Daniel and Manton talk about Apple’s Chicago education event, and Apple’s challenge in breaking into the education market so dominated by Google. They scrutinize whether the special event was “event-worthy” or not. Daniel talks about his motivation problems with shipping MarsEdit updates, and complains again about App Store Review uncertainty. Finally, they talk about the challenge of knowing whether a product with lackluster success is on the brink of something great, or should be moved on from.
Many thanks to our sponsors this week:
- Hover: Find a Domain Name for Your Passion
- Udacity: Become an iOS Developer
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March 30, 2018 at 1:47 pm.
Manton and Daniel talk about Daniel’s plans to speak at Swift by Northwest in October, and weighing the appropriateness of speaking at one type of conference or other. They explore the idea of buying ads or sponsorships for their own apps, and consider the relatively lower risk of sponsoring smaller podcasts/blogs/conferences. They stumble on some clarity of inspiration in appreciating two aspects of marketing a product: making the product great, and getting the attention of pertinent customers. Finally, they talk about the merits of investing in support infrastructure so that customers who do find your product feel welcomed and comfortable when using it.
Many thanks to our sponsors this week:
Links:
- Swift by Northwest – Portland-based iOS and Mac developer conference.
- NSConference – Erstwhile UK-based Mac and iOS conference.
- Refresh Austin – One of Manton’s 2017 speaking engagements.
- NextDoor – WWDC-adjacent developer conference from the folks who do Swift by Northwest.
- Exercising APIs – Daniel’s 2010 talk at WordCamp Boston.
- Appfigures – Sales and review tracking service for mobile developers.
- App Annie – Another sales and reviews service.
- Dash – Developer documentation assistant from Kapeli.
- 512pixels – Stephen Hackett’s blog.
March 23, 2018 at 3:23 pm.
Daniel and Manton talk about Apple’s announcement that WWDC is officially happening in San Jose again. Daniel struggles to make a financial case for attending, while Manton continues to believe it’s essential to at least be in town for a few days. They talk about the possibility that other conferences would be a better use of time and money. Finally, they indulge a little speculation about WWDC and whether the promo art ever hints at any of the actual news to be announced.
Many thanks to our sponsors this week:
Links:
- WWDC 2018 – Apple’s official conference site.
- Relay FM Live – The Relay podcast network’s special event at WWDC.
- AltConf 2018 – Free conference being held in parallel with WWDC in San Jose.
- Layers 2018 – Another parallel conference, dedicated to the intersection of design and technology.
- TekiCon – Atlanta-based iOS developer conference.
- PeersConf – Austin-based web development and business conference.
- SwiftFest – Boston-based Swift development conference.
- IndieWeb Summit – Portland-based IndieWebCamp event.
- WordCamp – WordPress-centered, low-cost un-conferences.
- San Antonio Spurs – Manton’s basketball team.
- Marzipan – Bloomberg article from December about rumored plans to unify Mac and iOS GUI development.
- UXKit – Article by Guilherme Rambo about using Apple’s private UXKit for Mac.
- UINavigationController – The key iOS class that Manton thinks should be adapted to Mac.
- NSBrowser – Old AppKit class that is vaguely comparable to UINavigationController.
- NSGridView – Newer AppKit class that presents a 2D arrangements of subviews.
March 15, 2018 at 11:55 am.
Manton and Daniel celebrate Sunlit 2.0’s release, and talk about the decision to make it a free app that supports the Micro.blog platform. Daniel admires Manton’s proclivity for shipping new things, and they both despair the difficulty of canceling existing projects. Daniel rants modestly about the difficulty of getting his MacBook Pro keyboard repaired, and finally, they discuss the App Stores and the ongoing disparities between Mac and iOS versions of them.
Many thanks to our sponsors this week:
Links:
- Sunlit 2.0 – Manton announces the release of Sunlit 2.0 featuring Micro.blog support.
- Jon Hays – Manton’s partner in developing Sunlit.
- Daniel’s MacBook Keys – Tweet from November, 2017 showing the (then smaller) command key erosion.
- App Previews – Apple’s documentation about App Store preview videos.
March 8, 2018 at 2:45 pm.
Daniel and Manton react to Apple’s open-sourcing of SwiftNIO at the trySwift! conference. They catch up on their respective enthusiasm and lack thereof for Swift. Manton prepares to ship Sunlit 2.0, supporting direct publishing to Micro.blog. The two compare their philosophies on treating code warnings as errors, to their tolerance for clutter in the workplace and overall organization in real-life.
This week’s show is not sponsored. If you know a company that would be a good fit for future sponsorships, consider asking them to sponsor the show!
Links:
- SwiftNIO – Apple’s new open-source client-server networking framework.
- try! Swift Tokyo 2018 – The conference at which the SwiftNIO open sourcing was announced.
- Netty – The open source project upon which SwiftNIO is modeled.
- Norman Maurer – The Apple employee behind SwiftNIO and Netty.
- Sunlit – iOS photo-blogging app which will soon support Micro.blog.
- Flutter – Google’s cross-platform mobile development SDK.
March 2, 2018 at 1:58 pm.
