0:00:00How about your crazy ass mayor?
0:00:03Mayor of Canada.
0:00:05[laughs]
0:00:07Is he your ma- he is your mayor, right? That is...
0:00:10Uh, he's our religious leader.
0:00:12It's that whole provin- provincial thing?
0:00:15You're thinking of, um...
0:00:18Saskatoon.
0:00:20[laughs]
0:00:22Sarsaparilla.
0:00:24[laughs]
0:00:26[sighs]
0:00:28Uh, I don't even know how to respond to that.
0:00:33You're being so offensive.
0:00:34I am.
0:00:34I am.
0:00:35Seattle is definitely not Canada.
0:00:37And I'm also not in Seattle, technically.
0:00:40So that's even-- that's another layer of offensiveness
0:00:42that you don't even-- you're not even aware of.
0:00:45You're in Tacoma.
0:00:46Yeah.
0:00:47Beautiful Tacoma.
0:00:48But Tacoma is Seattle.
0:00:51It's not?
0:00:52Well, where do you go when you have to fly?
0:00:54Where do you go?
0:00:55What airport do you go to?
0:00:57We go to SeaTac.
0:00:58That's Seattle.
0:01:00Seattle, Tacoma.
0:01:01Well, that means it's all one city.
0:01:03It is not?
0:01:05SeaTac is in the middle.
0:01:07Who's your local baseball team?
0:01:10The Tacoma Rainiers.
0:01:11(laughing)
0:01:13Thank you very much.
0:01:14I haven't been to a game there in a long time though.
0:01:19I need to get back.
0:01:20That's a good experience.
0:01:21What, the minor league baseball?
0:01:23Oh yeah.
0:01:24Oh, I really thought I was gonna get through this show
0:01:25without mentioning baseball.
0:01:26Yeah, yeah, well you'd think right?
0:01:28We could stop we could we could we could just move on you know what there is something
0:01:34I was just reading something that was interesting about minor league baseball
0:01:37And it's the fact that they don't really it's it's like such low stakes because they don't play to win per se
0:01:43I mean they you know all things considered. They'd rather win than lose
0:01:45But at least if the teams are actually
0:01:48Part of a major league baseball's system. It's all about you know developing the players
0:01:55You know like and have a pitcher in a minor league game is throwing a no-hitter
0:01:58But he gets to his pitch count which might be like, you know, 75 or something like that. He comes out
0:02:02Yeah, and it you know, it makes it a more relaxing it, you know
0:02:06It's it's like a sit back talk with your friends and yeah have a brewski
0:02:11You know, the great thing is about you. I mean you can be so close to the players. Oh
0:02:16Exactly because you can get it. I mean you can get like front row seats at a minor league
0:02:21It depends on it depends on the team I guess but all right
0:02:24We have purely we have here and now you can get front row seats pretty cheap
0:02:29Yeah
0:02:30We have the the Camden River Sharks right across the river and beautiful Camden, New Jersey
0:02:34And you can get you get front row seats there for I don't know like four bucks something like that. Is that an Orioles?
0:02:40I'm assuming you know what actually they are
0:02:44unaffiliated oh
0:02:46Really? Yeah, they're in this way. That's interesting. That's interesting. Yeah
0:02:51And it is just Ricky Henderson play for them
0:02:54That would be great. No, and they say, they claim that they're roughly AAA equivalent,
0:03:00but they're not. They're like AA, sort of. But they do have some guys who were in the
0:03:05show floating around. Like some of the older guys are former Major League Baseball players,
0:03:10guys who've been at that level, and they've just fallen off the radar or something.
0:03:15Well Ricky did that for a little while anyway. I think he played in the independent leagues
0:03:20for a little while after he finished with the A's. I think that's where he finished.
0:03:25He just loved baseball.
0:03:26Yeah, I mean, the guy just loves baseball. And hats off to that, right?
0:03:30Yeah, it's kind of amazing. There's some old pitchers, too, who—I forget some of their
0:03:37names—but guys who are former major league pitchers who will just bum around the minor
0:03:42leagues. Roger Clemens threw a game last year.
0:03:45That seems hard. That seems like your arm would just fall off.
0:03:48Yeah, well some of those guys though, there's like pitchers, you know, some of those pitchers just have like a superhuman arm
0:03:53I mean Roger Clemens is one of those guys
0:03:55I mean, I know he took the PDS and stuff in it, but even without the guy but the guy had helped a little bit
0:04:01Excuse me, I think it helped with his
0:04:07Longevity, but I mean there's just no denying it like when he you know when he was a kid
0:04:12I mean he just he you know, all those guys throw the ball hard, but I mean Roger Clemens just threw it harder
0:04:17Yeah, oh
0:04:19But if you guy like like a guy like Jamie Moyer, I mean he could yeah he could pitch forever
0:04:26He's older than us right ever through never too hard. Yeah
0:04:29Yeah, like like a year or two older than me never threw hard in the first place, right?
0:04:33Crafty yeah, that's what I that's kind of crafty left-hander crafty
0:04:43I'm gonna do something unusual. I'm gonna say I'm gonna do a sponsor read already
0:04:46Okay, because they got a bunch of sponsors this week
0:04:50And I want and it's gonna tie in to a topic. I want to talk about them
0:04:55So I might as well just get it out of the way. I'm gonna do these guys first
0:04:58I want to talk to you about our good friends at smile
0:05:00Great great software developers
0:05:04And the lovely people yeah, and the app they want me to tell you about is
0:05:09PDF pen scan plus
0:05:11Now what is PDF/PEN Scan Plus? It's one touch scanning directly from your iPhone or iPad camera,
0:05:22right? Just use your iPhone or iPad and you can scan documents, you can scan pictures. It treats
0:05:31the camera as a scanner, but they've got OCR. It's not just taking pictures. What's the difference?
0:05:35Why not just use your camera to take a picture? This treats it more like a scan. They have OCR.
0:05:39it'll turn them into searchable PDFs so you can actually you know it actually
0:05:44reads the text and then you can search for the text. The OCR is performed by the
0:05:50app itself it's not offloaded to a cloud service so you can do it even if you're
0:05:56not connected to the network or if you have sensitive documents that you can't
0:06:01share to a cloud service. You can export PDFs with the OCR text included they
0:06:08They support 16 different languages for OCR.
0:06:11I don't know what those languages are, but I'll bet one of them is English.
0:06:16Perfect companion to PDF/Pen for iPad and iPhone.
0:06:20And I'll just add, this is what they said here in the talking points, but I'll add PDF/Pen
0:06:24for the Mac is a fantastic application and I'm sure this works great with that.
0:06:29PDF/Pen is a great app for – it lets you open PDFs and modify them, which is a huge,
0:06:37life saver when you have like a PDF and you need to make like one small tweak to it and
0:06:41you can't find the thing that you originally made it with or maybe you didn't even really
0:06:45originally make it great app PDF pen scan plus for iPhone and iPad is great companion
0:06:50to that. How do you get it? Well, it's an iOS app. So you know, get it on the App Store.
0:06:56It's available right now at an introductory price of 499 and they have a video demo by
0:07:03David Sparks who's a great guy. You can find that at Smilesoftware.com/talkshow.
0:07:12And that way they'll know you came from the show. Smilesoftware.com/talkshow and/or just
0:07:18go to the App Store and search for PDF/Pen/Scan Plus. Great, great app from a great company.
0:07:26Now the reason I wanted to do that first, what were you going to say?
0:07:29No, I was just said I need to get my wife into this because she she my wife is a private investigator
0:07:34And so she has all these court documents that are all in PDF and she prints everything
0:07:39Which drives me insane?
0:07:41Oh and she just I mean just so she can like annotate them and like put notes in the corner and stuff like that
0:07:45No, just like I I have I've I failed our as our internal IT support because
0:07:50Household IT support because she's doing that and I need to get her I need to get her on the on the smile
0:07:57bandwagon. I'm looking for I think you guys should have a reality show
0:08:00She's investigating people and then you just pop in and make wisecracks
0:08:06It would be mostly about her
0:08:10Yes, right
0:08:11Well, it should be and then and then you and and you know
0:08:15Maybe once in a while, maybe Hank can can make an appearance and you just make wisecracks
0:08:19We did we did we'd have to get a houseboat. Yeah, so obviously
0:08:25I'm not even sure honestly, I don't know how she's insured bonded without a houseboat
0:08:29How can you be a private investigator without living on a houseboat, right?
0:08:35This might be there's a lot of ways that I'm probably damaged from having grown up in the 80s
0:08:39And that's that is absolutely one of them. I would never if I needed a private investigator
0:08:43I mean, you know, I'm sure your wife is great does a great job
0:08:47But if I had to hire a private investigator and found out that he or she did not live on a on a boat
0:08:53Houseboat, I mean I would immediately start looking for another investigator
0:08:56Was Rockford lived in a trailer right just like parked like parked on a roadside of the road someplace
0:09:05He didn't even live in like a trailer park. I
0:09:09Don't even know how you do that
0:09:11You got no hookup to anything. You just lived in a trailer
0:09:18You know, I bet that was a cool show, The Rockford Files, but I remember desperately
0:09:21wanting to watch it because I knew it was about a private investigator and he seemed to have a pretty cool car.
0:09:27Although it wasn't an awesome car. It was just like kind of sporty, but it was cool enough.
0:09:31And so I just assumed it was a rockin' show with lots of violence and
0:09:35gunshots and stuff and then like I finally was allowed to stay up and watch it one night and it was it was just
0:09:41incredibly dull. There was no action. There was no car chase. No, you know, it was I
0:09:47Don't even know I'm like I said, I'm sure it was a good show
0:09:50But it was clearly meant for adults and and whatever drama there was had nothing to do with with what I had imagined
0:09:56I imagined it was like the Dukes of Hazzard
0:09:58Yeah, no, yeah, we watched it every week. I remember but I don't remember
0:10:03Anything of it other than one time?
0:10:07he was being tailed by somebody and he got fed up and he just like
0:10:11Slammed the car into reverse and slammed into them and jumped out and punched the guy in the face
0:10:16face. And it turned out it was a cop.
0:10:21James Garner. Man, that was a guy. He's not dead, is he?
0:10:26He's still alive, yeah.
0:10:31That was a man's man.
0:10:36Anyway, the reason I wanted to do Smile first is because I also, even if they weren't a sponsor, I wanted to talk about something
0:10:41that they were in the news this week. Did you see the thing yesterday where one of their
0:10:48other products, TextExpander, which is like a little text snippet thing, has gotten like
0:10:57a... It's gonna be pulled from the app store and they have to rejigger it. And I mean,
0:11:04long story short, I think, this is the iOS version of TextExpander. TextExpander is a
0:11:08utility that you, it's on the Mac too, but you, you let, you set up little shortcuts
0:11:14so you can type a little three letter thing and it'll expand into a little, whatever you
0:11:20want, a long snippet of text and you can, there's all sorts of cool features in there
0:11:23where you can put, I use it, you can put variables. So I have a thing like, just as an example,
0:11:30if I hit semi colon today, it puts today's date in a certain format. It just pops right
0:11:37into the, you know, wherever, and it works in every app. Now in the Mac, I don't know
0:11:42what hocus pocus jiggery pokery they're using to make it work. But that's sort of, you know,
0:11:49like a utility that runs inside other apps is way easier on a Mac than iOS because iOS
0:11:54is, you know, everything is sandboxed. The way it used to work, it's always required
0:12:00on iOS for the apps that it works within.
0:12:03They had to opt in, right?
0:12:04They had to opt in and include a text expander SDK.
0:12:08So, for example, the system apps like Mail and Safari don't support it because Apple
0:12:14doesn't opt in to the thing.
0:12:16But a lot of third party...
0:12:17Kind of like how Dropbox works, right?
0:12:19Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
0:12:21And how on Mac OS X, Dropbox is just there and it's a folder and it's at the system level.
0:12:27And apps don't have to opt in.
0:12:30But on iOS they do, they have to include a Dropbox SDK.
0:12:35But how did that, the shared snippet data get between, let's say you have four different
0:12:40apps on your iPhone that support TextExpander, how did they get the same snippet data?
0:12:46They used to use something called named clipboards or pasteboards.
0:12:50I don't know what the, I always get those two mixed up.
0:12:54But it's sort of a long-standing next step sort of thing where there's different paste
0:13:01boards.
0:13:02And you can see this on the Mac.
0:13:03A lot of people don't know this, but like when you copy and paste, you think there's
0:13:06only one paste board.
0:13:08But like on Mac, if you go to like text edit or anything with styled text, you can do things
0:13:12like copy the ruler.
0:13:16If you set up a paragraph with a certain indentation, copy the ruler, go to another document, select
0:13:21some text paste ruler and it'll apply that those margins to that text and you
0:13:27can do the same thing with style so you can copy a style which is a font and
0:13:33whether it's italics and a text size and then select some other text paste style
0:13:38and it applies that style so that's not the text clipboard it's the style
0:13:43clipboard and then there's a ruler clipboard and then apps can make
0:13:46arbitrarily named paste boards or at least they used to be able to on iOS and
0:13:51that was how and I you know I think in a nutshell how the text expander shared
0:13:57data between the apps that opted in there was a named clipboard that the SDK
0:14:03would know to look for and that's where all the snippet data was and then when
0:14:06you created a new snippet you just do it in the text expander app and it would
0:14:12automatically be available to all the apps that are in the text expanders
0:14:15snippet system. All right, are you with me so far? I am. Apple got rid of named
0:14:23clipboards in iOS 7 as a security thing or a privacy thing. I don't know which
0:14:29maybe both a little bit of both but apps were abusing it. Now this text expander
0:14:33was not. I think text expander maybe would qualify as an app that was doing
0:14:38what they were meant to be done for but a lot of third-party apps were using it
0:14:43for shady purposes. You know, like ad networks were using it to track stuff across apps so
0:14:50that the same ad network, if a couple of games were using, you know, the same ads, they could
0:14:55somehow share that data, which is, you know, in other words, it was an escape valve for
0:15:01this data sandboxing in iOS. And so Apple got rid of them. So TextExpander had to do
0:15:06something else and what they chose to do is use the reminders which is a system
0:15:13wide you know like the reminders app but other apps there's an API other apps can
0:15:19can access it and so they use the reminders app to store the snippet data
0:15:27and I think they were doing something to sort so they wouldn't you know like when
0:15:31you open the reminders app you wouldn't just be faced with all this you wouldn't
0:15:34see all this. Yeah, right. Yeah. As a reminder, you know. I don't think it really mattered.
0:15:39I don't know if they were using dates on this stuff to make it like so they were all expired
0:15:43or something. But you know, you could find it, I think, in the Reminders app, but it
0:15:47was effectively hidden. But anyway, Apple has notified them. And that was approved.
0:15:51It was in the App Store. And, you know, apps, third party apps had to update to the latest
0:15:57version of the TextExpander SDK to support it. But anyway, yesterday, they announced
0:16:03that Apple said, "Look, you can't use reminders like that anymore. Reminders are for reminders,
0:16:09not for arbitrary data." Now they don't know what to do because there's really nothing
0:16:16left. I saw a lot of criticism on Twitter. Most of the reaction to it seemed to be that
0:16:22Apple was screwing Smile over, which I don't think that's quite right. I love Smile. I
0:16:29say this not just because they're a sponsor, but I know some of the people who work there
0:16:33and I'm a long time fan of their software.
0:16:35This stinks for them, but I don't think Apple is screwing them.
0:16:39Yeah, I wouldn't call it that either.
0:16:42It just, maybe it's, I mean, maybe what the criticism should be
0:16:45is there should be some other service.
0:16:47Yeah, there should be some way,
0:16:50and this goes back to the origins of the App Store.
0:16:53I mean, this is all the way back to like 2008
0:16:55when the apps first came out, that there is no,
0:16:59I mean, sandboxing is all well and good,
0:17:00but shouldn't there be somewhere where apps can app a can put something and then app B
0:17:07can see it. You know, right. I think that the best argument for smile using the reminders
0:17:18this way is that reminders is one of those things like I think I'm like 99% sure on this
0:17:25because I think I remember doing it or proving it it's like location or the
0:17:31camera or the camera roll where you the system before it'll let the app write to
0:17:35it will prompt and say do you want to allow this app to access reminders you
0:17:42know that's and that is part of the security in iOS is you know like an app
0:17:47can't just turn on location without letting you know you know there's no way
0:17:51that the app it's not just like they're supposed to do it it's they actually
0:17:55app and we'll never get that location data until you the user to tap the
0:18:00button in the systems provided alert that says yes allow this to happen and
0:18:05then you can you can turn it off in the settings app at any time and I think
0:18:10it's the same with reminders where the apps have to opt into it and so I think
0:18:14that the argument that they should be allowed to do it as well if the user
0:18:16says they're allowed to do it who's you know the user is saying let me use the
0:18:22reminders to store this you know non reminder data just so that it can be
0:18:26shared between apps so I can see it that way but I can definitely apples
0:18:32perspective yeah it does suck though and it because it's such a useful feature
0:18:40that there should be some other way to do it but at the same time are the only
0:18:44things I can think of, you know, is what is the only thing that makes the most sense is
0:18:50what they had before and obviously that wasn't working either.
0:18:53Well, and this comes down and we ran into this at Q branch with Vesper because we originally
0:19:01over the summer in a like a 1.0 something update to Vesper, a minor update, we added
0:19:09text expander support for iOS 6 and that was the old one with the named
0:19:13clipboards. And we knew about the
0:19:18iOS, that it was changing with iOS 7 and
0:19:22for iOS 7 we decided not to include the text expander SDK
0:19:27because, even though we had it in an update we did over the summer, for iOS 7
0:19:32we took it out
0:19:33because we thought, I,
0:19:37We all thought that even though this seems like it's been approved by Apple
0:19:42I don't we didn't I didn't think that it was gonna last
0:19:46It just seemed like they were starting like smile had been reduced to playing whack-a-mole to find a way to do it
0:19:52I you know and I don't blame them. I'm not passing judgment, but it just seemed to me
0:19:57that we you know it I
0:19:59Almost regretted that we put it in in the first place even though it was a useful feature
0:20:04I regretted it because I hate putting a useful feature in and then taking it out and we got lots of email from people
0:20:10You know when we upgraded to seven, hey, what happened to text expander?
0:20:13You know and we you know, we were just honest about we're like well here's you know
0:20:19We explained the situation more or less a much shorter
0:20:21version of the
0:20:23Description I gave before and said, you know, we're gonna wait and see if Apple is you know
0:20:27I'm gonna support this and maybe in the long term we will
0:20:31But it just seemed like weird to me to have Vesper asking for permission to write to
0:20:36Reminders when Vesper isn't doing anything with reminders, you know
0:20:41Like I just and who knows if the user even knows, you know that it's for text expander, you know
0:20:46Like the advanced users do but typical users might not and I think that's weird
0:20:51I think like when an app asks for location and I have no idea why it's asking for location
0:20:56I never allow it and I'm very often very tempted to delete the app if it's like a new thing
0:21:01that I'm trying out.
0:21:03And so to me, it would be weird if an app that I wasn't using to access reminders, you
0:21:08know, asked for reminders.
0:21:10Steve McLaughlin Yeah, there's a whole gray area to app on
0:21:15both the Mac and on iOS but to apps that try and do stuff that, I mean, it probably varies
0:21:22by person, but I get a weird feeling from certain apps, even though I know that. It's
0:21:28not that they're from people who I trust, and there are services that I often want,
0:21:35but you just get that feeling like, "I don't know how long that's going to be around."
0:21:40So I don't want to get in to relying on that and have it someday go away.
0:21:46Another X factor is that the system now has like a sort of shared text snippet thing.
0:21:53But it's nowhere near as powerful as TextExpander and it doesn't have variables.
0:21:59And I think there's some people who are suspicious that that's why Apple is doing this.
0:22:03That Apple is trying to force people to use the system one instead of TextExpander.
0:22:07And I really, I mean, whether you agree or disagree that Apple should let them use the reminders thing,
0:22:13They're not doing it to screw TextExpander.
0:22:15They really are not.
0:22:16They're not doing it to force people to use it.
0:22:18It doesn't benefit them at all, really.
0:22:21They're providing it as a basic feature set, but it's not like they're selling it.
0:22:28My colleague and friend, Brent Simmons, in our internal discussions about what to do
0:22:34with VSEPR, I think his idea for how they should do it is right.
0:22:40the way of the future or at least the way of iOS 7 is that they should write their own
0:22:46like a web service. And then the SDK, you know, you'd get like you'd have a text expander
0:22:52account and the SDK would mean that every app would then sync the text, your text expander
0:22:59data over the cloud. And that's a lot of work though. That's, you know, that's one of those
0:23:08things were saying, "Hey, they should write their own web service for this," is more or
0:23:12less, you know, it sounds nice and neat, and you can imagine how it would work. And what
0:23:16you're really doing is saying they should undertake a massive undertaking, you know,
0:23:24to implement this feature, which is frustrating as a programmer because you know that if you
0:23:29could just write the data to a file on disk on the device, you know, it would be so easy.
0:23:37You just write to a file and then have the other app read from the file.
0:23:41And now you're asking me to do this incredibly complicated web service where we've got to
0:23:45have servers, we've got to keep them up, and we have to have an account system, and we
0:23:50have to make sure everything is secure so that nobody can access somebody else's.
0:23:54Yeah, and it's not as instantaneous, and it also relies on having a web connection.
0:23:59Right.
0:24:00And so instead of having – yeah, it requires a network.
0:24:02But that's the way of the future.
0:24:04That's how data gets stored on I/O or gets shared between apps, really.
0:24:13It seems crazy that it's the only way that apps can talk to each other is by going to
0:24:18the network all the way to the cloud and then back.
0:24:20But it's the truth.
0:24:22That's really how it works.
0:24:23That's why Dropbox works on iOS 7, even though it works very differently than it does on
0:24:29a Mac or Windows.
0:24:30works because they're not there is no actual shared folder Dropbox on iOS it's
0:24:36everything is going back and forth to the cloud mm-hmm that would be another
0:24:44thing that they could do if they didn't want to write their own account system
0:24:47they could use Dropbox but then it would require everybody with text expander to
0:24:51use Dropbox and you that's it's everybody out there who's listening who
0:24:56uses text expander and Dropbox I know what you're thinking you're thinking
0:24:59thinking yeah yeah yeah do that do that because you do want your text expander
0:25:02to work but you really can't force you can't have Dropbox be the only way to do
0:25:06it because you know there's lots of people who don't use Dropbox and who
0:25:09don't want to I notice you're not saying iCloud you know what I don't think
0:25:14iCloud could solve it because I don't why could it not solve it in the same
0:25:18way that that um Dropbox would because it with iCloud you don't it doesn't get
0:25:24you out of the per app sandbox. So if your text expander app writes the snippet data
0:25:31to iCloud and you open Vesper and Vesper has the SDK, it wouldn't, Vesper, even though
0:25:38you could be logged into iCloud, it wouldn't let you see it.
0:25:41>> Yeah, that's right. It doesn't, you know, it wouldn't see outside of its own environment.
0:25:44>> Right. One of the, well, not weird things, but unique things about iCloud is that iCloud,
0:25:50know it's a cloud service it's still per application siloed in some ways I don't
0:25:57know the finder obviously has a magic way around that I mentioned this on the
0:26:03show a few weeks ago but that's that's what that's that's what's so
0:26:06interesting about tags in Mavericks is that tags are the way that you can see
0:26:14documents from different iCloud apps together you know if I have a numbers
0:26:19document and I tag it "MOLTS" and then I have a pages document and tag it "MOLTS" in the
0:26:25finder, I can go to my "MOLTS" tag and see both of them together.
0:26:30Even though they're not, they're in totally different folders because of the way iCloud
0:26:34is set up.
0:26:36But there's no way to – like the tags are not visible on iOS yet.
0:26:42So that would be something maybe in the future that they could use iCloud if they tagged
0:26:46tagged it. And then you had apps that support iCloud and then it would be tagged, like,
0:26:51I don't know, TextExpander or something like that. But that's not available on iOS yet.
0:26:56CB; It's interesting that nobody has, I mean, I guess, other than Dropbox, tried to do a
0:27:05back-end service like that for developers. Well, I guess Windows Azure is kind of the
0:27:15thing right yeah but it's there's no like turnkey just yeah just hook it up
0:27:24and sing right I mean you know Windows is word does a lot of the work for you
0:27:28compared to the old days where you know you would sure you'd be starting with
0:27:32just like nothing a server with a fresh install of you know Linux or BSD and
0:27:39then you've got to start from there I mean you really get a lot to start but
0:27:43But it's not like writing to a file, reading from a file.
0:27:51It's really frustrating if you have an idea for something that requires different apps
0:27:58to access the shared data.
0:28:03There's no easy way out of it.
0:28:05That's sort of the unfortunate news.
0:28:06There is no easy way.
0:28:09the smile guys have an idea for what they can do in the short term which is these callback
0:28:15URLs which is you know how like when you tap a thing and it goes to another app, you know,
0:28:21it would be like a special URL like not an HTTP URL. It would be like an X text expander
0:28:27URL. But then you'd – the way you'd have to work is every time you want to update your
0:28:33text expander snippets in say, you know, app A. In app A, you'd have to say, you know,
0:28:42refresh my text expander snippets. It would take you to text expander and then go from
0:28:46text expander back to the app. And then in app B, you'd have to do the same thing. But
0:28:51it's the only way. But it's, you know, really sounds like it's taken all the, you know,
0:28:57the magic out of it.
0:28:59So, bad news for Smile.
0:29:04But it's, you know, really, ultimately what it is, is that they have a product on iOS
0:29:08that iOS is not designed to support.
0:29:12And they've gotten away with it, because it used to have a feature that let it happen,
0:29:17the named Clipboards.
0:29:20That was taken away not to spite Smile.
0:29:22It was taken away because a bunch of scammers were abusing it.
0:29:27I feel like I opened the show on a sour note.
0:29:35Let me do another sponsor.
0:29:36I'm just crying.
0:29:38This was upbeat though.
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0:29:41I think you were on the show the last time these guys sponsored it.
0:29:43This is just a happy coincidence, I think.
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0:29:50Oh yeah, that's right.
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0:30:31right?
0:30:32Yeah.
0:30:33Yeah. They've got hipster stuff. It even says here, even for friends with cats, and then
0:30:39they put in parentheses, "Don't expect much." You don't have a cat, do you, Jon?
0:30:43No.
0:30:44I don't like cats. I really hate cats. I don't have a...
0:30:46I like cats okay, but I like dogs better.
0:30:48I don't have a dog, but if I ever did have a pet, I would have a dog.
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0:31:10They have a cool Twitter.
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0:31:33dog lovers in your life.
0:31:34They've got a whole mess of Christmas themed chew toys.
0:31:42There's ugly ginger fugly gingerbread man, which is pretty good.
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0:31:48As soon as you look at the website--
0:31:50- My dog likes, my dog, he loves to tear the hell
0:31:54out of a stuffed animal, but ideally something
0:31:59that's designed for him that's not full.