#27 – Vultures Circling the Corpse
July 30, 2012
Synopsis: It’s a mix of the old (AKA FU) and the new this week on the Impromptu. Adam and Shadoe return to the attitudes surrounding Sparrow and how they may colour our opinions of the new Mac Ads. A brief landing on Mountain Lion leads into a talk on Facebook’s Q2 earnings and the viability of profitable social networks. Finally, Adam gets his “I told ya so!” moment about the next iPhone’s design.
Duration: 1:08:04
Present: Adam and Shadoe
Episode Links
Sparrow Followup
- The Sparrow Problem – App Cubby Blog
- Entitlement and Acquisition – Mat Gemmell
- Double Standards – Curious Rat
- Two App Stores – Marco Arment
- Apple’s App Store Secrecy Hurts Indie Developers – Readwriteweb
- dotmailapp.com
- John Gruber Keynote Speech at Cingleton 2011
Genius Mac Ads
Mountain Lion
- What’s new in Mountain Lion
- MacBook Pro: The Thermal Paste Question – Mac devcenter
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica Review
- Announcing our First eBook – Macstories
- Destructoid – Wikipedia
- The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion – marco.org
Facebook Q3 Earnings
- Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
- Amazon.com Second Quarter Sales
- Samsung Earnings Release Q2
- Five Takeaways From the Facebook Earnings Call – New York Times
- What if Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable – Derek Powazek
- Cartmanland
- Insta-rich: $1 Billion for Instagram – The Wall Street Journal