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09 Aug 2014
Apps for iWatch and Apple TV
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the third-party apps that might be feasible on Apple’s unusual devices, the hypothetical iWatch and the Apple TV. Plus: the future of Edge Cases (hint: there is one).
Links:
- Nick Lockwood tweet: “Until now we all agreed these were benefits of Cocoa: * C compatibility * Dynamic dispatch * Nil safety * Duck typing. Now they’re all bad?”
- Cargo-cult typing, or: Objective-C’s default type is id « metablog, by Marcel Weiher
- Remove features for greater power, aka: Swift and Objective-C initializers « metablog, by Marcel Weiher
- Episode 146: A Swift Bias « Core Intuition
- iPod nano (6th Gen/1.54” Multitouch/Clip) 8 GB, 16 GB Specs « iEveryiPod.com
- iPod Nano Watch Project Makes Kickstarter History « Mashable
- Would They Call it iCode? « Edge Cases
Rejected Episode Titles:
- Now You’ve Got an Inch to Play With
- A Little Bit of Text and a Button
- What Can You Do on a Watch?
- What Nanos Do What
- Overcast on My iPod Nano
- Everywhere Else, I Have My Phone
- Groove into a Throbbing, Shagadelic Thing
- The Marble in the Maze
- I Don’t Think I Said Velociraptor
- Also a Hard Sell
- I’m Just Going to Come Out and Say It: Pippin!
- And They Got Their Asses Kicked
- Now You can Play Crappy Games on Your TV
- Siloed in Their Own Apps
- Custom Stuff Is Always Crappy
- That’s Not Quite Stories, That’s Shooting Things
- A Forward-Looking Episode
- Eventually I Just Stopped Swiping
- Those Little Things That Vibrate
- Adding Another Target Isn’t a Big Deal for Them
- More Likely Under the Tim Cook Era
- An App Store Machine Like the iPhone Was
- That Apple Campus Is Coming Pretty Close To
- They Feel More Like a Real Media Company
- The Future of Edge Cases
- While Still Delivering Our Blather to You