85: The Unexpected Hard Part
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2014
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-Up:
- John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger
- Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI
- Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape)
- iPad resizable-apps video by Steven Troughton-Smith
- Designing Applications
- Continued Follow-Up:
- NFC around the world
- iPhone 6+ scaling
- Bendy iPhones 6
- iPod Touch people
- Marquetry (via @sjsyrek)
- Proprietary eponym
- Jonathan Mann's Harry Potter EP on Kickstarter
- Post-show Follow-Up:
- The Invisible Spreadsheet
- Update on John's review
- Slippery iPhones 6 and cases
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a vocabulary day. |
| 0:02.0 | You'll be quizzed on these at the end of the year. |
| 0:04.4 | We got a lot of follow-up today. |
| 0:07.4 | Joe figure. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm shocked and odd that we have so much follow-up for some reason. |
| 0:12.6 | And just made as well. |
| 0:13.6 | And let me take a wild guess and say that we're going to spend the first 90 minutes of |
| 0:18.7 | the show talking about follow-up. |
| 0:19.7 | No, it's not that long. |
| 0:20.7 | It's not even a page. |
| 0:21.7 | You'll see, it'll be fast. |
| 0:22.7 | You guys don't know how to measure follow-up. |
| 0:24.7 | You just see more than a screen full of text. |
| 0:26.7 | Oh, lots of follow-up. |
| 0:27.7 | These are all two second items. |
| 0:29.8 | All right, well, we should probably start with the most important piece of follow-up that |
| 0:33.6 | we have, which is most of the internet coming to the defense of the load bearing finger. |
| 0:39.9 | That's not even in the notes. |
| 0:41.8 | It is. |
| 0:42.8 | It's not at the top of the follow-up. |
| 0:43.8 | Anyway, go ahead. |
| 0:44.8 | No, it's not. |
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