Accidental Tech Podcast

John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices. The confusing Photo Stream limits , and all of these links in the show notes . Stephen Elop's If-I-Were-CEO Plan . A story about enterprise software. The four big assumptions about using enterprise software, why it's usually so terrible, and why big companies buy it. Sponsored by: Transporter : A private cloud storage drive that you own and control. U...

Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop , Glide ) Everpix's failure and impending shutdown : The Verge's profile of the failure Shutdown FAQ Staff tweet about compression and average usage Staff tweet about "3x userbase" needed Somewhat similar services: Loom , Picturelife , Adobe Revel Everpix's critical strategic error, and how tech business and funding strategie...

Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one . iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode. Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his OS X Mavericks review . Noodling John with random questions. Dragon Drop and Cocoapods don't suck. The big potential section of the Mavericks review that John omitted. Choosing high-level and low-level details to include...

The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up ! Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the dots video . The Retina MacBook Pro update. The Mac Pro base price, CPU options , and speculation on SSD pricing. The iPad Air, Retina iPad Mini, iPad 2 (LOL), and iPod Classic. Apple's prod of free software. John's high-level summary of Mavericks a...

Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date. Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis Vuitton logo . The challenges of retail leadership. Touch ID impressions after a weekend of heavy use, and whether you should keep your phone secure for other people's benefit. How Touch ID could be used in Macs, and whether ARM MacBooks would be wor...

Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture. Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so? The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe , and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash . The Mavericks GM. Drawbacks of a Readability-like mod...

When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this ). Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in Geekbench and what CPU tradeoffs to expect in the new Mac Pro. Speculating on the new Mac Pro's fan noise, rotating cable management, and intended desk location. FU on John's podcast-scrubber idea. (Spoiler: he knows about the vertical speed-scaling that's been in Apple's scrubber for years, and it...

Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S. Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations. How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) still is today. John's review of iOS 7 . Locking your kitchen. Marco's upcoming podcast app, Overcast , as announced at XOXO 2013 , and why he preannounced it. The parallels between Portland and the Hofbräuhaus . John's logarithmic-scrubber idea. (and Mar...

Casey goes to an Apple Store. FU on SnappyCam , Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem . The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be overstaying their welcome. Each host's planned iPhone upgrades. How to get an iPhone on launch day. Long Island Lexus trim . Who's fabbing the A7? Intel ? Probably not . iOS 7 adoption stats so far from Mixpanel and _DavidSmith . Sponsored by: Mail...

iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s . The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice. AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video . Economics of iPhone cases. 64-bit in practice. Speculation on what the M7 does and its potential. White iOS devices. Apple secrecy. After-show: " non " vs. " hon " and the Micro-USB 3.0 connector . Sponsored by: Squarespace : Everything you need to create an...

John's Mavericks review progress. iPhone event predictions. Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock. iPhone 5S colors . Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model? Cell towers near rich people. The Apple TV shipment rumor . Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"? O...

Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa . Casey was right! The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault? Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer . Microsoft's enterprise business. Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business? What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets? John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement . ( Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL , t...

Querying Florida. Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore, using web services as backups, and Ogg-encoded tinfoil hattery. The Time Capsule's tough sell. Casey's helpful fans . IFTTT and Twitter . The gold/"champagne" iPhone, not getting a larger iPhone this year, and the future of the Lightning connector. The new TiVo . After-show: John's ebook-testing se...

Instapaper's web redesign beta . Rewriting a codebase from scratch . Understandable code and writing for maintainability . The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks. The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup . How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's...

Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks. Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful to a very small number of people. Why Marco has been procrastinating from the big app by making small apps. Good app names as motivation. Desktop Twitter distraction and measuring desktop productivity with RescueTime . Casey's sales of Fast Text since...

Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB , SQLite, and implementing your own generic "model" class. Plus: Casey finally gets to talk about .NET. (Note from Marco: The day after recording, I rewrote my model class to rely on KVC instead of runtime tricks and reflection. Please email Casey.) The types of programmers who can and should write their own low...

FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine. iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme . Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this before we knew why it was down.) _DavidSmith on Logic X's pricing and what this might indicate for future App Store upgrades. Whether upgrade pricing is best for consumers, and the upgrade-pricing train. iOS developers acting like the RIAA in 2002. Th...

Marco's new-new app, Bugshot , and some of its design decisions. Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time. Bugshot gets the John Siracusa treatment. Exploring NAS options and initial impressions of the Synology DS1813+ . Economics of FreeNAS or Mac Mini alternatives. iSCSI on Macs: the free $89 globalSAN initiator and the $195 ATTO initiator , which comes reco...

iWatch follow-up. Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch . Eric Welander's thoughts on Siri for iWatch . iWatch as a means of identity . How regular people use iOS devices, as witnessed by John. Multitasking-switcher implications in iOS 7. iCloud's priority within Apple. Dropbox Datastore API , including its JavaScript API . Does the Datastore API obviate the need for a web service? Ner...

Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch". Technological Conservatism . Panic's Lightning-to-HDMI-cable discovery . Chris Harris on iOS 7 icons . "Free-to-play" games. Coding for practice, and learning new APIs or languages. Overly specialized apps. Glympse (Casey's road-trip-tracking app). Feed Wrangler by _DavidSmith as a Google Reader replacement that's compat...

John's review progress and show-duration predictors. The WWDC 2013 intro video . ( Siri's WWDC 2012 intro ) Apple's " Making a Difference, One App at a Time " video. "Designed by Apple in California". "Jobs" (Ashton Kutcher) trailer . Why developers should (or shouldn't) require iOS 7 this fall. "The Transporter" series . iOS 7 Calendar app UI . Cool-looking vs. well-designed. Our iTunes reviews....

Casey's fans at WWDC. Mac Pro followup. ( John's halo-car post ) The Xbox 180. Revisiting the potential for a larger-screen iPhone after having seen iOS 7. Predicting iOS 7 adoption. Neven Mrgan on iOS 7's icon grid and a rebuttal . New Mac Pro appears in Geekbench parallelize.c / xargs parallel processing Sponsored by: Squarespace : The all-in-one platform that makes it easy to create your own we...

Special early WWDC episode this week: Reactions to the keynote. New Mac Pro Initial iOS 7 design impressions. Sponsored by: Backblaze : Easy, unlimited online backup for just $5 per month. Windows Azure Mobile Services : Build a cloud-connected iOS app faster and easier.

Opening theme by Larry King ( @laking ). The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon / TwUI . The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrappers around old C APIs such as Keychain and Address Book. Springboard #10 SMOP Underscore Should Apple add type inference to Objective-C? Haswell Retina MacBook Pro predictions and the possibility of having only the integrated GPU in the 15". gfx...

Why Marco sold The Magazine . Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass . Tim Cook at AllThingsD . Cook's presence and speaking style. What Cook implicitly said about future Apple products. WWDC predictions for OS X. Sponsored by: Oxygene for Cocoa : Use coupon code ATP13 for 20% off. Soulver : The essential calculator-spreadsheet-notepad hybrid.