Limitless Possibility

Yanik struggles between being himself on Twitter and promoting his own apps.

• FU: Apple Pay Plans to Launch in Canada This Fall - WSJ
• FU: Discover Announces Apple Pay Support Beginning This Fall - Mac Rumors
• FU: Best Buy now accepts Apple Pay, coming to stores 'later this year' | The Verge
• FU: Ben Thompson on Twitter: “Best Buy to support Apple Pay, CurrentC falling apart: http://t.co/7fZFtxjppR (As predicted: http://t.co/V0dMiTlmBM) http://t.co/IxW6oGk9PC”
• FU: Home Depot Aiming to Put Apple Pay in Its 2,000 Stores - Bloomberg Business
• Eos • Coming Soon.
• Eos (@eos_app) | Twitter
• polyphonic room
• polyphonic room (@polyphonicroom) | Twitter

Luc-Olivier and Yanik talk for a really long time about NSNorth and about their Apple Watch impressions.

• FU: Mid-Range 1.2 GHz Retina MacBook CPU Shows Nice Speed Boost Over Low-End Model - Mac Rumors
• FU: An Analysis of Foursquare's Popularity After Removing Check-Ins — Junkyard Sam
• FU: Swarm on the App Store
• FU: Messenger.com
• FU: The Verge: Facebook introduces Hello, an app to replace the Android dialer
• FU: Reddit: Pokemon Rumble World's “Free to Start” paid system might be an excellent new F2P system
• NSNorth 2015
• Apple to Offer Band Only Exchanges for Apple Watch - Mac Rumors
• Apple Watch Waterproof Test
• A Blog to Watch: Apple Watch Review Chapter 1: Setup & First Day Experience
• The website for the Resolve podcast Yanik mentions at the end of the show has seemingly been taken offline.

Yanik and Luc-Olivier talk about the Unbundled App Crisis of 2014.

Luc-Olivier talks about how to deal with a new version of your beloved software.

• FU: David’s tweet about Stagecast
• FU: Ars Technica: Hands-on with the Retina MacBook: One-port wonder
• FU: Tiny Cartridge: Nintendo’s next platform (console?) is the “NX”
• FU: Tiny Cartridge: Nintendo leading development of its phone games
• FU: Try On a Paper Apple Watch — Liss is More
• Apple - OS X - Photos Preview
• Apple releases public beta of OS X 10.10.3 with new Photos app | The Verge
• Panic Blog » Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store
• Six Colors: BBEdit at Max Q
• [ANN] BBEdit 11 Pricing - Google Groups
• Çingleton - Rich Seigel on Vimeo
• iOS 9: Everything We Know | MacRumors
• Apple's iOS 9 to have 'huge' stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions | 9to5Mac

Luc-Olivier & Yanik give their 2 cents about the Apple Spring Forward Event.

• FU: Limitless Possibility #4: Look Ma, No Subs!
• FU: Yanik's JLPT N2 certificate
• FU: Wikipedia: Stagecast Creator
• HBO NOW
• The new MacBook
• ATP #107: We Get the Most Boring Tips
• Federico Viticci's photos of the new MacBook
• Macworld: Lab tested: The Mac Pro Daisy Chain Challenge
• stratechery: Mobile First
• Apple Watch
• Appple Watch Gallery
• John Gruber and Marco Arment discussing their wrist circumference on Twitter
• Daring Fireball: Apple Watch Prelude
• ResearchKit

Yanik talks about his experimenting with game development.

• FU: The developer iTunes connect snafu
• FU: Apple will fight iOS bugs with first-ever iOS Public Betas: 8.3 in March, 9 in summer | 9to5Mac
• FU: Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car | 9to5Mac
• FU: Apple Hairball? Ex-GM CEO Says Building Cars May Not Be Worth It - Bloomberg Business
• FU: Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit | 9to5Mac
• FU: Bloomberg: Apple planning to launch its own car by the year 2020 | 9to5Mac
• Wikipedia: ResEdit
• Wikipedia: QuickTime VR
• Wikipedia: TimeSplitters 2
• cocos2d
• LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
• Lua's official site
• Wikipedia: Lua (programming language)
• Wikipedia: Prototype-based programming
• LÖVE Wiki: Game Distribution
• Useful modules: Donut, lovebird

Special Episode: While Yanik is enjoying Japan, we decided to air a special episode. This week's episode is our second pilot. It was recorded nearly one year ago when Yanik and I were tinkering with the idea of starting our own podcast. Enjoy !

The iMac Yanik bought before starting college back in 2008 dies, and he decides to explore how the role of the personal computer has evolved since then, and considers possible replacements for his iMac.

(Recorded on April 27th, 2014)

• Luc-Olivier's & Yanik's iMac Core 2 Duo 2.66 20-Inch (Early 2008) Specs I did say Mid 2008 but I meant Early 2008. Sorry -L
• iPhone 3G
• iPod Touch (First Gen)
• Yanik's beloved Mac OS 8.5
• Panic's Transmit, and the user guide for Transit 1.0 which is specifically the version mentioned
• Facebook Paper, Reeder (and the Mac beta), Diet Coda
• Yanik's Polyphonic Room
• Tweetbot for Mac and Twitterrific for Mac, the Twitter clients we use I finally switched to Tweetbot for Mac -L
• Editorial
• Pythonista
• For the young whippersnappers: compact discs and the Sony Discman.
• Yanik's MacBook Air Core 2 Duo 1.6? 11-Inch (Late 2010) Specs
• Retina MacBook Air
• The much-loved 12-inch aluminum PowerBook G4
• Luc-Olivier's MacBook Pro with Retina Display Core i7 2.7 15-Inch (Early 2013)
• Luc-Olivier's MacBook Air Core i5 1.7 13-Inch (Mid 2011) Specs
• I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode | Yield Thought
• iPad + Linode, 1 Year Later | Yield Thought
• Xcode on iPad – Cannot find a good link :( I think I was referring to that app http://dringend.cc -L
• Textastic - Text, Code, and Markup Editor with Syntax Highlighting - FTP, SFTP, Dropbox - for iPad

What the hosts are eagerly awaiting in 2015.

Realtime Followup: In this episode, Yanik says the protagonist of Hatoful Boyfriend is a pigeon. This is incorrect, the protagonist of Hatoful Boyfriend is a human girl. We deeply regret this error.

• FU: PlayStation Store Update 1/13
• FU: Asahi Shimbun report on F2P game usage and trends (Japanese)
• FU: Tiny Cartridge: Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Edition is happening
• FU: Stack Overflow: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_decode()
• Apple planning Apple Pay expansion into Canada as soon as March | 9to5Mac
• Latest iOS 8.2 iPhone beta adds Apple Watch Bluetooth support, confirms app | 9to5Mac
• Apple Watch iPhone ‘Companion’ app revealed w/ new Watch features, monograms | 9to5Mac
• Apple - CarPlay
• Apple CarPlay - Wikipedia
• Coming Soon: Android Auto
• Android Auto - Wikipedia
• Open Automotive Alliance
• Open Automotive Alliance - Wikipedia
• Apple CarPlay Demonstrated In A Ferrari FF At The Geneva Motor Show - YouTube
• Mercedes-Benz TV: Apple CarPlay in the new C-Class. - YouTube
• #CES 2015: Parrot RNB6, the most connected in-vehicle infotainment system | Parrot News
• Parrot's new dashboard wants to turn your old clunker into a smartcar | The Verge
• CES 2015: VOLKSWAGEN INTRODUCES ADVANCED GESTURE CONTROL AND NETWORKING FOR A NEW AGE OF MOBILITY
• Chevrolet's 2016 Volt has CarPlay support | The Verge
• Ford's Sync 3 drops Microsoft, but can it fix the connected car? | The Verge
• Ford will let third-party navigation apps run on cars with Sync 3 | The Verge
• Ford’s New Sync 3 – Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know [Video] | TFLCar.com
• Verizon Vehicle turns your old ride into a connected car | The Verge
• Neutral #4: If You See A Cursor, They Blew It
• Tapbots: Tweetbot for iPad
• Limitless Possibility #1: On the iOS 8 Launch
• Wikipedia: Yo-Kai Watch
• Clyde Mandelin's Let's Play of Yo-Kai Watch, live translated into English
• Wikipedia: Yōkai
• Yanik's extensive video game wishlist

How Yanik came to accept free-to-play games and why you should too.

• CrunchyRoll: Hi-sCool! Seha Girls Episode 9: Weapon Enhancement Succeeds at a 50% Rate, but It Sure Feels Like 15% to Me
• Puzzle & Dragons
• Tech in Asia: Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency Deems ‘Kompu Gacha’ Sales a Violation of Law
• Gamasutra: Puzzle & Dragons & Monetization: How Great Game Design Drives GungHo's Global Hit
• Gamasutra: How Puzzle & Dragons Does It
• GDC Vault: P&D Postmortem
• A list of the 135 arcades that closed in Japan in 2014
• CROSSxBEATS (Japanese)
• Phantasy Star Online 2 (Japanese), Arks Layer which does the English translation
• PSO2 Cirnopedia: AC Shop, a list of all the items purchasable with AC on PSO2
• 8-4 Play 12/26/2014: LAST PODCAST (I GAVE YOU MY HEART)
• Monster Strike
• New York Times: ‘Monster Strike’ Gives Former Social Media Giant Mixi a Second Act
• Terra Battle
• GameSpot: Nintendo: Free-to-play is hurting our hardware business
• Kotaku: So What Did You Think Of Bravely Default's Second Half? (SPOILERS)
• The Dallas Morning News: Nintendo tries out real-life price haggling in ‘Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball’ for 3DS
• Tiny Cartridge: Even more customization for your 3DS home menu!
• insert credit: who killed videogames? (a ghost story)

Luc-Olivier talks about the current state of streaming services.

• FU: Yanik buying Mighty Gunvolt on his New 3DS with Suica
• FU: The Verge: Apple Pay now supports the cards that make up 90 percent of credit card purchases in the US
• FU: The Verge: Google Wallet for iOS now supports Touch ID and helps you split the bill
• FU: Keith Rabois w/ Semil Shah, Dissecting Apple Pay
• FU: Luc-Olivier used his iPad to post the last episode
• Taylor Swift removes all her music from Spotify | Daily Mail UK
• On Taylor Swift’s Decision To Remove Her Music from Spotify | Spotify Blog
• $2 Billion and Counting | Spotify Blog
• Spotify Explained | Spotify Artists
• Spotify Royalties | Wikipedia