A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
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Episode 14: 14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's GUI history, complain about TiVo some more, then explore the possibility of another Copland-like crisis looming in Apple's future. What will replace Objective-C and Cocoa? What can?
Links for this episode:
- John Gruber at Webstock '11 - The Gap Theory of UI Design
- Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters - Ars Technica
- TiVo survey hints at multiroom companion box, four-tuner DVR in the future - Engadget
- Avoiding Copland 2010
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 2
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 3
- Copland 2010 revisited: Apple's language and API future
- Copland - Wikipedia
- The Guru - Flickr
- The "haggling over the price" joke
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