52: Necessary But Not Sufficient

• Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface.
• RootMetrics testing real-world wireless speeds.
• Despite constant effort to improve usability, what if computers just aren't for everyone? (There's a similar long-standing debate with programming. See 4GL.)
• The Flappy Bird saga: Whether it's a good game and why the developer pulled it. (See also: Super Hexagon.)
• Is free-with-in-app-purchase ruining the game industry?.
• Comcast buying Time Warner and the implications on U.S. broadband competition.
• The stupid new top-level domains (TLDs).
• iBeacons and Bluetooth LE in stores and .museums.
• After-show: Bionic on new TLDs (at 26:50) and whether the TLDs are just a scam by ICANN, Patreon, and yet more on the Mac Pro.

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