Accidental Tech Podcast

37: A 3,000-Word Digression


Some light Mac Pro waffling and the <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/null-n09014/lot.27.html">red one</a>.
iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode.
Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/">OS X Mavericks review</a>.
Noodling John with random questions.
<a href="http://shinyplasticbag.com/dragondrop/">Dragon Drop</a> and <a href="http://cocoapods.org">Cocoapods</a> don't suck.
The big potential section of the Mavericks review that John omitted.
Choosing high-level and low-level details to include in the review.
Tags and the filesystem.
Publishing the review ebooks, and relative sales between iBooks and Kindle.
Marco's postmortem on his past Kindle efforts. (<a href="http://instagram.com/p/Kjawtqw5Jv">Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat">CueCat</a>)
Mavericks' theme and the Mac's constant battle between power users and ease of use.
Will John keep doing OS X reviews?

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