
John Siracusa Paper Doll
John riding on Merlin's back
John on top of Hypercritical Mountain
Marco's version of John... plus a bowtie
Top Four on Take-Out Food
Roanoke Colony
Extracurriculars:
Reconcilable Differences
Top Four
Robot or Not
The ...
144: Digital Schmear
- Follow-up: Apple TV vs. game consoles
- Mac App Store certificate problems
- iPad Pro, featuring special guest Tiffany Arment
- USB3 speeds in the Lightning connector
- Post-show:
- Mrs. Siracusa's new iMac 5K
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143: Capital F, Capital C
- Follow-up:
- Menu button snap-back on the Apple TV remote
- John's children react to the remote
- Marco and Apple TV gaming
- iPad Pro
- Multitasking UI paradigms
- Post-show: Neutral
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142: Hateful Game of Frogger
Follow-out*:
Marco and _David Smith's new show, Under the Radar
Follow-up:
Facebook's ineptitude
Spotlight indexing for NAS drives
Why do Google Play Music and Stitcher re-host podcasts?
CPM
Apple TV
S/PDIF
The Talk Show #134
Upgrade #61
Konami Code
John's Wii U Set...
141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden
Apple TV and home theater
Apple's guide to choosing a capacity
Optical splitter from HDMI
Marco doesn't know what a "sound bar" is
Follow-up:
5400 RPM benchmarks, charts
Mac GPUs, heat, and noise
2015 5K iMac overheats?
Dynamic range compression in the new AppleTV?
M...
140: Harpooned a Turtle
- John tries to buy Star Wars tickets
- Follow-up:
- Is the Magic Trackpad 2 too expensive?
- iMac revisited
- Apple's balance of priorities: use vs. looks vs. profit
- Facebook battery usage
- Post-show: Perl 6
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139: I’ve Seen This Train Before
- Pre-show: Where is the updated 15" MacBook Pro?
- Follow-up:
-
Overcast 2
- File formats are fun
- Bugs
- Facebook KVOController
- FCModel
- What's next
- Authenticated feeds?
- Business model
- Marco sees a medium
- Post-show: New iMacs
- Increased gamut 1 & 2
- Fusion drive down to 24 GB of flash
- New keyboard, trackpad, and mouse
- Key travel comparison
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138: Only Microsoft
Follow-up:
Boxee Box and oddly-shaped TV dinguses
TiVo Bolt feature upgrades for Roamios
Top Gear redux begins (Clarkson's tweet)
A tale of two A9s
Extra battery life? (more at Engadget)
Geekbench results: 1 2
Test App
Released after we recorded, Apple's statemen...
137: Feature Photos
Follow-up:
Endowment effect
VFX and Wacom tablets
Dr. Wave, iPad Pros, and Pixar
Ad-blocker penetration
Ruggedized phones
Apple Music trial ends for day-one adopters
Who renewed?
What's to like?
What's not to like?
Getting rid of "loves"
iPhone 6s
3D Touch
Web 3D ...
136: War and Peace
- Follow-up:
- Requirements that Find My iPhone and passcodes are disabled for iPhone repairs
- iPhone 6s Live Photos
- watchOS/2 and colored activity rings
- Peace
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135: Uncomfortable in My Pants
Pre-show:
Top Four
Follow-up:
CEC Unicorns
_David Smith's 16 GB iPhone Research
Damocles
iPhone 6/6S battery numbers
Naked robotic core
Casey's Lenmar battery case
Mophie Juice Pack Reserve
Anker's very similar battery case
Casey's crescent moon and Genius Bar polic...
134: Who Did It Firster?
Pre-show:
Casey, Plex, his Synology, and transcoding
Don Melton's scripts
DLNA
DS214Play
TouchID and "S" iPhones
iPhone crescent moon
Safari pinned tabs markup
W3 mailing list
Apple September Event
Apple Watch
[New watch metals and bands]
watchOS 2, custom comp...
133: You Have to Walk the Dog
Follow-up:
Why not use push notifications for the iPhone 6 Plus iSight replacement program
Apple, attitude, "cool", and change
Songs of Innocence
iPod Hi-Fi
Force Touch and Taptic Engine in the iPhone 6S
Upgrade #51
New York Times on Amazon's stressful culture
Jeff ...
132: Digital Hearth
Pre-show:
Casey's Tom Bihn Cadet review
Follow-up:
John's 802.11ac device (via @_adamluther)
John's Wi-Fi Routers
AirPort Extreme Teardown
Noctua fan
What computer should Casey buy?
Mouse design
Apple Mouse
Apology Mouse
Apple Pro Mouse
Logitech MX Revolution
Low Me...
131: Finding Your Way Back In
Pre-show:
Microphones and Electronics
Schiit Wyrd
Shure SM7B
Shure Beta 58A
Shure Beta 87A
Neodymium magnet
Cardioid microphone
Follow-up:
How Intel Skylake is faster
ECC RAM
Failures (PDF)
Bit error likelihood
DRAM errors in the wild (PDF)
Encrypted backups and pa...
130: Technical Countermeasures
Follow-up:
IBM's TrackPoint study
More on [self-proclaimed] Tap-to-Click Wizards
Apple SIM
Apple's documentation
Lady Whimsy's summary 1 2 3 4
Carrier Performance
Feedback from Chris 1 2
Carrier plans
Derek's theory
Ben's theory
Jeffrey's theory
Links from Aaron E
...
129: Tap-to-Click Wizard
- Skylake desktop CPUs launch
- Casey joins 2012
- 2015 iPhone predictions
- Carrier subsidies and pricing games
- Post-show:
- Repairing iPads
- Hot water heaters
- Marco's new camera
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128: Blue Ring Stud
Pre-show:
Invisible formatting
Chapter markers and Germany
Follow-up:
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac
Samsung SSDs and TRIM
MacNN SSD testing
Marco's cellular-option dilemma
Reddit
Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast
John slacked off for 46 days
What makes T...
127: Not a Cactus in Sight
Pre-follow-up:
Streaming over cellular and UI dilemmas in Overcast 2.0
Follow-up:
Original Half Life is available on the Mac (via @Kristian)
On-demand resources API and NSProgress (via @Hunter)
Marco tries to deny he likes playing games
Desert Golfing
Alto's Adventure
Pr...
126: The Web Kind of Happens to You
- Pre-show: John being particular about his particular renovations
- Follow-up:
- Web apps versus native apps in the enterprise/government
- Browser choice on iOS
- TRIM versus over-provisioning
- Half Life is available for the Mac
- New iPod Touch
- iPod Nano
- iPod Shuffle
- Post-show:
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125: A Better Future for Everybody
Follow-up:
Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
Honda Fit cameras
BMW Top View camera
Classical music on Apple Music
Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
Discussion from last episode
First usage from #83
Concept's ...
124: The Tyranny of Radio
Follow-up:
Bitcode and portability
Dan Gohman's mailing list post
Google PNaCL
Chris Lattner weighs in: 1 & 2
10.10.4 and TRIM support
Overview
Ars comment thread
Cheap vs. Good vs. Commercial pricing and build qualities
Apple's use of Samsung SSDs
The come...
123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism
Follow-up:
Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2
C data types
Endianness
Data structure alignment
Steve Troughton-Smith
S1 analysis by Chipworks
The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
Apple's transition from PowerPC to In...
122: My Results Were Inconclusive
Follow-up:
John loses leaves his wallet
John on losing his wallet on ATP #121
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Casey's discontinued Yubi Wallet
Marco's Slimmy Wallet
Notes.app runs on CloudKit
The MacBook One and Photos
iOS 9 and QuickType
Casey on iOS 9 Picture-...
121: Admitted No Wrongdoing
Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco:
- The keynote presentation
- Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- Natural-language search
- Window management
- iOS 9
- iPad enhancements:
- Keyboard navigation gestures
- Side-by-side apps
- Will these revive iPad sales growth?
- New Notes app
- Folding Text is the app Marco couldn't remember the name of
- Apple Instant Articles News app
- Swift going open-source
- watchOS 2.0
- Third-party complications
- Initial thoughts on the native API
- Post-show:
- Apple Music announcement
- John's Costanza wallet
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