Core Intuition

Manton and Daniel talk about Pokémon Go and the apparent salvation of Nintendo, appreciate the value of longevity in a brand, and discuss Manton’s soft announcement of Snippets.today. They chat about the challenges of smoothing over first-launch or first-introduction problems with new products and services, and give props to Matt Mullenweg as an empowered defender of the open web.

Manton's home from camping, Daniel's still in Oxford. They talk about the merits of taking a break from coding, catch up on Manton's Kickstarter project status, and consider the value of genuineness in marketing. They continue to compare notes on the latest beta releases, and respectfully disagree about Apple's decision to limit Siri integration with intents.

Daniel skips off to England, while Manton tends to a server meltdown. The pair talk of Manton putting the iOS 10 beta on his iPad, and Daniel laments the eternal lack of ability to install multiple OS on one device. Finally, they discuss the rumored iPhone "7" and the purported removal of its headphone jack.

Daniel and Manton recap the hijinx of recording in hotels during WWDC, compare notes on experiences with Apple's beta software releases, and talk about strategies for using Xcode 7 and 8 in parallel. They also talk more about Manton's coworking space, and the perennial attraction of full-time employment to Daniel.

Manton and Daniel react to the 2016 WWDC keynote. The first part of the recording was lost because of a technical glitch: celebrating Apple Watch performance improvements, and taking in changes to support tabbed windows on macOS. But we talked more about iMessage and Siri extensibility, Continuity improvements, Apple Pay for the web, Apple’s keynote diversity, and more.

App Store improvements, paid ads, subscriptions, app review times., home office and coworking setups, final impressions and game plan for WWDC week socializing and time planning.

Manton and Daniel continue to prepare for WWDC, discuss adventures in nullability annotation, and the impedance mismatch between Swift and ObjC. They share hopes and dreams for Xcode improvements, Watch OS performance, and that this will be a big year for Mac.

Daniel and Manton talk about the question of Swift’s dependence on Objective-C’s dynamism, how it should or will evolve. and their differences in philosophy about Swift and Objective-C. They also take stock of release discipline and managing customer disappointment with an app’s progress. Finally, they talk about the importance, and difficulty of winding down old products.

Manton and Daniel react to Google's I/O keynote, and weigh the threat of Allo to iMessage. They celebrate Apple’s WWDC promotion of 3rd party events, and the increasing speed of App Store reviews. Finally, they reflect on the announced delay in Swift 3's planned ABI stability, and Daniel's sudden FUD about embracing Swift.

Daniel and Manton continue to share notes on their Swift experiences, discuss WordPress's announcement of a new .blog domain, and celebrate the rapidly plummeting App Store review time averages.