104: 2014 Year in Review With Guest Rene Ritchie

Published: Dec. 27, 2014, 12:04 a.m.

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a special Apple 2014 year-in-review episode. Just a few of the many topics covered: Apple\u2019s Beats acquisition; WWDC 2014 in hindsight; an aside speculating on the alternate universe where Google acquired WebOS instead of Android; the similarities between the \u201cprojected UI\u201d nature of AirPlay, CarPlay, and WatchKit; UI fonts (Helvetica Neue in Yosemite, Apple Sans, and the Watch\u2019s San Francisco (a.k.a. \u201cDINvetica\u201d)); Apple\u2019s growing ability to design and bring to market its own hardware internals and components; recent controversies and confusing rejections at the App Store (and the need for a public-facing App Store ombudsman); and what we\u2019re looking forward to in 2015.