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The Talk Show With John Gruber

84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2014

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largely behind-the-scenes role in many of the new features for iOS and OS X. The new much-improved WebKit API (which brings third-party apps the faster Nitro JavaScript engine), third-party keyboards, Sharing menu extensions, and Notification Center widgets — all these things are built on XPC. Other topics include Apple TV, Swift, and the apparent happiness not just of third-party developers, but Apple employees, too.

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0:00.0

Boy, it really had our time get my handle on WWDC.

0:04.6

Still two weeks later, it still feels like a lot to digest.

0:09.7

There is a lot.

0:10.7

So there's a lot of technical stuff.

0:12.7

Yeah.

0:13.7

Huge amount of technical stuff.

0:15.2

And then there's the entire sort of cultural change.

0:19.1

Yeah.

0:20.1

Have you watched a lot of sessions in a week's sense or caught up or read the developer

0:27.1

documentation?

0:28.1

Yeah.

0:29.1

I've been observing as much as I can.

0:30.7

Yeah.

0:31.7

Impressive.

0:32.7

I literally don't know where to start.

0:34.9

Well, here's what I would think.

0:36.2

I think I mentioned this.

0:38.0

You know, the whole thing is it got damn blur at what I mentioned on stage on the stage

0:41.2

show, which was the previous episode.

0:43.2

But I think I mentioned this.

0:45.2

But I think it deserves even more attention because I think even more of it than I understood

0:49.4

the day after the keynote.

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