Daniel and Manton observe the endings of Cingleton, Macworld Expo, and Glassboard, then revisit the issue of privacy policies in the wake of news from Apple that they’ll be more widely required.

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• Çingleton – The Montréal based conference.
• Macworld Expo Hiatus – Announcement from IDG that the venerable trade show would not go on.
• Macworld Expo Is Over – Jason Snell’s less optimistic take on the Macworld “hiatus.”
• Glassboard Closing Down – Official announcement that Glassboard will be shuttered November 1.
• Moonshots – Justin Williams’s announcement from earlier this year that he was going all-in with Glassboard.
• iubenda – Privacy policies as a service … with a weird name.
• TermsFeed – Service offering more broadly-applicable legal boilerplate.

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Manton and Daniel follow up on Apple’s delayed app approvals, TestFlight expectations, iCloud Drive compatibility, a long discussion on microblogging and the value of owning your own domain and content, and Manton teases a new project.

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• Tweet Library 2.6 – Manton announces the latest version of his iOS Twitter app.
• Gatekeeper’s Opaque Whitelist – Daniel’s analysis of Mac OS X 10.9.5’s code signing whitelist.
• What To Do About Code Signing – Daniel’s more concise advice about fixing your Mac code signing.
• Apple Open Source – All of Apple’s open source, categorized by shipping product and version number.
• Blogging Every Day – Manton responds to Matt Mullenweg’s post about blogging.
• The Web Ahead – Jen Simmons’s weekly podcast about web technology.
• IndieWebCamp – A “creator camp” dedicated to people-focused use of web technology.
• ello – Another social network you probably haven’t heard of.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s blog editor for Mac OS X.
• RapidWeaver – Intuitive web content editor from RealMac.
• Sandvox – Intuitive web content editor from Karelia.
• Medium.com – A site for giving up ownership of your blog posts.
• Mint – Shaun Inman’s web stats product.
• 15 lessons – Anil Dash reflects upon his 15 years of blogging.
• Feedbin sharing upgrade – Starts with the point that content posted to Twitter originates on blogs.
• Easy To Game – David Jacobs coaxes a tweet reply out of Manton.
• Twitter At Its Best – Manton’s final Twitter post.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Brent Simmons’s new job at the Omni Group, weigh the risks and rewards being indie vs. taking a full-time job, and despair about Apple’s current App Store review delays.

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• Brent Goes to Omni – Blog post from Brent Simmons about his new job.
• The Omni Group – The well-loved Seattle-based software company.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s iOS based Twitter client.
• Upload and Instantly Publish – Google’s review-free app publishing process.
• Upgrade Podcast – Jason Snell’s new podcast on the Relay FM network.
• A Form Factor Worth Keeping – Daniel’s blog post about the iPhone 5’s suitability for sporting activities.
• Day Phone / Night Phone – Manton’s quip about needing a smaller phone for leaving the house.
• Thoughts on the iPhone 6 Plus – Conrad Stoll mentions switching Twitter apps because of screen size support.

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Manton and Daniel react to the shipment of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+, talk about the challenges of updating apps to look good on iPhone 6, and speculate about the future expectations for developers adapting to varying screen sizes and layouts.

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• iPhone 6 – Apple’s little-known new mobile phone.
• One Direction – A little-known pop boy band.
• 12” PowerBook – Much-loved but cancelled smaller form factor Mac.
• Tweet Library for iOS – Manton’s Twitter client for iOS.
• App Extensions – Apple programming guide.

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Daniel and Manton take stock of their off-the-cuff podcasting style, follow up on Apple Pay, discuss Tim Cook’s interview with Charlie Rose, celebrate the acquisition of Unread by Supertop, and get serious about the future of micro-blogging.

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• Moto 360 – The smartwatch from Motorola/Google that definitely beat Apple’s watch to market.
• Contactless Payment – Wikipedia page about the genre of payment mechanisms that includes NFC-based solutions such as Apple Pay.
• Google Wallet – Google’s long-available equivalent of Apple Pay.
• Paid for Shake Shack – Matt Mullenweg tweets about his experience using Google Wallet.
• Tim Cook Interview Part 1 – Charlie Rose interviews Tim Cook.
• Tim Cook Interview Part 2 – Second part of Charlie Rose’s interview.
• Swift Blog – Apple’s blog dedicated to the Swift programming language.
• Unread Acquisition – Blog post from the folks at Supertop, who recently acquired Unread.
• Now a Supertop App – Jared Sinclair announces the acquisition of Unread from his own perspective.
• WordPress.org – Self-hosted version of the popular blog hosting software.
• Defining a Microblog – Manton starts digging into what it means to be “a microblog.”
• Noah Read’s Snippets – Another approach to microblogging.
• The Web We Lost – Anil Dash reminisces about the more open nature of the web only a few years ago.

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Manton and Daniel react to Apple’s September, 2014 special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino. They work through questions surrounding the types of apps that Apple Watch may support, whether WatchKit may be Swift-only, and coming to terms with bigger iPhones.

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• iPhone 6 – “Bigger than bigger” — ain’t that the truth?
• Apple Watch – Apple’s massive new product category.
• Nickel allergy – Condition that Daniel suffers from and hopefully does not affect Apple’s watch!
• Swift Language – Apple’s newest programming language.
• Location Services – Documentation from Apple about Location Services.
• Apple vs. ITV – 2010 article about Apple’s thwarted plan to name the Apple TV iTV.
• Stripe: Apple Pay – Documentation from Stripe about supporting Apple Pay purchases using their payment framework.

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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.

(Note – this update corrects an error in the previous submission that caused a long silence in the middle of the episode).

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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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