Accidental Tech Podcast

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

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episode 16: John, We Don't Play Games


  • Opening theme by Larry King (@laking).
  • The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon/TwUI.
  • The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrappers around old C APIs such as Keychain and Address Book.
    • Springboard #10
    • SMOP
    • Underscore
  • Should Apple add type inference to Objective-C?
  • Haswell Retina MacBook Pro predictions and the possibility of having only the integrated GPU in the 15".
    • gfxCardStatus
    • The only 15" with integrated-only GPU
    • The first unibody 15" with high-res, matte LCD
    • Haswell integrated GPU explained
  • Mac Pro speculation.
    • John on Ad Hoc
    • Larrabee
    • Intel's custom CPU for the first MacBook Air
    • Thunderbolt problems on Xeon boards
    • Marco's Mac Pro post this week
    • Scaling down the Mac Pro/"xMac" challenges
    • Thunderbolt 2
    • Asus' 4K monitor
    • The first 27" iMac's panel economics
  • Major iOS 7 API wishes: better inter-app communication mechanisms, "default app" associations, and periodic background updates.
  • Quick WWDC tips.
    • Casey's WWDC predictions
    • Casey's WWDC tips from last year

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 June 7, 2013  1h43m