Google I/O Keynote, wearables, Material Design, and conference admissions policies.
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- Google I/O 2014 – Official page for the Google developer conference.
- 17 Important Things – The Verge’s round-up of the announcements in Google’s keynote.
- Android Wear – Google’s new standard for watches and other wearable computers.
- Material Design – Google’s new visual and UX guidelines.
- Multiplane – Manton’s 2013 comparison of iOS 7 to Disney’s multiplane camera.
- Polymer – Google’s open source web application framework.
- Boston Dynamics – Robotics company whose acquisition by Google probably inspired one protestor during the keynote.
- XOXO 2014 – Portland, OR arts and technology conference.
- Kickstarter Rules – Not a free-for-all, but perhaps less stringent than they used to be.
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June 25, 2014 at 2:29 pm.
Manton and Daniel discuss Amazon’s new Fire phone, the amount of consumer faith we place in Apple and Amazon, and the state of Sandboxing on the Mac after WWDC.
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June 18, 2014 at 2:13 pm.
Daniel and Manton reflect on the news from WWDC a week later, and weigh the advantages of diving into the wealth of new stuff vs. the pragmatism of sticking to the known to ship meaningful updates sooner.
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June 12, 2014 at 3:19 pm.
Manton and Daniel react to the WWDC 2014 Keynote.
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- Swift Programming Language – Apple’s documentation for the language slated to become the default for Cocoa development.
- iOS 8 – Apple’s preview page for iOS 8.
- One Continuous Experience – John Gruber’s tweet about Apple vs. Microsoft approach to platform integration.
- OpenDoc – Apple’s ancient, botched attempt to integrate Mac apps with modular, reusable code modules.
- iCloud Drive – New feature from Apple that aims to address the more Dropbox-like general filesystem-based cloud storage.
- File a Bug – Marco Arment’s complaint about Apple’s treatment of bug filers.
- File a Bug – Daniel’s response to Marco’s post, encouraging people to file anyway.
- When You Were Young – The Killers.
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June 2, 2014 at 10:34 pm.
