Build And Analyze

More on the effects of competition, apps as entertainment risks and the dynamics of low app pricing, why forced app trials would be bad, health insurance for single-person businesses, and why Marco hates iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom.

Dan and Marco discuss Instapaper's new competitor, Readability, the effects of competing with a free product, trying to be original while implementing similar features, and the difficulties of choosing fonts for reading body text on screens.

Dan and Marco discuss fun cars and car economics, idea guys, the value of ideas, the value of products launched by "famous" people, and why responding to email is hopelessly impossible.

Dan and Marco discuss the value of accountants, taxing, 1099s, Japanese withholding on App Store sales, Internet Explorer's recent improvements and browser testing, and why this show often isn't about programming and APIs.

Dan and Marco discuss the Ivy Bridge delay, k56flex, Windows branding, and, oh yeah, the announcement and preview of OS X Mountain Lion.

Dan and Marco discuss apps versus the web, iOS address-book access and data privacy, and Honeywell suing Nest for patent infringement.

Dan and Marco successfully avoid development topics for an entire show, instead discussing USB outlets and the Nest thermostat.

Dan and Marco discuss server monitoring, iCloud replacing web apps, NSZombie, and the complex world of salaries.

Dan and Marco discuss mute switches, the cost of settings, bad broadband, deciding which features to implement, design and prototyping processes, and why the Nintendo 64 and first Xbox deserve a lot of credit.

Dan and Marco discuss CES, Second Crack, localization, code comments, serving custom data to UIWebView requests, discounts and sales devaluing your app, premium products, and blog comments.

Dan and Marco discuss app refunds, managing work and family time at home, workaholism culture in startups, the costs of doing business, and how Instapaper stores images offline.

Dan and Marco discuss listening to music while coding and making the most of open office layouts.

Dan and Marco discuss TextMate 2, designing (or having someone else design) icons for your apps, typing on Kindles, and why Marco uses queues in Instapaper.

Dan and Marco discuss the TextMate 2 alpha (it's real!), demand for iOS games, cloud hosting and the scaling challenges it won't solve, and the Top Brewer coffee faucet.

Dan and Marco discuss inverted Aeropresses, what Marco would do if he were in charge of Starbucks, app marketing responses and being featured in the App Store, avoiding creepy mobile analytics, and static blogging engines.

Dan and Marco discuss Andy Ihnatko's defense of the Kindle Fire, cheap versus bad, consumer priorities, what happens when your product gets canned before it ships, preparing for a Retina iPad, how to market your app, and every indie developer being a millionaire.

Dan and Marco discuss the Kindle Fire, Apple's profit off mobile apps, the recall of the 1st generation iPod Nano, Ice Cream Sandwich, career stages of a programmer and Plants vs Zombies.

Dan and Marco discuss the end of mobile Flash, the potential end of desktop Flash and Silverlight, reservations about the Kindle Fire's sales potential, career advice to programmers, and the difficult practicalities and economics of RSS sync platforms.

Dan and Marco discuss the difficult design decisions in Instapaper 4, managing customer expectations and habits when changing features, the iOS 5.0.1 fix and how to argue effectively with Apple, the Steve Jobs biography, and Keurig coffee minivans.

Dan and Marco discuss the developer implications of apps on TVs, more Apple TV analysis, shovelware, Codify for iPad, Dan's new AeroPress, and whether Marco's upcoming baby will require a minivan.