Daniel skips off to England, while Manton tends to a server meltdown. The pair talk of Manton putting the iOS 10 beta on his iPad, and Daniel laments the eternal lack of ability to install multiple OS on one device. Finally, they discuss the rumored iPhone “7” and the purported removal of its headphone jack.

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• TapCoding: Learn to code in Swift on iOS.

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• Jackless iPhone – Images from a rumor site purporting to show iPhone “7” cases with no headphone jack.
• Maxell Headphones – Daniel’s favorite $4 running headphones.
• Macbook “One” – Apple’s famously uni-port Macbook.
• RCA Connector – The well-known, presumably once-proprietary, A/V plug format.

Daniel and Manton recap the hijinx of recording in hotels during WWDC, compare notes on experiences with Apple’s beta software releases, and talk about strategies for using Xcode 7 and 8 in parallel. They also talk more about Manton’s coworking space, and the perennial attraction of full-time employment to Daniel.

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• 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:

• Everywhere Focus – Long, flexible attachment mount for iPhone.
• Joby Gorillapod – Another flexible iPhone mounting device.
• Swifty SDK Changes – Daniel’s blog post about handling SDK changes from Swift code.
• Swift Versions Tied to SDK – Tweet from Joe Groff asserting the inseparability of Swift version and associated SDK.
• WeWork SF – Coworking space that Manton uses in Austin and while on the road.
• Apple Store Union Square – Brand new, flagship Apple Store in downtown San Francisco.

Manton and Daniel react to the 2016 WWDC keynote. The first part of the recording was lost because of a technical glitch: celebrating Apple Watch performance improvements, and taking in changes to support tabbed windows on macOS. But we talked more about iMessage and Siri extensibility, Continuity improvements, Apple Pay for the web, Apple’s keynote diversity, and more.

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• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.
• TapCoding: Learn to code in Swift on iOS.

App Store improvements, paid ads, subscriptions, app review times, home office and coworking setups, final impressions and game plan for WWDC week socializing and time planning.

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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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• What’s New in Subscriptions – Official update from Apple about upcoming changes to App Store subscriptions.
• Introducing Search Ads – Information from Apple about App Store search ads.
• Paid App Store Search – Daniel’s blog post from a month ago dismissing the idea of App Store ads.
• All App Stores – Confirmation from John Gruber that the new features apply to Mac, iOS and tvOS.
• I Know Apple – Dan Counsell speculates that Apple announced early to avoid bad PR.
• Section 11.15 – Pertinent section of App Store review guidelines to subscription pricing.
• WeWork Austin – Manton’s coworking space.
• Ditmas Workspace – The coworking space Daniel used in Brooklyn.
• Manton’s Office – All neatened up for photographing, photo set from 2005-2008.
• Layers – Design-oriented conference in SF the same week as WWDC.
• AltConf – Free developer conference in SF the same week as WWDC.
• WWDCParties – Web site dedicated to cataloging various social activities around WWDC.
• Parties for WWDC – Separate iPhone app for parties at WWDC, with feature to track which events you’re going to.
• sfMacIndie.com – Long-standing developer party to kick off the week at WWDC.
• You Are Not Alone – Daniel’s tweet about the risk of anxiety and loneliness at WWDC.

Manton and Daniel continue to prepare for WWDC, discuss adventures in nullability annotation, and the impedance mismatch between Swift and Obj-C. They share hopes and dreams for Xcode improvements, watchOS performance, and that this will be a big year for Mac.

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Links:

• Swift on GitHub – What’s coming in Swift this year? Take a look.
• LLVM – Apple’s existing open source project for clang, LLVM, and related technologies.
• Make the Watch Fast – Manton’s post in which he hopes for a major performance overhaul.
• App Review times – Review times still fast, but Manton’s 2 days was … typical.
• Top Paid Hidden Apps – Story from MacRumors describing a change to how top lists are presented on tvOS.

Daniel and Manton talk about the question of Swift’s dependence on Objective-C’s dynamism, how it should or will evolve, and their differences in philosophy about Swift and Objective-C. They also take stock of release discipline and managing customer disappointment with an app’s progress. Finally, they talk about the importance and difficulty of winding down old products.

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:

• Six Months of Swift – Soroush Khanlou’s reappraisal of Swift.
• Swift Evolution Proposals – The nearly 100 proposals that have made the cut for serious evaluation.
• Erica Sadun – One of Swift’s most adept progress followers condenses the news on her blog.
• On Dynamism – Paul Kim steps into the debate over whether Swift should better accommodate dynamic programming paradigms.
• The Omni Group – Long-time Objective-C oriented company that is embracing Swift.
• Swift and Sharp Knives – Manton link’s to David Heinemeier Hansson’s defense of Ruby’s dynamic features.
• FogBugz – The bug and feature-tracking system Daniel uses.
• Twitter Changes – News of changes to character counting and more.

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.