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Nov 1, 2013 • 1h 50min

37: A 3,000-Word Digression

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 in the review. Tags and the filesystem. Publishing the review ebooks, and relative sales between iBooks and Kindle. Marco's postmortem on his past Kindle efforts. (Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices, CueCat) Mavericks' theme and the Mac's constant battle between power users and ease of use. Will John keep doing OS X reviews? Sponsored by: Oxygene by RemObjects: Build native apps for all major platforms in one great language. Use code ATP13 for 20% off. Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Free for up to 10 people, and affordable for your entire company.
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Oct 24, 2013 • 1h 27min

36: A Weird One

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 and recommendation on upgrading. Listener homework: Read the review before next week's episode. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off. Hover: High-quality, no-hassle domain registration. Use promo code ATP for 10% off.
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Oct 18, 2013 • 1h 22min

35: Sea-Level Executives

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 worth the transition costs. Speculation on next week's product announcements. Where a potential 12" Retina MacBook Pro could fit in the lineup. Sponsored by: Transporter: Your own private cloud-storage drive. Get $50 off with discount code ATP50 through November 11. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off.
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Oct 10, 2013 • 1h 7min

34: Made The Dot Smaller

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 model for paying podcast producers in Overcast, and Instacast's 2012 rejection for Flattr integration. Different priorities for podcast playback and management. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use promo code ATP10 for 10% off. Audible: Over 150,000 downloadable audiobooks. Get a free audiobook with a 30-day trial.
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Oct 4, 2013 • 1h 13min

33: A 30-Minute Skip Button

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's not what he wants.) Experimenting with new UI controls and behaviors: some end up being cool and useful in practice, but many don't. Marco's brief adventure in designing a custom binary sync protocol. The potential conflict of interest of avoiding automatic ad-skipping features in Overcast since Marco gets income from ads on this podcast, and the ethics of publishing all podcasts' subscriber stats on the site. iPhone 5S cases. Laptop battery health and potential automatic battery conditioning. Sponsored by: Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like. Free for up to 10 people, and affordable for your entire company. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP10 for 10% off.
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Sep 27, 2013 • 1h 43min

32: It Doesn't Bother Me

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 Marco's logarithmic calendar) Dr. Drang on parallax. Post-show Neutral: the F80 M3/M4 specs. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! Ding: Dead-simple time tracking for freelancers and small teams. Use promo code ATP for a 90-day free trial.
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Sep 19, 2013 • 1h 22min

31: Swimming In 16 GB Gold

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: MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use promo code ATP for 10% off for the life of your account. Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September!
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Sep 13, 2013 • 1h 23min

30: Full Frontal Thumb

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 exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! MailRoute: Hosted spam and virus protection for email. Use promo code ATP for 10% off for the life of your account.
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Sep 6, 2013 • 1h 38min

29: Computerized Garden Gnome

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"? Our Synology experiences and disk-layout strategies so far. The OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store saga. Microsoft and Nokia: Stratechery 1, Stratechery 2, Asymco: Who's buying whom? Sponsored by: Squarespace: Everything you need to create an exceptional website. Use coupon code ATP9 for 20% off in September! Hover: High-quality, no-hassle domain registration. Use promo code ATP for 10% off.
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Aug 30, 2013 • 1h 38min

28: The Pit Of Irrelevance

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, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand). After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Sponsored by: Notograph: Store, organize, and share photos of things you want to remember but don't want cluttering up your Camera Roll. Wordbox: A beautiful, simple, yet powerful text and Markdown editor for iOS.

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