546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- Marco’s Overcast rewrite
- 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Synology Dynamic DNS
- Alex Mazanov (of SwiftBar fame)’s interesting idea
CNAME
- Marco’s security camera update
- Scrypted
- Eufy
- Cameras with HomeKit Secure Video support
- John’s sailing channel
- B&H is a Ubiquiti retailer
- Some interesting research on memory and caching from Akshay Narayan
- Synology Dynamic DNS
- App Store to require developers to describe API use
- John’s annual post-vacation tradition
- FB12744158
- Face recognition
- When does Photos scan faces?
#askatp:- What are we dropping down to UIKit for? (from Aaron Bushnell)
- What does John think of the α6700? (from David Campbell)
- Why is my experience of social networks so different from what I hear you describe? (from Ben Gunsberger)
- Post-show: [Some] weird things that Casey does
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I do feel really good tonight because earlier today, |
| 0:05.3 | I moved my deployment target |
| 0:08.2 | for my new rewrite of the app from iOS 16 to iOS 17. |
| 0:13.6 | I mean, we all knew you would. |
| 0:14.8 | I know, well, but also, okay, |
| 0:16.9 | part of the rewrite is a new sync protocol |
| 0:20.1 | that is way more efficient, |
| 0:22.2 | both on the client and the server. |
| 0:24.5 | So I thought I should target iOS 16 |
| 0:27.2 | because like 95% or something |
| 0:29.0 | of my users are on iOS 16 and above. |
| 0:30.4 | So I'm like, if I can deploy this to them, |
| 0:32.6 | I can also save a bunch on the server side resource wise |
| 0:35.7 | and dramatically lighten the load on the servers. |
| 0:38.6 | So my thinking was, if I ship this thing |
| 0:41.1 | sometime in this winter, I can ship it to everybody |
| 0:43.8 | and dramatically lighten the load on the servers. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, in the meantime, I made the mistake |
| 0:48.4 | of looking at my numbers for last fall |
| 0:50.4 | of like how quickly did people adopt iOS 17 last fall |
| 0:54.0 | out of my user base, not out of the entire world |
| 0:56.3 | of iPhone users, but just out of my users. |
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