104: ‘2014 Year in Review’ With Guest Rene Ritchie

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🗓️ 26 December 2014

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a special Apple 2014 year-in-review episode. Just a few of the many topics covered: Apple’s Beats acquisition; WWDC 2014 in hindsight; an aside speculating on the alternate universe where Google acquired WebOS instead of Android; the similarities between the “projected UI” nature of AirPlay, CarPlay, and WatchKit; UI fonts (Helvetica Neue in Yosemite, Apple Sans, and the Watch’s San Francisco (a.k.a. “DINvetica”)); Apple’s growing ability to design and bring to market its own hardware internals and components; recent controversies and confusing rejections at the App Store (and the need for a public-facing App Store ombudsman); and what we’re looking forward to in 2015.

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0:00.0	So where to start?
0:01.0	Let's talk about it.
0:02.0	Renee Richie, let's talk Year in Review.
0:04.6	Yes.
0:05.6	Where better to start than January?
0:08.5	It was a quiet beginning of the year.
0:10.3	It was so quiet that people were again pounding the doom drum and said, Apple wasn't doing
0:13.8	anything anymore.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:16.3	And maybe even before we get into details like January, maybe just take that and use it,
0:22.4	to me, the Year in Review as a whole, with zoom out, big level, what are we going to look
0:27.0	back on this year?
0:29.0	I would say that this was the year where that sense, that Apple can't do it anymore since
0:37.4	got rubbed away slowly but surely over the course of the year.
0:41.4	I agree.
0:42.4	I think it built up too.
0:43.4	I think it reached a crescendo because people kept making a big deal of Tim Cook saying
0:46.7	we'd be releasing new product categories throughout the year.
0:50.4	And then as a month's ticked on, they seem to get more and more personally angry with
0:54.2	him.
0:55.2	Yeah.
0:56.2	I think so too.
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