Linked List: June 13, 2012

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2012 ★

This week’s episode of The Talk Show, recorded yesterday in front of a live audience during WWDC 2012 in San Francisco. My special guest: Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic. We discuss all the news from Apple’s WWDC keynote — the retina display MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, and iOS 6 — and the changing nature of indie app development in the App Store world.

My thanks to everyone who attended, and to Media Temple for sponsoring the event and the episode. Media Temple has a terrific offer for The Talk Show listeners: enter the code “gruber” and you’ll save 25 percent on any hosting service, and you’ll be entered in a contest to win a new retina display MacBook Pro.

Twitter Introduces Expanded Tweets ★

Michael Sippey:

You’ve probably expanded Tweets before to play videos from YouTube or see photos from Instagram. Now, a diverse and growing group of new partners like the The Wall Street Journal, Breaking News, and TIME also deliver rich content inside Tweets containing a link to those websites.

Twitter’s monetization strategy is unfolding.

‘CIOS Beware: New Macbook Pro Will Be a Bandwidth Hog’ ★

The “correction” is almost as funny as the original premise. Easily the most jackasstic thing I’ve read this week.

iOS 6 Shutdown Spinner Is Finally Retina Resolution ★

Matthew Panzarino:

Well the long nightmare is finally over. We can report that the shutdown spinner is now Retina-ready in iOS 6.

Best “finally” of the week.

Filed Under ‘Attention to Detail’ ★

Gizmodo reader “Zach”, noting a detail in the iOS 6 beta:

I noticed today that the reflection on the metallic sliders in the iPod app actually change as you tilt the phone from side to side.

No Multitouch on Wii U Controller ★

Stephen Totilo:

The Wii U GamePad is not multi-touch. Not a problem, Fils-Aime said, holding a GamePad in his hands. “When we went through the building of this and, given some of the functionality, we thought that single-touch was a more appropriate option, especially when you’ve got other button configurations.”

I love Nintendo, but I’m dubious about this. I could see a non-multitouch controller a few years ago, but today? This product is debuting in a world where everyone is familiar with iPhones and iPads.

2012 Apple Design Award Winners ★

Good choices, I say. But too game-centric.