Manton and Daniel react to Google’s I/O keynote, and weigh the threat of Allo to iMessage. They celebrate Apple’s WWDC promotion of 3rd party events, and the increasing speed of App Store reviews. Finally, they reflect on the announced delay in Swift 3’s planned ABI stability, and Daniel’s sudden FUD about embracing Swift.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Tuparev Technologies: Lifting your expectations.
• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• Google Home – Google’s answer to Amazon’s Echo.
• Allo & Duo – Google’s answer to iMessage and Facetime, and myriad other such services.
• Google Hangouts – One of many other Google chat services.
• Open Voice Assistant – Manton’s post about desires for a standard in voice assistance.
• Erica Sadun – One of the earlier and persistent adopters of Swift, who also blogs a lot about evolution.
• Chris Lattner’s Email – Chris announces major changes to the ambitions for Swift 3.
• Swift 3 Stability – Erica Sadun reacts to Chris Lattner’s email.
• Inessential – Brent Simmons’s blog has been exploring value of Objective C dynamism.

Daniel and Manton continue to share notes on their Swift experiences, discuss WordPress’s announcement of a new .blog domain, and celebrate the rapidly plummeting App Store review time averages.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.
• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• A Swift Only Future – Rob Fahrni predicts a future with no Objective C APIs.
• .Blog – WordPress announces that it will soon be selling .blog domains.
• WordPress.com – One of the hosting sites that Manton trusts to be around “for 100 years.”
• Github – The other one.
• Medium – A blog publishing site that never uses the word “blog.”
• App Review Times – App Store approval trends courtesy of Shiny Development.

Manton and Daniel evaluate Manton’s new … Android phone! They indulge the possibility of Swift for Android development, and reflecton on rumors of an impending Apple Music revamp. Finally they answer a listener question about the value of spending time on non-coding tasks like writing that may not directly earn money.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• TextExpander: Simply Indispensable.
• Digimarc: The best mobile scanning solution today. The only solution for tomorrow.

Links:

• SwiftAndroid – GitHub project dedicated to porting Swift to Android.
• Quitter – Marco Arment’s first Mac app.
• Atomic Bird – Tom Harrington’s one-time indie Mac software, now iOS consulting site.
• On UIKit for Mac – Brent Simmons on whether the future of Mac UI design is UIKit.
• Apple Music Revamp – Story from Bloomberg on the alleged upcoming changes.
• Apple Needs Beats – Manton’s two-year-old analysis of the value of then-independent Beats to Apple.
• Spotify Developer – Documentation for Spotify’s extensive developer API.
• The Right Work Balance – Episode of Manton’s short Timetable podcast.
• TECHnical Foul – Manton’s new basketball podcast with Ben Thompson.

Daniel and Manton react to stock prices for Apple and Twitter, follow-up on WWDC ticket sales, and touch on the ethics of badge sharing and Apple theoretically overselling tickets. Finally, they appreciate that they’re now both working on Swift code in their respective work.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.
• Digimarc: The best mobile scanning solution today. The only solution for tomorrow.

Links:

• Apple Earnings – Live conference call playback from Apple.
• Better Than Expected – News reporting on Tim Cook’s comments in the earnings call about iPhone SE availability.
• Icahn Out – The famously activist investor has divested of all his Apple stock.
• WWDC – The Apple developer conference you’re too late to sign up for!
• Jonathan Hays – Offered to cover the expense of Manton’s WWDC ticket for work with Jonathan’s iOS dev company, Silverpine Software… if only Manton had gotten one!
• Mutable Foundation Types – Pull request for Swift to support dramatically improved mutability semantics for Foundation classes.

Manton and Daniel take stock of WWDC announcement, fretting further about whether to attend and in what capacity. Daniel looks forward to speaking at try! Swift in NYC, and Manton admits he’s started work on his first Swift-only project. They wrap up with a discussion of Daniel’s new self-imposed estimation discipline for outstanding tickets in his bug-tracking system.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• WWDC – Apple’s annual developer conference is a go!
• Don’t Give Up on WWDC – Manton’s response to grumping in the community about WWDC.
• Finding SF Too Expensive? – Alternative conferences with a (sadly, now expired) 10% discount.
• FogBugz – Customer support and project planning software from Fog Creek.

Daniel and Manton discuss the iPhone SE’s evident popularity, touch on the challenges of designing for extremes in screen size, and bemoan some of Siri’s shortcomings when compared to competitors. The two also discuss tax time as an indie software developer, weigh the merits of heading to SF for WWDC, and finally delve into some deep reflections about the psychology of not shipping in too long.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.
• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• Google glass – Landing page from Google for the suspended, ambitious product.
• Amazon Echo – The voice-recognition based product that seems to eat Siri’s lunch in some respects.
• Echo Dot – Smaller-scale version of Amazon Echo for scattering about your living spaces.
• VoodooPad – Plausible’s desktop Wiki software, abused by Daniel for ersatz bookkeeping.
• Soulver – Part of Daniel’s bookkeeping suite: copy and paste a column of figures to sum them!
• Xero – Popular online accounting software.
• Less Accounting – Another online accounting system.
• Study Accounting iOS app – iOS based tutorial app introducing concepts of double-entry accounting.
• Halle Winkler – Twitter account of Halle Winkler, who recommended the Study Accounting app.
• Release Notes Conference – Indie software business conference based in Indianapolis.
• Vesper – iOS note-taking app.

Manton is happy with his new iPhone SE. Daniel gets Typewriter mode … mostly working in WebKit. The two discuss the merits of hybrid native/HTML interfaces in apps, and Manton approaches the long-awaited debut of his Kickstarter campaign.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• NSScreencast: Join the thousands of developers who use NSScreencast to become better iOS developers.
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Links:

• No Room For Doubt – Daniel’s post about the design merits of the iPhone SE.
• iPhone SE Availability – Rumors pointing to the relative success of the iPhone SE.
• RapidWeaver – Popular OS X desktop app with WebKit-based editing functionality.
• Sandvox – Another popular OS X WebKit-editing app.
• Slack – Example of a very web-based OS X native app.
• Kickstarter Recording – Manton asserts he is finally recording his Kickstarter video.
• Screenshot Lightning – Daniel writes about Kent Sutherland’s approach to automating screenshot captures.
• Kent Sutherland – Twitter account for Kent Sutherland.
• Fantastical – Popular Mac calendar app, built by Kent Sutherland.

Manton and Daniel discusses the in-progress work on “Typewriter Mode” for MarsEdit and reflect on long-term evolution of UX vs. sticking with what people know. Manton waits anxiously for his iPhone SE, and sets a new personal monthly challenge to work from 30 different public libraries.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.

Links:

• About Face – Alan Cooper’s classic book on interaction design.
• nvAlt – Brett Terpstra’s popular fork of Notational Velocity.
• Justnotes – Decommissioned Simplenote editor app for Mac.
• Ulysses – “Distraction free” editor for Mac and iOS.
• WriteRoom – Jesse Grosjean’s venerable distraction free editor for Mac.
• Strict Robot Definer – The Talk Show with John Gruber and Jason Snell.
• New Central Library – Austin’s downtown public library, still under construction.

Manton orders his dream phone, the iPhone SE. Daniel reflects on the growing allure of Swift, and the two discuss the risks of either adopting new technologies too soon, or holding on to the past for too long.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

Core Intuition Jobs: Connecting Cocoa developers with their next dream job.

Links:

• A Big Step for Small – Apple’s new iPhone SE.
• iPad “Super Computer” – The iPad Pro now comes in two sizes.
• The Carbon-Cocoa Advantage – Daniel’s nearly decade-old post about compromising old and new technologies.
• Swift Language Guide – Good reading to feed the Swift virus in your programmer soul.

Manton and Daniel discuss Apple’s revelation that Cookie Monster uses an iPhone, consider the Amazon Echo as the next big technology platform, and catch up with Manton’s successful 30 days of Austin coffee challenge.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.
• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• Waiting for Coookies – Apple’s iPhone 6s ad featuring Cookie Monster.
• Sesame Street on HBO – The venerable PBS kids’ show moves to HBO.
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting – The publicly funded corporation behind public television in the US.
• Spaceship – A Slack commercial in the form of an animated film.
• Confidence and Arrogance – Seth Godin on the sometimes fine line separating them.
• Amazon Echo – The Siri-like listening device that stays in your home.
• Alexa Skills Kit – Developer extensibility for Amazon’s Echo.
• Wozniak on Echo – He sees it as the next big platform.
• App Store Disconnect – Rene Ritchie breaks down the cold hard truth of the App Store.
• Make Wooden Toys – Daniel responds to Rene’s brutal honesty with optimism.
• Melissa & Doug – A behemoth brand for wooden toys for children.
• Rootin’ Ridge – Austin-based toymakers who have not thrived as much as Melissa & Doug.
• Men’s Wearhouse – George Zimmer’s personal brand turned major corporation.
• Jordan’s – New England furniture company with a personal mascot.
• Torchy’s – Texas based taco restaurant.
• Sage Cafe – One of Manton’s final coffee visits.
• Departure Lounge – Another Manton coffee shop, that also books travel.
• Coffee Shops in Austin – Round-up of all the shops Manton visited.
• Delicious Cafe – Seattle pi newspaper article about Wil Shipley’s Delicious Monster