66: The Housewives of Siracusa County

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss meeting Apple employees at WWDC, the latest round of iPhone rumors, RubyMotion (a new product for writing iOS apps in Ruby), the distinction between producer, consumer, and performer in gaming and other arts, The Kids Today, games as art, and Dropbox-related App Store rejections.

Links for this episode:

• Rumors about the next iPhone: size, screen, dock connector - iLounge
  
• Participation, consumption and enjoyment - Jonathan Dugec
  
• Game completion statistics - Gamasutra
  
• RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS
  
• Building native iOS apps with RubyMotion - Ars Technica
  
• iPad Keyboard Prototype - YouTube
  
• Dara O Briain Live at the Apollo: I Love Video Games - YouTube
  
• Begging the question - Wikipedia
  
• Hypercritical #15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
  
• Hypercritical #14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
  
• REPL: Read–eval–print loop - Wikipedia
  
• Hypercritical #6: Frivolous Things
  
• Lolita - Wikipedia
  
• The Apple strategy tax
  
• The real Daniel Hooper!
  
• The Joys and Sorrows of Being an Almost-Gamer - Ash Furrow
  
• No true Scotsman fallacy
  
• The start of the Twitter thread with Frankly
  

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