If you've ever been curious about how Google, Manufacturers and Carriers work together to bring you an Android phone, then this episode of Material is for you. We also discuss the recent Motorola event. It's worth staying past the closing music just to hear my favourite bit of any podcast yet!

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This weeks episode of Material Podcast is out! We had the privilege of interviewing Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from the Google Nearby team. If you want to hear about some behind the scenes stuff about how this technology was made, and where it might be going, you owe it to yourself to listen.

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When I first started Rusty Rants, I had no clear goal in mind for how often I'd post here. My idea was that whenever something took my fancy and was too long for Twitter, I'd drop it here. As the site got more and more popular though, it started to make me think twice before posting things to it. Is this good enough? What if I'm wrong about this? It certainly didn't help that I met a lot of people from both Google and Apple at I/O and WWDC that all said they read it. I felt like yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN KIDS"...but then I remembered that I'd set up this lawn and stuck a sign on it that said "Come take a look, everything is free".

So let's make a deal, you and I dear reader. I'll leave the stats page closed and post whatever takes my fancy. You in turn will just skip over anything that bores you. Deal? Deal. Awesome.

So the first thing I haven't been posting about is every time a new episode of Material comes out. I think I might from now on, just for kicks. Todays episode is for anyone who has ever wondered about what Google Now is, and where it's going. Next weeks episode is going to be super interesting, but I might leave that a surprise.

I wrote a draft of a slightly conspiratorial post about how it was interesting that Apple News and ad-blocking Safari extensions were both launching with iOS 9. One being exclusively supported by iAds, the other one potentially cutting off mobile ads on iOS at the knees. In hindsight I'm glad I didn't publish it without researching it more. I'd like to do more of that from now on. In fact for those on iOS 9, I added this very blog to the platform, just to see how it all worked. You can add it by tapping this link on your iOS 9 device.

Oh, and future posts should be more about other things and less about me. Look at me making all these rules with myself and agreements with you, my imaginary Internet friends. We should totally poke each other on Facebook sometime!

It will probably come as no surprise that I'm a huge fan of podcasts. The main reason that Pocket Casts exists today was so that Philip and I could have an app to listen to them.

Ever since I switched to Android last year though, there has been a huge hole in my podcasting life. On the Apple side of things you can take your pick of great shows that cover both Apple news, and Apple topics. On the Android side the news side is really well covered by shows like All About Android and Android Central. The technical programming side of things is too, by one of my favourite podcasts, Fragmented.A deeper topic based show though? Not so much.

Until today.

Friends, Americans, countrymen lend me your ears. No really, and quite literally. Let me introduce you to Material, the Google podcast I've always wanted:

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Material is a weekly discussion about the Google and Android universe. Every week, we try to answer the question, “What holds up the digital world?” The answer, so far, is that it’s Google all the way down. The show is intended for people like me. It's also intended for those who use iOS devices, even exclusively. We're not here to beat the Google drum or make you switch, just to give you a perspective on what the other side looks like.

I keep saying we? Who is joining me in this crazy endeavour? None other than Andy Ihnatko, beloved tech pundit and Yasmine Evjen, passionate designer and Android user. Also the fine folk at Relay FM have welcomed us to their network. It's so exciting to have such a great home for our podcast and to get to do it with two amazing co-hosts.

Do yourself a favour, come and join us.

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I'm still catching up on all things work and decompressing after spending 15 days in the US for Google I/O and WWDC. In place of some blog posts, I thought I'd throw out a few other places you can hear me talk about recent events.

First up there's our Google Play Developer video which was a blast to be involved in:
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I was recently on episode 32 and episode 33 of the Design Details podcast (Pocket Casts link). We chatted about Google I/O, WWDC and some weird designer stuff I've never heard of ;)

I was of course on episode 13 and episode 14 of Topical (Pocket Casts link). Again we chatted about Google I/O and WWDC. Episode 14 though was more dear to my heart, it was all about Internet Fame.

I got to be on All About Android and try out my American accent. I think Ron loved it.

Chris Lacy of Action Launcher fame also invited me on his aptly name 'The Blerg' podcast to chat about, you guessed it, WWDC. (Pocket Casts link)

If you love short podcasts, then my appearance on inThirty is for you. You'll never guess how long it goes for.

If that's not enough Rusty in your life, then honestly, you probably need some therapy. Either that or you need to watch this gif on repeat.