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Build and Analyze

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

Latest Episodes:

48: Zero Inputs Oct 24, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss the MacBook Pro update, what an Apple television might be like, VoiceOver considerations and testing for your apps, power switches on computers, and encouraging words from Hacker News.

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Sponsored by Squarespace and TinyLetter.

47: Some Kind of Meat Oct 17, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss the stress of Instapaper 4.0's release, the Cingleton conference in Montreal, Google Dart, the iPhone 4S, and iOS 5's "Cleaning..." behavior.

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Sponsored by Sourcebits, Handelabra Studio, and Shopify.

46: The Edge Is Not Purple Oct 10, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss Steve Jobs and Apple's future, the iPhone 4S and hardware tradeoffs, how awesome smartphone cameras have transformed how we use and buy cameras, the possibility of a Siri API, and the difficulty in finding good beta testers.

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Sponsored by Rackspace and easyDNS.

45: Bevel in the Bezel Oct 03, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss developing for the old and new Kindles, HTC's security vulnerability and Android's problems deploying updates, iOS 5's behavior with apps' Documents and Caches directories, the sound of judgment, and how vagaries in App Review rules ultimately hurt customers.

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Sponsored by Squarespace and MailChimp.

44: Customers As Body Parts Sep 26, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss the TextMate 2 announcement, second-system syndrome and architecture astronauts, knowing the business you're really in, hot laptops, and the iOS 5 GM rumors.

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Sponsored by Sourcebits and Sifter.

43: Mythical Metro Sep 19, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss the Netflix/Qwickster split and then devote the rest of the episode to Windows 8 and Metro: how the desktop, iOS, Android, and Metro interfaces scale to accommodate more features over time, the shortcomings of gesture-based touch interfaces, Metro's adoption challenges among customers and developers, and Microsoft's possible return to their effective strategies from the 1990s.

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Sponsored by HelpSpot and Rackspace.

42: Podcast@2x.png Sep 12, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss management and backups of large MySQL databases, tradeoffs with Amazon S3 and EC2, Xcode's Distributed Builds, the latest iPhone rumors, sports teams, bumper stickers, theme music, and why Dave Matthews Band isn't a jam band.

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Sponsored by Campaign Monitor , Shopify, and Stack Overflow.

41: A Box Full of Dreams and Emptiness Sep 06, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss TechCrunch (sorry), the Kindle Tablet's prospects for developers and ramifications of forking Android, Second Crack and Dropbox, clipboard history apps, Marco's new (almost-) single-computer setup, Time Machine options, and shipping a Mac Pro with emotional value.

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Sponsored by MailChimp and easyDNS.

40: Not Quite a Siracusian Degree Aug 30, 2011

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Dan and Marco discuss Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO, HP's additional manufacturing run of TouchPads, the theoretical Amazon tablet, returning to the single-computer world when so many others are leaving it, and why it made so much sense to buy the current MacBook Pro mid-cycle.

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Sponsored by Field Notes, Audible, and thoughtbot.

39: TouchPad vs. TextMate vs. BBEdit Aug 22, 2011

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Ryan and Marco discuss HP's discontinuation of webOS and PC hardware, why a $99 TouchPad isn't more compelling, the potential in Windows Phone 7, installing antivirus on your future Windows 8 tablet, the difficulties in changing your text editor of choice, and the results of Marco's experiment switching from TextMate to BBEdit for a week.

Sponsored by FreshBooks, Sourcebits, and Stack Overflow.

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