Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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703 episodes
Updated July 27

Episodes703

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Jul 25, 2013 · 1 hr 17 min
23: The X Or The X
iSCSI FU, the Developer Center downtime, Logic X and App Store upgrade pricing, iOS developers acting like the RIAA, and the effects of falling prices for apps and games.
Jul 18, 2013 · 1 hr 32 min
22: Full Brichter
Bugshot, its omitted and future features, and exploring NAS options: Synology vs. homebrew, NAS backup considerations, and hoarding terabytes of Apple videos.
Jul 12, 2013 · 1 hr 33 min
21: The Transitive Property of Nerdiness
iWatch as identity, Bluetooth Low Energy and Siri in a watch, how regular people use iOS devices, iCloud and the Dropbox Datastore API, and targeting nerds.
Jul 5, 2013 · 1 hr 15 min
20: A Box and a Strap
Smartwatch hardware considerations, free-to-play, practice coding, and our Google Reader replacements.
Jun 27, 2013 · 1 hr 28 min
19: Designed by App in Cal
The WWDC intro video, Apple's California pride, whether developers should require iOS 7, the new Calendar UI, and cool vs. usable designs.
Jun 20, 2013 · 1 hr 14 min
18: Aluminum-Colored Aluminum
Casey's fans at WWDC, Mac Pro followup, Xbox 180, revisiting larger-screen iPhones, predicting iOS 7 adoption, and pushing the boundaries of graphic design.
Jun 11, 2013 · 1 hr 12 min
17: Can’t Innovate Anymore
Special early WWDC-week episode: Reactions to the keynote, new Mac Pro, and iOS 7.
Jun 7, 2013 · 1 hr 43 min
16: John, We Don’t Play Games
Modernizing AppKit, wrapping old C APIs, type inference, Haswell and 15\" Retina GPUs, Mac Pro speculation, WWDC predictions, and iOS 7 wishes.
May 31, 2013 · 1 hr 27 min
15: Cat, Modifier Cat
Why Marco sold The Magazine, teasing apps before launch, Tim Cook at AllThingsD, and WWDC predictions for OS X.
May 24, 2013 · 1 hr 32 min
14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars
Money and happiness, Tumblr and Yahoo, the Xbox One, and the messy world of TV-connected boxes.
May 17, 2013 · 1 hr 27 min
13: Animated Kale
Our theme song, too many to-do apps, Google I/O keynote reactions, localization, Google kicking Apple's butt in services, Google Play Music All Access Glass Map Hangouts, and Apple's quietly updated Javascript bridge.
May 10, 2013 · 1 hr 33 min
12: Accidental Server Hardware
Tick-tock in iOS, PHP framework theory, passwordless logins, the Mac Mini's accidental success, the word "podcast", and Apple providing a sync platform for developers.
May 3, 2013 · 1 hr 19 min
11: A Particularly Exuberant Adolescence
The WWDC ticket lottery, why Marco sold Instapaper, future app prospects, developer motivation, and iOS 7 speculation.
Apr 26, 2013 · 1 hr 23 min
10: Gradual Ramp Up To Nothing
Laptops in school, getting tech jobs, mail servers and spam, Steve Jobs' direct commentary, WWDC tickets, going ticketless or watching WWDC videos at home, Cook's hints on the earnings call, bored consumers, and Marco's mom's first smartphone.
Apr 19, 2013 · 1 hr 5 min
9: Fish Bicycle Scenario
The PC-sales downturn, PCs in business, Apple and IT departments, past and future Tablet PCs, and predictions for Microsoft Office for iOS.
Apr 12, 2013 · 1 hr 25 min
8: Hold Me!
Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt, Facebook Home, tech giants maintaining their own OSes, Google forking WebKit, and Panic's Status Board.
Mar 29, 2013 · 1 hr 34 min
7: The Forecast For iCloud
Summly and Yahoo, retaining good tech talent, why iCloud sync doesn't work well, whether it's fixable, and whether you should use it even if it gets fixed.
Mar 22, 2013 · 1 hr 41 min
6: Live Like Other People
Buying a TV, regular people and high-DPI screens, the amazing Mac lineup that we barely care about, revisiting the Microsoft Store, and why Garageband's support of Audiobus is so interesting.
Mar 15, 2013 · 1 hr 25 min
5: Negativity, Skepticism, and Doubt
Google Reader shutting down, the RSS market and client architecture, demand for Google I/O and WWDC tickets, Apple pessimism, and diversifying the iPhone line.
Mar 11, 2013 · 1 hr 18 min
4: The Bridges
The Mac Pro's future, launch and app considerations for a bigger iPhone, Visual Studio's ease of use, the future of Objective C, and migrating a platform's API to a new language.