This week we discuss the recent WeAreWearables Meetup at MaRS Discovery District, which had panel discussions on the Apple Watch launch and experiences of early app developers. We discuss interacting with the watch, apps, activity. We speculate about Siri, Cortana and Google Now API access. Using Apple Watch buttons, force touch and the Digital Crown. We also talk about Craig Hockenberry's angry post on discoveryd.

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Episode 38 Show Notes:

Apple releases guidelines for creating third-party Apple Watch bands
Band Design Guidelines for Apple Watch (PDF)
Apple preps in-store stock & pickup option
WeAreWearables.com
Raju Mudhar
Nicole Bogart
Patrick O'Rourke
Daniel Bader
Randi Bergman
Tom Emrich
iOS 9: Siri Extensions - Chris Wagner
My Biggest WatchKit Mistake - Part 1
My Biggest WatchKit Mistake - Part 2
Brian Gilham
Natasha the Robot
Phillipe Casorla
DiscoveryD Clusterf*ck
iconfactory
Should you get a stylus for your Apple Watch?
Blockly
Rebus
Briana Wu on Patreon

Episode 38 Picks:

Star Wars X-Wing for Mac
28 Apple Watch tips and tricks
Linkitz

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This week Aaron and Tim discuss their first impressions of using the watch; quality of design and construction, durability, third party app performance and satisfaction. Also items that developers should consider. We discuss Apple's ability to sell the world on a new product with hinging on specifications.

Episode 37 Notes:

First Day in the Life of an Apple Watch User - Jerica Thraux
TreadDesk.com
We Destroyed the Apple Watch
MLB At Bat
Lose It!
Twitterific 5
Overcast: Podcast Player
Globe and Mail app
Consumer Reports runs Apple Watch through scientific torture test
Apple Watch Stand on Thingiverse
NSCoderTO Meetup
Greg Heo
Brian Gilham
Mark Pavlidis
Freshbooks

Episode 37 Picks:

Apple Watch
Noodles!

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This week we discuss Apple's new fixation with lotteries, the latest being a lottery for developers to receive Apple Watches early. We discuss WatchAware.com that aggregates the approved Watch apps that are on the App Store before launch. We discuss Apple Watch band patents and differences in construction. We discuss the new Google Fi cellular service. Our picks this week are Growth.supply and CSUnplugged.

This weeks show was edited and mixed with Logic X. It appears that Final Cut Pro X cannot export a suitable MP3 file without corruption. Please excuse the choppy edits.

Episode 36 Notes:

Apple Patents Watch Bands
The First Apple Watch Apps
Apple Offers Expedited Apple Watch Ordering Lottery
Click - The First Watch Band Adapter for Apple Watch!
Calc - watch app
Meipai
Apple Watch buyers guide
Google Fi Launches
Domain Name Ordering via it-guy.com

Episode 36 Picks:

Growth.supply
CSUnplugged.com
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This week we discuss WWDC 2015 and ticket lottery. Jaime and Tim discuss their experiences at NSNorth at the Chateau Montebello. The team discusses the Apple Watch try on experiences at the Apple Store. We also discuss the new Glide Kickstarter campaign.

Episode 35 Show Notes:

WWDC 2015
NSNorth 2015
Periscope
Slack
Evan Dekhayser
WWDC Student Scholarship
Brian Gilham
Georgia Dow
Jonathan Penn
Ash Linquist
Ashley Nelson-Hornstein
Gord Fontenot
JP Simard
Rob Rix
RWDevCon Inspiration Talk – Contributing by Ryan Nystrom
Vanessa Logan - Sago Sago
iOS Tech Learning Resources Weekly
How to save a Periscope with Quicktime
Be My Eyes
SupportKit
Freshbooks
Offer Up
Glide on Kickstarter
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
Apache Cordova

Episode 35 Picks:
Unclutter
Jump and Shoot Attack
Pitch X

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This week we discuss the 2015 Developer Survey from StackOverflow. We discuss whether Apple's pro hardware and software has stalled. We discuss the flood of reviews with the lifting of the Apple Watch review embargo.

Episode 34 Notes:

2015 Developer Survey
What about “pro” software (e.g. Photos.app replacing Aperture)
Daring Fireball - The Apple Watch
WatchKit Development Tips
Moonbot Studios

Episode 34 Picks:

Collection of UI components curated by Caesar Wirth
GInterfaceDataTable

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This week we continue the discussion on App marketing. We discuss developer burn-out. April Fools marketing. We discuss Ryan Nystrom's post on Visual Tests on Playgrounds. That leads Aaron to ask Tim, why build game apps when they are likely to get buried on the App Store. Tim describes his imaginary web friends. The phenomenal success of the Pi Day Countdown app. (Phenomenal to us!) We talk about our favorite April Fools posts. We examine Periscope as Tim live reviews it, while broadcasting to Periscope. We discuss the Apple TV SDK and the HBO deal with Apple.

Episode 33 Notes:

Comment From Darren Baptiste
AppCode
Reveal
Passia Foster 99 Ways to Get Your App Noticed
ScreenFlow
Charles Perry Niche Market
Smappsoft Youtube Channel
Rob Rix speaking at NSNorth
Samsung Fly-Fi
Under the Influence Marketing Innovations Episode
Visual Tests with Xcode Playgrounds
Pi Day Countdown
Preparing Your App Submission for Apple Watch
Rocket Podcast
Christina Warren
com.Google
MS-DOS for Smart Phones
Overcast
Apptentive
First Apple Watch apps begin hitting the App Store including Things, Sky Guide, Dark Sky, more
MLB At Bat
Uber
Air Canada
the Score
Brian Gilham of Chronicons
the Working Group
Mark Pavlidis
Siphon Coffee
Facebook Pop

Episode 33 Picks:

Creating Animations and Interactions with Physical Models
Periscope

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This week we discuss the challenges of marketing your app from a developer perspective. We touch on Facebook's F8. We debate Instagram's Layout for iOS similarities and app name confusion with Mike Swanson's Layout. We talk about the cross-platform crisis that developing for the Apple Watch introduces to users of the third party iOS developer tools.
Picks: Becoming Steve Jobs, Launcher and Mr Jump

* Sorry I forgot to put my echo shield behind my microphone - Tim

Episode 32 Notes:

App Store Review Guidelines History (diff)
Joe Cieplinski on marketing your app
Release Notes - the Business of iOS and Mac Development
Fantastical 2 for iPhone - Calendar and Reminders
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Mobile Marketing: 99 Ways to Get Your App Noticed - Parisa Foster
PrMac
TACOW
Mark Pavlidis Co-founder of Flixel - YouTube
Apple Developer Relations
Layout by Mike Swanson
F8 2015
Apple Watch and the Cross-Platform Crisis
Creativity, Inc.
More Than Just Code - Episode 10 - I am the one who knocks.
Start With Why – Simon Sineck TED Talk

Episode 32 Picks:

Becoming Steve jobs
Launcher with Notification Widget 
Mr Jump

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This week we follow up on TestFlight Beta and ResearchKit. We discuss our thoughts on use cases for the Apple Watch. Aaron talks about NSNorth and Farely Caesar's Functional Swift talk at TACOW. Jaime picks Video Backgrounds in iOS apps and Tim discusses Mackup.

Episode 31 Notes:

• iTunes TestFlight Beta Testing Takes Off
  
• Apple updates developer guidelines for Medical Research
  
• Darryl Baliss Why I’m Rooting for ResearchKit
  
• Steve Krug - Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition)
  
• Everything you need to know about the Apple Watch
  
• Apple Scotland - iPhone commercial for Siri
  
• Sesame. Your key, reinvented.
  
• Charles Perry @ NSNorth 2014 – Market First Development
  
• Functional Swift - An Introduction
  

Episode 31 Picks:

• NSNorth 2015
  
• Video backgrounds in apps
  
• Keep Mac settings is sync between computers
  

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NB Feed Updated*: This week we follow up on the "software engineer" title and Apple's implementation of TestFlight beta testing. Now that the Watch pricing, new Retina MacBook and ResearchKit has been made public, we review the pricing and new technologies as consumers and developers.
Our Picks: Magisto, Apple Watch sizing guide, ColorSafe and ScreenShot Builder.

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Episode 30 Notes:

iTunes TestFlight Beta Testing Takes Off
How Apple Will Make the Wearable Market
Why The Apple Watch Won't Sell
Watch Apple's Spring Forward event in 11 minutes
Chronicons
QNX Operating Systems
ResearchKit
Thousands Have Already Signed Up for Apple's ResearchKit
GigaOm Was Universally Respected. Too Bad Respect Doesn’t Pay the Bills.
Matthew Ingram
Jim Dalrymple vs Martin McNulty

Episode 30 Picks:

Magisto - Magical Video Editor
Try It On: Apple Watch Sizing Guide
ColorSafe
LaunchKit: Screenshot Builder

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Links:

• iTunes TestFlight Beta Testing Takes Off – Jeff Rames – Medium
• How Apple Will Make the Wearable Market – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Why The Apple Watch Won't Sell
• Start With Why - Simon Sinek TED talk - YouTube
• Watch Apple's Spring Forward event in 11 minutes - The Verge
• QNX operating systems, development tools, and professional services for connected embedded systems
• ResearchKit and CareKit - Apple
• Thousands Have Already Signed Up for Apple's ResearchKit - Bloomberg
• GigaOm shuts down: Why did Om Malik's tech blog run out of money?
• Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) | Twitter
• Jim Dalrymple on Twitter: ". @martinmcnulty Why did you ask me to address the points and then refuse to answer questions?"
• ‎Magisto Video Editor & Maker on the App Store
• Try it On: Apple Watch Sizing Guide
• Color Safe - accessible web color combinations

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This week we welcome Greg Heo as guest-host. We discuss CrossyRoad developers earning $10 million from their app. We follow up on Pebble vs Apple, just before we anticipate the Apple "Spring Forward" announcement on March 9, 2015. Later we discuss the need for a developer code of ethics.

Greg Heo's first podcast appearance, ever!

Jaimes pick:
Objective-C
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString]];

Swift version (?)
UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(.OpenSettingsURLString)

Episode 29 Show Notes:

Crossy Road earns $10 Million
Pebble vs Apple - David and Goliath This Ain't
Unreal Engine 4
Unity 5
Leaked: Apple Watch gets price from $349 to $20,000
Dell 13” XPS
Software Engineer Code of Ethics

Episode 29 Picks:

Monodraw
UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString
MixYourWatch.com
Appcode

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Links:

• They wanted to make a phenomenon. They made $10 million. The story of Crossy Road. | Polygon
• What is Unreal Engine 4
• Products - Unity
• Dell XPS 13 review (2015): To infinity and beyond - Pocket-lint
• inessential: Ethics
• Chris Adamson on Twitter: "So here's this skeevy-looking “Sharepaint Bonjour” iOS app that demands "Apple ID Password" at launch… https://t.co/zr4rvpsdCt"
• Monodraw for macOS — Helftone
• mixyourwatch
• AppCode: Smart Swift/Obj-C IDE for iOS & macOS Development

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