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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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20: A Box and a Strap

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19: Designed by App in Cal

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18: Aluminum-Colored Aluminum

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17: Can’t Innovate Anymore

Special early WWDC episode this week:

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

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16: John, We Don’t Play Games

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 infer...

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15: Cat, Modifier Cat

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14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars

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13: Animated Kale

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12: Accidental Server Hardware

  • 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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11: A Particularly Exuberant Adolescence

  • 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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10: Gradual Ramp Up To Nothing

  • 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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9: Fish Bicycle Scenario

  • 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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8: Hold Me!

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7: The Forecast For iCloud

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6: Live Like Other People

  • 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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5: Negativity, Skepticism, and Doubt

  • 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.

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4: The Bridges

  • 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.

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3: Conditions Led To Freecell

  • 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

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2: The 7th Guest

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.

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1: iPhone Plus

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