Accidental Tech Podcast

74: One Of Us Shipped Something

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  • 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.
    • Silver Screen Queens Podcast
  • CGP Grey
  • 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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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa