Edge Cases 100: Apps for iWatch and Apple TV

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Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the third-party apps that might be feasible on Apple’s unusual devices, the hypothetical iWatch and the Apple TV. Plus: the future of Edge Cases (hint: there is one).

Links:

• Nick Lockwood tweet: “Until now we all agreed these were benefits of Cocoa: * C compatibility * Dynamic dispatch * Nil safety * Duck typing. Now they’re all bad?”
• Cargo-cult typing, or: Objective-C’s default type is id « metablog, by Marcel Weiher
• Remove features for greater power, aka: Swift and Objective-C initializers « metablog, by Marcel Weiher
• Episode 146: A Swift Bias « Core Intuition
• iPod nano (6th Gen/1.54” Multitouch/Clip) 8 GB, 16 GB Specs « iEveryiPod.com
• iPod Nano Watch Project Makes Kickstarter History « Mashable
• Would They Call it iCode? « Edge Cases

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Now You’ve Got an Inch to Play With
• A Little Bit of Text and a Button
• What Can You Do on a Watch?
• What Nanos Do What
• Overcast on My iPod Nano
• Everywhere Else, I Have My Phone
• Groove into a Throbbing, Shagadelic Thing
• The Marble in the Maze
• I Don’t Think I Said Velociraptor
• Also a Hard Sell
• I’m Just Going to Come Out and Say It: Pippin!
• And They Got Their Asses Kicked
• Now You can Play Crappy Games on Your TV
• Siloed in Their Own Apps
• Custom Stuff Is Always Crappy
• That’s Not Quite Stories, That’s Shooting Things
• A Forward-Looking Episode
• Eventually I Just Stopped Swiping
• Those Little Things That Vibrate
• Adding Another Target Isn’t a Big Deal for Them
• More Likely Under the Tim Cook Era
• An App Store Machine Like the iPhone Was
• That Apple Campus Is Coming Pretty Close To
• They Feel More Like a Real Media Company
• The Future of Edge Cases
• While Still Delivering Our Blather to You