Stacktrace

Another week full of delicious scoops — expanded macOS authentication using the Apple Watch, WWDC news for developers, more signs of AR headset(s!), Siri shortcuts on the Mac, and much more. Also, how does Rambo get his hands on all this information anyway?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Marathon

Test Drive

Episode with Micael Ilseman

Expanded Apple Watch authentication

Siri Shortcuts and Screen Time coming to the Mac

WWDC 2019 for developers

We’ve got an ice cream truck full of scoops! A huge episode packed full of exclusive reports on iOS 13, how the iPad might be able to act as an external display for the Mac, a new Find my Friends/iPhone app, and the long-awaited breakup of iTunes. Also, a months late review of the Apple Watch Series 4.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Scoop 1: The breakup of iTunes

Scoop 2: iOS 13

Scoop 3: macOS desktop extension feature

Scoop 4: New Find my Friends/iPhone app

UndoManager

John’s Apple Pencil selection prototype

John’s talk about backend-driven UI

Stanford’s iOS course on iTunes U

Ray Wenderlich

Manning

objc.io

Hacking with Swift

NSScreencast

Sean Allen on YouTube

Swift by Sundell Basics

Rambo reverse engineers the Face ID infrared camera, John goes on an open sourcing spree, and the two speculate about what exactly went wrong with AirPower. Also, iOS development beginner mistakes, and another edition of The Rambo Report.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Rambo’s infrared demo

Sweep

Splash

Codextended

CloudKitCodable

Rambo’s article about the AirPower animation

Stacktrace the motion picture

Swift by Sundell episode about app architecture

Rambo’s iOS app architecture name generator

John and Gui are joined by special guest Stephen Hackett to go on an epic journey throughout the many eras of Apple history. What major events and products defined each era, how did they move Apple forward, and how do some of them affect Apple even to this day? Fasten your seatbelt and pump up the volume — let’s go for a ride!

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Stephen on Twitter

Connected

RelayFM

512 Pixels

The “West of Eden” book

Stephen’s Lisa article on MacStories

“No step 3” iMac ad, with Jeff Goldblum

Stephen’s book: “Aqua and Bondi”

Stephen’s Aqua Screenshot Library

Steve Jobs’ Aqua introduction

512 Pixels membership newsletter

John and Gui are joined by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, to analyze this week’s Apple event, and to speculate about what both the revealed and yet unrevealed products may tell us about Apple’s future direction. That, and the results of last week’s poker episode, and a special appearance by… a chicken?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Mark on Twitter

Mark’s writing for Bloomberg

Is AirPower Out Yet?

App Builders conference

Our poker scorecard

Pitch your game to Apple Arcade

It’s poker time! While Apple seems to be going all-in on shipping new products this week, it’s once again time for John and Gui to place their bets as to what Apple might have in store for their 25th of March media event. That, and a bit of time traveling back to the year 2000.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Upgrade episode with Colleen Novielli

Accidental Tech Podcast with Phil Schiller

Swift by Sundell episode with Ted Kremenek

9to5Mac Happy Hour episode about Apple vs Spotify

Poker scorecard

It’s time for some new, alternative, avenues of spelunking — including Apple’s career website, and… Rambo’s digital life? Also, how Swift compares to Node.js for server-side development, what a “UIKit for AR” could look like, and some brief speculation about Apple’s upcoming media event.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

YouTube video about generating videos with AI

Node.js

Vapor

SwiftNIO

John’s open source projects

WWDC app

Conferences.digital

Apple’s 3D UI Frameworks Engineer job posting

Apple’s Developer Tools UI Engineer job posting

Rambo’s iOS 12.2 beta findings

Apple’s privacy tools

Marathon

After a brief discussion around static site generation and hardware hacking, John and Gui dive into some exclusive new spelunking findings from WebKit and the latest iOS 12.2 beta. Also, AR and how Microsoft’s approach with HoloLens might differ from Apple’s possible AR strategies, and more Marzipan.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Jekyll

John’s iPad text selection prototype

Microsoft HoloLens 2

ARKit

Steve Troughton-Smith’s Marzipan blog post

Continuing on the topic of iOS 13 — will the iPad use a new home screen UI, rather than good old SpringBoard, and what could that look like? How could improved keyboard APIs for 3rd party apps make the iPad even more capable, and will the future of computing involve devices with foldable screens?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Swift by Sundell with Ted Kremenek from Apple

Final Fantasy VII

UIKeyCommand

John’s iPad keyboard controls hack

Samsung Galaxy Fold

Huawei Mate X

Apple’s DeviceCheck API

Anastasiia Vixentael’s security talks

John and Gui dive into the latest rumors about new Mac hardware and iOS 13. How might the design of the iPad Pro influence future MacBooks, how would a system-wide Dark Mode work on iOS, and what are our updated expectations for Project Marzipan? Also — iPhone XR review, marketing for indies, and much more.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Soor

Rambo’s email

Vesper, Adieu - Daring Fireball

Halide

Swift by Sundell episode with Ben Sandofsky

Ming-Chi Kuo’s latest report

9to5Mac’s concept renders for a 16 inch MacBook Pro

Gurman’s report about combining iOS and Mac apps

iA Writer

Rambo’s article about using asset catalogs for theming