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After realising we have little to no plan for this weeks show, we handily remember that we got new MacBooks last week - phew!

We discuss the new 13" MacBook Pro, the rather interesting 1.4Ghz CPU that sits within it and reflect a little on the 12" MacBook.

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We start the show with discussion of random videos online and deep fakes, before getting into the process of rebooting development on an indie app.

Dave Nott's scheduled return to indie development later this year leads us to wondering, what might an ideal indie balance be like, and might full-time, actually be a bad thing?

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Jony Ive is leaving Apple, and we reflect on this from a human point of view - what might it have felt like in his shoes?

Dave Nott is looking forwards to a 16" Macbook Pro, with the latest rumours doing nothing to dissuade him from dreaming big!

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One of us has a leaky roof and a poorly car, the other is getting ready to ship an update to AirSynth, and we both have a good rant about real free trials and upgrade pricing on the App Store.

• AirSynth
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This week, we go all over the map as we discuss how useful we find our Apple Watches, why Apple should make a consumer level monitor, and how Swift UI changes everything we do.

Some fairly big changes are on the horizon for Dave Nott, so we dive into what's going to happen.

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The Mac Pro! Swift UI! iPadOS! This dub dub was absolutely packed full of lots of new things. We unpack these, and their impacts for developers in the Apple eco system.

Meanwhile, Dave Nott went unexpectedly viral with a tweet about ARKit and the Mac Pro...

• Dave Nott's tweet: https://twitter.com/_davenott/status/1136256065090310147
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As it's the last show before WWDC, we talk about some of things we hope to see from the Keynote on Monday.

Join us next week too, as we start to unpack all of the announcements afterwards.

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We begin the show with a trip down memory lane, as Dave Nott does some retro gaming.

Dave Wood takes stock of things, after an incredible week of being featured on 9to5 Mac during the launch of his new app, AirSynth.

• AirSynth landing page
• AirSynth 9to5 Mac article

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Dave Wood gets an app store rejection, and Dave Nott has been busy shaping (and reshaping) the design of his news reader app that's in the works.

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Dave Wood has finished development on his new app AirSynth. We discuss the finishing touches needed to send it to the App Store.

Dave Nott throws a spanner in the works when discussing the payment model - has Dave got the right one?

We discuss the pro's / con's of paid up front v.s. freemium for a small novelty app, automation of App Store screenshots, and motivations for putting a small app into the store.

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