Marco Arment

We can't build to a schedule.

We just do stuff and when we finish it, we release it.

That is a little bit too touchy-feely for whatever trillion dollar corporation.

So I think it behooves Apple to continue to try to get better at

actually hitting deadlines with a set of realistic features that you can finish, not just barely finish so it barely works, but finish to a degree of quality that you would be proud of within the allotted time and being honest with yourself about what you can actually do.

there's a historical contention between marco and i about uh naming things on long island but there is one one particular naming thing that he's been doing for years that has just been bothering me and he did it again in this show and i figured we need an after show so let me see if i can convince him to stop doing this oh my god

I know the argument will probably be that this is not just a you thing.

This is just a common thing, and you're just doing what other people do, and so you're fitting in with the culture and yada, yada, yada.

And in general, I am a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist, but I feel like this one, maybe I can convince you.

Oh, I can't wait.

You always talk about going over to the mainland.

Yes.

But the definition of the word mainland, reading from Merriam-Webster here, is...

A continent or the main part of a continent distinguished from an offshore island or sometimes from a cape or peninsula.

Well, guess what?

Long Island is not a continent or the main part of a continent.

It is, in fact, an offshore island, thus the name and the surrounding of it by water.

So you're not going to the mainland.

You're going to another different island.

Do other people say mainlanders?