This week start the FU with Jean Louis Gassée's Monday Note on the Mac Endgame. Following that we discuss the scam apps present on the Mac App Store. We discuss Matthew Yglesias' post on Apple having outgrown it's own corporate structure. We also discuss Chris Eidoff's post on the over-reliance on Protocol-Oriented Programming. We discuss Amazon's image recognition services. We touch on the Mac Calendar spam bug. Picks: AIToolbox, mucicForProgramming and Spark For Mac.

Episode 121 Show Notes:

The Macintosh Endgame by Jean-Louis Gassée
BeOS
Don’t Be Fooled: The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams
Apptentive
Setapp
Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
MATT YGLESIAS ON APPLE’S FUNCTIONAL, RATHER THAN DIVISIONAL, CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Intention
Protocol Oriented Programming is Not a Silver Bullet
Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
How to Stop Apple Calendar Spam
Accelerate Framework
BNNS
Google Goggles
Human Cent-iPad
Mr Robot Soundtrack

Episode 121 Picks:

AIToolbox
musicForProgramming
Spark for Mac
Rouge One: A Star Wars Story