Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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35: Sea-Level Executives
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. Sponsored by: Transporter: Your own private cloud-storage drive. Get $50 off with discount code ATP50 through November 11. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off. Become a member!
34: Made The Dot Smaller
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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off. Audible: Over 150,000 downloadable audiobooks. Get a free audiobook with a 30-day trial. Become a member!
33: A 30-Minute Skip Button
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. Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Free for up to 10 people, and affordable for your entire company. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP10 for 10% off. Become a member!
32: It Doesn't Bother Me
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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! Ding: Dead-simple time tracking for freelancers and small teams. Use promo code ATP for a 90-day free trial. Become a member!
31: Swimming In 16 GB Gold
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. Sponsored by: MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use promo code ATP for 10% off for the life of your account. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! Become a member!
30: Full Frontal Thumb
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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use promo code ATP for 10% off for the life of your account. Become a member!
29: Computerized Garden Gnome
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? Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! Hover: High-quality, no-hassle domain registration. Use promo code ATP for 10% off. Become a member!
28: The Pit Of Irrelevance
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. Sponsored by: Notograph: Store, organize, and share photos of things you want to remember but don't want cluttering up your Camera Roll. Wordbox: A beautiful, simple, yet powerful text and Markdown editor for iOS. Become a member!
27: Overflow Gallery In The Bathroom
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. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP8 for 10% off. Audible: Over 150,000 downloadable audiobooks. Get a free audiobook with a 30-day trial. Become a member!
26: Three Phones Ago
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. Sponsored by: Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price. (Spot featuring guest host @tiffanyarment!) Use coupon code ATP for free 3-day shipping. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Free for up to 10 people, and affordable for your entire company. Become a member!
25: Thrustmaster Joystick
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? Sponsored by: 23andMe: Order your 23andMe DNA kit today for just $99. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP8 for 10% off. Become a member!
24: Double Meta
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. Sponsored by: Hover: High-quality, no-hassle domain registration. Use promo code ATP for 10% off. 23andMe: Order your 23andMe DNA kit today for just $99. Become a member!
23: The X Or The X
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? Sponsored by: Drafts: Where text starts on your iPhone or iPad. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP7 for 10% off. Become a member!
22: Full Brichter
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. Sponsored by: Mind Blitz: An action-puzzle twist on the classic memory matching game. Transporter: Private cloud storage. Use coupon code atp for 10% off. Become a member!
21: The Transitive Property of Nerdiness
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. Sponsored by: Transporter: Private cloud storage. Use coupon code atp for 10% off. Audible: The leading provider of downloadable audiobooks. Become a member!