Cup of Tech: Recent Episodes
Kai Dombrowski, Malin Sundberg, and Zach Simone
This podcast is (usually) a casual conversation about tech, Apple, programming, and sometimes unrelated topics and a good excuse to drink another cup of coffee.
This time we're chatting about WWDC23, Vision Pro and visionOS, and Malin's Vision Pro hands-on experience.
LinksGlucomate
Mercury Weather
Timepage for macOS
HostsKai (Mastodon / Twitter)
Malin (Mastodon / Twitter)
Zach (Mastodon / Twitter)
Special GuestAdam (Mastodon / Twitter)
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This time we're briefly chatting about what we've been up to, and spend a lot of time talking about our (lofty) WWDC23 and Apple Headset predictions.
Bonus Band Prediction: boygenius (credit to Oliver)
LinksGlucomate
Mercury Weather
Timepage for macOS
Core Coffee Meetup
Core Coffee WWDC #1
Core Coffee WWDC #2
Core Coffee WWDC #3
Core Coffee WWDC #4
HostsKai (Mastodon / Twitter)
Malin (Mastodon / Twitter)
Zach (Mastodon / Twitter)
Special GuestAdam (Mastodon / Twitter)
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Twitter
This time we're talking about Apple's "Unleashed" event and score our event predictions.
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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Another Apple Special event means another predictions episode (this sure is a busy time of year 😅)!
We’re chatting about what we expect (and wish) to see announced at Apple’s “Unleashed” event.
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Links Predictions
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This time we talk about Apple's iPhone event and figure out who won the prediction episode.
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Links Prediction Results
Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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It’s time for predictions again! This time we’re chatting about what we might see at Apple’s “California Streaming” event.
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Links Predictions
Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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Let's see how we all did with our WWDC21 predictions.
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Links Prediction Results (SPOILERS!)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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130: WWDC21 Predictions – Respect & Boos To avoid spoilers, we decided to predict all things WWDC a week earlier this time.
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Links Predictions (SPOILERS!)
Hosts Kai (Twitter) Malin (Twitter) Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This time we're chatting about Apple's "Spring Loaded" special event and score our event predictions.
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Links Final Reults (SPOILERS!)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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We’re back! Apple’s Spring Loaded event lured us out of hiding to record one of our special prediction episodes.
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Links Final Predictions (SPOILERS!)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting about us taking a break and our favourite things of the year in our special 2020/2021 episode.
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting about the App Store's new privacy labels, the IDFA, Kai's & Malin's new YouTube channel "Developer Commentary", and the controversial launch of Cyberpunk 2077.
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Links App privacy details – Apple
Developer Commentary – YouTube
Picks of the Week Zach: Rain Parrot
Malin: Title Case
Kai: Stadia
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting about Apple's new AirPods Max, spring cleaning, and our plans for Orbit.
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Things of the Week Malin: iOS Dev Happy Hour
Kai: ConnectKit
Zach: Magnet
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we chat some more about Apple's Small Business Program, iOS apps on the Mac, hybrid Macs, our Big Sur impressions, and Apple Arcade.
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Links Orbit
Petty
Things of the Week Zach: Sneaky Sasquatch
Malin: carbon
Kai: Raycast
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This is our first live show! 🤯
There will be $60k Apple.com carts, Apple TV show pitches, real and fake App Store reviews to identify, us exposing our lack of iOS 14 skills, and much more.
Links Cup of Tech #123 on YouTube
EveryWorld
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This week we're talking about Apple's new promo codes and the Apple Small Business Program reducing the App Store commission rate for small businesses to 15%, the new App Store privacy labels, Kai's and Malin's update of Orbit for Big Sur, and the new iPhone 12 mini.
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Orbit
Petty
Things of the Week Zach: The Queen’s Gambit
Kai: 5 GUIs
Malin: Walkabout Mini Golf VR
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're talking about our first impressions of using the iPhone 12 mini, reveal our prediction results, and discuss Apple's November event.
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Links Prediction Results
Apple Exec M1 Interview
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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In our most fun prediction episode yet, we're speculating about what Apple will announce at their November event and discuss our crazy ideas of future Mac lineups.
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Links Final Predictions Table
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This week, we’re contemplating our iPhone purchase decisions some more, chatting about our expectations for an Apple November event, talk about what’s next for Petty and Orbits, and Kai’s quest to replace his broken Apple Watch.
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Links Petty Orbit
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Things of the Week Kai: Nova
Malin: Widget Studio: Event Countdown
Zach: Lex Fridman Podcast #131
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This time we're talking about Apple's October iPhone event. We're discussing the new iPhone lineup, the new HomePod mini, the state of Siri, and of course, we determine who won our special Apple event predictions game.
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Links Prediction Results (SPOILERS!!!)
5G Song – Tony Ivonin
Guest Adam (Twitter)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week Vidit Bhargava joins us to chat about LookUp! We talk about the new iPhones (before they were announced), how LookUp got started, building for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, adding new features, design, prototyping, and Poké Bowls (?).
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LookUp for iOS
LookUp for macOS
Aesthete Icons
Guest Vidit (Twitter)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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Apple has announced the (likely) iPhone event, so as per our usual tradition, Adam joins us for an Apple Special Event predictions episode.
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Links Final Predictions Table (SPOILERS!)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This week, we chat about Zach’s recent launch of Petty 4.0, Kai’s and Malin’s preparations leading up to the launch of Orbit for iOS, building widgets for iOS 14, and creating apps with SwiftUI. 🚀
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Links Petty
Orbit
Orbit Press Kit (~35MB)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week Josh Holtz joins us to chat about Fastlane and open source. We also chat about splitting time across side projects, building things in the open, Indie Dev Monday, education, indie development, widgets, and much more.
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Links Josh's woodworking
Josh's Home Coffee Roaster
Fastlane
Contributing to Fastlane
Indie Dev Monday
An Otter RSS
Ya'll Trippin'
Grandpa Kenny's Fishing Adventure
Orbit
Petty
Guest Josh (Twitter)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we reveal the thrilling results of our Apple September Event not-a-draft predictions! We also chat about the new Apple Watch Series 6, iPads, and much more.
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Links Predictions Result Table WARNING SPOILERS!
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This week Quentin Zervaas joins us to chat about his Apple Design Award-winning app, Streaks. We also chat about his development practices, building for tv, supporting older versions of iOS, dealing with customer feedback and, of course, Australian contact tracing with the Exposure Notification framework.
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Streaks Workout
HealthFace
Outcast
Orbit
Petty
Guest Quentin (Twitter)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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Adam is back again, to join us for our special, world-famous, Apple September Event Not-A-Draft™ episode.
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Links Final Predictions Table
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter)
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This week Kai and Malin have follow-up about their new iMac, we speculate about iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur release dates, and talk more about our experiences with SwiftUI, and how it compares to UIKit.
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Petty
Things of the week Malin: Going Nowhere by Doubletron
Zach: After School Radio
Kai: XLaunch
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week Mustafa Yusuf joins us to chat about Tasks, time management, indie development, and conferences on remote islands. 🏝
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Links Tasks – App Store
Orbit
Petty
Guest Mustafa (Twitter)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week, we chat some more about the new iMac. We discuss potential release timelines for iOS 14, watchOS 7, the new iPhones, iPad, and Apple Watch. Zach’s SwiftUI experience and (of course) the App Store.
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Links Petty
Orbit
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week Charlie Chapman joins us to chat about Dark Noise 2, the Microsoft Surface Duo (🤷♂️), and indie development.
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Links Dark Noise 2 – App Store
Dark Noise 2 – Promo Video
MacMakers – Slack
AppKit Abusers – Slack
Orbit – Mac App Store
Guest Charlie (Twitter)
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
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This week we chat about podcasting, the new iMac, Phil Schiller becomming an Apple Fellow, options for in-app subscriptions, and Orbit crew plans.
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Links Petty
Orbit
Apple Fellow Phil Schiller – Apple Newsroom iMac – Apple Newsroom
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Things of the week Malin: IntelliMath
Kai: Games by appstories
Zach: Rainbrow
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This week we're chatting about COVID alert apps, the tech antitrust hearing, Apple's Q3 earnings, Apple Silicon Macs, delayed iPhones, and Zach's update to Petty.
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Links 🇨🇦 COVID Alert – GitHub
Apple Q3 2020 results – Six Colors
Vapor
Petty – App Store
Orbit – App Store
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Things of the week Zach: Really Bad Chess
Kai: Xeoleo N520
Malin: Indie Dev Monday
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This week we discuss different software pricing models, shifts in app business models, and how subscription pricing fits into all of it.
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Petty
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Things of the week Kai: Golf on Mars
Malin: Launched
Zach: Binge Thinking
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This week we're talking (more) about Apple Silicon Macs, our iOS 14 impressions, project roadmaps, marketing, and Apple Platform development and the potential for indies.
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Links Orbit
Petty
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting about our plans for Orbit and its current Mac App Store feature, macOS & iOS adoption rates, App Clips, and the future of Macs based on Apple Silicon.
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Orbit on the Mac App Store
DTK Specs
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Adam's (and Kai's and Malin's) Podcast (We Like Games)
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Join us for our special WWDC20 spectacular! We chat about the format of this year’s conference, our favourite announcements, and of course the results of our world-famous predictions! To keep us in check, our recurring special guest Adam joins us.
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Links Orbit
Orbit on the Mac App Store
(SPOILERS!) WWDC20 Predictions Results
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Adam's (and Kai's and Malin's) Podcast (We Like Games)
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In our 100th episode, we have Adam join us for our Special Fun WWDC20 Predictions AND draft.
We also chat about Kai’s and Malin’s recent release of Orbit, a bit about the App Store rules, and about Apple’s use of Catalyst to build macOS apps.
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Orbit on the Mac App Store
(SPOILERS!) Final WWDC20 Prediction Sheet
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
Special Guest Adam (Twitter) Adam's (and Kai's and Malin's) Podcast (We Like Games)
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This week we chat about Zach’s new MacBook Pro, Kai’s use of Bing (?), the “Glass” "leaks", Joe Rogan selling his soul to Spotify, and some new Twitter features.
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Things of the Week Kai: SubEthaEdit
Malin: Mythic Quest: Quarantine
Zach: iStat Menu
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we chat about interesting cultural differences and play a “coin guessing” game (which is more fun than it sounds), where we slowly uncover that Zach might not actually be Australian… For the later half of the show, we chat about some more tech focused topics, like Apple’s potential future VR and AR products as well as Facebook’s Giphy acquisition.
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Things of the Week Zach: Somehow I Manage
Kai: Get Packed
Malin: Upload
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we chat about Zach’s MacBook Pro order. The recent Facebook SDK crash triggers a discussion about things to consider when adding 3rd party code to an app. We are, of course, also talking about Apple’s WWDC20 announcement.
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Things of the Week Malin: Pistol Whip
Kai: 2MD: VR Football
Zach: Rocket
Post Show Orbit
Packtrack
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we chat some more about exposure notifications, the government, and compare an iPad notebook to an ARM MacBook.
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Things of the Week Malin: httpstatuses.com
Kai: ngrok
Zach: Fitbod
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we start off chatting about the five year anniversary of the Apple Watch. We move over to talking about Apple’s Accessibility Webinar and how this might inspire the digital version of WWDC, potential conference formats, the cost of a ticket and more. We also chat about the recent release of Apple Maps Mobility Trends.
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Apple Maps Mobility Trends
Citymapper Mobility Index
Things of the Week Zach: Monopoly
Kai: TV Forecast
Malin: Super Mario Odyssey
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week, the release of the new iPhone SE (2nd generation) inspired us to chat about the future of the iPhone lineup, Apple’s future in home audio and potential new products. Malin and Kai also give a quick update on the progress of their app, Orbit and talk about "marketing", making decisions, and of course, SwiftUI on macOS.
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iPhone 12 Pro Max Leak(?)
Things of the Week Malin: Sidecar
Kai: Optimage
Zach: Vodafone DreamLab
Hosts Kai (Twitter)
Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week, we chat about Face ID, Touch ID, digital meetups, and the + Google contact tracing approach.
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Things of the Week Kai: Soulver 3.3
Zach: The Imagineering Story
Malin: Instant Pot
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting about online community events, Apple’s acquisition of Dark Sky, in-app purchases and iOS screenshot automation.
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Things of the Week Malin: Creativity, Inc.
Zach: Varidesk
Kai: Human Benchmark
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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Keeping hockey stick distance away from other humans, guessing what 2020 will look like for Apple hardware and software, and our work-from-home suggestions.
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Things of the Week Zach: Apple COVID-19 Screening Tool
Malin: LEGO® Builder's Journey
Kai: Xiaomi Mi Smart LED Desk Lamp 1S
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting (a lot!) about the future of iPad and some of Apple's other announcements from last week.
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New MacBook Air
Things of the Week Zach: Still Local Still Open
Malin: DaisyDisk
Kai: Mr. Robot
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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Zach's back to talk about the state of the world, what it means for local community events, we speculate some more about what an online WWDC20 could mean, and we (somewhat randomly) chat about the updated App Store review guidelines.
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're talking about COVID-19 news, US health care (🤷♂️), and all the iOS 14 and watchOS 7 leaks.
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Things of the Week Kai: Asus RT-AX88U
Malin: Allbirds Mizzles
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we’re talking about tech conferences and designing a fully digital WWDC for Apple.
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Things of the Week Malin: Pastebot
Kai: Spark
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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Burgers, burgers, and more burgers! With a little bit of tech talk thrown in.
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Things of the Week Zach: Dark Docs
Malin: Desert Golfing
Kai: Chineasy
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're giving a quick update on our Mac app, talking about distributing betas for macOS apps, and the upcoming Apple Event.
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Things of the Week Malin: Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet (Apple TV+)
Kai: NativeConnect
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we talk about the Xcode 11.4 beta, SwiftUI, Universal Purchases and the potential of Xcode on the iPad.
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Things of the Week Zach: JSON Peep
Malin: Beat Saber (Oculus Quest)
Kai: GeForce Now
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're talking about ad blocking, iPad's 10 year anniversary, and the fundamental problems with universal apps.
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Things of the Week Kai: Airalo
Zach (1st attempt): Proxyman
Zach (2nd attempt): Rhyno
Malin: Hario V60
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we’re giving a quick update on project “Mission Control”, talking about the challenges of designing for macOS, and planning our back-end deployment.
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Things of the Week Malin: Schitt's Creek
Kai: DuckDuckGo
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week’s episode is more development focused than usual, we chat about SwiftUI and server-side development using Vapor and give an update on our projects, Project Mission Control and Petty.
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Things of the Week Zach: GitHub Student Developer Pack
Malin: Grammarly
Kai: Logitech MX Master 3
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we start off chatting about WWDC 2020, we then talk about different business models and creative ways of marketing a product.
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Things of the Week Zach: Giphy
Malin: Primalist
Kai: Hello Weather
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This week’s episode is a bit less tech-focused than usual. Instead, we chat about why we don’t do New Year’s resolutions and our ways of thinking about self-evaluation and goal setting.
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Things of the Week Malin: Logitech MX Vertical Mouse
Kai: Fluor
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Zach (Twitter)
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We chat a bit more about Vapor, then we get into choosing our favourite iOS, iPad, macOS, and watchOS apps from 2019 as the year draws to a close.
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✨Things of the Year✨ Utility App of the Year Zach: Sherlock
Malin: Pastebot
Kai: 1Password
Productivity App of the Year Zach: Logic Pro X
Malin: Tower
Kai: Alfred 4
Game of the Year Zach: Mini Metro
Malin: WHAT THE GOLF?
Kai: WHAT THE GOLF?
Lifestyle App of the Year Zach: HealthFace
Malin: Streaks
Kai: Transit
Newcomer iOS App Zach: Snowflake Weather
Malin: Bean There
Kai: Flighty
Newcomer macOS App Zach: Jira Cloud by Atlassian
Malin: Quests
Kai: Dato
iPad App of the Year Zach: LookUp: English dictionary
Malin: Procreate
Kai: Mini Motorways
watchOS App of the Year Zach: CARROT Weather
Malin: AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch
Kai: CARROT Weather
macOS App of the Year Zach: Tower
Malin: Affinity Designer
Kai: Audio Hijack
iOS App of the Year Zach: AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch
Malin: Things 3
Kai: Overcast
Apple Hardware of the Year Zach: AirPods Pro
Malin: Apple Watch Series 5
Kai: AirPods (2nd Gen)
Non-Apple Hardware of the Year Zach: 820T2
Malin: Oculus Quest
Kai: Roborock S6
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're chatting some more about Server Side Swift & looking back at Apple's software releases in 2019.
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Links IBM's Server Side Swift Update
What's New in Vapor 4
Smart Time Tracking (Kai's and Malin's Mac App)
We Like Games Podcast
Things of the Week Kai: esimdb
Malin: Dickinson (Apple TV+)
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week, we are configuring our Fantasy Mac Pros, the iMac, and Kai and Malin have a quick update on their macOS app.
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Hex Guess
Smart Time Tracking (Kai's and Malin's Mac App)
Things of the Week Kai: EZCOO EZ-SW41HA
Zach: Plane Finder
Malin: Two Spies
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we talk about our Kai's and Malin's Mac App status, using new tech to build products, Vapor and other back-end development options, and Apple's Best of 2019.
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Apple Best of 2019
Things of the Week Kai: Roborock S6
Malin: Tomb Raider (2013)/Stadia
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we talk about our December event expectations, "Apple's" "new" Mac Pro plant, the 16" MacBook Pro, and the Stadia launch.
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Trump Mac Pro Tour 😞
Stadia
Things of the Week Zach: Air Matters
Kai: Paw
Malin: Pixelmator
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we chat about non-intrusive CGM, SwiftUI and shipping projects.
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we talk about AirPods Pro, the new 16" MacBook Pro, and Apple TV+ apps.
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MacBook Pro 16-inch
Apple TV+
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Malin (Twitter)
Zach (Twitter)
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This week we're talking about Twitter APIs, developer health, and NFC triggered shortcuts.
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Things of the Week Kai: GameTrack
Zach: Netgear Orbi
Malin: Aukey Multiport USB-C Hub
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This week we're talking about the imminent launch of Apple TV+, Stadia, and the Made by Google event.
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Apple SFO Airport terminal upgrades
Made by Google '19
Things of the Week Zach: Transporter
Kai: Shadow by Blade (referral code: KAIJW6G6)
Malin: Team Trees
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This week begins with some follow-up, before discussing the new Announcing Messages with Siri feature, and a scratched iPhone 11 Pro. Our main topics include using SwiftUI for a new macOS project, a leaked 16" MacBook Pro icon, Meetup pricing changes (and then revision of said changes), and finally getting stuff done on iPad.
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Meetup pricing changes
Things of the Week Malin: Ray Wenderlich - "Menus and Popovers in Menu Bar Apps for macOS"
Kai: AdGuard for Safari
Zach: JDRF One Walk Sydney
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This week we're talking about new hardware rumours (AirPods, MacBook, Apple TV, Tag), our macOS Catalina impressions, and macOS Catalyst apps.
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Zach: CARROT Weather for Mac
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This week we're talking about Google killing Macs, iPhone 11 Pro, Touch ID, when to release features, and Microsoft's Surface Event.
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Things of the Week Zach: Jira for Mac
Malin: Apple Watch Sport Loop
Kai: Textmate 2
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This week we have a special guest on the show, Adam Shaw. We chat a bit more about iPhone 11 Pro, Apple Watch Series 5, and iOS 13. We also talk about the future of AR, SwiftUI and development for macOS. The latter half of the show is an Apple Arcade special segment where we chat with Adam about our first impressions of Arcade and list some of our favourite games.
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Games Hot Lava
WHAT THE GOLF?
Card of Darkness
Mini Motorways
Sayonara Wild Hearts
ChuChu Rocket! Universe
The Pinball Wizard
Assemble With Care
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This week we're talking about our first impressions of iPhone 11 Pro & Apple Watch Series 5, Apple's software release roadmap, and Apple Arcade.
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This week we're talking about which shiny new devices we preordered, the results of our predictions episode, and all our hot takes™ from the September Apple Special Event.
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Prediction results table
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This week we have a jam-packed episode talking about getting our apps ready for iOS 13/macOS 10.15, Zach's /dev/world talk, last-minute Apple Event predictions like UWB and Apple AR Hardware, Apple Music Web Beta, iOS 13.1, and Things of the Week!
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Things of the Week Zach: Apple Pay on the Web
Kai: Timepage
Malin: Bridge Constructor Portal
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This week we discuss Apple Card and planning for /dev/world. We also spent some time talking about the importance of accessibility and why it should matter to all of us.
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Malin: Klean Kanteen
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This is our Not A Draft episode for Apple's Fall 2019 iPhone event.
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In this week's episode, we predict naming of the upcoming iPhones, we chat about push notification best-practices, email validation implementations, Apple betas, and WeWork.
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This week we mostly talk about iOS 13, the state of the betas, and Zach's dev/world/2019 talk preparations.
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This week we chat about iPhone and Apple Watch hardware, Apple's September event dates, and Apple's response to Siri grading. In the second half of the episode, we get into some more technical topic like how to implement email verification, adding push notifications to apps and App Store Connect.
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Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
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Things of the Week Zach: Fastlane
Malin: SUPERHOT VR
Kai: Plex
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This week we talk about contractors listening to Siri recordings, follow up on some public transport things we got wrong, and wallets and credit cards.
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Apple Pay for transit without Express Transit correction, thanks @elevtechlift
Ata Distance correcting some things Suica
Things of the Week Zach: Flighty
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Malin: Stagehand
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This week we talk about beta updates, Neuralink, Bean There updates, watchOS phone independence, and some Apple service woes.
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Things of the Week Zach: SuicaEng
Kai: Dato
Malin: Allbirds
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Zach is back from his trip to Japan. We play a fun game where Zach and Kai have to guess if a news headline is a real headline or something that Malin made up. This is followed by a quick chat about the MacBook lineup and as usual the “Things of the Week” segment.
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Things of the Week Zach: Apple Maps (iOS 13)
Malin: Harvest
Kai: Netlify
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This week we talk about Malin quitting her job, founding Triple Glazed Studios with Kai as well as Catalyst Bundle IDs, Vexillology, and SwiftUI.
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Things of the Week Zach: Lost Japan
Kai: Alfred 4
Malin: Figma Mirror
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This week we talk about iOS & macOS public betas, the re-opening of the Bondi Apple Store, and the announcement of Jony Ive's departure from Apple.
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Bondi Apple Store re-opening
Jony Ive Leaving Apple
Things of the Week Malin: Hidden Folks
Zach: Bitrise
Kai: Proxyman
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We discuss the joy (cough, woe, cough) of running beta software, our development priorities now that WWDC is over, how we choose which developer news and resources to keep up with, and is pixel perfect design a myth?!
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Localhost.run
Things of the Week Malin: Good Omens
Kai: Soulver 3
Zach: SwiftUI by Example
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This week we record in person (again) to talk about all the new things Apple and our decision processes for buying new devices.
Things of the Week Zach: Contactless payment on TransLink
Malin: Forecast
Kai: Serveo
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Join us from the Apple Podcasts Studio at WWDC19 where we discuss the conference, the changes announced for developers, and the results of our WWDC prediction episode.
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WWDC19 Keynote
SwiftUI
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We discuss our WWDC plans, the new MacBook Pro's, a Facebook product that Kai and Malin actually like, followed by famous predictions (but not a draft) ahead of WWDC19.
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New MacBook Pro
New MacBook Keyboard Teardown
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WWDC19 Predictions
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In this episode we chat about cross-platform mobile development, AppKit replacements, beta software and Intel ZombieLoad. We end the episode talking about our weekly picks.
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Things of the Week Kai: Duplicacy
Malin: Design Canada
Zach: ConfFriends
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Our Google I/O spectacular! Pixel 3a and 3a XL, the importance of accessibility, our thoughts on "free" vs privacy, and a bit about the importance of AI and ML going forward. We also talk a little about the Mark Gurman WWDC rumour report.
Links Google I/O Keynote Pixel 3a billboard
Mark Gurman WWDC rumours report
Things of the Week Kai: Uniregistry
Malin: Sip
Zach: Downlink
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In this weeks episode, we chat about the App Store review process, universal apps, the future of macOS apps, podcast sharing and our weekly picks.
Links Overcast clip sharing
Things of the Week Malin: Bitly
Zach: My Millennial Money
Kai: iDevices Switch
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Join us as we discuss what is rumoured to be coming in macOS 10.15, cloud storage, VPNs, 3rd party SDKs and Apple Developer services.
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Things of the Week Kai: Hopper
Malin: Kim's Convenience
Zach: SeatGuru
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It was the week of leaks. Join us as we discuss what is rumoured to be coming in iOS 13.
Links iOS 13 rumours
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This week we chat about immigration to Canada, breaking up iTunes, Marzipan apps, and we judge each other's docks.
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Canada
Things of the Week Zach: tshirtplus/stickermule
Malin: Mini Metro
Kai: Postico
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This week we discuss accents, our first podcasts, and saying "um" too much. We also re-evaluate the scores from last week's prediction round, discuss some follow-up about the new AirPods, before getting into tech policy in Australia, and tech regulation around the world.
Links Our March Event Score Sheet
Apple's March Event 2019 on YouTube
Things of the Week Kai: The New AirPods
Malin: NEEWER Boom Scissor Arm
Zach: The Sizzle
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Join us this week to talk about Apple's March Event, our prediction results, the AirPower cancelation, and new AirPods.
Links Our March Event Score Sheet
Apple's March Event 2019 on YouTube
AirPower cancelled
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Join us this week to talk about Apple's busy announcement week, WWDC, an update on our prediction score sheet, Google's "future of gaming", and the price of Facebook updates.
Links Our March Event Score Sheet
Google Stadia
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Join us this week for our special March 2019 "Apple Special Event" prediction (Not A Draft™) episode.
This time we kept it at 5 predictions each with 3 regular and 2 wildcard (not wildly rumored) rounds.
Links Apple — September Event 2014
Privacy on iPhone — Private Side
Torney Draft Order Algorithm
Our March Event Score Sheet
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Kai Coffee, Malin Podcast, and Zach Petty join forces to talk about working environments and home offices, and Zach learns a thing or two about the climate in Vancouver.
Our main topic happened to be pondering what the future of ARKit could be, especially if it were to be combined with a wearable device of some sort.
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Bean There Beta
Things of the Week Kai: Roborock S50
Malin: Lost Cities
Zach: Max Planes
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This week we're talking about product focus in tech discussions, Apple ID woes, forming good habits by building streaks, and motivating work environments.
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Petty
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Streaks
"The Best Place to Work" by Ron Friedman
Things of the Week Malin: Porlex Mini
Zach: Walk 4 Duchenne
Kai: Mactracker
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The Ming-Chi Kuo Apple report, 2019 AirPods, Apple "Pro" products, iPhone and Ultra-Wide Band connectivity, and foldable phones (or not).
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Things of the Week Zach: App Icon Resizer
Kai: Transmit 5
Malin: Nonda USB Type C Adapter
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Join us this week to discuss dark mode, always-on displays, Apple Watch features, competition in tech, and analytics & privacy.
Links Apple Watch ECG Health Canada Tweet
Bean There Beta
Apple cracks down on apps that record user screens
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Join us this week to discuss designing UI & icons, public transport, Apple retail, and Spotify's push into podcasting.
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Core Coffee Meetup
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Join us this week to discuss fancy doorbells, the FaceTime bug, public perception of bugs, the importance of critical feedback, and some more about Apple products we're expecting in 2019.
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Things of the Week Kai: Affinity Designer
Malin: Keynote
Zach: Carrot Weather
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Join us this week for Very Good™ follow-up, an update on Malin's meetup talk preparation, MS Office and the Mac App Store, all things Slack, beta software, our thoughts on the state of Xcode, and electric scooters for city transport.
Links GitHub pricing changes
Pentagram's Slack rebranding
Xiaomi M365
Things of the Week Kai: Alfred
Zach: The Frustrated State: How Terrible Tech Policy Is Deterring Digital Australia
Malin: XCUISiriService
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This week we touch on a lot of different topics, starting out with CarPlay followed by talking about critical technologies that sometimes fails us. We then chat about starting meetups, giving technical talks with demos, and our admiration for people who can type flawlessly.
Links Cafe 80
Core Coffee Meetup
Malin's talk at Vanocuver Xcoders
Things of the Week Zach: Stand Atlantic
Kai: Anker 2.4G Wireless Vertical Ergonomic Optical Mouse
Malin: Vessi CityScape
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This week we're talking about Wallabies, AirPower, Apple's entire event and product lineup for 2019, and cultural differences in Europe, North America, and Australia.
Links Wallaby vs Kangaroo
AirPower in production rumor
Cash going extinct in Sweden
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This week Zach is on a mission and Malin and Kai talk about CES, Apple's earnings revision, doing meaningful work, and the future.
Links Samsung TV's with HomeKit & AirPlay 2
Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors
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Our first episode of the year has us talking about using tech products near and in water, ordering food in North America, fitness routines for the New Year, motivation for working on side projects, and discussion around goal setting and themes.
"Picks" Autosleep (Zach)
Filtru Coffee (Kai)
Geisha beans (Malin)
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The holiday season is here and we get nostalgic looking at the year that passed. Each of us talks about our favourite iOS and macOS apps of the year and we give a shout-out to all the hardware tech product that we have enjoyed this year (and in Zach’s case, the last 13 months). To round the episode up, we chat about holiday traditions in different countries and hemispheres.
Happy holidays everyone!
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KeepCup (Zach)
Roundup Logic Pro X (Zach)
ARQ Cloud Backup (Malin)
Streaks (Malin)
holedown (Kai)
Transit (Kai)
Citymapper (Kai)
SpaceXNow (Kai)
Discord (Kai)
Auphonic (Kai)
Figma (Kai)
Duplicacy Beta (Kai)
Dexcom G5 CGM (Zach)
Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB (Zach)
Apple Pencil 1 (Zach)
Bose QC35 II (Zach)
Homescreens Kai
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We discuss volume control with Apple Watch, Pinecast, Vapor and Vapor Cloud, online programming communities, and Things - a to-do app!
Links Pinecast with coupon code r-a618cb for 40% off for 4 months
Vapor
Things
"Picks" Zach: Apple Music Analyser
Kai: Telephone
Malin: Aesir Filters
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App review prompts, Canadian Internet, Kai got a new mouse, and the Apple Watch can finally take ECG readings (if you're in the U.S.).
Our main topics this week are Australia's Assistance and Access Bill 2018 (RIP encryption), and what makes a good meetup community. Come for the talks, stay for the people!
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Assistance and Access Bill 2018 (Australia)
Anker 2.4G Wireless Vertical Ergonomic Optical Mouse
"Picks" SensibleSideButtons
DANII Foundation
Threes
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This week we have a few mini-topics including our attention while listening to podcasts, the English language, accents, and pronunciation, as well as family plan pricing and subscriptions. Our main topic is our podcast setup. We talk about the hardware, software, and everything in between that we use to publish each episode of the show!
MiscMarco’s Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review
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The Accidental Sport Podcast returns, followed by a discussion on search engines and privacy, and analytics in apps. Which search engine should be the default on iOS?
Our main topic this week is Twitter - is every Tweet just a shout into the void?
Finally, join us for our picks – which include some developer tools and trick for developers.
In the post show we discuss Siri Shortcuts and customising Siri with the ability we each want individually, and wrap up by talking about air quality, dust, and bushfires.
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Our main topic this week is all about our data backup solutions. We also learn what an “Instagram Menu” is, discuss tipping culture and sales tax, give an exciting emoji update, and talk about do not disturb and how we think it could be improved as a feature. Our post-show is an hour-long discussion about the first two seasons of NBC’s The Good Place.
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Kai has a number of new computers in front of him, we discuss bad Australian Internet, mobile roaming, take a crash course in cricket pitch curation, test our coffee-identification ability, and finally discuss the all-important topic of productivity on iOS vs. macOS.
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Join us for the final results of our second not-a-draft and discussions about nit-picky iOS 12 and macOS Mojave observations, TV shows, iMac purchase decision making, and our new “The Stuff We Like List Thing” segment.
Misc“Hide” FaceTime notification during call killall -kill FaceTimeNotificationCenterService in Terminal
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Join us for a discussion about Apple's October special event.
New computers, product marketing vs engineering, Lana Del Rey, swearing on stage, and the all-important result of the draft-not-a-draft!
Prediction Results Table
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Join us this week for our predictions ahead of the 2018 Apple October Special Event.
Our Predictions Table
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This week we talk about cloud storage, Google’s “Made By Google 2018” event, Elon Musk, and some podcast housekeeping.
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Topic ReferencespCloud signup
Made By Google 2018
Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan
The List (retired)Final order
This week we talk about our social media habits, and go in-depth on Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12.
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Re-OrderedThe List
Some of us updated to macOS Mojave, Kai’s got a working Apple Watch Series 4, and we talk for a while about “Marzipan” (or project sneak-peak) apps and the future of software on the Mac.
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OrderedThe List
We’ve all taken delivery of a new Apple Watch, so we discuss that for a while, followed by the first impressions of iPhone XS.
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OrderedThe List
Apple Special Event (September 12, 2018) post-event discussion.
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OrderedThe List
Join us ahead of the 2018 September Apple Special Event for our predictions about all things iPhone, Apple Watch, and maybe some other things.
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OrderedThe List
Invites have been sent out for the Apple Event on 12th September (or the 13th if you live on the other side of the world). Join us to discuss the leaked pictures of the iPhone XS and Apple Watch Series 4.
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The ListAdditionsMalin: Procreate (App Store)
Kai: Astro (App Store)
Zach: Pocket Weather (Shiftyjelly)
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Join us this week to talk about Apple hardware and software delays, a Mastodon 101, and our podcast listening habits.
The ListAdditionsMalin: One Button Travel (App Store)
Kai: Soulver (App Store)
Zach: Thunderly (App Store)
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This week begins with some follow-up about Zach’s talk at Cocoaheads. Minimal homework was also completed as we tried Twist and Microsoft Teams. Zach is horrified to learn that Kai and Malin store git repositories in online sync systems, and we speculate about when Apple might announce the next iPhone(s). The main topic this week is Twitter alternatives - the things we’ve tried, and the things we like. As always, we wrap up by adding another three apps to our list.
The ListAdditionsMalin: Time There (App Store)
Kai: holedown (App Store)
Zach: Notability (App Store)
OrderedThe List
This week's extremely short show begins with Zach having realised it's likely that the iPhone will again grow in 2018, and then we move into an exploration of different podcast clients. Our main topics this week are talking at meetups and conferences, followed by a discussion about the Twitter API changes and what this means for the Twitter community.
We've got a few mini-topics this week - an emoji update, a story about f.lux, and Google Docs autocorrect. We've got two main topics: our expectations for Apple's September event, followed by a discussion about the removal of the App Store affiliate program. We end by discussing three apps and their place on our app list.
Kai has finally installed the iOS 12 beta, the new MacBook Pros no longer throttles under load, Atlassian and Slack are sitting in a tree, and apparantly Kai likes lists.
This week we talk about everything from buying a new Mac, to what cloud storage to use, a whole bunch about emoji, Apple Watch move streaks, and finally MacBook Pro thermal throttling.
Join us this week to talk about the newly announced 2018 update to the MacBook Pro line, as well as discussion about the 10th anniversary of the App Store.
Today's main "So" is Home Automation. Zach just got some Phillips Hue bulbs, but Malin and Kai are already home automation experts. A brief detour is taken to discuss the Australian launch of Amazon Prime, followed by a comparison of smart home speakers and assistants. Kai and Malin then share their exciting Saturday night plan to revive a Mac mini. Your hosts are all on the Siri Shortcuts app beta, so they take a moment to discuss this and the future of Siri.
This is the first episode of So Cast. We're in the Apple Podcast Studio at WWDC 2018 and talk about podcasting & our WWDC experience.