Daniel and Manton talk about Apple’s big event next week, the implications of holding it at a larger venue, what’s happening with the brand-new Apple campus, and the implications of Apple’s rumored payment solution on upstarts like Coin.

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• Wish we could say more – Apple’s special event will be held on September 9, 2014.
• Previous events at Flint Center – Jim Dalrymple on the relative infrequency of Apple events at the larger venue.
• Building 3D with Ikea – Article about the heavy use of computer graphics in Ikea product marketing.
• iPhone Wallet – Scoop from Bloomberg about a planned payment service for iPhone.
• Hang on to your hats… – Jim Dalrymple feeds the rumor frenzy excitement around Apple’s special event.
• The Iced-Coffee Economy – Insight from Grubstreet.com about the cost factors of iced coffee.

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Manton and Daniel speculate about iCloud Drive’s accessibility by non-Mac-App-Store apps, and talk about distributed version control systems and how Git emerged victorious among them.

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• iCloud Drive – Apple’s public marketing for the upcoming cloud storage feature.
• Dropbox – Widely-known and well-regarded cloud “drive” provider.
• Document Provider Extensions – Apple solution that may allow e.g. Dropbox or another cloud storage solution to provide file browsers to any app.
• Bazaar – Distributed version control system from Canonical.
• Mercurial – Daniel’s preferred distributed version control system.
• Git – You know, the distributed version control system that won.
• GitHub – Value-adding Git hosting site widely credited with aiding Git’s success.
• GitX – Recently maintained fork of an older, open source Git GUI client.
• Tower – Popular Mac Git client which was recently updated.
• Gitbox – Git client that Manton likes but which has not been updated often.
• SourceTree – Git and Mercurial client for Mac.
• Beanstalk – Git-hosting service that Manton preferred until giving into GitHub’s domination.
• Bitbucket – Mercurial and Git hosting service run by Atlassian, the developers of SourceTree.
• Kiln – Mercurial and Git hosting with a twist: access any repository from either technology.

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Daniel and Manton speculate about Swift’s 1.0 release date, Manton visits NYC’s 5th Avenue Apple Store, and we follow up on Jared Sinclair and the challenge of succeeding on the app stores.

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• Swift Blog – Apple’s casual source for news about the development of Swift.
• Apple Store Fifth Avenue – The underground Manhattan store topped with a beautiful glass cube.
• My New Job – Jared Sinclair announces his acceptance of a full-time job.
• Unread – Jared Sinclair’s RSS app, which will be put into maintenance mode.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac-based blogging app.
• Sunlit – iOS photo-journaling app by Manton and Jonathan Hays.
• App.net State of the Union – May announcement from App.net about the future of the service.
• Ship Your App Weekly – Blog post by Klaas Pieter Annema encouraging frequent update releases.

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Manton and Daniel discuss coping with email support while traveling, the pros and cons of app localization, Swift’s operator overloading, and coding playgrounds for the common person.

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• Verizon Smart Rewards – The program Daniel succumbed to in exchange for faster internet.
• Culture Espresso NYC – Manton’s Manhattan coffee pitstop … iced will cost you 50¢.
• Eskimo-Aleut Languages – Wikipedia page about various Eskimo and related languages.
• Language and Locale Designations – Documentatoin about Apple’s current state of the art re: language and region codes.
• Euler – Mattt Thompson’s Swift-based collection of mathematical expression operator overloads.

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Daniel and Manton discuss the value of delegating in home repair and software development, celebrate the steady improvement of Swift, and complain about the rampant “that’s fine for Marco” attitude among some folks.

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• AFNetworking – Popular, robust iOS networking library by Mattt Thompson.
• Alamofire – Mattt Thompson’s Swift-based networking library.
• Apples to Apples, Part II – Jesse Squires puts Swift’s run-time performance to the test.
• Overcast – Marco Arment’s podcasting app for iOS.
• App Rot – Marco Arment reflects upon issues surrounding app store success.
• Debug #43 – Marco Arment joins the Debug podcast crew.
• Five Hard Lessons – Jared Sinclair’s followup to his article about Unread and the reaction to it.
• MathTime – Owen Voorhees’s iOS app that was promoted by Rush Limbaugh.
• @wii – Yet another Twitter account that Manton owns but never uses…

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Manton and Daniel continue their discussion about the challenge of succeeding in the App Stores and in general as an indie software developer.

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• Unread’s First Year – Jared Sinclair on the costs and rewards of his iOS app, Unread.
• Cocoa Radio Episode 1 – 2005 interview by Blake Burris with Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay Software
• Hog Bay Software – Jesse Grosjean’s Bangor, ME based software company.
• Kaze: Ghost Warrior – Animated short film produced on $5000 from Alaska.
• Daniel’s 1.0 Tweet – “If you release your 1.0 with awareness that you may not succeed until 5.0, you’re in good shape.”
• Being Indie in 2014 – Gus Mueller chimes in on the recent discussion about the viability of software biz.
• 1068 Days – Gus Mueller’s classic 2005 post about becoming an indie.
• Who at the Table… – Brent Simmons asks how many indie developers are succeeding on iOS.
• The Financial Side of Mac Apps – Tyler Hall looks at his yearly Mac app sales.
• Wii Transfer – Manton’s most successful product that he never kept developing. 🙂
• Fredericksburg, Texas – A town with a lot of peach trees.

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Daniel’s home repair distraction, finding time to explore new WWDC goodies, Yosemite public beta, Apple’s continued home runs, and a metaphor on success in the App Store and… gym memberships?

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• Home Depot – Because when else are we going to have a chance to link to this?
• Yosemite public beta – Macworld article on getting ready for the beta.
• Majority of App Businesses Not Sustainable – Techcrunch on today’s App Store market.

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Manton and Daniel respond to feedback from last week about Swift dividing the Mac and iOS developer community, and discuss the impending shutdown of App.io’s brilliant web-based iOS app demos.

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• Kill Swift, Fix Xcode – Tim Burks’s bug report to Apple imploring them to abandon Swift development.
• Renaissance – Tim Burks’s iOS app-development conference.
• Nu – Tim Burks’s ambitious, Objective-C-based programming language.
• Swift Blog – Apple’s official blog for the Swift Programming Language.
• MobileMe Blog – Short-lived Apple blog dedicated to updating customers about the status of MobileMe (via Cabel Sasser)
• Surfin’ Safari – The WebKit team’s official blog.
• Farewell App.io – Announcement from App.io that their demo-page style product will be shut down.
• Diet Coda – Panic’s demo-page style deployment of App.io’s innovative iOS app preview technology.

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Daniel and Manton talk about the iPhone 6’s allegedly improved glass, our continuing resolve to postpone Swift adoption, and raise the question of whether Swift will split the platform’s developers into two language camps.

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• Sapphire Crystal Display – Marques Brownlee shows off a purported leaked component from the upcoming iPhone 6.
• Android Screen Fragmentation Myth – Russell Ivanovic makes the case that the wide variety of Android screen sizes poses little problem.
• Swift Programming on Medium – Articles on Medium focused on Swift programming.
• Enemy of the State – CocoaConf Austin session on app state and mutability by Justin Spahr-Summers.
• Secrets of Swift’s Speed – Mike Ash discusses several performance-empowering aspects of Swift’s design.

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Manton and Daniel discuss July 4th, Kevin Hoctor and the indie dream, and the heart & soul of Apple and whether they can scale their engineering teams geographically across the world.

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• Fulfilling a Dream – Kevin Hoctor’s post about leaving indie life to work for Apple.
• MoneyWell – Kevin’s personal finance accounting software for Mac and iOS.
• Connected Flow – Fraser Speirs’s defunct indie software company.
• Cocoa Radio – Blake Burris’s original Cocoa interview podcast.
• CocoaRadio – Justin Williams’s new Cocoa interview podcast.
• Radio, Live Transmission – Archive.org mirror of Buzz’s original post about being on Cocoa Radio.
• Silenced by Self – Daniel’s critique of Buzz’s refusal to be on Cocoa Radio.
• From the Factory Floor – MacTech Magazine feature that sometimes included interviews with Apple employees.

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