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Episode 343: iPhone... It's A Good Thing

January 15th, 2022  |  1 hr 21 mins

1password, 2048, apple pay, apple watch, async await, august lock, beatles, blood ox, bondi blue, ckrecord, cloudkit, core data, daytimer, design resources, disney +, distractionless, fetchresultscontroller, flappy bird, get back, hydrox, iphone, ipod, jan 9 2007, jwt, kernel panic, keychain, letterle, mac mini m1, macbook pro m1 pro, magic trackpad, managedobjectcontext, mandalorian, mvvm, newton, nso group, overcast, palm trio, passbook, pda, pegasus, pomdoro, purple, qr code, rene richie, rocket, scott forestall, sf symbols, sourcekit lsp, space grey, spanish inquisition, springboard, sqllite, steve jobs, swarm, swiftui, threes, tim condon, uber, uuid, vaccination, vapor, verify ontario, visual studio code, wallet, waymo, worldle, xcode

We're back for 2022, to follow up on buying a MacBook Pro, and Apple suing NSO Group. Tim and Mark discuss migrating a Core Data app from Objective-C to SwiftUI. We discuss the 15th anniversary of the iPhone announcement, Uber parks its Watch app, and 9 to 5 writes about Watch app abandonment. Introducing Swift for Visual Studio Code. How do Verifiable Vaccination Records with SMART Health Cards Work? Wordle copycat creator apologizes for ripping off the popular free word game. Picks: Swift Playgrounds 4.0, Headfirst SwiftUI, Apple Design Resources (updated), Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone.

Episode 342: What the iPhone Means to Me - Best of MTJC

January 9th, 2022  |  1 hr 25 mins

amazon prime, app store rating, apple music, at&t, blackbox, blade runner, chris lattner, cidia, clean my mac x, dashcode, dropbox, goggle drive, icloud drive, india, iphone, ipod touch, jan 9 2007, llvm, logmein, macbook pro, man from high castle, metacircular evaluator, palm trio, philip k dick, phill schiller, prime photos, rapid weever, rogers, setapp, strombo, top gear, ulysses, wordpress

In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the iPhone announcement at Mac World 2007, here is our 10th anniversary episode.

We were joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We followed up on Learning to Learn, a MacBook Pro saving a life, where Apple products are made and the math behind a 5-star rating. Reorded the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone announcement by Apple. So we asked listeners and friends to tell us what the iPhone has meant to them. We hear from Kim Ahlberg, Justin Stanley, Aaron Douglas, Peter Cook, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jaime Lopez Jr and Rich Turton. We talk about Phil Schiller's press tour on the iPhone early history as well as some recent turnaround in iPhone sales and market growth. We speculate Chris Lattner's move to Tesla. Cloud storage is mentioned. Picks: Kaleidoscope, Hyperdrive USB Hub

Recorded Jan 2017.

Episode 332: Melissa & Ryan Cash

August 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

adam baker, ajay, alto’s adventure, apple arcade, becoming steve jobs, brandon walkin, brian crawford, builtbysnowman, checkmark, circles, daylight, ester huybreghts, filipe, harry nesbitt, iphone, jordan, kid pix, llama, macworld, marketcircle, mastermind toys, mathijs demaeght, matt miller, melissa cash, playroom, pok pok, ryan cash, sarah blakely, shifts, simon, ski safari, snowman, soundtrack, spanx, stanford commencement, the game band, tiny wings, todd baker, toren borrowdale, turtle jacks, unity, zen mode

This week Tim chats with Melissa and Ryan Cash about Pok Pok and Snowman and their Apple Design Award winning apps, Pok Pok Playroom, Alto's Adventure and Alto's Odyssey. We discuss the origins of apps built by Snowman and the genesis of Pok Pok. As a bonus Ryan shares how to prepare an app for Apple Arcade.

Re-edited.

Episode 331: On To Bigger Problems

July 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins

accessibility, air tags, app store optimization, apple arcade, apple store, arc, async await, at&t, bon mot, bondi blue, chemical brothers, cliff notes, completion handler, coreaudiod, ctv news, dark mode, delta variant, digital lounges, docc, don melton, github companion, heat dome, imac m1, iphone, iphone 12, iphone 3g, iphone 4s, khtml, konqueror, large titles, leo laporte, lockdown, look again, lost in space, macbreak, marques brown, mkbhd, monterey, office x, pcalc, powerpc, rene richie, rogers, safari, san francisco, scales & modes, steve jobs, swift package index, swift playgrounds, use your loaf, vaccinated, vancouver, visual codes, webkit, what’s new in swift, widget, will & kate, withcheckcontinuation, wwdc, wwdc viewing guide

We fact check MKBHD, Air Tags, Visual Codes app, and Lavell Crawford. The iPhone shipped 14 years ago and WebKit was released 20 years ago. 100M iPhone 12 were purchased. Wrapping completion handlers into async API. GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer. What's new in SwiftUI. Using SwiftUI’s AsyncImage to render remote images from URLs. What's New in iOS 15 for App Store Optimization. Picks: WWDC21Lounges, WWDC 2021 Viewing Guide, Swift Package Index.

Yes, the episode was renamed.

Episode 325: Live With the Pain

April 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 26 mins

1password, @appstorage, apple card, apple one, apple silicon, apple watch, arkit, astrazenica, charles proxy, clubhouse, collectionview list, credit, dhh, face mask, free-for.dev, goldman sacks, hudson, interac, ios 14.5 beta 6, ipad pro, iphone, jenkins, macbook pro 16, many moons, mashable, mwt, open source, oracle, oscars, oura ring, paul hudson, pfizer, protocols, siri, size classes, steven curtis, studeapp, swiftui, ted lasso, tracking, watch party, webex, wwdc21, xcode, xcode-tips

We're on Clubhouse as MTJC iOS Development and we follow up on our two Clubhouse events. We follow up with 5 iPhone Hacks like unlocking your iPhone with a face mask. The Apple Card doesn’t actually discriminate against women, investigators say. Apple-funded Stanford study concludes Apple Watch can be used to measure frailty. Apple won’t give Siri a female-sounding voice by default anymore. Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore. WWDC21 date has been set and we discuss what we'd like to see. Picks: Free for developers, Xcode tips repo, Updated iOS App Dev Tutorials, Protocol Oriented Programming with Swift 5, CustomStringConvertible, SwiftUI by Tutorials 3rd Edition.

Episode 255: We The Podcast

July 6th, 2019  |  1 hr 5 mins

alan white, amazon echo, azam, azamsharp, barney, bendgate, bill bruford, bindable object, bondi blue, burt janseh, childish gambino, combine, don king, doom, facetime, home pod, hotel california, ibsegueaction, imitation, initwithcoder, ios 13 beta, iphone, jethro tull, jimmy page, joe cieplinski, layoutasneeded, memoji, metalica, mick jagger, mr potato head, mr soul, neil young, ron woods, satisfaction, setneedsdisplay, sir jonny ive, siri, sofa sans, stairway to heaven, state, steve halls, swiftui, talking moose, the last jedi, the rolling stones, verge, we the podcast, weather, xiaomi, yes, yessongs

We follow up on the Talking Moose and Yes. Memoji are in the news as Xiaomi once again follows Apple's lead. This raises Tim's argument that Memoji fights against individuality. iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem. Sir Jony Ive is leaving Apple to form his own design agency — many people weigh in on the impact and Joe Cieplinski calls an audible. We discuss ways to implement SwiftUI in existing applications. SwiftUI on the web may be possible as shown in SwiftWebUI. Picks: Using Combine, Ikea releases free ‘Soffa Sans’ font made of couches, Understanding @State in SwiftUI.

Episode 243: The Dark Side of the Luna

April 20th, 2019  |  1 hr 23 mins

apfs, apple podcasts, apple watch, astrohq, astropad studio, aura pro, boston, castro, cbc spark, cesare rocci, chipotle, cottonbureau, credential stuffing, ctv, datacoup, drag & drop, etch-a-sketch, facebook, fireside, flying buttress, foursquare, game of thrones, gnosticplayers, greg heo, hawaii 5-0, ifixit, intel, ios 13, iphone, jetdrive, jonatan kuehlein, kansas, kerry livgren, luna display, m.2, magnus opus, marquee, matt hogan, megaphone, messenger, mineral rights, norah young, notre dame, nvme, overcast, peace_of_mind, phil earhart, photos app, pocketcasts, podrover, point of no return, porsche, powerbeats pro, prolog, qualcomm, rockman, roundabout, royal ontario museum, safari 13, screen print, sidecar, steve hackett, steve morse, steve walsh, subscriptions, swarm, tedx, teespring, todd mcleland, tom shultz, touch id, transend, truesize, tsmc, volkswagen, wars of the roses, xavier kuehlein

We respond to #askMTJC on podcasts cover art and phones with three back cameras. Apple improves subscriptions to prevent accidental enrollment. Apple and Qualcomm settle multiple claims against each other. A low-end iPhone may be coming in 2020. A hacker has dumped nearly a billion accounts. A new service will let you sell your own data to companies. Facebook Messenger to return to the main app and more. We discuss new features that may come to iOS 13. Apple is planning its own iPad as secondary display like Luna Display. Listening to podcasts on Apple Watch is a sleeper hit. Picks: Photographer takes apart everyday gadgets to reveal their inner workings, How to learn Prolog by watching Game of Thrones. After show: Kansas, the T-shirt saga, Notre Dame and Hawaii.

Episode 205: The Norwegian Moose

July 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 11 mins

be my eyes, beyond meat, braille, brew2you, canadian dollar bills, cbc spark, cheezies, china, core i7, core i9, danny devito, edge walk, flixel, foxcon, gluten free, grand canyon, interac, iphone, john a. macdonald, mac iifx, macbook pro, macintosh display card 8•24 gc, mr spock 5 dollar bill, norwegian maple, plant-based, rhea perlman, safeway, sky walk at eagle point, sugar maple, t2, tinkerbell, twitter, veggie grill, venmo

We answer #askMTJC about Touch Bar tricks and Canadian geography. We fact check on Roger's Centre, Flixel subscriptions and the dots on Canadian Currency. We follow up on the new MacBook Pro keyboard, a fix for the heat based slow downs, as well as, Apple's new T2 chip causing crashing and Twitter's new requirements for developers. You can use the Apple Business Chat to order beer and water to your seat at Citizens Bank Park. NSHipster has a new article on Password Rules. iPhones, Apple Watches and Fibit devices can be hit by incoming US $500B tariffs on China. Picks: ShowSingleTouches on Simulator, LifetimeTracker, MacKiDo/CodeNames/DeveloperCDs. In the After Show we discuss Toronto leads Tech Jobs and Jaime's experience with Beyond Meat.

Episode 200: Auto Bicentennial Selfies

June 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 38 mins

#selector, 360 idev, @objc, acorn 6, action target, airbnb, alderbrook resort, app store connect, apple pay, atlanta, autos, back bay, beoing, bicentennial, cal tech, calderwood pavillion, century 21 world’s fair, cgp grey, charles river, coke, coursera, cruisers, cruze, deliveries app, delta, design talk, disk utility, dringend, ethernet, fatslane ci, freemium, hello internet, hynes, imac pro, indie developer, ipad, iphone, life of a button, mac mini, mac pro, marta, marzipan, network.framework, one if by land. two if by sea., option boot, p.a.t.h., qualities of design, react native, roku, selfies, sparse partition, spockcast, steve jobs 2011, swift, swiftfest, swiftshot, t station, taylor swift, testflight, tim cook, top ten videos, toronto, tresmont, ttc, unicorn pin, union station, wall-e, watchos, we rise, what new in arkit 2

It's our 200th episode and all regular hosts and guest hosts are here. We follow up on the lack of IT sessions at WWDC, the future of self driving cars, a test install of Mojave with your existing home folder. "Does Apple Even Care About the Mac?" is the question asked on Vector. We discuss a proof of concept Xcode for iPad! We touch on the "upgrade pricing" new on the App Store. Tim's annual Top 10 WWDC 2018 Videos is out. Airbnb sunsetting their use of React Native and Marzipanify and iOSMac are brought in by Greg. We talk about our 200 or so episodes. Picks: iOS developer skills matrix, Random numbers in Swift, Swift Diagnostics: #warning and #error.

Episode 149: The First Rule of Purple

June 24th, 2017  |  1 hr 6 mins

accidental empires, arkit, capacitive touch, cocoaconf, computer history museum, core ml, crtc, iphone, mobilenets, mpsnngraph, scott forestall, swift by northwest, unlock

This we follow up in using our pet’s paws on our iOS devices, with help of Jeffery Fulton’s canine pal, [insert name]. Fuad Kamal shares that Canada’s CRTC has ruled that all cell phone’s must be unlocked. Tim follows up on getting a verification code for Apple’s two factor authentication. We discuss Google’s MobileNets which enables adding AI to any app. We discuss highlights of the Computer History Museaum’s live chat with original iPhone engineers and former Apple exec, Scott Forestall who led the teams that shaped iOS up until iOS 7. Picks: CocoaConf ends as Swift by NorthWest debuts, Made with ARKit, YOLO: Core ML versus MPSNNGraph.