The Accidental Tech Podcast

00:00:00 ◼   ► it's interesting at all I'm bored what we're talking about tonight is anything [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► to talk about the summary thing I know I thought your post about david was really [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► interesting this is obviously mutual admiration society but I thought it was [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► very it was very person in in impressive that he was smart enough not to reveal [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► his age and then made in hoops and and like you said suddenly every article [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► about amber became about his age rather than the fact that number was really [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► well done right and that's too bad but I've never used some least I don't know [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► if it's any good apparently you say it's not good I i was i mean I don't know [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► what they did in the last six to nine months they they had they have their [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► whole app that was the whole news browsing thing that all came about [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► fairly recently before all that is when I tried it so i didnt trying to do stuff [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► so I can't really speak to what it was but the originally the whole [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► summarization engine I was really not impressed by [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► I think it was a reasonable idea to try to do something like that but it wasn't [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► that compelling like something like that we're okay so the idea of this thing is [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► to take any web article news article whatever the case and summarize it into [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► like three little $0.01 bullet points and so the idea that you don't have to [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► read everything well first of all somebody who likes reading things that's [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► kind of missing the point but OK to some uses for that I can see that the problem [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► is the summaries were so bad I'm not you know occasionally would get maybe one [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► and a half of the three bullet points would make sense but that wasn't the [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► best Irish I do so it was a way to poorly summarized news stories sometimes [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► and so to me i just don't have anywhere that fits into my life and probably [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► don't remember this because you didn't start using that until recently but back [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► in the classic Mac OS two is Apple made a big stink at one point in it [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► sad decline in the nineties about system wide text summarization service where [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► you could select text and asked to summarize it and it would summarize it [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► down to a couple sentences the sound familiar yet and this was classic macros [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► and that feature might still be in there should go back and I caught him in and [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► see if there's a summarized tax thing with that but it predates Pakistan my [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► recollection and yet not that feature did not set the world on fire and you [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► know I don't know what the state of the art is with with natural language [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► processing doing summarization I'm sure this probably good stuff out there but [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► the thing with lots of natural language processing or or AI type algorithms is [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► that a lot of times the best they can ever do is like an 80 percent job and so [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► there's a lot of cases in the rubber that's useful but usually when you're [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► like directly between the data and the human and you're trying to do like just [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► as one smart thing that involves language and and concepts and a very [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► subjective difficult complicated things it's it's not usually good idea to to [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► expose the ASAP addressed to people whose usual it's like let's say it's 95% [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► good 5% is still pretty often you're looking to hit that a lot you know so [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► like John you talked a lot about speech recognition software you use it a lot [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► and dictation software you know what what do you think is like the the most [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► the highest acceptable error rate that you would still use it for summarization [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► of her speech speech recognition in the area is pretty high and I'm I think I'd [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► be willing to put up with a much higher rate than I currently get in fact I [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► think I'd be willing to trade correctness for responsiveness because [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► when you're trying to speak you don't want to be waiting like that the [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► building technician dictation and I was 10 is the worst case because you [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► activate a little thing and then he's a little blinking cursor funny you think [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► you talk then [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► you have to activate the thing again to say okay take what I just said and do [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► something with it and then you started the blanket thing and then a whole bunch [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► of tax comes on screen and that's when you find out whether it is been totally [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► off the rails whereas if it had exactly the same area but did it were to time in [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► a kind of Syrian the Google you know I was talk speech searching thing [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► responsiveness i think is more important than than correctness this obviously was [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► you know seventy percent error you'd be annoyed but I think being responsive is [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► more important than being psychic correct because the dragon is really has [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► really really good actually really high accuracy but still frustrate me [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► sometimes when I'm talking faster than the taxes appearing and I had to stop [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► and maybe I don't have to stop but I do stop to wait to see the last you know [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► fifteen words come splashing out on the screen usually all at once to say that [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► it's on the same page because you don't do that if you just like close your eyes [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► and talk it will do an amazingly good job but every once in a while to get [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► something off and I'll go back and I'll be but what I do know what are called [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► wrote by speaking and I have no idea what the hell I was saying and how do I [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► look at it and try to think a comment and say now like which word that sounds [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► like the words on the page because when you make your own typos it's like I was [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► typing the right word and I scribbled out what it was you said but when you do [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► like speech shows where it transcribes the wrong thing it's it could be so far [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► off semantically and I've literally had times where I sit I have no idea what [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► the heck I was trying to say here business sense actually makes no sense [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► whatsoever know all the words are spelled correctly in english words they [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► don't make any sense another remember what I was saying and I gotta like say [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► the word as written out loud and closed my eyes and think about it sounds like [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► what I mean I don't think anyone many people would choose to use speech [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► recognition for this way like I wouldn't be using it if I didn't have our side [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► things with typing right that I think that's why you'll know [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► speech recognition has really arrived when people who can already type very [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► quickly [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► shoes to use speech recognition instead because it's like if he is fast or you [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► know it's so accurate that is why would you bother putting your fingers around [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► know that right now it's not a a group activity what I mean by that is if [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► you're working in an office cubicles like john i presume you do and how I [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► certainly do if all of us are talking to our computers that's going to be a bit [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► allowed to say the least and furthermore you know doing the sorts of things that [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► all three of us do which is right code which is a far cry from regular pros I I [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► never imagined nor tried to do speech recognition for writing code but i John [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► I can't imagine you're writing pearl and regular expressions which is basically [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► the same thing using speech recognition is not the same thing and no and a good [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► role I i do my best if you like you know there's this place is for the stuff like [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► a lot of people have said that you know first of all there are there [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► opportunities for anything that could be considered an assistive technology for [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► people like dictation is great for people who can't type and RSI is you [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► know a usually mild but still a handicap and so if you if you can't or would [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► rather not use your hands to type then it's great to have alternatives but you [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► know the place for the stuff is in other contexts you know people who don't [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► permanently have a specific disability but who might temporarily have one for [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► example when you're driving you really shouldn't be typing so when driving also [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► theoretically hopefully partially blind to your computing device so that's why [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► things like voice commands and audio cues can be so useful in a mobile app [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► that they are expected to use while you're in the cards like serious great [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► for that but you know syria is not good enough for me to dictate everything that [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► way you know as john said like it when you have alternatives will take them but [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► it's still good to have this thing when you don't have alternative motives or [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► worse I'm trying to look up to a text summarization service in class [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► and i cant find it all I can find to the references to it existing a Mac OS 10 so [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► maybe I miss remembering the time I could have sworn this was like from [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► michael has paid or whatever but anyway if you want to just fired txt Edit now [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► in Pakistan's put it past the budget ax in there from an article [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► select the tax code of the Services menu summarized will be in there if you [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► didn't deactivate it in your profane and you get a little slider that lets you [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► you know cracking down to you know one sentence if you want so I gotta [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► understand how I don't know anything about this only thing except except what [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► i've read his blog and like two other news stories and summarization is not [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► the whole thing was like it would you know it was going to let you consume [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► news without you having to look for all the news you try to give you a condensed [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► version but not you know I am I getting this right but not any human do it [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► having the computer do it and summarization would be a part of that [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► but if it's the summarization part of their excited about like you know this [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► feature is always existed for a long time but there is a classic Mac OS not [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► knowing cares that it's there is it patent encumbered is it like I I still [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► don't understand why they pay $39 I don't understand it all that will answer [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► that and that's what a lot of the debate has been about is you know first of all [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► it's cool to say Yahoo is being stupid because I who's had some pretty bad [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► decades so everyone's like a look at how stupid yahoos being again but I don't [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► think that's I don't think it's them being stupid you know usually if you [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► think a company's being stupid usually you are looking at the whole picture or [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► they're there something that you're missing or you know there's some better [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► reason for what they're doing that's better explain then they're idiots so I [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► think you can look at the company is grim now called blackberry anyway that [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► they actually are idiots but for the most part everybody else you know when [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► when the explanation is how they're being stupid is usually more to it so I [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► think in this case a lot of people have suggested so it so here's the deal day [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► they bought some Lee the the product and part of the staff for thirty million [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► dollars most of actress cash I think they said 10 percent woodstock but all [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► the numbers are actually [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► door from inside sources unnamed the numbers were not officially made public [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► but everyone saying thirty million dollars mostly in cash and so the end [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► and it's a classic textbook [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► higher the product is immediately shut down and Yahoo paid for this I started [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► at a relatively modest sum for basically for three people were the three most [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► important people by their definition to work for Yahoo for a minimum of 18 [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► months so basically they've paid like 10 million ahead for these key people and [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► that's that sounds even more crazy now that you're telling me more about this [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► I'm thinking it's crazy that I thought so they're shutting down the stupid [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► product that summarizes stuff so it's it's gone it's they pulled from the App [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► Store and i know i dont standard like there's no way those three people over [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► thirty million dollars this know that some people are saying that that the [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► technology was actually license from ESRI the the parent company of Syria [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► before up about it that that the the speech recognition or the natural [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► language processing technology was actually ESRI's and it was licensed from [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► them that simply didn't develop that but then the Somali people are denying that [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► so that's it's unclear what what is the truth there but at least what Yahoo but [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► at least we know that he bought was they paid thirty million dollars for these [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► three people one of whom is the 17 year old kid Nick got it should not [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► references last name do you start of the alloy CEO and EtOAc oh I'm sorry I'm [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► probably sharing that Nick D hehe but not make done this is tough anyway [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► Nick D lolz oh sorry he started this company was 15 now e17 so now he's a [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► seventeen year old tech whiz kid Millionaire which of course the press [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► loves to bang on that angle so much [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► and and I i kinda rip them apart yesterday for that as as you're saying [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► the top of the show about how that was originally a problem a tumbler with [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► david was so young but you know so all the stories are about how young this kid [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► is or about the tech press freaking out that why the heck today by this and why [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► they pay so much but to bring us back a little bit we had a couple weeks ago we [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► had a question from Bobby Becker he suggested an interesting topic he said [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► what if Apple bought Yahoo and the idea there was like Apple needs to buy or [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► Apple needs good server side and services talent and Yahoo might have [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► that an apartment this topic for a little bit Yahoo is is still very [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► popular among especially among non geek demographics like normal people as we [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► like to say in the world which is probably condescending or somehow weird [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► but sorry about that I don't know what the right term is none do you think is [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► fair but I think Yahoo is for the most part of resting on their previously [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► previously achieved laurels and I don't think they've really done a lot in the [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► last decade maybe two to really get new users and to really grow the company and [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► that's why everyone has had a bit of trouble and that's why isn't it was [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► interesting when they brought a Marissa Meyer CEO from Google that that was [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► interesting but either way this company this company that needs to make a [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► comeback of some sort they've also in the last decade gone through a lot of [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► layoffs a lot of very talented people have left or gotten fired or laid off so [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► it they i don't i don't have any inside sources Yahoo but I have to imagine they [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► probably have a talent shortage and because if you're really good you [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► probably have you probably were not happy working Yahoo in the last decade [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► you probably left or didn't go there in the first place because they just lost [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► so many good people over the last year or so and they have some good properties [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► like Flickr that we've just seen just [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► languish and and stagnate as all the good people of left north or so [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► Yahoo talent wise I have to imagine is not in good shape so the other angle [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► people are discussing with the summly deal is first of all nick de le CEO [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► again I'm sorry he he might be a really good product sensibility person and [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► that's that's what you know that's the kind of person that that in one way [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► steve Jobs was it's the kind of person certainly the David Karp visit tumblr [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► having believe me he is he's definitely kind of person and and that that's a [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► very valuable kind of person to just short short handed called products [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► people product people can make or break a company because they make the [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► decisions about what products should be and they have the sensibilities to know [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► what people will like and what will work so if Nick DLB CEO is a really good [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► product person then it would be valuable to bring them onto Yahoo because Yahoo [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► needs people like that [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► not thirty million dollars from sole reason that you pay $39 and his when I [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► come up with is not too great and based on information one there's a bidding war [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► you're not the only one who wants to buy these people if you pay with the market [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► demands of you want the more than someone else has gone up in we get them [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► in and two is intellectual property they have some stuff there would you know it [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► would cost you it's a huge selection of properties would cost you more to let [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► someone else cooped up in the UFC licenses from them long-term those the [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► only two things I can think oh well what I'm thinking is there there are two [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► factors here that could have driven the price up artificially one is that Yahoo [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► is again not in good shape and you know that you could argue that having a [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► really good product person is very valuable to the company you could [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► counter argues that while he's only obligated to stay there for 18 months so [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► they are you good urs [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► 18 months one thing and the second thing is unproven show me your a product is a [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► great product was the thing that we just can then known as really interested in [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► cause I think gramm even Steve Jobs and get thirty million dollars a day he [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► arrived at Apple in 1997 he had to kind of sort of a kick out the old CEO and be [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► kinda sorta prove myself before I like they're like okay well you know i mean [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► he did come out the gate and CEO Steve Jobs wonderful you're gonna me to let [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► you take over and give you tons and tons of money and showered with praise of [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► Steve Jobs has to prove himself this kid has to as well I guess is not you don't [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► pay thirty million dollars for a couple of employees no matter who they are even [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► if they literally on the best employees in the entire world you don't you just [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► how much money for well you would have to you could get those employees for [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► less money if there if they didn't know like they obviously know they have [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► something or think or know they have something that actually worth much more [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► than they were [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► would be individually as employees you know maybe Yahoo can't get them for less [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► Yahoo again they yahoo has a problem because if you're really good in this [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► industry do you want to work at Yahoo [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► probably not that's a million dollars ahead for 18 months would do it so [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► anyway so you know one thing I I think they can justify the high price by [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► saying well we're Yahoo [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► we need people we need good people the other thing is Nick doee CEO again I'm [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► sorry is extremely relentless and really really good at self-promotion this guy [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► there is there is a link to this gizmo article which is really kind of [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► tasteless honestly I felt bad evenly on Gizmodo really here because when you [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► know this guy keep in mind this is a teenager or at least he was 18 I guess [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► or seventy whatever but this is a teenager like if I started a company [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► when I was a teenager and got a whole bunch of publicity and got all over the [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► press and was able to email [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► people who were important in the industry I don't know that I would have [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► had that much better honestly cuz when I was a teenager I was an idiot and I i [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► guess im probably going to look back at this time in 10 years since I was an [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► idiot now but I at least feel like I'm way less of an idiot now than it was [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► announced a teenager so I gotta gotta give this kid the benefit of the doubt [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► that ok you know he he was 15 when he started all this stuff [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► and when I was 15 I was an idiot so anyway but he he emailed the motor [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► reporter relentlessly like every day making up all this stuff like oh my boss [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► is getting on my back and you don't put my app in the hall of fame or something [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► like that and everything was marked urgent so I didn't see that story when [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► it came out but Nick gave me a similar email Mirage about six months later [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► trying to get me to integrate some lean to Instapaper and I mean the email she [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► sent where I don't want to be mean to the kids but I mean it was ridiculous he [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► he he he would have multiple times a day from some of these days everything was [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► marked like super urgent even though it wasn't urgent which is just kind of a [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► rude thing to do and he he he would impose artificial sense of urgency and [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► and everything had to be done quickly right now oh my god [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► a lot like high pressure car salesmen you know like really like high-pressure [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► manipulation I would say end and really I was not left with a very good [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► impression of nixon these emotions because I felt like I was being [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► manipulated and and badgered and an annoyed so this included you know [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► because you the exact same thing that somebody else I have to imagine this is [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► just part of his personality where he can imagine the crap out of people until [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► until they do what he wants and and so is his company his company has some [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► fairly prominent investors he had a video promotional video done with [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► Stephen Fry and among other other people did a few things with two and like he [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► has a lot of connections obviously and I don't know if he battled his way [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► interfere earn them or what this kid is really really good at getting people on [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► his side and badgering people into paying attention to him and doing what [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► he wants for his product so it's very possible that just Yahoo's desperation [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► and that could have been the only two factors that made this price go WAY [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► higher than we think it probably should have that seems highly unlikely to me [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► you didn't get these kids emails I saw I read the articles I guess he's annoying [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► but like this there's obviously something there that we don't know I [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► don't have information about the something bidding war its intellectual [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► property it's not it's obviously not the product is they can that the kids out [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► that the product of a user base that transferring now be there has got to be [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► gotta be some thing else had less than 2 million downloads and no revenue think [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► about like if you're running a company you can't you can't hire superstar [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► person for you know ten million dollars head all your existing people who are [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► lightweight and I superstar water night at ten million dollars for it doesn't [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► you just can't do that doesn't gotta be something they're worth money to the [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► company as human beings I I think it's clear I think you're right that we we [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► don't know the whole story here because obviously this still seems ridiculous [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► but I don't think there needs to be that much more to it for it to be [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► understandable or or plausible like I don't think they had some kind of [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► awesome super duper natural language processing technology the Yahoo now owns [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► I don't think that's it all because I saw the technology that wasn't a [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► compelling but I might just be patents and intellectual property is actually be [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► awesome it can be super duper dominance act is the best kind of patents the [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► Superdome path I don't think they were in business longer to get a patent [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► issued patent everyone's got a pet when I read somewhere today and I wish I [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► remember where I read this so this is probably fall since I barely remember [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► where I read it but somebody said that it wasn't even there tack that they it [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► was like quasi Siri in that they license the text from someone else and just [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► putting you in front of it called it there's so I agree with you john that if [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► it's not the people than it should be I P but supposedly the IP isn't there's [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► anyway so what gives [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► I don't know why I think I think you know johns right there is there has to [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► be something else here that has not been reported one if its the desperation of [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► Yahoo something that I've heard and read a lot about lately is how desperate [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► Apple is so how far as Apple from being in this position and I know that's kind [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► of ridiculous and absurd thing to ask but it's also kind of a legitimate thing [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► to ask I mean is Apple really where the super incredible mega nerds want to be [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► these days that's a very good question i've i've heard a lot of things [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► rumors and some things from people in Apple that they have a lot of problems [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► retaining good talent getting good talent mate Mitt may be getting to town [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► they still ok with that retaining good talent that they're having a big problem [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► there it makes sense that they have trouble retaining because I like the way [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► Apple works is if you are a really smart you know great performer lots of talent [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► but can do lots of different things you're not going to go to Apple and get [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► to do what you want to do because the company does so few things like it's [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► focused right so you can help contribute to what may be a big deal but you're not [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► going to go you know I have this really great idea for this thing and they [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► should I every month I do like the only very very few ideas actually get [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► implemented so eventually after work done one or two things that that Apple [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► decide to do and you were important contributing to them or whatever you [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► will inevitably say well you know but now I want to actually do the thing that [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► I was thinking of that i think is cool there's no way for you to do that inside [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► of Apple so you inevitably have to leave and it's not like the faulted Apple for [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► doing this because they have to be focuses the company but the really smart [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► multi talented people you can't keep them and find a place where they can [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► only contribute to the one or two or three things that are important for a [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► blue do they will want to go off on their own even if it's just like you [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► know like I just wanna go often and make make letterpress or something like it [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► you know Apple's not interested in Napa maybe you are and you can't do that with [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► an apple and so you like right well you know [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► I worked on this I worked on that they were great it's really important work [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► lots of people use it but i just want to do my thing so I think I think it's [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► inevitable and also you know you can you can kind of get some idea that you know [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► most of the people I know and maybe this is just the people i've i've observed [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► cause to I follow on Twitter or whatever but most of the people I know who have [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► left Apple have gone too much smaller companies often times they've they've [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► gone to start a startup and I think it's it's part of what you said John is part [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► of you know them wanting to do something on a much smaller scale where they can [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► have a bigger role or make a product that Apple would never make but I think [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► part of it also is that Apple has created this entire environment this [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► entire ecosystem of small start-ups being able to succeed and one person [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► shops be able to succeed on the App Store and and their people being in [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► charge of of the stuff for working on the frameworks are or working in this [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► photo released being surrounded by by other developers who are working in this [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► world that has to be very tempting for people who work inside of Apple to be [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► looking at all these other people making probably way more money than they make [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► their job at Apple and and doing really cool things and and making products from [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► scratch and having no boss you know to watch that from from the inside and not [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► be able to participate that has to be very tempting and I bet that pulls lot [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► of people out of Apple but isn't the converse is also true in the sense that [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► lets say I was a middle of the road [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► self employed iOS developer and I have a few apps or maybe just one app in the [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► App Store that's popular but not see it it's barely self-sustaining and an apple [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► says to me hey why don't you interview with us I can't imagine it would be like [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► no I really like being my own person and it's hard for me to fathom what it's [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► like to be self-employed because I've worked for the man my entire life but I [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► guess what I'm saying is if if I was not a superstar if I was just a regular Joe [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► who is trying to to do his own thing in the App Store and Apple said hey we've [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► seen what you do [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► we really liked it and we'd like you to interview you got to imagine I'd be [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► thrilled that that opportunity would be so moved to California that I do you [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► feel about it now [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► well and that's a very very fair point and didn't do the telecommuting thing [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► really and that's not a limiting factor you want to work for Apple you gotta [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► live in apple and living in apple and is expensive and maybe that's not where [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► your family has maybe that's not where you want to live and if you live out [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► there you have a lot of competition for that job or other people have a lot of [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► competition for employer like if you live out there already [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► then you can go work for any number of big tech companies plus an infinite [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► number of small ones and that's a really good point it really honestly is and I'm [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► hypothesizing I don't know what any of this is like but I guess what I'm saying [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► is as much as Apple is arguably pleading talent I i cant imagine that it's that [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► hard for them to find new talent that being said a revolving doors clearly not [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► a sustainable approach so you know it's it's it's an odd thing to talk to think [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► about its not just think it's not just the people who like go there are a [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► superstar do something awesome like you know design the UI for the original iOS [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► iPhone OS as it was then launched the original iPhone may be due on to other [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► projects and say right well now and I feel like I have all the all the towns [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► under my belt to do but it is basically whatever I want and I want to be the one [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► in charge you can only have so many chiefs you know I gotta be Indians [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► especially at a company like Apple going to limited number of things only a [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► limited number of people who is an h1b reference for native americans mark I [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► don't know for allowed to call them taking a turn so I get there is there's [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► that feeling that you want to like I want to be the guy who calls the shots [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► right and so that those people go off and do that but it's not just the people [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► who like when I came in at the bottom I learned some stuff and now I'm able to [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► go off on my own you know I like you said you can make more money my friends [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► are making these hit applications making tons more money than I am I can be a [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► part of my own business I could have you know unlimited income limited only by my [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► success not by like a review process and the cost of living raises and bonuses [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► like maybe stock options are lucky think about but run for transfer Leigh who was [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► one of the guys in charge of making presumably tons of money he didn't leave [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► Apple because he didn't get to be in charge of stuff i mean he wasn't Steve [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► Jobs but he was like two or three runs down there anyone you know very few [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► people have that level of power and he certainly wasn't you know I'm so bitter [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► that these people making money in the App Store he just wants to go and do [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► something different and no matter where you are [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► except maybe if you're the very very top of that pyramid if you have an itch to [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► go do something you can't do with an Apple if it's not something that Apple [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► wants to do and so he left to do whatever his secret startup is right now [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► he didn't retired like you know sit on the beach and you know county's money [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► and watch the waves come in he won he said he had an intellectual its and he [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► wanted to do something and so he left to do it and that's that's never gonna [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► happen in a company where you hire people who visit you wonder how many [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► people who could be the Steve Jobs of their own company but you want to work [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► for you and is anyone I kind of like get them as long as you possibly can and get [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► hit when you can out of them but I don't think Apple is better than they go off [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► and do things on their own if anything it's like it if we have an employee who [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► couldn't leave Appling go off and do better for themselves maybe we didn't [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► make the ride higher like that's you know that's that's the calculus there [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► they want all people who could do better outside of Apple they want to keep them [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► for as long as they can you know get the best workout of them I guess I think [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► it's interesting maybe to distinguish you know they were talking about how [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► Apple's having trouble getting talent but that seems to be mostly at the lower [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► levels of the company and the mid-level the company at the upper levels of the [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► company they seem to have for the most part pretty strong loyalty and pretty [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► long running people there and so maybe executives I mean can can a middle [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► manager Ken a middle manager go off and do their own thing [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► and be as successful as far as apple now has a certain point when you get high [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► enough I get a fair trial is an exception because he was an engineer [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► relation but there are people who just managers and if you're a long time and [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► you can be making lots of money maybe you don't care that you don't have to [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► tell the company when the company gets to do like there's room for middle [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► management everywhere [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► those people are gonna leave voluntarily yeah I guess that's true but I mean if [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► you look at other companies I think Apple is pretty good at retaining the [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► upper yeah people and so I guess the question is like you know the upper [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► people obviously like a frequent changes there would probably be way more [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► disruptive to the company then frequent changes at the lower levels of the [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► company are frequent changes at lower levels [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► really something that they should be worried about or should I just keep [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► trying to make the best stuff and and keep keeper day like the other people [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► and just kinda hope that a lot of people keep coming in fashion going out I think [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► they probably need to figure out some way to prolong the really smart people [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► stay by giving them some way to flex their independence and desire to do [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► something like it's it's totally against Apple's ammo to do you know the computer [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► called a concept cars or have something like Google Labs or 20% time those are [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► just not in Apple's culture but Apple culture so far in the other direction if [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► you can just give people some outlet within that structure to say you know [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► there is a slim chance however some like the lottery however slim that you may be [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► able to get us to do your crazy idea like I think of the original Xbox right [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► so he was jailed hard and maybe one other person had the idea to do a gaming [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► console and they were not like vice presidents when they came up with this [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► idea they were you know pretty much rank-and-file employees had been there [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► for a while but we're not not in a position to say we should make a game [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► console but they were able to take that idea and pick it up up up the ladder and [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► eventually convince Microsoft to make a game console and became a big part of [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► that process so good to be upgraded to go back and tell know they became you [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► bigwigs in charge of that project that can happen inside Microsoft released [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► happened once there are plenty of people in lower positions and Apple whose ideas [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► come to fruition and become a big type of thing but I'm not sure they go with [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► those ideas up the ladder so if you could just give make some sort of form [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► within the company for these independent people to come up with something that [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► it's possible to pick its way up and become the next big you know killer on [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► the story even if that only happens like once every 10 years or something I don't [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► know how not have a set of her work for Apple [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► just speculating on the outside but it but it might be like but I think that [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► type of bike 20% time however BS it is the Google these days and Google Labs [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► type things that ended pre Google+ days let's say before Google tried to become [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► a nightly focused that was a lot of the reason I think a lot of really smart [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► people stayed in Google because whether it actually hit anything actually came [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► to fruition not there was the idea that it was a bunch of smart people doing [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► lots of interesting things and all sorts of directions and why would you leave to [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► go anyplace else because here they give you a nice salary they feed you they [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► take care of you you have health insurance it's a nice job and you kind [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► of sort of get to do whatever you want to know is that thing whatever you want [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► to become the next gmail email came from night or the next Google Reader before [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► you know that an hour within the Google that environment within Google the pre [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► Google+ Google I think that served as a magnet to pull people into Google and to [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► keep people into Google may be the wrong kind of people that maybe not the kind [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► of people Apple ones but Apple needs just a little bit more than a half now [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► and I think that would help them keep people for I say six months longer but [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► yeah I think that's that's a wise thing I think I agree with everything you said [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► what what's hard to reconcile is if you look at the big players in california [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► and lemme hedge heavily by saying i'm an East Coast I've only been to California [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► handful of times my life and in fact at least half of them were for WWDC I don't [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► understand what the what the culture and when what [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► the technology sector looks like out there so I apologize for getting all the [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► following wrong email Marco but if you're if you're really bright engineer [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► and you're really passionate about writing code where are your options I [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► mean you can go to Microsoft but most people would perceive that is just [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► corporates to chill and you can go to Google which means your entire purpose [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► in life is to sell ads you can go to Yahoo which means you're the only bright [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► star in a cloudy sky which some people might like but is not my cup and see [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► where you can go to Apple and and at least Apple is devoted to pleasing [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► customers as opposed to telling customers they're out to please them in [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► actually in their eyeballs for advertisements that doesn't make sense [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► like I i I don't see why anyone else would be compelling with the exception [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► as you guys mentioned of startups but I don't know I guess I'm so risk adverse [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► that that doesn't seem that compelling to me either but that's one of the [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► reasons that I think the seniors I could have stayed as well as big especially if [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► you're a senior executive like it's the you know you want to sell sugar water [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► for the rest of your life becomes mean change the world like those those [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► executives really feel like they can have the biggest impact on the world by [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► being a regular good old middle manager in Apple then being a regular girl [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► minimal manager Coco large Mr Proctor and Gamble because they don't feel like [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► they're likely to go to parties and I work probably a very important person in [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► my body like that that there's also some angles that but it really is a chance [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► that same thing for engineers to do something that you think will have an [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► impact that used to be Microsoft that was certainly Google probably still is [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► cool but you could say you work for Google in that like you know job [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► satisfaction feeling like your job is important and can change the world [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► you're not just toiling away and I think Apple is just as much a corporate [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► student jobs Microsoft or any other player is a big corporation it's like [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► it's it is what it is it doesn't it's not a it's not crazily different than [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► any other large corporation like say valve or something where it's totally [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► outside their own expectations they have [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► managers and employees and teams and there may be a couple things that are [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► different about them is certainly at the top level the company behave very [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► differently in terms of focus on everything but two employees I don't [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► know maybe it's naive of me but I feel like Microsoft's purpose in life may be [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► up until recently but Microsoft's purpose in life was to please other [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► companies and Yahoo's purpose in life is to buy cool things and ruin them and [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► condemns purpose and Google's purpose [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► things and runs into that's true and Google's purpose in life is to sell [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► advertisements and and at least Apple's building cool stuff right i mean [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► corporates to job and I think John you're right it's apples more corporate [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► Studi than I care to admit but if you get to choose a corporate student job on [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► the left coast is Apple not the best option [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► it also depends on the kind of person you like is that the problem we were [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► talking about you know that Apple and its services right to say you are [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► someone who does something on the server side datacenters infrastructure type [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► software you know you don't want to go work for Apple because Apple has not [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► shown that it values those people that part of its business just wanted to work [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► doesn't want to hear about it and like this [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► the smartest best service i'd people are not going to go when they don't want to [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► work at Apple because they want to be valued if they if they go working Google [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► they're practically god's you get to work on like you know GFS version 3 over [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► to our spanner whenever these are things like those are like serious business [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► like that's the whole company right but Apple you're just like they don't want [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► to hear your know who you are anything about you know we have here is that [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► you're screwing up and just make it like the people who get the Gloria I made the [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► iPhone interface so I'm so I am excuse of hardware I work on the opera is [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► nobody's getting any glory or any claim or any recognition putting anything in [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► open source a contributing anything it was working on service I did Apple [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► forget it so Apple I think cannot hire those people we're talking about like oh [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► if you're if you're a client-side program or as your designer yeah [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► designers wanna go to Apple client-side native app people want to go to Apple [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► but if you're a web developer services [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► person you don't want to go to a problem that's not entirely true I i think [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► that's mostly true but if you happen to be one of the six people on the planet [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► that knows how to do web objects I think you can think of all the other side they [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► countered at Sequoia programmers and when you're right you're right but I [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► think that the six people that do web objects in the world and in a quaint of [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► a friend of a friend of a friend does web objects in actually lives nearby to [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► where I live and he works for Apple because you know or at least that's my [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► understanding I could be totally wrong but my point is if you're if you do one [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► of the things that Apple doesn't nobody else does like web objects you can pay [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► your own way that's why Apple is having trouble hiring the people they need to [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► make their service and stuff better because hiring a bunch of web objects [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► programmers is not going to help them make their stuff better right they want [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► the people who are taking the jobs elsewhere gonna come for the next big [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► thing early spring have up-to-date with like 10 years ago decker I hand out [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► there so far behind so out in the weeds on this they just want to get good [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► service i'd people to do their stuff and it's and I bet like it's not just that [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► maybe they can get the good service I V 12 good serviceable get there on the go [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► like the first thing they do is like we got to get rid of this web objects crap [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► what the hell you guys doing and they'll find out like the culture is like no [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► obvious who runs the iTunes store that sells twenty million songs every three [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► seconds and you can't break it and you know you're not gonna rewrite it [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► something else just just help us get better but don't change anything like [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► that type of attitude that is totally you know talk about corporate jobs like [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► that's that's the way it is I became in their realities that have to be dealt [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► with you can't come anything like the Apple Store of that should not be [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► written that way you just gotta get rid of it replace it with something else [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► that's not a big you know what's with the payoffs are willing to risk [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► destroying our entire you know multi billion transaction business to from [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► what's the benefit of the end of that we differ on by WWF Seattle and give you a [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► pass authority you'll be able to get so hard to sell this type projects right [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► people go there and like realize that they're not going to change anything and [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► then leaving [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► Java Facebook and that's true until you have somebody like the verge writing an [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► article about how crummy iCloud is that's not their service I guess not [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► no no let's we'll get to that in a minute before that let me give our [TS]

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00:45:04 ◼   ► on the verge called why does an iCloud just work and it's getting a lot of [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► attention and I think this is worth a little bit of discussion here and there [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► was a great follow-up from Brent Simmons that will get 24 in a little bit but [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► what do you think about this article like it basically cites a lot of a lot [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► of users and developers visibly all saying like we tried to build iCloud [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► sync into our apps and it just didn't work and we had to cancel it [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► problem I had with it was very few of the developers were named and I don't [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► blame them because if it were me I wouldn't want to be named I have [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► tremendous respect for I think Pasco from black pixel was named Justin [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► Williams was named and I have tremendous respect for those who were named but I [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► don't think the the message was unfair or invalid everything I've ever heard [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► from both prominent people whom I follow on Twitter for example and even friends [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► whom do this locally or who did this ugly lol yeah I know you saw that [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► feedback to me anyway the people who I know they do this locally everyone is [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► universally said it's it's crap it's in the same way that auto layout is either [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► crap or so impossibly difficult to get right that it's effectively crap it's [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► all crap at it really is but I mean so at what point is this wheel speaking up [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► for Apple to really fix it and can they fix it I know Johnny talked at length [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► about how you're skeptical whether they can get this is a tradition that's why I [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► said that I cloud core data thing and it specifically what we're talking about [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► here is it's not so much the service I PeopleSmart service I people have danced [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► on the server side stuff being flaky or whatever but as far as I can tell from [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► listening to all the same developers and talking to someone [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► in person and reading all different articles on their blogs it's a it's a [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► design problem it's it's you know high-level box level design and also an [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► API design problem like with the high level designers like is there a way to [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► have seventeen different devices with just with a bunch of you know related [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► objects stored in local databases and get them all to sing together without [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► having without doing like what Google does but just like ok well google has [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► your mail your emails on their servers and that is the one source of truth in [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► the entire world and when you put up in your web browser not like synchronizing [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► the state on your web browser that thing is just like this one central source of [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► truth everywhere and everyone synchronized with that in all their [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► actions like modified this is a bunch of local things to modifications and they [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► all try to synchronize with each other later sort of in a peer-to-peer type [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► fashion and I'm not sure that conceptually and algorithmically they [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► worked out how that's supposed to work for arbitrary object models because your [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► car did you make up your own object model and make your own relations [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► between things and you know like it's it's not it's not a fixed schema time in [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► its its not skinless but it's not like they don't know how your application [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► works at trying to make a general-purpose system for any sort of [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► you know tree of objects that you can modify any sort of way and that later go [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► to another thing that has its own tree of objects in a different state modify [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► that one and then have to reconcile themselves with each other and have that [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► actually work like sometimes you don't know what's supposed to happen so that's [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► the first promised a compromise looks like the API design that's on top of [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► this conceptual thing doesn't give the developers nice ways to do the things [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► they want because it probably so complicate like one of the ones they put [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► their arms like what someone you know takes my app starts doing stuff with it [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► builds you know essentially built an object model for their data and then [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► they signed iCloud and and their icon account they had previously saw this [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► application elsewhere and they had a bunch of big data from from there how do [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► I reconcile like to erase everything I have replaced it with what's version of [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► this thing I try to merge attitude not related at all like it is just a [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► nightmarish type problem and I think conceptually like ignore bugs and North [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► are available nor service speed ignore visibility of anything I just think [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► conceptually they don't have something that is nailed down that will work under [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► percent of the time in the layer on top of that oh you know there are bugs and [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► their API is that there's no hope for me to say hey tell me when this thing [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► changes and sometimes gets corrupted it gets wedged and you can't tell what's [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► wrong cause I have no API to query is a thing available is it not available as [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► new data comment as did not commit like it's just failure on top of failure on [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► top of failure is not just one thing so that's why I think like get the best [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► service I've people the world's not gonna save the assistance of seven of [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► the layers of things that have gone wrong with this specifically and I think [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► the conceptually simpler ones like the key-value storage and document storage [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► because that the sound design and they're like well last update when so I [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► can keep you think you values that something when is it something a little [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► more specific document it's very simple conceptual model then they can put an [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► implication of that which may or may not have a few bucks but it's okay and [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► there's enough visibility into and you get stuff done like we were all [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► developers you know what it's like when you start programming something and you [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► didn't think it through conceptually to begin with there is no amount of typing [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► you can do after that to make it better you have to just go away like what the [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► hell am I doing here this is never gonna work when I haven't even started through [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► yet I can't just start blindly typing in putting in weird cases and try to make [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► this work and that's a situation I think they're in with iCloud korda yeah and I [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► think from what I've heard in front of seen from the developers I I haven't [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► done much like loud I should get up front I the only thing I don't like [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► Cloud was a very basic feature of syncing your position and currently read [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► article in the magazine which which works sometimes [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► value because it's way easier and literally just storing like answering [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► article positions in the article at small and I'm sorry I want you to tell [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► me what article you currently reading that's it but you know that the main [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► concerns I've heard have been what you said that the core data saying we should [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► I have this whole database of objects in my app and in when I was unveiled I [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► believe steve Jobs was was doing this part of the presentation [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► he even said like and it works like or did you just you know you guys think it [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► just works I never would think that kind of huge applause because he was really [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► really cuz that's a really hard problem with that sexy and so you know we work [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► we were promised that this would work and so developers Core Data Sync that [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► I've always heard has been a complete disaster but I think that any key-value [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► store is fine everything documents I don't know a lot of developers who've [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► used to document model because I recently everybody just added a quitar [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► your core data if they could well there are there enough things to do not intend [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► to be to be fair to be good to be unfair to the server side people like back in [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► the iOS 5 days like almost nothing worked right like evaluate obviously the [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► simplest and thats has mostly on and document storage mostly work but had [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► some kind of nine bugs and quirks in that can be a little bit weird so all [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► these things are slated to begin with but is just like the reason the reason [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► is coming to head now is because I write these things that had time to still [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► iCloud didn't come out three months ago right this dark cloud is not brand [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► spanking new all these API's like we gave them like the one major version of [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► iOS to mature the one major version that goes into mature and now they like [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► devalue storage and documents seem to be following the typical path of Apple [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► API's and core data is not like getting better at the biggest problem I have [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► heard that the court is part is you know the most unreliable part of of the [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► iCloud sync stuff but I think the much bigger problem with you [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► breezed past little bit ago is that everything is tied to the Apple iTV is [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► currently signed in and that people sign out of Apple IDs in two different Apple [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► IDs on their devices fairly frequently you know not everyone doing every day [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► but there's a good number of people who do it regularly [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► yasser that they have APIC like oh and you're gonna keep in mind that when you [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► launch you may not be in the same app ideas when you're stuck with me then you [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► may get his car back that means they changed Apple IDs and like they've made [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► their where this gonna happen but they do I kinda shoving her into the car [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► of the programming site and you'll figure out what to do when that happens [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► like what am I supposed to do you know in some cases like all the pre-existing [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► data gets deleted like there was in your local directory like it you know I'm [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► what if I hadn't synced bad and like it's gone now like you don't have it [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► it's like it's like you know throwing an exception if you can't you know the [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► discus for something and I'll catch except when you gonna do about delete [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► stuff but sometimes you can't there's no saying recovery or there's nothing like [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► the case absolutely not like like all we have a call doctor when they change [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► things and and will automatically count all the old and you're ready to go again [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► on my way to second like from you should check like what if you want to do [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► something different with you I tell people this is happening that they're [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► gonna end up deleting all the local data and like I just don't think it's been [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► thought through this is all I called data like with the frustration over [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► jackals like we talked to happen they don't tell scarce and like their WBC [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► they're gonna come out with like you know the API for one of the apology [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► mouse from New York we're sorry for the puck luck on your children and your [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► chair there's a same database thinking you know like that come out of it's kind [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► it's kind of a decision gives me some hope you like MobileMe was a disaster [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► and had to change the name you get iCloud but they have had at least one [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► instance where they had something that was a disaster and they cannot with a [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► much better awesome version of it didn't change the name that's file fault 4501 [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► was just a mess and 512 kept the same name but is totally unrelated other name [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► and it did the same function and is awesome so far but two is awesome [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► following this terrible so if I cloud core data syncing at this is considered [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► a soft like something else comes out that's different and the same as this [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► new thing just forget about the whole thing they can still call it like latkas [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► iCloud is an umbrella term that already covers on 10 different things and why [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► not just keep changing out the scope is like and they have the advantage of not [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► having this user base like wait what about all the successful applications [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► built on a club in CoreData sinking they'll have to rewrite know there are [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► many don't work and I think you're right though [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► conceptually this is a problem like what it like the biggest problem being [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► usually that you know people who sign in and out of different Apple IDs what is [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► the app supposed to do about that like I don't think that's the kind of thing [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► that could necessarily be fixed with a revision to the API or a new service ID [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► back end because it's like like member like a year ago it was a whole debate [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► about the guy who's iPhone alarm went off in the symphony and and the whole it [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► was the whole thing we know what should the behavior of the of the alarm be with [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► overriding the sound switch and back then about it and you know my theory was [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► you know this is a hard problem because you've told the phone [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► wake me up at this time no matter what and you've also told the phone don't [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► make noise right now and so you've given these conflicting directives I was a [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► problem with how 9002 conflicting directives and no matter what choice you [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► make it going to anger some some portion of the user base that's non-trivial and [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► and so it's kind of that's kind of a problem with the user at that point well [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► with this you know what I cloud syncing [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► you've made the system where your data is tied to the to whatever Apple idea [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► signed in in all your apps like that's your latest tied to that and then but a [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► lot of people have different Apple IDs some people like a couple will share [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► when Apple IDs they don't pay for apps twice to be in both of their phones [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► some people have different Apple idea for their for being a developer versus [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► being a consumer like there's lots of reasons why people have different Apple [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► IDs and an apple does not make it easy to to merge them or switch them or [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► anything like that so it's a very common thing and you know if your app has its [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► own sync platform then it has some kind of concept of being logged in to that [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► and so if you change your Apple I D [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► system wide to go use a certain app or do a certain thing and a new launch you [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► know my note taking app whatever ext cloud plus then [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► then you know i i don't lose that sink Association from rapidly because I'm [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► using my own custom sync thing that you've logged into and if you actually [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► go into my appt and want to sync with a different thing you have like going to [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► my apt and logged out explicitly of that account and presumably that stuff is all [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► storage server side and then you can log into something else like it it's a [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► deliberate user action whereas if you're using iCloud syncing users might not [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► realize they probably almost never do realize that if they log out system [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► modify cloud then the data in XYZ is gonna be blown away and the worst part [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► is that it that they may be blown away and that they may never have made it to [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► any other device [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► never been sick rises actually got like the app is any way to tell that well I [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► mean some of these things you get to sleep at like say it's a the existing [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► API strongly bug free and like and you got these callbacks and you were given [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► an obligate add new API's like oh we're about to change rapidly may be there to [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► have this you have an opportunity to save the stuff off the side of whatever [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► you still end up in situations where like what if I do these three changes [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► this device to these four changes not divisive completing before changes not [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► device to conflicting more or less simultaneously had turned these two on [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► then turn those too often turn the third one back on like to try to figure out [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► what the state should allow modifications to continue what about [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► when I turn this to backup Mike reconciling is all without a single [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► central source of truth like Gmail where the just everyone communicated to the [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► server and model makes a lot of kids they're allowing you to make the local [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► modifications in trying to resolve that into it like a a replaceable transaction [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► log their results in some sort of consistent thing you can make something [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► that's like provably like you it will it will have a deterministic consistent [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► result but the odds that being the result being what the users expected it [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► to be [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► are probably zero because the users will inevitably issue a series of conflicting [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► instructions and when I think synchronized no matter what the stuff [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► packs it's sometimes it's not going to be what they wanted because they gave [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► conflicting instructions there is actually no right answer so that's [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► something like the model they're using for a coordinated you know arbitrary [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► object graph sinking is never even if it's a hundred percent bug-free is never [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► going to to look to users like them [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► magical hey everything just works because it's you know that they will [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► they will issue conflicting demands with their actions on the original devices in [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► Windows devices synchronized even assuming zero bugs and perfect [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► performance they're going to be sad that they're going up quote-unquote losing [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► data even if you were to say let me say you not to lose data because here's how [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► we reconcile things and you see these series of collecting fans can only do [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► one thing you can have this and have that well but I want the other thing [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► actually I really want to merge of those too but with me manually picking like it [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► can't know that you know so that's that's never going to make people happy [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► and i cant im not sure what this solution there is except for maybe [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► having I mean you can't do it but Google does you can't have every single changed [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► your application sending commands up to a server [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► you know i mean Google+ gmail too but I think like they've the reason I think [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► it's because they have a defined data model that is not as complicated and you [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► know its application but with messages and labels stop its not arbitrarily [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► structured interrelated data objects and Objective C that you get the right [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► yourself and this is a good segue to the brink Simmons response article did you [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► read this yet it's called why developers shouldn't use iCloud sync even if it [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► worked I read it as well and then I was gonna bring this up in as well because [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► and forgive me for a kind of interrupting your tangent but one of the [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► things that I find very interesting about iCloud is that Aaron and I shane [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► is to share the same Apple store I D so we can share the same apps and so on and [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► so forth we have different iCloud ID's and if we had say a shared grocery list [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► we can't share grocery list if we're using Eichler that app is using iCloud [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► the background in Brent talks a lot about this [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► iCloud is very personal and not very social and I hate social because that's [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► about as [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► as big a buzz word is brand but but nonetheless I feel like there's some [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► amount of truth to that and brand Brent brings this up in our presume market [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► you're about to recap what some of the other things he said that's one of them [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► I mean it's exactly true and and and if I were to write I've thought about [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► writing a a very very simple shared list keeping appt so that area and I can [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► share grocery list are packing list or eighty Home Depot or Lowes list but I [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► can use iCloud for that because we can't share it because we're on different I [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► cloudy now actually is wonder list which I'm not a tremendous fan of but it does [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► the job a lot of people I know use Google Docs for that and we use Google [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► counter to share counters and we do use Google counters one of the reasons we do [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► that is because I don't think it's been caught up in this kind of deep level but [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► the reality is that we never worried about Google document saying in sync we [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► never worried about Google Calendar staying in sync with our various devices [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► because we always know when we're making changes we are directly manipulating the [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► state of something on a survey and where and it's just it's always in sync you [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► know like it's never it's never not in sync because there's no it's not like we [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► don't use any offline modes right the downside of course is that we can [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► actually make modifications to our calendar for offline but thus far that [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► has not come up not only doesn't for that scenario is going to be less and [TS]

01:03:26 ◼   ► less likely to like that [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► conceptual simplicity of how does how does document sharing with a Google [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► document work live in real-time always synchronize that's how it works and I [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► like and you just you just don't think about it and just like that model very [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► difficult to do well and bug free and fast and all that stuff but conceptually [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► it's understandable to people and they they come to trust it whereas no I'm not [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► even developers of applications can have any idea how things are working even 10 [TS]

01:03:56 ◼   ► bucks and I like that the bugs as a couple things I read about iCloud [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► courted a stop some of it [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► unpublished as yet hopefully it will be published some point in the future [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► somewhere [TS]

01:04:06 ◼   ► the worst part of any of these type of things when you add on top of all the [TS]

01:04:10 ◼   ► stuff we talked about the type of bugs where there's nothing you can do to help [TS]

01:04:16 ◼   ► your user there's nothing like Apple can do to help your user just like things [TS]

01:04:20 ◼   ► get wedged in a way that that even a developer can be expected to figure out [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► on their own let alone individual user and that's what they're talking about [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► the verge articles like a support time suck because sometimes things just get [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► the wedged in don't work and there's no visibility of that does not even [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► visibility to the developer and less like a cessation to machine guns are [TS]

01:04:38 ◼   ► digging through like you know supposedly hidden directories containing big binary [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► blobs and daemon processes that are hung they're not putting the binary blob in [TS]

01:04:46 ◼   ► the right place and just like is the worst nightmare of trying to debug Elise [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► when you're debugging service I stopped at least you have access to the server [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► and you can see what's going on there this is like the worst of all possible [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► worlds like every single person literally does have their own little [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► server on their local machine there on the latest or in their machine and you [TS]

01:05:03 ◼   ► can't see any of that and talk about the services you also can't see all of which [TS]

01:05:07 ◼   ► have bugs none of which code you wrote you don't even have the source code [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► foreign and good luck W that so I'm sorry interrupted you you were gonna [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► bring up the social aspect and you said your gonna bring up something else [TS]

01:05:19 ◼   ► yeah and the other thing is that you know brian says you know keep in mind [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► that iCloud is Apple only he says you may think you'll never want an Android a [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► browser-based version of your app but are you sure really well yeah I'm pretty [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► sure but but now I think you know this is a very good point that you know if [TS]

01:05:44 ◼   ► you're if you're in the iCloud platform business if your app realizing that then [TS]

01:05:49 ◼   ► sure you know that's fine if today you only have an iOS platform but if you [TS]

01:05:56 ◼   ► really invest heavily in that you have to be really sure that your only ever [TS]

01:05:59 ◼   ► going to have an iOS platform and I don't think that's that's a very safe [TS]

01:06:03 ◼   ► assumption for a lot of things these days [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► best but the best part was when he brought what about a Mac App is not so [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► to the Mac App Store cuz you can use iCloud there either [TS]

01:06:11 ◼   ► forgotten about those forget about member was like oh well they're putting [TS]

01:06:15 ◼   ► iCloud only in the Mac App Store that'll be like that's to lure you into the Mac [TS]

01:06:18 ◼   ► App Store now it's like three like another repulsed air it's the opposite [TS]

01:06:22 ◼   ► effect it's like saying well I really don't wanna be a Mac App Store but only [TS]

01:06:27 ◼   ► the Mac App Store apps that uses awesome new iCloud AP I guess it is kinda like [TS]

01:06:35 ◼   ► it so its own credibility if you choose iCloud not only you just using Apple's [TS]

01:06:39 ◼   ► platform but you choosing also their sales channels like irrevocably yeah [TS]

01:06:43 ◼   ► exactly and so i think you know obviously I was making iOS app euro we [TS]

01:06:49 ◼   ► stuck in there and and that's fine but I just think it's unwise to limit yourself [TS]

01:06:55 ◼   ► necessarily like it's it's one thing to say i'm only going to have an iOS app [TS]

01:06:59 ◼   ► right now but it's a whole thing to say I will never have anything but an iOS [TS]

01:07:04 ◼   ► and Mac App Store app like that that's a very very limiting thing and changes of [TS]

01:07:09 ◼   ► policy decisions they could say hey guess what we have a Web API with a [TS]

01:07:13 ◼   ► JavaScript library now you can use iCloud API's from your web app that you [TS]

01:07:16 ◼   ► write yourself that would change a lot i mean it if Apple ever open up to two [TS]

01:07:20 ◼   ► service cider or website interaction that would open up tremendously but I [TS]

01:07:24 ◼   ► don't think they ever will understand the word no and there's no immediately [TS]

01:07:31 ◼   ► obvious benefit to them to do that and and so I don't I don't think they will I [TS]

01:07:34 ◼   ► think that would be a big giveaway [TS]

01:07:36 ◼   ► you know they wanted they want to lock down to their devices in their stores [TS]

01:07:39 ◼   ► and you know part of its just for control and part of it so they can make [TS]

01:07:43 ◼   ► sure that nobody goes crazy and abuses it through the API's and everything but [TS]

01:07:46 ◼   ► you know whatever the reason I don't think that's ever gonna happen so I [TS]

01:07:51 ◼   ► think it's you know it also points out that for most apps needs before sinking [TS]

01:07:57 ◼   ► it really isn't that hard to write your own server and to run your own server [TS]

01:08:00 ◼   ► and it really isn't that expensive and it really isn't that complicated and you [TS]

01:08:05 ◼   ► know you can you can design server side stuff to make it to make your life [TS]

01:08:09 ◼   ► really easy in in two key ways you can make it really cheap to run in scale and [TS]

01:08:14 ◼   ► low needs and you can design the absurd that if the server is not reachable the [TS]

01:08:19 ◼   ► apt is still useful you know and obviously depending on what you're doing [TS]

01:08:23 ◼   ► with the server [TS]

01:08:24 ◼   ► how useful it can be will vary but like with Instapaper it was really easy for [TS]

01:08:29 ◼   ► me to do this because Instapaper is made to be used offline so if the server is [TS]

01:08:34 ◼   ► not reachable the app things it's offline it was still works just fine he [TS]

01:08:40 ◼   ► just can't load new stuff into it but it still works everything to use up and [TS]

01:08:43 ◼   ► once it gets can actually get work so like Instapaper server goes down for an [TS]

01:08:48 ◼   ► hour which is a pretty major downtime for a web thing I'll hear about it from [TS]

01:08:53 ◼   ► a few people but not nearly as many as you would think because everyone else is [TS]

01:08:59 ◼   ► still using the app just fine although there is a big advantage to these type [TS]

01:09:03 ◼   ► of one Apple wants to happen this does happen a lot where like it easy for you [TS]

01:09:09 ◼   ► to talk about it as you have service I didn't even experience but what if you [TS]

01:09:11 ◼   ► just a client's I got like maybe you just want someone to take care of that [TS]

01:09:14 ◼   ► other stuff for you and I mean those type of API's allow developers who would [TS]

01:09:20 ◼   ► otherwise not be able to make these type of products to make them or would [TS]

01:09:24 ◼   ► otherwise need more people you know some examples might be okay so Lauren Berger [TS]

01:09:28 ◼   ► genius programmer great app designer but he is Gabe said he doesn't wanna write [TS]

01:09:32 ◼   ► that crap and if it works [TS]

01:09:33 ◼   ► kind of sort of didn't work when he launches game but you know like if it [TS]

01:09:36 ◼   ► eventually sort of works he doesn't have to do matchmaking he doesn't have to do [TS]

01:09:40 ◼   ► accounts at the moment he gets to just write the game part you with newsstand [TS]

01:09:44 ◼   ► mostly monetary things get the money and everything is like you couldn't have [TS]

01:09:48 ◼   ► done that but hey you know you can make an application the descriptions that [TS]

01:09:53 ◼   ► does something that native application wouldn't do by using Apple services [TS]

01:09:56 ◼   ► right now you did the web thing yourself anyway because of course you can but [TS]

01:09:59 ◼   ► that's just an extension of the App Store model where maybe don't wanna run [TS]

01:10:04 ◼   ► the store you don't want to figure out how to sell things to people and getting [TS]

01:10:08 ◼   ► the downloads are hosted do other stuff will take over that for you and Apple [TS]

01:10:11 ◼   ► wants to take over all those things and provide these infrastructure services [TS]

01:10:16 ◼   ► and that's all great when the services actually work and are things that people [TS]

01:10:23 ◼   ► want done and I think I cloud is is all those things except for the working part [TS]

01:10:29 ◼   ► and may be right up to the part where like if you design your own like if you [TS]

01:10:33 ◼   ► design your own service to synchronize your stuff you make design something [TS]

01:10:36 ◼   ► like a value story [TS]

01:10:37 ◼   ► and you might design something like I clubs documents in the clouds and you [TS]

01:10:40 ◼   ► might decide something like you know Game Center whatever those functions you [TS]

01:10:44 ◼   ► can imagine what would you to undertake on your own to say you know what I need [TS]

01:10:48 ◼   ► to provide arbitrary server-side synchronization of coordinated across [TS]

01:10:51 ◼   ► multiple devices I don't think individual developer would would buy [TS]

01:10:56 ◼   ► that off they would think of something simpler like the simple know what is [TS]

01:10:58 ◼   ► that when the simple notice oversight baby I like when third parties who [TS]

01:11:02 ◼   ► created these services they've looked more like traditional more like modern [TS]

01:11:08 ◼   ► web services and less like what I call for data thing with because they can't [TS]

01:11:14 ◼   ► do that they can have little demons running on everyone's machines they [TS]

01:11:17 ◼   ► can't they can make a diamond processing I was that does all this stuff like they [TS]

01:11:20 ◼   ► would be forced to do something that is it to be endpoint that their [TS]

01:11:25 ◼   ► applications talk to you know me like they wouldn't be able to do all this [TS]

01:11:28 ◼   ► crazy stuff that Apple did i think im just bit off more than it could chew in [TS]

01:11:32 ◼   ► this case I mean this is kind of a problem as we discussed two episodes ago [TS]

01:11:36 ◼   ► or last episode about I clouds model to the users that it it is the certain [TS]

01:11:43 ◼   ► simplification of hiding the file system and and and doing these things but still [TS]

01:11:46 ◼   ► limited I mean this is kind of like it sounds like Apple bit off more than they [TS]

01:11:51 ◼   ► can chew with a lot of parts of iCloud not just like oh it doesn't work [TS]

01:11:55 ◼   ► reliably but like this was a bad idea [TS]

01:12:00 ◼   ► wanna know if it was a bad idea but I just don't know if it's if it's been [TS]

01:12:05 ◼   ► executed well and in when John when you were talking minute ago I feel to some [TS]

01:12:10 ◼   ► degree you're describing me in that I have experienced and I have service and [TS]

01:12:15 ◼   ► experience but the thing is I've server-side experience in in Microsoft [TS]

01:12:19 ◼   ► technologies which are expensive and if I was to write say a grocery shopping [TS]

01:12:24 ◼   ► list that I could share between multiple people like Aaron and myself what are my [TS]

01:12:29 ◼   ► options I can't use iCloud because it's tied to a single iCloud I D so what am I [TS]

01:12:35 ◼   ► gonna do I could do you like parole and be like John or I could you PHP and be [TS]

01:12:40 ◼   ► like Marco I could do Python and B [TS]

01:12:43 ◼   ► you know what terrible according to you too I could do real well you know me I [TS]

01:12:49 ◼   ► don't know but but if I was going to learn something else for the web backend [TS]

01:12:52 ◼   ► stuff I would learn Python you can email Marco but the point I'm driving it is [TS]

01:12:56 ◼   ► what do i do and interestingly and I think brent talked about this in a [TS]

01:13:00 ◼   ► different post maybe I would go to a sure and maybe I would do and and that [TS]

01:13:05 ◼   ► doesn't necessitate using C sharp St using.net but from what I've gathered [TS]

01:13:10 ◼   ► having never played with this as yours are pretty pretty decent way to get some [TS]

01:13:15 ◼   ► sort of quick server-side or cloud database without too much effort with it [TS]

01:13:21 ◼   ► with an Iowa CPI and that's just not a place I don't think that's position [TS]

01:13:26 ◼   ► Apple wants themselves to be in it maybe they don't care I don't know what [TS]

01:13:29 ◼   ► they're doing and I've seen people do like this is that this is a low-tech [TS]

01:13:33 ◼   ► solution to like client-side people who don't wanna write big service ID service [TS]

01:13:37 ◼   ► but they know they need one and the like are by just like the grocery list like [TS]

01:13:40 ◼   ► like Dropbox Dropbox was something like what am I just like shavon JSON files [TS]

01:13:47 ◼   ► onto s3 and have the thing put down and Ike reconcile it because it's just a [TS]

01:13:52 ◼   ► grocery list how I possibly could go wrong worst-case scenario I get superset [TS]

01:13:56 ◼   ► of a bunch of changes in this an extra items that you don't want I can [TS]

01:13:58 ◼   ► duplicate you know like when you have a confined problem domain you can get away [TS]

01:14:02 ◼   ► with just the most ridiculous simple possible solutions s3 would be enough I [TS]

01:14:08 ◼   ► into something something other something not the mind of I something not the [TS]

01:14:12 ◼   ► device was something in this third place that's always available and i dont wanna [TS]

01:14:15 ◼   ► make it was available and that's annoying and that's really all I need is [TS]

01:14:19 ◼   ► some market share that's always available and I'll do everything else [TS]

01:14:22 ◼   ► myself in client-side code because I can because it's a grocery list that I got [TS]

01:14:25 ◼   ► some people end up doing that's annoying they would like to not be able to do [TS]

01:14:29 ◼   ► that if their needs are satisfied by key-value store in like oh my god I [TS]

01:14:33 ◼   ► cloud and I know where it's coming out Friday and I'm storing like you know [TS]

01:14:37 ◼   ► like Marcus things like your your last read position and like it's really easy [TS]

01:14:41 ◼   ► to reconcile [TS]

01:14:44 ◼   ► non-critical its tube it's a date if i dont have a good throw it away and it's [TS]

01:14:48 ◼   ► like no big deal or like worst case I can just pick the lock the later one too [TS]

01:14:51 ◼   ► soon [TS]

01:14:52 ◼   ► you read from top to bottom like not having to do that and saying I can tell [TS]

01:14:56 ◼   ► you stories that just like makes people smile like a weight I don't have to do [TS]

01:15:00 ◼   ► any of that crap I just want to store number somewhere and I could do that for [TS]

01:15:04 ◼   ► me and you know it's like it's like keyless where can I go again came out [TS]

01:15:09 ◼   ► and have a proper lets people using them for everything was like well I didn't [TS]

01:15:13 ◼   ► need to design some stupid like to see structure ministerial I zip code or in [TS]

01:15:18 ◼   ► this case like this store like a list of values like I just a little bit crazy [TS]

01:15:23 ◼   ► and then you end up like trying to make appeals into your entire database and [TS]

01:15:27 ◼   ► that's bad but not if you give developers a little tiny bit of cool [TS]

01:15:33 ◼   ► infrastructure that makes them happy but if you keep cranking out the side you [TS]

01:15:38 ◼   ► know we're basically going to do everything for you and don't worry to [TS]

01:15:41 ◼   ► work in a doesn't then you know people scale back and say you know i maybe I [TS]

01:15:44 ◼   ► should go back to uploading Jason Powell says three cause that I'd at least I I [TS]

01:15:48 ◼   ► can have some guarantees about it working in a predictable way that's [TS]

01:15:52 ◼   ► predictable it's mostly reliable and to some degree it's a known quantity I [TS]

01:15:57 ◼   ► completely agree with you [TS]

01:15:59 ◼   ► yeah and and again like you know if if you have simple needs you can write your [TS]

01:16:03 ◼   ► own sync stuff and get another not everyone's going to get their sink stuff [TS]

01:16:06 ◼   ► correct but again like if it's a grocery list and you have to sync stuff like you [TS]

01:16:10 ◼   ► know what's the worst that can happen is not correct you can fix because of all [TS]

01:16:14 ◼   ► the source code you were the worst part is like it if it's going wrong in like [TS]

01:16:19 ◼   ► the you know the demons running on your local matter or wedged in or not [TS]

01:16:23 ◼   ► synchronizing or notify your applications like you don't control that [TS]

01:16:26 ◼   ► code you doin you're not making it run you don't have the source file bugs into [TS]

01:16:31 ◼   ► the black hole and just wait patiently the next major version but in the [TS]

01:16:34 ◼   ► meantime your customers just want their stuff to sink and it has been pointed [TS]

01:16:38 ◼   ► out to an article in so short you to read it before you put the whole thing [TS]

01:16:42 ◼   ► but you know this stuff and doing the server side stuff is real has really [TS]

01:16:47 ◼   ► gotten so easy in the last five years as so many tools come out to make it really [TS]

01:16:54 ◼   ► easy really chief you have to write so little custom code these days there are [TS]

01:16:59 ◼   ► great frameworks there are great services there there are there are [TS]

01:17:03 ◼   ► companies will automatically scale up and down [TS]

01:17:05 ◼   ► everything there are a lot of things that are more complex that will require [TS]

01:17:10 ◼   ► cuts to work but but for the most part for simple needs for most developers [TS]

01:17:14 ◼   ► needs you don't need anything bigger than like a lineout instance or you know [TS]

01:17:20 ◼   ► paying paying by the by the cycle on something like Heroku or as your or s3 [TS]

01:17:26 ◼   ► or a PC to and the things that use easy to like for most developers needs one [TS]

01:17:33 ◼   ► virtual server somewhere will cover it and you can write something and whatever [TS]

01:17:37 ◼   ► framework you find that is understandable to you and as Brent says [TS]

01:17:42 ◼   ► it was a very good point has been says like if you could learn Coco you can [TS]

01:17:47 ◼   ► learn this stuff you know [TS]

01:17:49 ◼   ► cocoa industry so obtuse in so many ways like web programming to somebody who's [TS]

01:17:54 ◼   ► who does iOS programming web programming will seem easy by comparison pointers [TS]

01:17:59 ◼   ► and type stuff is that part of the articles say it's not so much that it's [TS]

01:18:05 ◼   ► so much easier than it was before your summary of its dead it used to be that [TS]

01:18:11 ◼   ► for for a given amount of effort you get a certain result now if you put in it [TS]

01:18:15 ◼   ► sam nunn effort your result will be so much better [TS]

01:18:18 ◼   ► like the base the base level has risen so much is still going to be complicated [TS]

01:18:22 ◼   ► lots of stuff to learn and stuff like that but previously if you put in like a [TS]

01:18:26 ◼   ► week into getting a service and stuff you'll end up with like something that [TS]

01:18:29 ◼   ► looks like someone who had been just doing service for a week but now you [TS]

01:18:33 ◼   ► have such an incredible like up with all these instructions if you put in the [TS]

01:18:37 ◼   ► week your end result will be you're standing on the shoulders of giants who [TS]

01:18:41 ◼   ► created all the infrastructure for you not staring at a blinking cursor on a [TS]

01:18:46 ◼   ► bare you know Linux machine and saying okay now I guess I start writing a CGI [TS]

01:18:51 ◼   ► script there something like your see you have such a leg up so it is really [TS]

01:18:55 ◼   ► complicated not that people stay away I mean when it's like anything else if you [TS]

01:19:00 ◼   ► are service I develop you take a lot of stuff for granted but a lot of clients I [TS]

01:19:03 ◼   ► people are starting from basic knowledge that doesn't really help them that much [TS]

01:19:06 ◼   ► but they can follow tutorial to get some sort of rails thing up or even like [TS]

01:19:10 ◼   ► noting just get some sort of note instance [TS]

01:19:13 ◼   ► and you know put a little tiny snippet of code like a coaching strained back [TS]

01:19:16 ◼   ► and you can run that instance on a virtual machine that you can scale up [TS]

01:19:19 ◼   ► you are so far ahead of where expert service I did offers were in 1993 with [TS]

01:19:26 ◼   ► your stupid little 19 ekhono program right like the things that things can do [TS]

01:19:30 ◼   ► the scalability performance and reliability of that are just worlds [TS]

01:19:34 ◼   ► beyond expert level knowledge from two decades ago so that's that's even one [TS]

01:19:38 ◼   ► decade ago that's why I think like you know that's what he's getting at is like [TS]

01:19:41 ◼   ► even though you don't know anything about this you'll be able to get [TS]

01:19:44 ◼   ► something else that has good performance scalability and reliability even if you [TS]

01:19:49 ◼   ► have almost no idea what you're doing you just put it a little bit of time and [TS]

01:19:52 ◼   ► that was not true [TS]

01:19:53 ◼   ► many many years ago and also remains not true if you want a 500 million users [TS]

01:19:57 ◼   ► which is libelous crude but you're not gonna have 500 million users and if you [TS]

01:20:02 ◼   ► do presumably you can hire me look like Instapaper runs on about 10 servers does [TS]

01:20:08 ◼   ► it it does a lot of stuff for a lot of people but the magazine runs on the [TS]

01:20:13 ◼   ► cheapest VPS outline erode its $20 a month the entire service runs on that my [TS]

01:20:19 ◼   ► blog market or get service number of patients these days that runs on the [TS]

01:20:24 ◼   ► cheapest VPS outline erode again because it's like the stuff that we can get [TS]

01:20:30 ◼   ► today is so advanced and everything is so fast hardware so cheap to rent and [TS]

01:20:36 ◼   ► then with the so cheap [TS]

01:20:38 ◼   ► I've never bought damn with separately from any of these things like with all [TS]

01:20:41 ◼   ► the bandwidth is pooled from other servers and I've never exceeded that [TS]

01:20:44 ◼   ► pool adjust to whatever whatever each server comes with its all pull together [TS]

01:20:48 ◼   ► and I've never need to buy more than that and that's a pretty big with [TS]

01:20:52 ◼   ► intensive app like you can do so much now with so little money and so [TS]

01:20:58 ◼   ► relatively few servers and and and yet using one of these crazy host of things [TS]

01:21:03 ◼   ► you don't even have to deal with the individual servers directly its you can [TS]

01:21:07 ◼   ► just do so much and the fact is most iPhone app developers are gonna need to [TS]

01:21:13 ◼   ► do some crazy ridiculous complex thing during life their app should finish [TS]

01:21:18 ◼   ► quoting but I assume going by memory here is an article from the very bottom [TS]

01:21:22 ◼   ► part about [TS]

01:21:23 ◼   ► how r maybe this wasn't someone else's commentary Apple thing about how they [TS]

01:21:26 ◼   ► want to control all the important part is that part yeah well anyways I can't [TS]

01:21:33 ◼   ► find the exact part but he says you know here he said Tim Wood of the Omni group [TS]

01:21:38 ◼   ► treated the tweeted the phrase own the wheel [TS]

01:21:42 ◼   ► here's the thing is that this is Brent Burns words here here's the thing [TS]

01:21:47 ◼   ► have to Miller evolution is about designing and building apps for [TS]

01:21:49 ◼   ► smartphones and tablets [TS]

01:21:51 ◼   ► the other half is about right on the web services the power those apps how [TS]

01:21:54 ◼   ► comfortable are you with outsourcing half of the year after the company [TS]

01:21:57 ◼   ► gerber's commentary that I was remembering is it was so don't take [TS]

01:22:02 ◼   ► Bransford reconsider Tim Cook stock that's relieved that we need to own and [TS]

01:22:06 ◼   ► control the primary technologies behind the products we make you know if you [TS]

01:22:10 ◼   ► want to make a great product you want to have certain things under control [TS]

01:22:12 ◼   ► obviously you're not you don't control everything you know the App Store you [TS]

01:22:16 ◼   ► know control kokou during the source code for that in most cases unless it's [TS]

01:22:20 ◼   ► like you know something is part of Darwin like so many things are out of [TS]

01:22:23 ◼   ► your control and this is what's frustrating I think you know good [TS]

01:22:27 ◼   ► developers with iCloud is there they've accepted the things that are outside [TS]

01:22:32 ◼   ► their control the platform the store the other language the API the compiler and [TS]

01:22:36 ◼   ► lots of things are outside their control but they always felt like I can wrangle [TS]

01:22:41 ◼   ► the things that are within my control to make sure our customers have a good [TS]

01:22:44 ◼   ► experience in this club thing is like there between a rock and a hard place [TS]

01:22:46 ◼   ► because the customers think they wanted and are demanding that they want to sync [TS]

01:22:49 ◼   ► features and they specifically a strike called by name because good PR and they [TS]

01:22:54 ◼   ► can't make it work and that's that's an uncomfortable situation to be in my [TS]

01:22:58 ◼   ► brain to never promise last board because they control that side of it was [TS]

01:23:02 ◼   ► on it was on them to make it work and they could make it work because they [TS]

01:23:05 ◼   ► controlled everything top-to-bottom they never were gonna hit a barrier where [TS]

01:23:08 ◼   ► they like this isn't behaving in a deterministic way it's buggy and I can't [TS]

01:23:12 ◼   ► fix the bugs like that was never going to be you know it's a blocker right they [TS]

01:23:16 ◼   ► never had those bloggers who wasn't working right they were tweaked their [TS]

01:23:19 ◼   ► service offering if you really want to you know control your destiny to the [TS]

01:23:22 ◼   ► extent possible in a lot like Prince article said why would you give up [TS]

01:23:27 ◼   ► control over half of your application and less and less like giving up control [TS]

01:23:32 ◼   ► is one thing the other thing is like not having to worry about those details so [TS]

01:23:36 ◼   ► Lauren gave up control of his application to Game Center if that had [TS]

01:23:40 ◼   ► not worked out for him that would have been very bad and a lot of problems I [TS]

01:23:45 ◼   ► know but like it like eventually it sorted itself out of scaling problems [TS]

01:23:49 ◼   ► caused no news gave center for letterpress and bug in weird right but [TS]

01:23:53 ◼   ► he didn't want to write that stuff himself is not one interested him I had [TS]

01:23:58 ◼   ► to [TS]

01:23:59 ◼   ► that's the tradeoff he he made there maybe he regretted maybe who went second [TS]

01:24:03 ◼   ► time he would do the service I part himself right but that uncomfortable [TS]

01:24:07 ◼   ► situation where you know you're giving up control in exchange for you hope not [TS]

01:24:12 ◼   ► having to do that and if it comes out well you like hey look at all that work [TS]

01:24:16 ◼   ► I said that was really smart and you know I got featured on the App Store is [TS]

01:24:19 ◼   ► amusing game center in the seventh of the fringe benefits to using you know [TS]

01:24:22 ◼   ► Apple's API's right if it doesn't work out you can't keep your application here [TS]

01:24:26 ◼   ► adding it for the night time then you're sad and you like that happen again from [TS]

01:24:30 ◼   ► now on I'm ready everything from scratch like Lauren Berger who doesn't use you [TS]

01:24:34 ◼   ► like it [TS]

01:24:36 ◼   ► Center at the so what's gonna happen in June or whenever WBC is with regard [TS]

01:24:43 ◼   ► specifically to iCloud I mean is they gonna have a new API are they going to [TS]

01:24:47 ◼   ► say oh man everything is finally fixed and if so is it gonna be real there's [TS]

01:24:51 ◼   ► gonna be a bunch of baloney mean what do you guys think of everything is all that [TS]

01:24:55 ◼   ► the new filesystem Casey aw I walked in the Smart TV not a circus will be so [TS]

01:25:02 ◼   ► happy [TS]

01:25:03 ◼   ► no but seriously I mean do you guys think that they're going to be a big [TS]

01:25:06 ◼   ► push for iCloud repentant for it are they gonna say oh no really for our [TS]

01:25:11 ◼   ► first for sure I promise this time its facts I don't know if they have enough [TS]

01:25:17 ◼   ► time he'll apps for them to be able to you know they know they need to do [TS]

01:25:22 ◼   ► something I don't have enough time has passed them to have actually done it I [TS]

01:25:25 ◼   ► don't know if they can come to me and say here is the thing and we have a [TS]

01:25:30 ◼   ► solution to fixing it is scrapping and replacing is something in between like I [TS]

01:25:35 ◼   ► don't think there's enough time has passed for that to happen all I think [TS]

01:25:39 ◼   ► they can do when they show up there is hopefully engaged developers [TS]

01:25:44 ◼   ► acknowledged the issues and have something for them that improves their [TS]

01:25:47 ◼   ► lives in some way [TS]

01:25:48 ◼   ► while also acknowledging the like this I don't think they gonna come out it's not [TS]

01:25:51 ◼   ► like to think about 14 get that existed as another thing it's awesome it works [TS]

01:25:57 ◼   ► great [TS]

01:25:58 ◼   ► you will forget 501 ever existed and people go oh wow that's awesome and then [TS]

01:26:03 ◼   ► they just forget you know I don't think there's enough time has passed because [TS]

01:26:05 ◼   ► maybe maybe a pessimistic but like in the very story think they said they like [TS]

01:26:12 ◼   ► for people working on iCloud stuff or whatever Apple has anyone thinks they [TS]

01:26:17 ◼   ► have right and I know how much work [TS]

01:26:20 ◼   ► handful developers can get done in like a year's time I just I'm not optimistic [TS]

01:26:24 ◼   ► but I'm coming down from the mountain with new stone tablet and saying we have [TS]

01:26:29 ◼   ► some of your problems you know not because they don't want to hurt or [TS]

01:26:33 ◼   ► negligent but just because not enough time I don't think that might my theory [TS]

01:26:41 ◼   ► is that is entirely but I thought is that I i think there's problems in both [TS]

01:26:44 ◼   ► the AP the ABIM limitations and problems with just the user conceptual model of [TS]

01:26:49 ◼   ► iCloud and I love you know where your data is in your apps how it's tied to [TS]

01:26:54 ◼   ► the Appellate it signed into the device I think they're they're such conceptual [TS]

01:26:58 ◼   ► problems there that I'm not expecting iCloud as it is named today to ever be [TS]

01:27:04 ◼   ► fixed I'm expecting it to happen more like MobileMe which is like some next [TS]

01:27:11 ◼   ► generation they will come out in a few years to replace or upgrade iCloud and [TS]

01:27:17 ◼   ► work differently for the users not just the developers I think it'll it'll have [TS]

01:27:21 ◼   ► to be conceptually different for the user to keep the name now I don't think [TS]

01:27:26 ◼   ► they do the name change [TS]

01:27:29 ◼   ► be able because it already is an umbrella term in there are parts of [TS]

01:27:32 ◼   ► iCloud work ok like you don't have to scrap key-value store just don't it's [TS]

01:27:37 ◼   ► fine right under the umbrella of iCloud so when you say that iCloud is [TS]

01:27:40 ◼   ► conceptualized there's no such thing as iCloud like iCloud CoreData stuff is [TS]

01:27:44 ◼   ► conceptually bankrupt and needs to be replaced or modified in iCloud [TS]

01:27:48 ◼   ► conception of [TS]

01:27:49 ◼   ► hey when you signed out we dump all your data that was linked to it like that [TS]

01:27:52 ◼   ► whole connection between your Apple ID DRI cloud thing and the data and [TS]

01:27:55 ◼   ► applications like that can be revised it all day thing can happen over the course [TS]

01:27:59 ◼   ► of several years without ever having to have a MobileMe to iCloud type [TS]

01:28:04 ◼   ► transition I like I think they can keep the name because it is an umbrella term [TS]

01:28:07 ◼   ► that really has no relation to you know like why is key value storage and [TS]

01:28:14 ◼   ► documents in the cloud on the umbrella of I got no reason they don't share the [TS]

01:28:18 ◼   ► same service that this setback and might be written by entirely different teams [TS]

01:28:22 ◼   ► be entirely different code the friend an API is also entirely different teams [TS]

01:28:25 ◼   ► they can be entirely different languages for all we knew they'd like to see that [TS]

01:28:28 ◼   ► one could be like are found like they're so there it as unrelated at anything [TS]

01:28:32 ◼   ► else except the network services market decide they're going to be under the [TS]

01:28:36 ◼   ► umbrella I cause I think Apple has plenty of runway in the room to totally [TS]

01:28:41 ◼   ► change everything about iCloud well still calling iCloud and just making it [TS]

01:28:45 ◼   ► look like over making it better [TS]

01:28:47 ◼   ► yeah I think but I think they like they're gonna have to do something [TS]

01:28:51 ◼   ► that's that's changing the way you know the whole portion of iCloud that is AB [TS]

01:28:58 ◼   ► storage the app storing their own data and having that sink somehow they do [TS]

01:29:04 ◼   ► multiple uses and I S III just think that whole concept as we talk about [TS]

01:29:09 ◼   ► being in another episode about about the the file storage thing not necessarily [TS]

01:29:15 ◼   ► making a lot of sense or or being too simple and not really addressing the [TS]

01:29:18 ◼   ► problem domain well enough I I think the entire iCloud data model for apps has [TS]

01:29:24 ◼   ► that problem [TS]

01:29:25 ◼   ► the entire I thought data model is too simple to limited doesn't really address [TS]

01:29:29 ◼   ► the real life problems and usage well enough for a lot of apps and I think [TS]

01:29:32 ◼   ► we're not going to see that get fixed with the part that we currently know [TS]

01:29:37 ◼   ► today as I cloud over the section of it what we will probably instead see is [TS]

01:29:41 ◼   ► people will start following instructions of you see fewer and fewer ads relying [TS]

01:29:46 ◼   ► on iCloud especially from big developers who who who know better and have the [TS]

01:29:50 ◼   ► resources to do not use it and under a tree and and I i feel like just like the [TS]

01:29:58 ◼   ► both of you said key-value storage I think that'll carry on I think [TS]

01:30:02 ◼   ► documents and iCloud will probably carry on I feel like core data sync iCloud [TS]

01:30:08 ◼   ► will go the way of garbage collection and no matter how you look at it the [TS]

01:30:12 ◼   ► forecast for iCloud it's cloudy we have to end the show now I did that just [TS]

01:30:18 ◼   ► really you're not allowed to keep talking up to that I do that was [TS]

01:30:24 ◼   ► terrible but I restrained myself see that scans your professional and we [TS]

01:30:31 ◼   ► should have an awesome song by Jonathan man how awesome was at stake now the [TS]

01:30:41 ◼   ► show they didn't even need to be in a dental [TS]

01:30:51 ◼   ► John [TS]

01:30:52 ◼   ► Casey [TS]

01:30:56 ◼   ► because it was accidental [TS]

01:30:59 ◼   ► and you can show no see a team markle [TS]

01:31:39 ◼   ► did you see his follow up like a second version better he made a second version [TS]

01:31:45 ◼   ► yes I said the song he made was nice but it didn't it didn't like the magically [TS]

01:31:52 ◼   ► whatever it didn't seem right for the show and he said well what would sound [TS]

01:31:57 ◼   ► right there shows and books or something he made some moves which is also awesome [TS]

01:32:07 ◼   ► the accent down for the day [TS]

01:32:39 ◼   ► that I did not see i no idea I'll have to pay as one of the men and will give [TS]

01:32:48 ◼   ► will give him a good link in the show notes and thanks to Jonathan man that [TS]

01:32:52 ◼   ► the song a day guide you to for doing this so I I love I lost my junk when I [TS]

01:33:00 ◼   ► saw that in the sense that I don't believe that a good way in the good way [TS]

01:33:03 ◼   ► in that I can't believe that somebody on the internet would care enough about the [TS]

01:33:09 ◼   ► city it's particularly me to to include me / us in a song that I was beside [TS]

01:33:15 ◼   ► myself excited that I'm good enough and gosh people like me [TS]

01:33:39 ◼   ► cyclist don't want to have to do something it'll take at least a hundred [TS]

01:33:47 ◼   ► episodes don't you nobody's gonna be sick of us has an artist I always wonder [TS]

01:33:53 ◼   ► if like if you know mark on I we had our progress where are we getting to Union [TS]

01:33:57 ◼   ► people are we getting the intersection for the people who can who could [TS]

01:34:02 ◼   ► tolerate me and can tolerate Marco is the sum of our parts less than you know [TS]

01:34:10 ◼   ► I think you guys are confused really on the big draw in you too or just writing [TS]

01:34:13 ◼   ► my coat tails yeah that's what your job is is to make all the people who hate [TS]

01:34:20 ◼   ► both me and Marco have someone like Apple / John sorry there are those [TS]

01:34:25 ◼   ► people and you know I want to start months Casey starts getting haters of [TS]

01:34:29 ◼   ► his own then pulled them out problem it's only a matter of time and you can't [TS]

01:34:32 ◼   ► do a podcast for that long and not getting very likable very likable that's [TS]

01:34:37 ◼   ► true not just like we are so have we met [TS]

01:34:43 ◼   ► what did you see somebody wasn't earlier today tweeted about how ugly we all are [TS]

01:34:46 ◼   ► ya when am I gonna argue [TS]