Daniel and Manton discuss feedback on public speaking, hype vs. pragmatism in releasing a 1.0, and weighing the pros and cons of supporting users on older OS versions.

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• CocoaConf – Travelling conference for Mac and iOS developers.
• Sunlit – Teaser page for Manton’s upcoming iOS social photo-sharing app.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s Twitter client for iOS.
• Cheddar Sold – Conclusion to the effort by Sam Soffes to sell his ToDo software.
• Roon – New blog-hosting software from Sam Soffes.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Apple’s special event, Mavericks free-for-all, Apple’s cheapskate marketing, and gush about the Çingleton conference.

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• Special Event October 2013 — Video from Apple’s special event announcing Mavericks release, new iPads, MacBook Pros, Mac Pro, and more.
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review — John Siracusa’s review of Apple’s new operating system.
• Çingleton — The Montréal conference for Mac and iOS developers.

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Daniel and Manton discuss XML-RPC support in AppleScript, the Çingleton conference, and 1Password 4 vs. Apple’s Keychain.

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• XML-RPC and SOAP Programming Guide – Apple’s documentation on AppleScript support for XML-RPC and SOAP.
• Simming In 16GB Gold – Accidental Tech Podcast episode including RSS vs. Atom debate. (76:00 in)
• Marco.org – Marco Arment’s blog.
• Çingleton – The Montréal conference Manton and Daniel will attend.
• Shush Crash – Link to Daniel’s Shush crash on Crashlytics.
• 1Password 4 – Blog post announcing the latest version of 1Password.
• How Podcasting Saved RSS 2.0 – Manton’s 2005 blog post about RSS and Atom.

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Daniel and Manton discuss the iOS 7 tech talks, pessimism about DTS incidents, and choosing a powerful marketing tagline.

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• iOS 7 Tech Talks – Apple’s international, free mini-conferences about iOS7 technologies.
• Requesting Developer Technical Support – Advice from Apple about getting the most of DTS incidents.
• Multipeer Connectivity – Apple’s iOS 7-only technology for communicating with nearby devices.
• The Ultimate Driving Machine – Product marketing from BMW, a car company with a healthy ego.
• Bring Ideas to Life – Product marketing from FiftyThree, makers of the iOS app Paper.
• Perfect Weather – Self-marketing app title from Contrast.
• A/B Testing – A method for testing for optimal effectiveness from among multiple e.g. marketing slogans.
• Always Be Testing – Book about A/B testing that has rested upon Daniel’s bookshelf for years.
• Seth Godin – Purveyor of concise instructions and advice.
• A New Dawn – Tweet from @BobRudge suggesting a marketing slogan for Sunlit.
• CocoaConf Boston – The traveling conference comes to Daniel’s home town.

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Daniel and Manton discuss the new iMacs, Apple’s emphasis on iPhones, iOS 7 adoption, and the challenge of marketing our own apps confidently.

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• First Weekend iPhone Sales – Apple’s announcement that 9 Million phones were sold in one weekend.
• 1 Out Of Every 800 – Daniel’s Tweet putting the 9 million iPhone sales in perspective.
• Apple Updates iMac – Press release about the new iMacs.

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Daniel and Manton discuss Manton’s new app: Sunlit, iOS 7, Twitter’s IPO and the odds of Manton coming back to Twitter.

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• Jonathan Hays – Manton’s partner in the development of Sunlit.
• App.net’s Killer App – Manton’s thoughts about the promise of App.net for app-builders.
• A Planned IPO – Twitter’s announcement in tweet-form about plans to file for an IPO.
• Steve Streza – He’s as gung-ho about App.net as Manton but still posts from Twitter.
• Ohai – Steve Streza’s App.net-powered iOS journaling app.
• The Origin of Tweet – Craig Hockenberry on the history of Twitter’s now-trademarked term.

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Daniel and Manton celebrate Daniel’s recovered notes, discuss the security of online storage, and check in on concurrent programming techniques.

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• Dropbox Pro – Various paid plans for Dropbox.
• Backblaze – Online backup service with unlimited capacity.
• Developer.icloud.com – Apple developer site for browsing iCloud documents.
• Concurrency Programming Guide – Apple’s documentation on concurrent programming.
• Concurrent Programming – Issue #2 of objc.io, an online periodical for Objective-C programmers.
• AFNetworking – The popular, open-source Objective-C networking framework.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Apple’s rising stock, withholding features as a virtue, the Mac Pro movie trailer, and data loss from non-syncing iOS apps.

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Links:

• September 10 – AllThingsD report that Apple will announce its next phone on September 10.
• Gold iPhone 5S – Rene Ritchie on the likelihood of a tastefully gold iPhone.
• Assembled In USA – Daniel’s post speculating, wrongly, that Apple would make a fuss about US assembly of the Mac Pro.
• Dropbox Datastore – Dropbox’s structured data API.

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Manton and Daniel talk about the Bitsplitting Podcast’s hiatus, prioritizing focus on multiple projects, and Apple’s unprecedented developer-program security breach.

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• Bitsplitting Podcast – Daniel’s other podcast, now on hiatus.
• Justin Williams – Justin Williams’s Twitter account.
• Second Gear Software – Justin Williams’s software company.
• Tweet Marker – Manton’s Twitter timeline sync service.
• Alpha App.net – The social network that Manton uses more ardently than Twitter.
• Apple Developer Site Hack – Run-down by The Guardian about Apple’s developer site downtime.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Tweet Marker’s new developer plan, dealing with deprecated APIs, WWDC videos on YouTube, and the futility of Apple’s NDA.

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• Tweet Marker Developer Program – Manton’s page for developers who want to support Tweet Marker in their apps.
• What is the WWDC NDA Protecting? – Cabel Sasser wonders on Twitter why we have to abide by NDA for WWDC content.
• NDA Invalidated? – Watermark collection of tweets spawned by David Barnard about the validity of Apple’s NDA after divulgence.

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