Daniel and Manton talk about the new MacBook Pros and Touch Bar, compare Apple’s approach to Microsoft’s, and appreciate the potential for Microsoft’s competition to inspire Apple. They talk about Touch Bar integration with Mac apps, and react to Apple TV enhancements.
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October 28, 2016 at 10:33 am.
Manton and Daniel answer listener Q&A about the advantages of being an indie or small team. They react to news that Apple has scaled back its car plans, and speculate about CarPlay getting renewed focus for the company’s automotive ambitions. Finally, they look forward to new MacBooks being announced later this month, and imagine whether they will justify buying one or not.
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- Democracy is Messy – Story about President Obama’s excoriation of tech CEOs.
- MarsEdit – Daniel’s blog editing app for the Mac.
- Kicking Dirt – Ben Thompson joins John Gruber on The Talk Show.
- Revenue Per Employee – Business Insider story ranking some of the highest revenue tech companies.
- Buffer – Web app for automatically posting updates to social networks.
- Titanic Scale Back – Bloomberg story reporting on Apple’s diminished automotive ambitions.
- Tesla – Fancy electric car company.
- Automatic – Fancy dingus-for-your-car company.
- New Macs – Recode reports on allegedly imminent MacBook announcements.
- Pong – Classic video game that Daniel anticipates seeing on the MacBook keyboard display.
October 21, 2016 at 4:38 pm.
Daniel and Manton dive into Apple’s controversial suspension of Dash developer Kapeli’s App Store account, and respond to listener Q&A about whether non-sandboxed apps are at risk of removal from the Mac App Store.
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- Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.
- Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.
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- Dash – Documentation viewing app from Kapeli.
- Removed From the App Store – Kapeli’s post about Dash’s removal from the App Store.
- Kapeli’s Reputation – Manton’s post decrying Apple’s tarnishing of Kapeli’s reputation.
- Apple Responds – Jim Dalrymple with a prepared statement from Apple about the Dash situation.
- Daring Fireball – John Gruber follows up on Jim Dalrymple’s post.
- You Don’t Know Everything – Matt Drance implores people to take stock of their ignorance before condemning Kapeli.
- Solving for Dash – iMore’s Rene Ritchie implores Apple to take the high road and reinstate Kapeli’s account.
- A Test for Apple – Manton writes about how Apple and the community should move forward with respect to Dash.
- Bogdan’s Side of the Story – Kapeli’s Bogdan Popescu gives a few details and shares audio from Apple’s phone call to him.
- Bogdan’s Draft – The blog post that Bogdan proposed to Apple he would publish, at their request.
- Dear Dash Users – Kapeli seems to accept that Dash will not be reinstated to the App Stores.
- Clipstart – Manton’s video-management app for Mac.
October 14, 2016 at 5:28 pm.
Manton and Daniel discuss Manton’s experience at the Release Notes conference, talk about the rationale for supporting what might be considered edge-case behaviors in apps, and dig deeper into questions of freemium pricing, reflecting on the Omni Group’s pertinent announcements. Finally they talk briefly about Google’s latest announcements and what their competition means to Apple.
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October 6, 2016 at 10:02 am.
