Under the Radar 25: The Calm Before the Storm
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welcome to under the radar a show about
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independent iOS app development I'm
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Marco Arment mm David Smith under the
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radar is never longer than 30 minutes so
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let's get started so today we wanted to
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talk about kind of what we're calling
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the calm before the storm
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basically what to do and what to work on
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and what not to work on in the few
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months leading up to WB DC because the
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idea here is you know as iOS developers
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or Mac developers know if any of you are
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listening WDC usually includes some kind
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of major changes especially for iOS you
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know some kind of major API changes
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possibly design changes possibly
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business or marketing changes so there's
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always there's always a lot to do in
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response to what's announced at WTC for
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the fall and so the question is like you
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know what you know right now as we
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record this it's late April and you know
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everybody sees in mid June so it's it's
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close enough that like you don't
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necessarily want to get started on some
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kind of big project now right before WTC
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or months before the video you see and
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so the question is kind of like what do
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you do in this quiet time so David what
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do you do usually so I just got finished
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with activity post applause which was
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like my last probably the last new app
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that I launched before WTC and it was
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only launched when it was because 9.3
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was new had this new API this new
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capability like otherwise this time of
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year tends to be a sort of a cleanup
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phase like I wasn't seen about this in
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preparation for the show of kind of what
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my normal year looks like which is
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probably a good place to start in some
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ways we're so in many ways like my
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year starts at WWDC on whatever Monday
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that is like this year it's like June
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13th is essentially like the new like
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developer New Year's where at that point
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we will sort of have the roadmap of what
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to come what's coming what to expect
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what's going to be important for the
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next for the next year until the next
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and like really new years we also might
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that's it's it's true he is from there
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we have a few months of time until
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whatever is announced WC actually gets
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so typically recently this has been in
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June everything's announced in September
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ish late late September early October
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somewhere on there whenever the new
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iPhones come out typically is the sort
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of the window we have to before from
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when the new stuff is announced to when
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the new stuff is available so it's
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usually a pretty busy time for most
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developers because especially if it's
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like a big sweeping change you know it's
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like I think iOS 7 where it's like okay
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all if this new UI stuff needs to be
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done or those types of changes or it's
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like with the watch this like here's an
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watch OS 2 it's going to be coming out
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you have these bay this this very busy
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period essentially over the summer and
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then you get all that out then you are
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at least conceptually for me my goal is
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then to get everything nice and tidy for
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the holidays you know so I want to be
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like it's not as pronounced of a bump as
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it used to be but around you know around
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Christmas there's usually a nice solid
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bump in app downloads and sales and
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things because there's just a lot of
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people getting new devices and you know
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people getting new devices seem to be
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more apt to go and download things so
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you get you want to be sort of after the
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summer sort of intense phase you have
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this cleanup phase sort of running
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through Christmas and then the early
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part of the year when I tend just to
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kind of look at it as it's like it's a
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good opportunity for doing like point
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releases like do we doing these kinds of
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big updates but not like massive change
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you know and not like new apps tepa
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typically it's more just these big
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changes right and then you get into this
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period right around now where I don't
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want to tackle anything that I don't
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think I'm going to finish by June and I
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don't want to really like make new new
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praten like new small things because
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they may just become you know worthless
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or or kind of you know deprecated or all
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these types of things in June and so
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right now it tends to be more kind of a
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cleanup phase for me so I look
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kind of the process I'm going through
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right now as I look through my apps
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which of which there are many and I will
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kind of see like what are the little
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niggling things that I can do and things
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that have been on my to-do list for a
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while that I you know overall would make
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the apps better and these tend to be
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updates that are more quality of life
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updates you know things that are just
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like making the app easier to use or
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better or more stable that kind of thing
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rather than like I'm gonna implement
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this whole new you know radical approach
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to something it's like these are things
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that a lot of them the users won't see
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directly or if they do they'll just
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notice them and things are better rather
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than like totally different but for me
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that's kind of this cycle and what a
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year looks like and so now is this kind
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of fun place where you know I get to
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it's a bit more experimental like I'm
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just going in and doing lots of
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tinkering which is kind of nice I guess
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and it's like nice to kind of to also
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rest a bit before the crazy sprint
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vergis marathon that is June to
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September oh yeah I mean I I'm in pretty
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much complete agreement with everything
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you just said in fact you guys cover
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basically my entire outline for this
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episode in four minutes
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all right but yeah basically like you
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know this this is a great time you know
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as you just mentioned for anything any
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kind of like administrative tasks like
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you clean up especially clean up that is
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not like the code of your app
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necessarily you know administration
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stuff changing like updating your
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website or your marketing structure you
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know some kind like that if you want to
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like make you know make a better side or
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play with certain kinds of advertising
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or whatever else like this is a decent
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time to do that kind of stuff and as you
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said it's also a really good time to
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take vacations or to spend time with
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hobbies or with family or whatever else
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because a lot of people take vacations
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stuff in the summer time but you know as
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we'd because of the schedule that we are
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on a lot of time developers can't take
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vacation or shouldn't take vacation in
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summer time because some are so busy for
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us tackling all the stuff that's gonna
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be in the new version of iOS and so this
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is a great time for all that I mean
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mainly the main thing is what you what
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you don't want to be doing during this
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time ideally unless you really have to
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but if you ideally you don't want to be
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cackling major updates to existing apps
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it's not a terrible time to write new
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apps which we'll get to you know to do
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with given certain parameters but this
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is a this is not a great time to do
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major updates to existing apps because
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in June when when we get that WBC Happy
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New Year Monday and we start and you
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know we see the state of the unions and
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we start seeing some of the new api's
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what we usually find is that the new API
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is that are that are released in June to
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developers and mobile to be released in
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the fall to customers usually they will
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make our jobs easier in some big ways in
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our code and even if even if they wanted
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to make our jobs easier they will at
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least make our jobs different and so
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there's a any any amount of code that
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you write in the months before WDC it's
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kind of a liability that you might need
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that everything you're writing now you
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might need to adapt or rewrite in a few
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months you know and only and it's that
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there's always liability that when
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you're writing code but here the
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timeline is so close that it's kind of
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non-ideal if you can avoid writing tons
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of new code or tons of adjustments to
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your app now that's good this is
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especially true at least it used to be
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especially true if you're writing
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Swift's and Swift is still so young and
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changes so much although at least now
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with the open-source roadmap that that
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should eliminate most of these surprises
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that are coming with Swift and it's
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getting more mature but you know in
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general the ground will shift in June so
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you don't want to build a whole bunch of
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new code on top of the old ground until
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you know what the shift will be and then
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you know maybe you can start taking a
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vanishing api's and it used to be the
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case that a lot of developers really
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couldn't take advantage of the new API
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yet because they just they had to
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support older versions of iOS I think
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over time that that need has has
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diminished somewhat is certainly not
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gone and certainly there are a lot of
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people who still need to support old
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versions of iOS and if you do then
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they're for like you know the some of
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the some of the ground shifting stuff
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might not apply to you yet but I think
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most severely especially most indie
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developers now can get away with
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supporting just the current version of
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iOS and the vast majority of their
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customers in most cases are
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okay with that because adoption rates
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are so good these days so really you
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want to avoid being incompatible or
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causing more work for yourself for the
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new stuff coming in the fall and this
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applies not only to code but also to
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design marketing business because you
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know design wise like there's obviously
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there might be design changes to iOS
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there you know there's been rumors of
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like you know more things related to
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true tone and nightshift so maybe like a
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system-wide dark mode or something like
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that you got to consider that there
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might be designed tweaks to the built-in
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widgets or to just the conventions there
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might be new new styles that are you
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know new navigation controller
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structures like a split view kind of
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thing like you know new stuff like that
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that might come out that might become
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like a new standard thing that people
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expect or want in the next version of
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iOS so it is not like right now is not a
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good time to redesign your UI because
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you don't know what those changes will
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be yet also marketing wise you know
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there's there's considerations of like
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do you want to do any kind of small or
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medium sized releases now and then also
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do like another medium size release in
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the fall or do you want to cluster them
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together and just wait you know hold the
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stuff back now and then in the fall do a
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bigger release and of course there's
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pluses and minuses to that as well it
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was obviously more competition in the
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fall but there's also more people
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looking and there's chances to be
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featured and we'll probably cover that
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at a later date but also just it's worth
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considering that any any assumptions you
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make now about the business of selling
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your app however you're making money
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whatever your structure is for
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collecting money from people or not
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whether you're doing ads whether you're
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doing upgrade payments whatever you're
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doing the business model that you have
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now might need to change once we learn
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what we're going to learn in June you
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know so as you learned David like I add
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is showing down so like if you were if
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you were depending on I add a couple
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months ago well now you have work to do
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in June there might be other changes
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announced there might be changes to the
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App Store there might be new policies or
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maybe what you're doing now won't be
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allowed anymore or maybe it won't work
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and maybe there will be new things that
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we can do new business models that
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become available or possible or more
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practical than they used to be
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so this is all just a way to say like
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you should generally try to avoid any
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kind of major changes to existing apps
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during this time period because you
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might have to change it all again in two
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months yeah and I think there's in
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general it's like a lot of this speaks
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to a more fundamental thing that I know
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is important it like an important thing
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for me to learn in sort of the
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discipline of of app creation was the
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rather than just as it's so easy to do
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like just keep barreling ahead on like
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opening up Xcode every morning and just
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getting in there and writing the codes
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and whatever you think of building is
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trying to instead make sure that you're
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being thoughtful about it and like being
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somewhat disciplined about it because
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when I think about these types of like
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considerations for getting ready for
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June is a lot of what I'm trying to do
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is make sure that I'm setting myself up
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so that on June 14th I am ready to dive
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head headlong into whatever is announced
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and I may or may not like maybe what
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they announce isn't really relevant to
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me or my app or maybe it's just not that
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interesting whatever it is but what I
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want is to make sure that I'm ready to
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do that and like I'm poised and capable
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of doing that like oh but I don't want
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to do is to just like have been
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barreling along doing something that's
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like creating all of these sort of
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responsibilities or commitments debt
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that I'm gonna then have to be
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responsible for in June July and August
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like that's where it would become very
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problematic and so I need to think about
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it I like look you know it's a struggle
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I know for myself that when I used to
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work in a more corporate environment
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there was a certain amount of structure
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imposed on me by like having a manager
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and my manager having a manager and so
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on and we'd have to go through things
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like sprint planning only work out what
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are we going to work on for the next two
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weeks and go through all these exercises
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that in a corporate environment are kind
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of just the way you manage larger teams
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but when you're working for yourself or
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with a very small team that discipline
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has to come from yourself and so you
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have to look at these things and say
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well like I would love to add this
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feature to this app or I'd love to
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implement this new thing
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or do you know whatever it whatever that
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activity is you want to do there's a
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certain amount of actually having to
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look at it and say there's I think 44
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days till WDC like can I get this done
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and then and if I do is that gonna set
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me up to be free and available
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afterwards or is it the kind of thing
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that's like this is this big
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experimental thing that I'm working on
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that I'm gonna release and I'm gonna
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expect to have to do a ton of customer
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support or management of it or like I'm
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creating this thing that's gonna then
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require a lot of my time down the road
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like those types of considerations you
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have well the only person who's going to
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be doing those is like me I can't rely
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on someone else to come in and say this
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is what you need to work on for the next
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month in the run up and so I have to do
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to have that discipline myself to look
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at it and say yeah I think I can get
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this done like the things that I'm
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working on myself are these sort of
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small improvements to all my apps that I
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kind of had these lists of things and
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they're just like these small
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improvements most of them are probably
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like a week's worth of work and oh and
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that all of them are things that I think
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won't require maintenance in June or you
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know sort of a follow up they're very
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self-contained and neat and tidy and
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that's by choice and intention you know
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I'm not really the kind of person I know
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it's like I have a Gantt chart like this
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big organizational thing that I'm like
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okay well I'll do this and this and you
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know this task is dependent on this task
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and so you'd like that's not what I'm
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saying and I don't know some people love
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Gantt charts that's they don't really
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work for me in the way I had to think
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about things but I mean that kind of
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discipline of thinking about it
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consciously and saying like am i
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realistically going to be done with all
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these things so that I'm poised and
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ready when the new stuff and the new
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opportunities appear because ultimately
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that's all this all this comes down to
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is like there's going to be new
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opportunities because they'll be change
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am I going to be in a position to set
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myself up to take advantage of those
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cuz like that's most of what like being
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lucky in a lot of these types of you
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know every nough is where you look at
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subjects like ah man you know it's like
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they really lucked out and that's why
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their business is a success it's like
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maybe or or they were just ready and
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prepared for when the opportunity
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presented itself that they could dive in
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had the head first it's probably more
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that usually some of both
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a little bit of both but you can't do if
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you don't know if though if you don't
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have the one the other ones not gonna
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you can monitor through a basic HTTP
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access of some kind Pingdom can monitor
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that and so this is useful for of course
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making sure your website is up making
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sure your service is up you can also do
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things like monitor for changes so you
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can do things like monitor somebody
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else's website like we mentioned last
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time you can would monitor the WWDC
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website to see when WTC was announced
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each year and that which mattered a lot
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especially back when it was like
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first-come first-serve for tickets and
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so you can monitor any site you want for
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changes you can monitor your own sites
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for uptime and you can also monitor any
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anything that you can represent by like
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a kind of a binary like good or bad
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status so for instance if you have some
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kind of health page or health check for
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your apps your your services you can
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have the health check returned a
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different string and then you can have
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Pingdom search for that string on the
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page so that when things are not just
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debt you know not even down but when
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things are just not I
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deal like one of your servers is running
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low on disk space or something like that
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you can be alerted of that with a
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separate check and you can have
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different alert levels you can say or I
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will if a servers load is spaced email
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me about that but I don't need to be
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like texted or notified with tons of
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alarms about that but if the whole
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website is down set everything on fire
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and let me know like don't do whatever
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it takes to notify me that the website
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is down and there's so many
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customization options with Pingdom it's
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a great service they they're widely used
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now they say they detect around 13
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really do a lot with Pingdom and a lot
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myself for nine years now so check it
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for sponsoring our show once again so I
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wanted to talk a little bit about you
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know I think we both kind of agreed that
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this is a good time for cleanup and
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minor improvements of our apps I want to
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go a little bit more into what that is
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what that means I've been doing a lot of
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this myself with overcast recently in
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the last couple of months I've
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integrated analytics I've integrated
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what used to be called crashlytics and
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is now called fabric located on my
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Twitter that whole thing integrated
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analytics and crash reporting more
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deeply into the app before I was just I
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was for a while using haki then I was
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using Apple's built-in stuff and now
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found fabric to be a good combo for me
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and the main reason why is that I really
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wanted to take this time to improve
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quality and so this is a great time to
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you know minimize crashes to go through
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and fix like little bugs like that just
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little little bugs little annoyances to
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your users anything that causes crashing
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or failures this is a great time to do
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that because like that's the kind of
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stuff that generally like whatever is
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announced that everybody you see is
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probably not going to effect that kind
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of code it's also a good time to pay off
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any kind of low-level technical debt as
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long as it's not a ton of work and you
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know will cost tons of bugs but any kind
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of like you know if you have a technical
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►
debt like in your in your sink or data
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layers this is a good time to pay that
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if you can and and to do like minor
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feature experimentation like if you want
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to tweak like small changes to the app
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not any kind of big overreaching change
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or redesign but if you just want to
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tweak small changes this is a good time
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to do that as well it's also a good time
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to solicit or investigate customer
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feedback about what kinds of things you
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want to be doing this summer so ask your
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existing customers or look at your
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analytics or implement analytics of some
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kind don't be creepy but implement some
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kind of analytics to to say like you
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know what should I be thinking about
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this summer when all this stuff is
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announced what should I have in my
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roadmap feature wise for my app what are
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what are my customers really asking for
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how is the app actually being used and
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►
not being used this is a great time for
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all that stuff it basically everything
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that isn't massive code design or
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business changes this is a great time
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for all those things and so me
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personally I have as I mentioned
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integrated crashlytics and fabric and
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and analytics there and so I've taken
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this time to drop my crash rate to
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nearly zero and through the combination
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of the last few versions plus the
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version that I just submitted this
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morning just a whole bunch of minor
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updates focused on getting the crashes
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reduced as low as I possibly can just
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trying to eliminate like crashlytics
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tells you like a crash free users
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percentage because kind of cool it's
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kind of cool metric and it used to be
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like 99 point something low now at 99.9
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and the new version I have in review now
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should raise that even higher it's just
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►
a very satisfying like kind of technical
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debt payoff period I'm going through
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here we're just like let me just fix as
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much as I possibly can that that I can
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fit in this time span and then it's also
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it's a great time to do any kind of
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experimentation with other things that
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are not your app that are not like the
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code of your app so you know I mentioned
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experimental you know small features or
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small changes but this is actually a
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great time to step away from your iOS
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apps and to look at other kinds of
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larger kinds of experimentation so
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things like learning a new language
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learning a new API is just learning
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something new that will probably not
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►
change dramatically in June so you know
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non-apple platforms things like that and
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also just making new apps on different
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platforms so if you if you want if
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you've wanted for a long time to make an
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android app or a web app maybe arguably
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even a Mac app which I'm kind of
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implying with a little bit because the
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Mac doesn't change that much usually WC
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so maybe a Mac app would also qualify
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here but any kind of app on different
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platforms this is a great time to
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experiment with that because that's
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probably not gonna change much in June
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doesn't really matter and you kind of
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have to like save your iOS and juices
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for for then you know and it's also a
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great time to just enter an entirely new
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business if you wanted to like start a
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podcast start a blog you know start
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selling t-shirts or something like if
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you wanted to start something new that
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is not an app that won't necessarily
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take up your entire life this is a good
◼
►
time to experiment with that as well so
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basically it's a time for
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experimentation of all kinds as long as
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it's not going to be a problem come June
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exactly and I think there's also
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something to be said for I haven't
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actually I mean it knowing me I'll
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probably pull a chart for this after the
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show but I'm like I imagine the number
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of new submissions this time of year is
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lower than the typical like seasonal
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rate and so if you have something that
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you've been thinking about launching
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like a small little project or something
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like there's a certain amount of wisdom
◼
►
and launching it at a time when things
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are quieter when there's less going on
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►
when in general like there's not a whole
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►
lot of tech news that's come out like
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we're kind of in this quiet bit between
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the spraying announcements and the
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summer announcements and so if you have
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►
something that you have been working on
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►
there's certainly some advantage to
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►
pushing to make sure that you get it out
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►
in the quiet time you know that's now
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because if you try and do it over the
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summer there's gonna be a lot more
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competition on the news side and if you
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try and do it in the fall then you're
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gonna have a lot of competition just on
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the competing apps side you think
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there's just a lot of new apps a lot of
◼
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big updates you know the this if you
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think about things like the you know the
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in the AppStore like there in this in
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►
the fall it's gonna be full of like the
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►
the apps that take advantage of the new
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►
stuff you know like last fall it was
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like hey here's all the apps that are
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updated for 3d touch or things like that
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►
like Apple tends to push those types of
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►
things but I don't really can't think of
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like there's not there's not a lot of
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huge big sweeping things right now that
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would push something out and so there's
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certainly an incentive to you know if
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either if you've been working on
◼
►
something and you might be able to get
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►
it out this is a pretty good time you
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know it's I can tell from you know
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launching activity plus plus a couple
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►
weeks ago that it was easier in some
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ways to get attention for something
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around now and you know if you just
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think about the volume of tech news like
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if you just you know if you're the kind
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of person who keeps up on tech news like
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it's a quiet ish time right now because
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most Apple is probably not going to be
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announcing much new because they'll save
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that for June and a lot of other the big
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organizations that you know like you
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know create tech news they're in that
◼
►
same kind of cycle that they have their
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big events in the summer or around then
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and that's when they'll be doing it so
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there's some advantage to doing that too
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►
like just taking advantage of it as a
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►
quiet time to maybe get a bit more
◼
►
attention for yourself yeah totally you
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know cuz that's you know as you
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mentioned like there there really isn't
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a lot else going on for the most part
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right now so if you have something where
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you don't necessarily need to wait until
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WDC so if it's something if it's a small
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►
app or something that is that doesn't
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really rely too heavily on the
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frameworks and the platform staying
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►
identical and things that might include
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►
things like games you know we don't know
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anything about games for the most part
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►
but but that might include things like
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games were like you're not usually using
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most of the platform api's for games
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usually you're using like OpenGL or or
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more likely some kind of higher level
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cross-platform game engine and doing all
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your custom coding in there and you're
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►
not really using like UI kit directly
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►
for most stuff and things like that so
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►
like you know that games are my
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everything we just said might be totally
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►
invalid we really have no idea but this
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►
is a good time for like things that will
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►
not likely be strongly affected by WTC
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►
yeah and the last thing I wanted to
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mention too is if you are going to be a
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W or DC something else you should be
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doing in this time is preparing yourself
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for it in terms of keeping an eye and a
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►
list and a checklist of like the things
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►
that you are going to the conference to
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►
get answered like I have a list in in my
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►
life in my task management system that's
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►
just like WWC questions and any time
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►
between now and do you see that I
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encounter something that I'm thinking
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►
like hey maybe this would be a good
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►
introductory question to ask an Apple
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►
engineer it just goes in there and I'll
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►
just try and keep you know keep track of
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►
these things and a lot of them it's
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►
probably good to like say it doesn't
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►
have don't have to be amazing questions
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►
like these groundbreaking novel concepts
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►
they're mote think of them as
◼
►
icebreakers like it's night it's so much
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►
easier to get a conversation going if
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you are able to go to a lab at WWDC if
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you have you know something like a
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►
jumping-off point that you can start
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from and so just be thinking about that
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so that rather than you know the morning
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of the Tuesday of WotC you go into the
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►
lab and you're like huh
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what would I like to invoke what I like
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►
to know like it's going to be a harder
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►
thing to think of the things.when versus
◼
►
now when you're kind of in think of it
◼
►
in your code running into little issues
◼
►
running into the little gotchas things
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►
that would be helpful to you know talk
◼
►
to someone an apple about and if they
◼
►
are if it would be relevant always good
◼
►
to file a radar about them and have that
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►
with have that number with you when you
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►
go to WWDC it just avoids the dance that
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►
you'll end up doing otherwise with an
◼
►
Apple engineer we're like Oh have you
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►
followed the radar about this and they
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►
say no it's like well you should
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►
probably do that and then kind of kits
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►
kind of a conversation killer versus if
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you can go in and say like yes I did
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here's the number and then you can
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►
continue the conversation from there so
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just a little tip that I've found very
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►
helpful for myself to get ready for WotC
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every year sounds good and with that I
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think we're out of time this week so
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thank you everybody for listening good
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luck with your technical debt at an
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experimental period that we're entering
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now and I hope you'll listen next week
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thanks a lot for listening and we'll see