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The Context

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A show by pinch/zoom that covers mobile and the craft of kick-ass experiences. Hosted by Brian Fling and Cheryl Gledhill from pinch/zoom.

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Episodes

  1. The Post-WWDC Episode

    This special All-Nerd edition of The Context features iOS developers Scott and Amanda talking about their experience at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. Get a developer's-eye view of the keynote, iCloud, Newsstand and other new features in iOS 5.

  2. The Pre-WWDC Episode

    Brian and Chez give their WWDC predictions, including mobile payments in the iPhone and web as an app platform in iOS 5. They also talk about the controversy around Google Wallet and PayPal and the $10 million dollar investment into grilled cheese sandwiches.

  3. The Mobile Payments and the new Bubble episode

    Google launches Google Wallet, a consumer based app with nearfield payments, and Square launches their iPad register. Is this the next step into all of us having a Google Life? Instapaper decides to pull their free app and only offer their paid version of the app. Bryan and Chez discuss the...

  4. The Stuff the Mobile Web Episode

    Brian Fling and Cheryl Gledhill talk about the mobile web vs native applications. The mobile web is great in theory but they've run into issue after issue in trying to develop mobile apps using the mobile web over native functionality. Brian questions whether JavaScript is the new frontier to...

  5. The Times are a Changin Episode

    pinch/zoom Product Manager Bryan Zug (@bryanzug) and Design Director Kevin Tamura (@ktamura) joins host Brian Fling (@fling) to talk about a number ways mobile is changing how we think of privacy, content, consumerism and cameras. First up we talk about the recent iPhone privacy scandal. Are we...

  6. The "Broken" Episode

    pinch/zoom Design Director Kevin Tamura (@ktamura) joins host Brian Fling (@fling) to talk about a number of breaking or broken things. First up the recent Breaking Development conference in Dallas. A much needed and rejuvenating summit around the future of the web and mobile. Then we talk about...

  7. The What's Next Episode

    Despite ducks quacking and impending flight to Australia, Brian (pinchzoom.com/​fling) and Chez (pinchzoom.com/​chezza) shot our fourth episode discussing what's next—how mobile is changing everything. First up, everyone is searching for answers, including at events like CTIA, SXSW and WWDC. But...

  8. The Dickbar Episode

    The Context is a show by pinch/zoom that covers mobile and the craft of kick-ass experiences. For 2011.03.14 we cover: - Design Summit and the future of design collaboration - iPad magazines - Smartphone marketshare - Mobile payments - HP webOS - CTIA - Tiny Wings and iPhone games - Twitter's...

  9. The First Episode (iPad2, Web vs. Native, Why animation matters in mobile design, & more)

    The Context is a show by pinch/zoom that covers mobile and the craft of kick-ass experiences. For 2011.03.07 we cover: - iPad2 - Web vs. Native - Device fragmentation - Why animation matters in mobile design - Apple's revenue model with carriers

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A show by pinch/zoom that covers mobile and the craft of kick-ass experiences. Hosted by Brian Fling and Cheryl Gledhill from pinch/zoom.

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A show by pinch/zoom that covers mobile and the craft of kick-ass experiences. Hosted by Brian Fling and Cheryl Gledhill from pinch/zoom.

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