Podcasts about functional high ground

After a week off from Priority’s usual topics, Caitie and Max return, ready to cover new ground. Naturally, they revisit a previous topic instead: audience. Caitie recounts how Marco Arment’s article “Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground” unexpectedly garnered massive media coverage (and controversy). We all want our work and our words to reflect on our best intentions. That’s why we polish them, and risk public scrutiny. But what happens when our work reaches an audience we weren't thinking of? Or the audience hears us in a way we hadn't imagined? Max, ever the optimist, points out how quixotic it is to try to dictate who sees our work and how they interpret it. There are no easy solutions, but the news isn't all bad. There are also benefits to capturing and sharing our experiences—whether we've polished them or not.

We discuss Apple’s recent results, why analysts get Apple wrong, the fraught nature of fans, epistemic closure, and whether the iPhone can continue to grow. Links Ben Thompson: Bad Assumptions – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple the Black Swan – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Best – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Smartphone Truths and Samsung’s Inevitable Decline – Stratechery James Allworth: Who Cares if Samsung Copied Apple? – Harvard Business Review (note: due to a website redesign the comments have been lost) Marco Arment: Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground – Marco.org Marco Arment: What It’s Like to be too Popular for a … Continue reading Episode 033 – Apple Fans and the Future

We discuss Apple’s recent results, why analysts get Apple wrong, the fraught nature of fans, epistemic closure, and whether the iPhone can continue to grow. Links Ben Thompson: Bad Assumptions – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple the Black Swan – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Best – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Smartphone Truths and Samsung’s Inevitable Decline – Stratechery James Allworth: Who Cares if Samsung Copied Apple? – Harvard Business Review (note: due to a website redesign the comments have been lost) Marco Arment: Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground – Marco.org Marco Arment: What It’s Like to be too Popular for a … Continue reading Episode 033 – Apple Fans and the Future

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In Episode 75 of The Maccessibility Round Table Podcast, our knights discuss: the new edition of Shelly’s Book, and Marco Arment’s “Functional High Ground” blog post. They end the show with some podcast picks. Knights on this episode: Josh De Lioncourt Darcy Burnard Holly Anderson Eric Troup Briley O’Connor Steve Sawczyn Shelly Brisbin Links For This Episode iOS Access for All From Marco Arment: Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground From Daniel Jalkut: The Functional High Ground From Marco Arment: What It’s Like to be Way too Popular for a Day From John Gruber: Apple and Eras of Flux From Craig Hockenberry: Death By a Thousand Cuts From Glenn Fleishman: The Software and Services Apple Needs to Fix Podcasts mentioned on this episode The Rebound The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 Fashionability Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips For Better Writing Radiolab This Is That from CBC Radio Wiretap with Jonathan Goldstein Analog(ue) Clockwise IRL Talk Just the Tip Ask Me Another from NPR Stuff to Blow Your Mind The Birth, Baby, and Life Podcast Serial The Dudley and Bob Morning show from KLBJ The New York Times Book Review Podcast Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast The Warner Archive Collection Podcast Movies for the Blind The Mark and Linda Podcast The DVD Weekly Podcast Window to the Magic The Round Table is sponsored in part by Draconis Entertainment, developers of high quality audio games for Mac, iOS, and Windows.

Audio File Corrected: This week we discuss the use of Swift in production apps. We each relate our experiences with the interactive and often difficulties working with Xcode and Swift 1.1. We also discuss the reaction to a post by Marco Arment that sparked many developers into voicing an opinion. We discuss our picks; Smash Hit, Piskell, AV Audio Engine and Printrbot Simple Metal 3D printer. During and after the show we briefly discuss Magicavoxel, Aaron's prowess at Crossy Road, Dash and app pricing. Episode 21 Notes: Swift 1.1 Devices not connecting in Xcode Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground Release Notes Podcast Fast Fourier Transform Dash API Docs RayWenderlich.com Episode 21 Picks: Smash Hit Piskel MagicaVoxel AVAudioEngine WWDC 2014 Videos Printrbot

The first time you do anything in a given year, you always want to do your best at that thing. It could be running a mile, brushing your teeth, making a ham sandwich, racing ferrets, or recording a podcast. It doesn't matter. You want to do great, and then push yourself to surpass that great achievement the next time you do that thing. This is how excellence is born. We've put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure to start 2015 off on the right foot, Techdown-wise. And in that endeavor, I'd say that we've definitely succeeded. While it was fun embracing the "Best of 2014" structure for a little while, this week we're back to the "Talking about whatever the hell is on our mind" structure. We're really excited about it, and we know you are too.