Build and Analyze

Build and Analyze

A weekly news and discussion show about the world of iPhone, iPad, iOS, and mobile web development. Hosted by Dan Benjamin & Marco Arment.

The Latest Build and Analyze Episodes

#65: An Accountant Knows Where To Put It

February 20, 2012 at 5:30pm • 1 hour 19 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss the value of accountants, taxing, 1099s, Japanese withholding on App Store sales, Internet Explorer’s recent improvements and browser testing, and why this show often isn’t about programming and APIs.

#64: Mountain Kitten

February 16, 2012 at 1:00pm • 1 hour 16 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss the Ivy Bridge delay, k56flex, Windows branding, and, oh yeah, the announcement and preview of OS X Mountain Lion.

#63: Underwear Drawer

February 10, 2012 at 12:45pm • 1 hour 22 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss apps versus the web, iOS address-book access and data privacy, and Honeywell suing Nest for patent infringement.

#62: Frustrated by the Invisible Person

February 2, 2012 at 6:00pm • 1 hour 15 minutes

Dan and Marco successfully avoid development topics for an entire show, instead discussing USB outlets and the Nest thermostat.

#61: Up and Down All Night Long

January 26, 2012 at 6:00pm • 1 hour 23 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss server monitoring, iCloud replacing web apps, NSZombie, and the complex world of salaries.

#60: Mostly Empty Notebooks

January 16, 2012 at 7:30pm • 1 hour 14 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss mute switches, the cost of settings, bad broadband, deciding which features to implement, design and prototyping processes, and why the Nintendo 64 and first Xbox deserve a lot of credit.

#59: Premium Products

January 10, 2012 at 12:15pm • 1 hour 31 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss CES, Second Crack, localization, code comments, serving custom data to UIWebView requests, discounts and sales devaluing your app, premium products, and blog comments.

#58: The Cake is Blue [Fixed Audio]

January 3, 2012 at 8:45pm • 1 hour 16 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss app refunds, managing work and family time at home, workaholism culture in startups, the costs of doing business, and how Instapaper stores images offline.

#57: Next to the Bathroom

December 27, 2011 at 6:00pm • 1 hour 12 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss listening to music while coding and making the most of open office layouts.

#56: The Worst Kind of Frustration

December 19, 2011 at 7:00pm • 1 hour 13 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss TextMate 2, designing (or having someone else design) icons for your apps, typing on Kindles, and why Marco uses queues in Instapaper.

#55: Scaling Enabled

December 13, 2011 at 6:30pm • 1 hour 21 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss the TextMate 2 alpha (it’s real!), demand for iOS games, cloud hosting and the scaling challenges it won’t solve, and the Top Brewer coffee faucet.

#54: Snob Blend

December 5, 2011 at 8:00pm • 1 hour 7 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss inverted Aeropresses, what Marco would do if he were in charge of Starbucks, app marketing responses and being featured in the App Store, avoiding creepy mobile analytics, and static blogging engines.

#53: Blows Enough For Me

November 30, 2011 at 9:00am • 1 hour 6 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss Andy Ihnatko’s defense of the Kindle Fire, cheap versus bad, consumer priorities, what happens when your product gets canned before it ships, preparing for a Retina iPad, how to market your app, and every indie developer being a millionaire.

#52: Me and My Bias

November 21, 2011 at 9:00am • 1 hour 28 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss the Kindle Fire, Apple’s profit off mobile apps, the recall of the 1st generation iPod Nano, Ice Cream Sandwich, career stages of a programmer and Plants vs Zombies.

#51: Plattsburgh

November 14, 2011 at 2:00pm • 1 hour 4 minutes

Dan and Marco discuss the end of mobile Flash, the potential end of desktop Flash and Silverlight, reservations about the Kindle Fire’s sales potential, career advice to programmers, and the difficult practicalities and economics of RSS sync platforms.

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