Build and Analyze show

Build and Analyze

Summary: A weekly news and discussion show about the world of iPhone, iPad, iOS, and mobile web development. Hosted by Marco Arment & Dan Benjamin.

Podcasts:

 Build and Analyze 91: Quadrants | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:25:58

Dan and Marco discuss Twitter's controversial API-policy changes, why they want (and need) to enforce them, their incentives and motivations, why this is different from the App Store, decentralized solutions, and worms.

 Build and Analyze 90: This Person Isn't Really Here | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:19:03

Dan and Marco discuss Sublime Text 2, TextMate 2's open-sourcing, App.net's funding and why Kickstarter-like campaigns can get a huge boost of funding at the end, the difficulty of having good presences on multiple social services and the effects of cross-posting, and allocating time for unpopular apps.

 Build and Analyze 84: California Knife in Your Back | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:39:59

Dan and Marco discuss keyboard-screen imprinting, Google's odd TV ball, Sirius and Pulsar, the difference between copyright and patent infringement, Instapaper's price-change results, the iPad 1 installed base, the Nexus 7, Apple's Podcasts app, why Apple probably won't offer paid podcasts, Facebook's native iOS app and why web companies need to treat mobile apps as a first-class platform, Twitter's ominous threat to client developers, and Tumblr's pinned posts.

 Build and Analyze 83: Microsoft Countertop | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:54:46

Dan and Marco discuss cable TV, HBO, and piracy, challenges that Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface will face with developer and enterprise adoption, why other Retina Mac models may take longer than we expect, the case for Instapaper offering a "mobilizer", and Marco's diversification and innovation strategy.

 Build and Analyze 82: This Microphone's Getting Heavy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:13:06

Dan and Marco discuss the results of the Starbucks promotion, why it's different from making a free version of the app, Instapaper's price experiment, originality in customer-submitted ideas, the costs of filing and enforcing patents, and Marco's new-old Mac Pro.

 Build and Analyze 81: The Beast Under My Desk | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:06:22

Marco checks in from his hotel room at WWDC to talk with Dan about Apple's new hardware and software announcements.

 Build and Analyze 80: Please, Go to Starbucks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:25:52

In this truly big week, Dan and Marco discuss Instapaper's ad on Howard Stern, the Android app launch, the Starbucks App Of The Week, background location updates with geofencing, and conservative predictions about the TBA sessions at WWDC.

 Build and Analyze 79: Get Away From The Edge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:40:12

Dan and Marco discuss Twitter's neglected desktop and iPad apps, Flattr followup and Instacast's rejection for integrating it in-app, Zynga, personal standards and dignity, originality, getting stuck on hard problems, types of web hosting, tips for self-managed servers, and basics of web scaling.

 Build and Analyze 78: The Opposite of Instapaper | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:19:05

Dan and Marco discuss Flattr, API versioning, web frameworks, and Marco's formerly secret App Store experiment: a brand new app that's nothing like Instapaper.

 Build and Analyze 77: I Had A Baby, You Launched An App | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:09:08

Dan and Marco discuss the new 5by5 Radio app, why Apple may not want to add paid upgrades to the App Store, the infinite market for podcast clients and to-do apps, Instacast's in-app-purchase backlash, how and why to remove features from an app, the new 15" MacBook Pro rumors, Thunderbolt's likely overshadowing by USB 3, and near-future concerns for a Retina laptop.

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