#11 – Fly My Nerd Flag

April 2, 2012

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Synopsis: In our eleventh installment, Game of Thrones returns to the airwaves as we discuss the politics and thematic elements of Westeros. Then, we look at 3rd-party gestures and UI in iOS and ask whether the long-term survival of Apple’s platform depends on 3rd-party innovations being baked into the OS. Finally, after much delay and tension, we discuss the problem of data caps and the tyranny of the carriers.

Duration: 1:27:55

Present: Michael, Steve, Shadoe, Chris, Adam

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Episode Links

Game of Thrones

• Game of Thrones as Social Theory

Users Interfaces & iOS

• Paper for iPad
• Path
• Clear
• The HIG is dead – long live the HIG
• The Siri Time Conundrum

Pull-to-refresh

• Pull-to-refresh’s patent application hasn’t been issued yet
• Justin Williams: Death to Pull-to-refresh
• Unzipping in Windows XP Professional
• Everyone ignores patents

The Bandwidth Mammoth

• Data Pricing Sanity Maybe?
• The WaPo is out to lunch
• Monday Note on carrier subsidies
• Public, private, common and club goods