14: A Dark Age of Objective-C

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's GUI history, complain about TiVo some more, then explore the possibility of another Copland-like crisis looming in Apple's future. What will replace Objective-C and Cocoa? What can?

Links for this episode:

• John Gruber at Webstock '11 - The Gap Theory of UI Design
  
• Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters - Ars Technica
  
• TiVo survey hints at multiroom companion box, four-tuner DVR in the future - Engadget
  
• Avoiding Copland 2010
  
• Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 2
  
• Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 3
  
• Copland 2010 revisited: Apple's language and API future
  
• Copland - Wikipedia
  
• The Guru - Flickr
  
• The "haggling over the price" joke
  

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