Build and Analyze
Build and Analyze
About the show
A weekly news and discussion show about the world of iPhone, iPad, iOS, and mobile web development. Hosted by Marco Arment & Dan Benjamin.
Episodes
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Episode 105: 105: Service Plans for Cables
November 26th, 2012 | 1 hr 6 mins
On this happy Cyber Monday, Dan and Marco discuss journalists mangling quotes, the decline of upgradeable hardware, how to tell if a price is negotiable, why many publications don't take full advantage of Newsstand, protecting assets inside app bundles, a
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Episode 103: 103: Denial Haircut
November 12th, 2012 | 1 hr 13 mins
Dan and Marco discuss music under podcast ads, TextMate 2, pagination, "low-acid" coffee, baldness, and affiliate-marketing spam.
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Episode 102: 102: My Quotes Are Curly And My Dashes Are Solid
November 5th, 2012 | 1 hr 17 mins
Dan and Marco discuss settings in the Settings app, full-screen modes, text adjustment options in Instapaper and The Magazine, choosing fonts for apps, building a custom CMS versus customizing an existing one, and more.
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Episode 101: 101: Looting Siracusa County
November 2nd, 2012 | 1 hr 39 secs
Dan and Marco discuss "Superstorm" Sandy aftermath, Scott Forstall's forced exit from Apple, the iPad Mini and iPad "4", the Microsoft Surface and Windows RT, Disney's plans for Lucasfilm, and hosting servers in natural-disaster-prone datacenters.
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Episode 99: 99: The Podcast
October 15th, 2012 | 1 hr 30 mins
Dan and Marco discuss Marco's new app, The Magazine.
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Episode 98: 98: It's Part of Me Now
October 8th, 2012 | 1 hr 22 mins
Dan and Marco discuss non-U.S. universities on CVs, which old iOS devices to keep for testing, prototyping new ideas, why Marco's still not using storyboards, ARC, Core Data, or autolayout, and the boom of relevance and activity on App.net.
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Episode 97: 97: Grapefruits Everywhere
October 1st, 2012 | 1 hr 15 mins
Dan and Marco discuss Nests, Mac App Store review times, iOS 6 upgrades, non-Retina support, managing servers for app back-ends, and whether perpetual app maintenance is necessary.
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Episode 95: 95: This Unicorn Doesn't Support NFC
September 20th, 2012 | 1 hr 25 mins
Dan and Marco discuss iOS 6, adding iPhone 5 compatibility, the iPhone 5's name, unreasonable press reactions, Google's J2ObjC compiler, how easy it is to support VoiceOver, and why paid app-review priority upgrades would backfire.
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Episode 91: 91: Quadrants
August 20th, 2012 | 1 hr 25 mins
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.
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Episode 85: 85: Rules of the Road
July 9th, 2012 | 1 hr 38 mins
Dan and Marco discuss corrupt App Store binaries, responding to customer reviews, advertisers paying more than customers, VC-funded startups' road to acquisition, the business culture of condescension and euphemisms, the security of hosting sensitive file
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Episode 81: 81: The Beast Under My Desk
June 12th, 2012 | 1 hr 6 mins
Marco checks in from his hotel room at WWDC to talk with Dan about Apple's new hardware and software announcements.