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Simple Beep
By Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusTechnology
Simple Beep episodes
- e90 – The iPod at 20
We're celebrating another major milestone in Apple history: the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the iPod. We cover its incredibly rapid development, its worldwide popularity, and the fact that we still carry widescreen iPods with touch controls today.
e90 – The iPod at 20Simple BeepDownloadDevelopment- The History of iTunes, part 1 and part 2
- development timeline tweet
- Tony Fadell interview at Computer History Museum
- physical design
- styrofoam model
- BeoCom 6000 phone
- Braun T3 pocket radio
- technology
- Toshiba 1.8" hard drives
- FireWire
- the "digital hub"
- Pixo operating system
- the name
- Vinnie Chieco
- Wikipedia articles with lowercase first letter
Launch- Town Hall event
- 1,000 songs in your pocket
- “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”
Legacy- multiple generations
- modding: r/iPod, DankPods
- iPod nano reveal
- the dock connector will not die
- iPod touch
- upgrade fees
- 1st generation ad remastered from Nick Haley's original version
- "iPod's Dirty Secret"
- a widescreen iPod with touch controls
- iPod phone prototype
- Apple's favorite musicians: The Beatles, U2
- Primephonic acquisition
1 hr 26 min - e89 – Mac OS X at 20
We're back with a special episode to mark the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X. We remember what it was like to enter the lickable world of Aqua, leave behind our Classic apps, and grow with macOS over two decades.
If you want to keep listening to Brian and Ed, check out their current podcast, One More Thing!
e89 – Mac OS X at 20Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadPre-release- e81 – The NeXT Transition
- Mac OS X Server
- Developer Preview 1
- Developer Preview 3
- the infamous menu Apple
- the also infamous single-application mode
- Public Beta
- Music Player
- Audion face
- Sketch
- HTMLEdit
- Bomb.app
New features- Darwin
- is OS X still part of iOS?
- Terminal
- Aqua
- Stephen Hackett's screenshot library
- the Dock
- 10.1 demo video
Missing features- app support: Cocoa, Carbon, and Classic
- the System Folder
- ResEdit
Later additions- 🧭 Safari (10.2)
- 💬 iChat / Messages (10.2)
- 🔨 Xcode (10.3)
- 🌌 Time Machine (10.5)
- ☂️ MobileMe Backup
- 📲 Mac App Store (10.6.6)
- 😁 Emoji (10.7)
- 🛎 APFS (10.13)
1 hr 45 min - e88 – The iPad at 10
In our final regular episode, we celebrate a great milestone: the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the iPad.
e88 – The iPad at 10Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- General Magic site still live (thanks, @cabel!)
- breaking news being desktop-published
- Fetch
Before the iPad- Multi-touch
- our iPhone at 10 episode
- Apple v. Samsung
- Steve's "design brief"
- Debug 41: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad
The Keynote- videos
- on Apple Archive
never mind- on YouTube
- Stephen Hackett watches the keynote
- "Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it."
- Le Corbusier armchair
- iPad 2: The Chair
- It's Road Trip
- iBooks
- Kindle 2
- Delicious Library
- $1,000 rumors
- the name is fine, guys.
- iPad name draws feminine hygiene jokes
- Public doesn't cotton to iPad name
- iPad Morphs From MADtv Sketch To Apple Device
Original iPad and Beyond- A-series chips
- Mike Matas' interface design
- accessories
- Apple iPad Case
- Keyboard Dock
- Camera Connection Kit
- 3rd generation: "Resolutionary."
- ""iPad (2017)""
- iPad-focused podcasts
- Canvas
- Adapt
- Chirp developer conference
- Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
- Twittelator
- Twitter for iPad 1.0
- Joe Hewitt's take
- Gruber's review
- Thoughts on Flash
- Flash officially deprecated
- iBooks antitrust case
- Ed receives his first iPad
2 hr - e87 – Desktop Publishing
This episode we cover the desktop publishing revolution, the Apple-led trifecta that kicked it off in the late '80s, and how it's evolved over three decades. For a holiday bonus, Ed talks about how he used a Mac to design and lay out his family's Christmas cards in the '90s. And finally, we wrap up the year with an announcement.
e87 – Desktop PublishingEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Icras DataRover 840 ran Magic Cap
- engadget product page
- user manual PDF
- As the Apple Turns — in reruns!
- early version of "40 in 40"
- Wonderful Tools (2019)
Desktop Publishing Hardware- analog paste up
- The Mac is Not a Typewriter
- PostScript
- Display PostScript
- ~ATM
- list of Apple printers
- LaserWriter
- Scanner
Cue the Imperial March.
Desktop Publishing Software- Aldus PageMaker
- version 1.0 on Macintosh Garden
- 1987 Macworld roundup
- FrameMaker
- QuarkXPress
- on the Mac App Store
- version 1.10 on Macintosh Garden
- version 3.3
- version 4.0
- consumer apps
- Aldus Personal Press
- Publish It! Easy
🎅🏻 Ed's Christmas Cards 🎄1987 – traditional print1994 – ClarisWorks [PT]1997 – color separation2003 – 3D model1 hr 23 min - Icras DataRover 840 ran Magic Cap
- e86 – General Magic
A team of ex-Apple engineers in the early 90s made a product that flopped worse than the Newton but might be the reason we have iPhones today. We look at the little-known history of General Magic and the newly released documentary about the company.
e86 – General MagicEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- "Bungie's Humble Beginnings" video
General Magic- the documentary
- iTunes link
- early Macworld writeup
- Flint Center
- 2019 announcement of demolition
- The Aspen Institute
- folklore.org
- room metaphor
- Glider
- KidDesk
- Microsoft Bob
- first use of cloud
- Sony Magic Link
- Fadell interview at Computer History Museum
1 hr 22 min - e85 – Apple Kremlinology
Apple hardly ever gives away information about upcoming products…unless you believe that there are secret clues in hidden places. We look at what Apple may (or may not) have signaled in event invitations and product codenames over the years.
e85 – Apple KremlinologyEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- QuickTake photos in 2019
- RIP Ambrosia Software
- final WayBack capture
- ambrosia-archive
- EV Override rewrite
Kremlinology- event invitations
- roundups at The Verge and Oak Innovations
- iPod – "Hint: It's not a Mac"
- iPod nano – change pocket
- iPod video – "One more thing…"
- movie store – "It's Showtime"
- Apple TV+ – "It's show time."
- iPhone – Welcome to 2007
- WWDC 2007 – Time Machine
- iPhone SDK Roadmap
- MacBook "in the air"
- WWDC 2008 – double Golden Gate
- unibody MacBook – "The spotlight turns to notebooks."
- WWDC 2009 – iPhone 3G…S!
- iPad – paint splatters
- similar art in Eminem iPod ad
- Retina MacBook Pro
- Retina icon for iPad 3rd gen
- Ed called it.
- Lion – "Back to the Mac."
- iPhone 5 – 12 = 5
- WWDC 2016 – Siri responses
- 2015 – "Hey Siri, give us a hint."
Code names- Apple varieties
- McIntosh
- Cortland – IIGS
- Jonathan – Jonathan computer
- Gala – El Capitan
- Fuji apple / mountain – Sierra
- Lobo apple / mountain? – High Sierra
- Liberty apple / mountain? – Mojave
- Plus Plus – Macintosh SE
- Gizmo – Apple Watch
- Apple's previous watch
- Gizmo Appearance Manager theme
1 hr 14 min - e84 – Apple.com
Apple's online presence has evolved significantly since the days of the early web. From rainbow imagemaps to WebObjects to epic scrolljacking, we tour the technology and content of Apple dot com.
e84 – Apple.comEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Easter eggs
- James Thompson's talk
- Spitfire discovery…
- …and caveat
- the final word on ProDOS
- more mods
- G5 tower desk
- G5-style Cube
- optical drive in a Disk II
- Ed's Apple history quiz
apple.com- Version Museum gallery
- Kevin Fox's screenshot
- HTML tag
- flat redesign
- QuickTime 4
- host of Star Wars Episode I trailer
- history of Apple Trailers
- Apple Online Store
- WebObjects
- WOWODC
- store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore
- archived iPod nano page
- tabbed design
- launch at Macworld Expo
- "Apple Unveils Internet Strategy"
- Steve Jobs micromanages skeuomorphism
- the various iTools
- Michael Darius' iTools gallery
- segmented control tab view redesign
Homepage Takeovers- George Harrison's death
- Steve Jobs' death
- Remembering Steve tribute page
- Bill Campbell
- The Beatles on iTunes
- 30th anniversary of the Mac
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Toronto Raptors' NBA championship
- USWNT World Cup championship
1 hr 24 min - Easter eggs
- e83 – Mac Mods
Brian made a summer project of putting a Mac Mini in a Macintosh Classic and it got us thinking about all kinds of mods people have done with old Apple hardware. Besides the "Classic Mini", we cover Macquariums, unexpected iLamps, weight-bearing cheese graters, and more.
e83 – Mac ModsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- ProDOS
- Mac OS 9 code names
- Moonlight Sonata
- Mac OS 8 color pickers
- Destiny corrections (thanks @siracusa!)
Mac Mods- Brian's Classic Mini
- Raspberry Pi in a Classic
- 8-inch LCD panel
- 3D printing to the rescue
- retr0bright
- off-the-shelf alternative
- Halo campaign mode
- Deus Ex in Wineskin
- 🐠 Macquariums
- coined by Andy Ihnatko
- 😱 two Studio Displays
- 🌱 planters
- 📫 mailbox G3 and mailbox G4
- 🐈 cat bed
- 🐕 dog bed
- 🤧 Cube tissue box
- 💡 iMac G4 lamp
- 🧀 cheese grater mods
- patio and office furniture
- bbq grill
- Mac in a Commodore
- MacBook in a tiny cheese grater
- iBoy
- Cube Mini
1 hr 17 min - e82 – Pro
The announcement of the 2019 Mac Pro got us thinking about what Apple has called "Pro" in the past. That includes incredibly expensive hard drives, printers with RAM slots, an OS patch release, and even its employees!
e82 – ProEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Taligent screenshots
- General Magic preorder
- Voice Control (e38)
- new New York (e71)
- old New York on our shirts
- Ed's Mac Pro pricing article
Pro Hardware- ProFile hard drive
- LaserWriter Pro and StyleWriter Pro
- Pro. Go. Whoa.
- Pro Speakers, Mouse, and Keyboard
- MacBook Pro name hot takes
- Mac Pro 🧀🗑️🧀
- Beats Pro and PowerBeats Pro
- MKBHD on what "Pro" means
Pro Software- QuickTime PRO PRO PRO
- System 7.1.1, aka Pro
- DVD Studio Pro
- Final Cut Pro
- Soundtrack Pro
- ProRes codec
- Logic Pro
- FileMaker Pro
- terrible version history
1 hr 15 min - e81 – The NeXT Transitione81 – The NeXT TransitionSimple BeepDownloadFollow Up
- Dashboard going away in macOS 10.15
- Dashboard widget gallery
- documentaries
- General Magic screenings
- Before Macintosh kickstarter
Taligent, Copland, and Mac OS 8- Aqua and Bondi book
- Blue and Pink
- Blue Meanies
- Taligent
- Copland
- delays
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron extension
NeXT- NeXTSTEP
- also considered: BeOS
- Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP 3
- NeXTSTEP v. Mac OS X screenshot megathread
- Dock
- DragThing
- Fitt's Law
- Services
- Quick Actions in macOS Mojave
- Grab
- Chess
- Interface Builder
Becoming Mac OS X- Apple code names (Gershwin, Sonata, etc.)
- Rhapsody [WayBack!]
- User Experience Preliminary Design Document
- OPENSTEP
- Developer Preview 2
- Developer Preview 3
- A Very Bad Mail Preferences Window
1 hr 30 min - Dashboard going away in macOS 10.15
About Simple Beep
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A podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community. Hosted by Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius.