74: One Of Us Shipped Something
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2014
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Showbot status and pull requests
- Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S
- Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies
- Vindictive but self-defeating defections
- Screen size, small hands, and pants/trousers/jeans/khakis/whatevertheyrecalled.
- 4K Plasma TVs, as pointed out by Awax, which lists for $500K
- Overcast has shipped!
- Planning for server load and timing a release in the App Store
- Why require user accounts, and why not iCloud?
- Why freemium?
- What took so long? Why no streaming? Why does that even matter?
- IRL Talk
- RSSRadio
- ARM SIMD Extensions
- AltiVec
- Features users will hopefully appreciate
- Linking to other independent podcast apps
- Some serious dedication on Hacker News
- Posted after we recorded: Castro's response
- Podcast directory design motivations
- Possible web-hosting on an A7-based Apple TV like at Mac Mini Vault
- After-show:
- John gets Hypercritical about Overcast
- Electric Shadow
- Back to Work
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let me start by saying that I have started work on the showbot title ordering, but it is not done. |
| 0:07.3 | And I apologize for that. |
| 0:08.8 | There was a poll request. Someone sent you the code that during the visit. |
| 0:10.9 | I know. I've only glanced at it, but I'm a little opinionated about how I want it done. |
| 0:17.8 | So I'm going to give it the college try. |
| 0:19.8 | One of us shipped something. |
| 0:21.0 | You're so mean to me. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm going to give it the college try and see if I can do it the way I want to do it. |
| 0:28.0 | And if I can't do it in basically the one time I sit down to do it, |
| 0:32.8 | then I'll take the poll request and walk away. |
| 0:35.1 | About this alternate strategy. |
| 0:36.6 | Accept the poll request and let us use that while you work on your solution. |
| 0:40.0 | Then revert that integration and put in your changements. |
| 0:44.4 | To be honest, that's probably the better approach, but that's all right. |
| 0:49.6 | All right. So nothing really happened this week. |
| 0:51.7 | So let's start with follow up. |
| 0:53.2 | Apparently some stuff we've said of the past has been wrong. |
| 0:55.6 | Really? |
| 0:56.7 | And would let's talk now for a half hour to explain why it was wrong. |
| 1:00.4 | All right. |
| 1:01.3 | John, this first item is I didn't put this first one in there. |
| 1:04.0 | Who put the first item in? |
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