13: Animated Kale
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2013
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
- Our theme song by Jonathan Mann -- follow his Song A Day on YouTube, and check out his site if you or your company would like a catchy, fun song. Thanks for the ATP theme song, Jonathan!
- Casey and Marco get deluged with to-do app recommendations.
- The difficulty in getting people to change to a new app, but conversely, the potential success for slightly differentiated apps in an otherwise crowded market.
- Google I/O keynote reactions.
- Localizing apps to different languages.
- The sad state of iTunes Connect.
- Staged rollouts, purchase analytics, beta testing, and the different developer attitudes of Apple and Google.
- Why Google is consistently able to kick Apple's butt in services (and engineering?).
- Google Play Music All Access, Hangouts, and the new Google Maps.
- Apple's Objective-C to Javascript bridge.
- The App Store UI.
Sponsored by:
- An Event Apart: The design conference for people who make websites.
- CocoaConf: A conference for iPhone, iPad, and Mac developers. Use coupon code ATP for 20% off any ticket.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Still booting. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the most interesting podcast ever. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, it's not a podcast yet. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, unless you keep this in the show, |
| 0:09.0 | what you better not do. |
| 0:11.0 | I might put that in some way. |
| 0:13.0 | Please, dear God, no. |
| 0:16.0 | First of all, I want to start this show |
| 0:18.0 | with a story about the theme song. |
| 0:21.0 | Our theme song by Jonathan Mann, |
| 0:24.0 | I spelled the same way as Merlin Mann, |
| 0:26.0 | but with Jonathan in front, instead of Merlin, |
| 0:29.0 | but our theme song, so here's what happened. |
| 0:32.0 | When we started this show, I went to Merlin Mann |
| 0:35.0 | because he made the theme song |
| 0:37.0 | to his Back to Work podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | And I went to Merlin and I said, |
| 0:41.0 | look, I'm looking for for this show that we're doing. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm looking for something that is kind of punchy |
| 0:46.0 | the way those opening chords are to Back to Work. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello. |
| 0:52.0 | Did you mention Beliebson Boopstam? |
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