Accidental Tech Podcast

44: A Plague With Very Minor Effects

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  • What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning? (John Gruber on Lightning)
  • Potential for 5120-wide Retina displays to overcome Thunderbolt bandwidth limits by using "dual-input displays"?
  • John's "quick" tips for TV calibration. (THX TV-calibration app)
  • "Rate This App" dialogs:
    • The Talk Show's excellent discussion.
  • Marco's post.
  • Underscore David Smith on App Store quality standards.
  • How Apple could process "report as inappropriate" at scale.
  • The effects of web popularity on Casey and Marco's respective unpopular apps (Fast Text and Bugshot).
  • 5 Whys exploring why developers use "Rate This App" dialogs.
  • What could Apple do to improve this?
  • App Store discoverability vs. search, and how search could be improved.
  • How much developers should be responsible for their own app marketing, and the uncomfortable reality that many apps just aren't compelling enough to sell well.

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