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Announcements, podcasts

Introducing the Beyond Devices Podcast

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If you’re a regular reader of the Beyond Devices blog, first of all thank you! I appreciate your interest, and hope you find reading what I post here useful and interesting. I also regularly appear with other members of the Techpinions team on our weekly podcast, and absolutely plan to keep doing that.

However, a friend and I often have conversations about Apple, and I’ve always found his perspective really interesting. Aaron Miller used to blog about iMovie, and as a result was asked to co-write the iMovie: The Missing Manual books with David Pogue. Aaron is also a long-term Apple fan and watcher, and actually brings a longer history to this topic than my own (my focus on Apple began rather later, in the early 2000s). He often knows interesting tidbits of history and so on which I don’t, and I always find his ideas thought provoking and refreshing. So the two of us have decided to start a podcast, which is called simply the Beyond Devices Podcast and hosted at a subdomain of this site (podcast.beyonddevic.es) as well as SoundCloud and iTunes, which will likely focus largely on Apple itself. Our first episode is up now, and previews next week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. Next week, we’ll focus on the biggest announcements from WWDC in episode 2.

I invite you to listen to the first episode and, if you like what you hear, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or SoundCloud, or your favorite podcasting software, and share it with your friends and colleagues. And we certainly invite your feedback too. Thanks again for your interest in the blog, and I hope you enjoy the podcast too.

Apple, podcasts, Smartwatches, Wearables, WWDC

New podcasts

I’ve done two podcasts in the past week:

  • The Beehive Startups / Startup Daily podcast, which I occasionally guest on. This episode was recorded shortly after Apple’s WWDC, so we talked a lot about what Apple announced there, including HealthKit, HomeKit and Swift. We also talked a bit about Google’s self-driving cars.
  • The Techpinions podcast, where I’m a regular contributor (I also write a weekly column on the Techpinions site). We talked about E3 and consoles, PCs, and wearables. Some of the thoughts on smartwatches I’d previously shared in this post about the potential for an iWatch.

Happy listening!

Apple, podcasts

Beehive Startups podcast

I had the pleasure of joining the regulars on the Beehive Startups podcast last week for their latest episode. Beehive Startups is a local effort to profile and cover startups here in Utah, and it was fun to do this one in person rather than by Skype. Clint Betts and Mike Templeman talk about the broader tech industry as well as Utah-specific topics on the podcast, so it’s a good mix. A full description of the episode is on the episode page, but among other things we talked about:

  • Vurb – a search engine startup
  • Automattic – creators of WordPress
  • The Samsung/Apple court case
  • Fred Wilson’s recent comments on Apple in 2020

The episode is well worth a listen, and at 28 minutes mercifully short. And if you’re into the tech scene in Utah, you should subscribe. I’m looking forward to joining them again soon.

Amazon, podcasts, Smartphones, Subsidies

Techpinions Podcast Episode 2

I had the pleasure of recording the second episode of the new Techpinions podcast with Bob O’Donnell and Ben Bajarin on Friday, and the podcast went up on Saturday May 3rd. The podcast focused mostly on Amazon’s potential entry into the smartphone market, and we mentioned a few things on the podcast which I thought would be worth linking to.

  • First off, Ben’s post from this week on Amazon’s smartphone potential
  • Bob referred to this chart I shared earlier this week about the upgrade rate for smartphones among the major US carriers – it’s the second one from the bottom on this piece (more analysis on some of these numbers here)
  • My earlier Techpinions post on the potential impact of changing device subsidy models and how it might hurt carriers on the one hand, and help certain OEMs on the other
  • A tweet from a week or two ago about Amazon’s testing of installment plans for Kindles
  • You can see the number of apps on the Amazon Appstore for Android which are tablet vs. phone optimized about one scroll down in the left sidebar

I’m excited about the Techpinions podcast, because it will give the varied group of people that write for Techpinions an interesting new channel for sharing their views and insight. I’m looking forward to doing future episodes from time to time too.