Accidental Tech Podcast

• Follow-up:
  • Rivian Repair
    • Becki & Chris (timestamp link) (via Matt Rigby)
    • Marco’s Repair Breakdown
      • Parts: 39%
        • Right Uniside assembly quarter panel: $2,751
        • Bumper cover: $940
        • Right tail lamp assembly: $630
        • Right quarter panel glass: $537
      • Labor: 53%
      • Miscellaneous & taxes: 8%
    • PDR videos
      • R1T driver quarter panel
      • R1T passenger quarter panel
      • PDR technique explained
    • Pictures of the R1S side panel
      • Post
      • Image
  • Another example of outrageous car body panel prices
  • EV charge port locations (via Craig Ritchie)
  • Gas-hole locations (via David Barber)
  • Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1
    • …with a waitlist for the beta
• CrowdStrike
  • How Windows 3.1 may have saved Southwest’s butt
    • RTFU: Nope.
  • Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
  • CrowdStrike Preliminary Post-Incident Review
  • Apple’s approach
    • Apple Endpoint Security
    • WWDC 2020: Build an Endpoint Security app
  • Microsoft calls for Windows changes
  • CrowdStrike fails to read the room
• iPhone 17 “slim” rumors
  • MacRumors
  • Ming-Chi Quo
  • …with Apple 5G modem‽
  • …with different camera placement?
    • The Information
  • Rumored iPhone 17 lineup
  • Max Tech on iPhone 17 “slim”
  • …with a fold‽
    • The Information
• Post-show: Overcast launch & Callsheet renewals
  • Callsheet renewal blog post
  • Ketchup
  • RevenueCat
• Members-only ATP Overtime: AI & Search
  • Google is the only Reddit-approved search engine
  • MJ Tsai
  • Gruber
  • SearchGPT
    • Verge coverage

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• Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
• Follow-up:
  • Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
  • EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access
    • EU announcement
  • Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rejection
    • infinitemac.org
  • More on robots.txt (via Mike Lewis)
    • MISP
    • Verifying Googlebot & other Google crawlers
    • Verifying Bingbot
• Maybe Open AI ain’t such a great group, after all
  • Phil Schiller to join OpenAI’s board as an “Observer”
  • Wait, j/k j/k j/k
  • Open AI silences whistleblowers
    • SEC Whistleblower Program
• Apple Watch SE with… plastic casing?
• New HomePod Mini color
  • Press release
• Apple “Home Accessory”
  • Touchscreen HomePod rumors
• Ask ATP:
  • Should one even bother learning an ancient language today?
  • What’s the correct placement for an EV charger? (via Thomas Brock)
  • How do we keep our backup vortexes from becoming backup black holes? (via Russell Fitzpatrick)
    • Arq Backup
  • Why doesn’t Apple include a small battery in desktop Macs? (via Ty Bolt)
• Post-show: Marco’s 🍌 has come home
  • Before photo
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Product Longevity
  • Apple improving battery replacements
  • Apple commits to at least 5 years of security updates
  • Apple’s Don’t Let Me Go ad
  • Gruber’s response
    • Follow-up
    • iCloud vs. Competition

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• Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
• Follow-up:
  • More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
  • More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
  • David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
  • European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
  • More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
  • 🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Culture Clash explained (via Ryan Lee)
• Overcast’s 10th Anniversary… Launch!
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  • Blackbird
  • FCModel
• Post-show: Casey’s new office audio setup
  • Era 300
  • Premium Immersive Set with Arc (Casey has the same Arc soundbar, the same Sub Gen 3, but One SLs as rears)
  • Sub (Gen 3)
  • Move (Casey has a Move 1)
  • Roam (Casey has a Roam 1)
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Notarization changes in Sequoia
  • Follow-up

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• Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe
  • Fully Herman Miller Jarvis
• Follow-up:
  • An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
  • The origins of S-Tier in tier lists (via David Schaub)
    • Grading in Japan
  • AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphone
  • Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)
  • What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu)
  • Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking
  • Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker
    • Epic accuses Apple of delaying its EU alternative store launch
      • Epic’s statements
    • Apple approves Epic Games Store
    • Tim Sweeney pops off
• Tech and Labor
  • FTC has banned noncompete agreements for workers
  • TSMC’s Struggles in Arizona
    • Gruber’s summary
  • US-made chips will cost Apple more
    • The Financial Times
  • Judge says “just kidding” to FTC’s noncompete ruling
• Ask ATP:
  • Is moving to a bundled password manager safe (via Trager)
  • Is Apple’s embrace of AI enough to prevent it from being the next crypto? (via Jamie)
  • What makes iCloud Keychain different than the Windows Recall database? (via Jon Wilson)
  • Is Apple still a privacy-first company? (via Steven Wood)
• Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house
  • Technology Connections video on heat pumps
  • Inverted U-shaped heat pumps
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Feature Requests for Death
  • Greg Pierce
  • Craig Hockenberry
  • Louie Mantia

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• Pre-show:
  • Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
  • New member’s special: iPod Tier List
• Follow-up:
  • Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
  • An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
  • One EU citizen’s perspective on DMA (via Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst)
  • Suggestions for “Brexit”-style colloquialisms for Apple leaving the EU
    • iQuit (via Oliver Thomas)
    • iLeave (via Jared Counts)
    • AXiT (via Frederik Björeman)
  • CarPlay audio
    • New version of Casey’s dongle
  • Using AirPods Pro as hearing protection (via Kirk Northrop)
  • Apple is using Google Cloud infrastructure to train/serve AI
    • AxLearn
    • AxLearn Infrastructure
• Apple’s “Help Me Choose” Wizard
  • Giulio Montagner discovers the dark truth
  • A PCI Express break-out box compatible with Apple Silicon Macs
• AI Training & Data Rights
  • John Voorhees from MacStories
  • Protecting MacStories from AI Bots
  • OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring robots.txt as well
    • robots.txt
  • MJ Tsai roundup
  • Perplexity CEO doesn’t really seem to care
  • Microsoft’s AI boss actively doesn’t care about your feelings
• Google Zero
• Music industry giants cry copyright foul on AI firms
  • The Verge
  • Andy Baio
    • 404 Media
  • The RIAA versus AI, explained
• Figma pulls AI tool after it apes Apple’s design
• I Made This - John’s post about AI and the act of creation
• Monkey selfie copyright dispute
• Post-show: John’s Mac Pro[blems]
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Vision Pro plans
  • Gurman’s take
  • Jason’s take

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• Pre-show: Casey’s thought processes and traditions
  • The Last Dance
• Follow-up:
  • iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia
    • Ricky Mondello on
      • Chrome Native Messaging JSON files documentations
    • Simeon (formerly Chrome, now Firefox) weighs in
      • Use alternative installation methods for Chrome extensions
      • Sideloading addons in Firefox
    • Niléane points out Network Locations was already back in Sonoma
    • iPhone Mirroring doesn’t help with rearranging your home screen (via Hunt 2013)
    • HomePods apparently have 1GB RAM
    • Some insight on InSight
    • Chess is around 35 years old
      • Infinite Mac
    • CarPlay
      • Next-Generation CarPlay Design System
      • Next-generation CarPlay Architecture
• Apple Found in Breach of DMA
  • Apple Statement
  • Margrethe Vestager
• Apple may delay features because of DMA
  • Press release
• Ask ATP:
  • Does anyone keep track if rumor mongers’ claims are true are not? (via Todd Vaziri)
• Post-show: An update on Erin’s car situation
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• Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro
  • The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
  • Theatre (App Store link)
  • Sandwich
  • SpatialGen
• ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
• Microsoft Recall
  • 7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
  • 13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall
    • Microsoft blog post
• CoPilot+PCs on Intel and AMD won’t get Copilot AI features
• UTM has gotten told to pound sand
  • More from Michael Tsai
  • Dolphin and the App Store
• Apple and Meta could face charges for violating 🇪🇺 DMA rules
• Casey was in the keynote!!
• tvOS
  • InSight will use your iPhone
  • InSight uses ML to identify actors and songs?
  • Turning off sports notifications on the Apple TV
• watchOS 11 offers rest days
  • Matthew Willoughby with an excellent flex
• “Apple ID” → “Apple Account”
• macOS Sequoia
  • Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad in Sidecar already works!
  • Chris Chelberg has a galaxy brain moment
  • Network Locations have returned in Sequoia
  • Passwords.app passwords are still right-aligned
  • Sequoia window tiling can be disabled
  • Chess has been updated! (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    • Comparison (via Cabel Sasser)
  • iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia (via Jonathan Freese)
  • Sequoia VMs allow logging into iCloud
    • Apple documentation
• Apple Intelligence
  • Apple Intelligence & third-party mail apps (via Rick Knowler)
  • Xcode AI code completions
  • Hardware requirements (via David Steer)
  • Apple’s AI training data
  • How to tell Apple “no thanks” on your website data
  • Tim Cook interview in the Washington Post
  • ST-S asks about Siri unsupported devices
  • Apple Silicon in Apple’s Private Cloud Computing servers
    • The Talk Show
  • Apple & OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet
    • Gurman’s report
  • The Sane on the impact of Apple Intelligence
• iOS 18
  • Bezel indents
    • GIF
  • Caleb Denman on iOS flashlight features
    • Quinn’s video
  • Third-party cameras on the iOS lock screen (via ST-S)
    • WWDC video
    • Obscura
• visionOS 2.0
  • Features not mentioned in the keynote
    • Customize your Home View
    • See your keyboard in any environment
    • Guest user improvements
    • Enterprise APIs
    • Other spots by The Verge
• Swift
  • Moved out of github.com/apple
    • New home
  • Swift Testing
    • Github
• HomeKit: You can now pick your HomeKit hub
• CarPlay
  • New features
  • Next-gen CarPlay video
• Post-show: Erin’s no-good, very bad week
  • A very expensive pebble
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Blue Ocean, revisited
  • John’s original blog post
  • Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery

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• Holly Borla: Swift Language Engineering Manager
  • @holly on Mastodon
• Ben Cohen: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Swift Team
  • @airspeedswift on Mastodon

Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.

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• Pre-show: Marco’s fans
  • Peltier plate
  • Marco’s mount
    • The alternative stronger cooler
  • Cooler only, without charging
• Follow-up:
  • Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
  • Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
    • Commercial
    • Snapdragon Computex Keynote
    • Previously, for Intel
    • Apple’s M1 ad with John Hodgman (“PC”)
    • Gruber’s take
    • Jason on macOS permissions dialogs
  • Windows Recall is a security “disaster”
    • Steal everything in two lines of code
  • AMD enters the AI chat
  • Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs
  • When Apple said “The M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores” they really meant “9 GPU cores”
    • Performance wasn’t affected though
  • How LLMs learn
    • Retrieval-augmented generation (via Adeiko)
      • Problems with RAG
      • Research paper
    • On ∞ context (via Stephen Tierney)
      • Research paper
• WWDC Preview
  • Read my lips: no new hardware
  • Developer app immersive environment
  • OpenAI deal
  • XCTest
  • Fluent Assertions
• Ask ATP:
  • Any chance the expected late-2024 M4 MacBook Pro gets Thunderbolt 5? (via James)
  • Any chance we’ll get 16GB RAM in the eventual M4 MacBook Air? (via David Martin)
  • Could the lack of cellular Mac be because there’s no Apple modem? (via Winnie Lewis)
• Post-show Neutral: Kid cars, revisited
  • ATP Neutral: Car shopping
    • Casey’s Wireless CarPlay adapter
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s in-car dreams are a bit of a 🎢
  • Mercedes says “nothx”
    • Decoder episode
  • Polestar says “maybes”
    • Decoder episode
  • Apple 🤝 Rivian?
    • Digitimes (Paywalled)

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• Follow-up:
  • New Vision Pro Content
    • Experience Immersive (“Sizzle Reel”)
    • Adventure Episode 2: Parkour
    • What If…?
      • Jason Snell’s review
  • Even the low-storage 13” iPad Pros have 12 GB of RAM, despite only using 8 GB? 🤨
    • Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the tweets X’s in this whole 🤬 thread, because Twitter X won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him.
    • Shahram Mohktari (iFixIt Lead Teardown Technician)
    • Could it be binning?
    • Maybe, but unlikely. For real
  • M4 iPad Pro flicker?
    • Pulse-width modulation
    • Reddit thread 1
    • Reddit thread 2
    • Reddit thread 3
    • Reddit thread 4
    • MacRumors
  • TOPS measurements (via Michael Thompson)
  • iCloud Drive & node_modules (via Eric Jacobsen)
    • nosync-icloud
    • asimov
      • Excluded directory list
  • Audio routing during Vision Pro guest mode (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
• Gurman on what to expect at WWDC
  • Neven Mrgan gets an email
  • Breaking news on Siri “scripting”
    • App Intents
    • NSUserActivity
• LLM check-in
  • Google scrambles to manually clean up its AI-generated mess
  • Pachinko
  • 3Blue1Brown neural networks playlist
    • Chapter 5: But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers
    • Chapter 6: Attention in transformers, visually explained
  • Google on its LLM goals at I/O
• Post-show: Marco’s desk setup
  • KEF Q150
  • Sonos Era 300
  • Sonos Move
  • Sonos Combo Adapter
  • Sub (Gen 3)
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law
  • Legal challenges that lie ahead for TikTok — in both US & China
  • TikTok sues the US government
  • TikTok seems to be dodging App Store commissions in Epic fashion

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• Follow-up:
  • John’s iPad Pro (M4) review
  • MKBHD’s magnets reel doesn’t show the rail; it’s on the cover. (via Odin)
  • The iPad Pro can bend, but it’s difficult
    • JerryRigEverything @ 8m40s
  • Quinn’s stunning Pencil Pro observation
    • Sebastian de With
  • Zoom audio for Marco’s town meetings (via Steve J Stutz, among others)
  • Delta gets its first legal challenge
    • The Verge
  • The reason behind the lack of GameCube/Wii emulators on iOS
    • Original blog post
• No New Mac Studio nor Mac Pro Until Mid-2025?
• Microsoft pushes [again] toward ARM PCs [and AI]
  • Blog post
  • The Verge
  • Windows RT
  • Ars Technica
    • Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus
  • Nuvia
  • Copilot+PC Surface Laptop
    • …with fans?
  • WorksOnWoA
  • Copilot+PC roundup
  • Surface Pro
  • Microsoft Recall
    • Demo short
    • Ars Technica
    • Rewind
• Post-show: Parental Vision Pro demos
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝 OpenAI
  • OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson clone voice
    • Altman’s tweet
    • …after she told them to go outside & play hide and go 🤬 themselves
    • Maybe they didn’t copy her voice?
  • Don’t add glue to your pizza sauce, kids
  • Cabel’s take

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• New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
• Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
  • Raven scanner (defunct)
  • Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
• Follow-up:
  • Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
    • Charlie Chapman’s 📱💨
  • AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
    • Extend your AppleCare+ coverage
  • iPad nano-texture glass
  • Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
    • Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the tweets X’s in this whole 🤬 thread, because Twitter X won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him.
  • iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
    • MKBHD’s reel
  • Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
  • Apple stickers (via Scott)
  • The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
    • NEON
  • M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
    • Tom’s Hardware
  • M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
• Apple announces new accessibility features
  • Vehicle Motion Cues demo video
  • Shelly Brisbin’s take
• John’s brief iPad Pro review
• iPad Pro dissatisfaction
  • Federico Viticci: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
  • Steve Troughton-Smith: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)
  • John Gruber: The M4 iPad Pros
• Ask ATP:
  • Will the M4’s new display driver set us up for a 2-external-display computer with M4? (via Rumee Ahmed)
  • Why is there so much discussion about CPU power in iPads but not iPhones? (via Mike Runcieman)
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
  • Meta announcement
  • Meta Quest 🤝 Xbox
• Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure

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• Follow-up:
  • More on RAM in base-model Macs
  • HomeKit light controls UI
  • Holoplot speakers in the Sphere
    • Festival speakers
  • One last ride for FineWoven?
• Apple’s May Event
  • 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺: Charger sold separately
  • And no soup stickers for anyone
  • Apple’s commercial hullabaloo
    • Hydraulic Press Channel
  • Federico’s Thunderbolt image
  • Quinn Nelson’s Tandem OLED video
  • Binning
  • Rick Williams’ question
  • Logitech Combo Touch keyboard
  • Apple Pencil Pro box designs
  • Infuse
• Post-show Neutral: The Cybertruck has landed across the street from Casey
  • Pontiac Aztek
  • Subaru BRAT
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Silicon in AI servers?
  • MacRumors in April
  • MacRumors in May
  • The Wall Street Journal on May 6
  • The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+ link)

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• Pre-show: Casey’s after-action report
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • RelayFM Podcastathon 2023 Part 1 & Part 2
• Follow-up:
  • It’s possible to toggle a dimmable light in Home.app (via Dan Sturm)
  • The Hayes AT command set is still going strong 😱 (via Pedro Fernandes)
  • TSMC unveils 1.6nm process for 2026 chips
    • Anandtech’s coverage
  • Rabbit R1 reviews
    • Stephen Robles
    • MKBHD
    • David Pierce @ The Verge
    • Ben Lovejoy @ 9to5Mac
    • Dave2D
  • Riley Testut on Delta availability
  • iPadOS is classified as “Gatekeeper” under the DMA
  • No new Vision Pro until late 2026?
• May 7 Apple event
  • Tim Cook’s tweet
  • M4 iPad rumor
• Ask ATP:
  • Did Marco give up on fussy coffee, as Casey’s prophecy foretold? (via Charlie Sorrel)
    • Trade Coffee (literally sponsoring this episode)
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    • Cometeer frozen coffee pods (Marco’s referral link)
  • Can we give WWDC tips? (via Andy)
  • Are we worried about charging station privacy? (via Wade)
    • Automakers are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior with Insurance Companies (11 March 2024)
    • GM Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers (22 March 2024)
• Post-show: Marco’s after-action report
  • The Sphere
  • How the Sphere Works
  • The Verge’s coverage
  • Pillow Jets video (🍄🎆)
  • Drew Carey’s review (NSFW)
  • AmazeVR
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The Limitless pendant
  • Previously on ATP…
  • Introductory video
  • The Verge coverage

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• Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
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• Follow-up:
  • Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS volumes
  • Handedness & “jumped” vs. “jumps”
    • Pangrams
  • Clarifications on the xz sabotage (via Mat Gadd)
  • The Delta game emulator is now available!
    • 🇪🇺 AltStore PAL
    • 🌎 App Store
      • #1 free app!
  • Apple allows using used parts for repairs
    • Stephen’s take
    • Apple’s lobbying history
    • Apple press release
    • iFixit blog post
  • Ceiling fan switches
    • Lutron Caséta (smart home switches/dimmers/fan controls)
    • Lutron Sunnata (dumb dimmer)
    • Waveform lighting
• Ticketmaster finally getting what it deserves?
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Broadband labels
• M4 Macs are coming this year?
• iPhone 16/16+ to have more RAM?
  • Mac desktop RAM chart
  • Mac laptop RAM chart
• Installing audio apps is going to get easier?
  • Rogue Amoeba’s 2024 Sitrep
• Ask ATP:
  • Is the M4 generation worth holding out for?
  • Why don’t we have 32-bit emulation? (via Joe Bezdek)
  • Will the [presumably HDR] phantom OLED iPad Pro work well as a second display with something SDR?
• Post-show: Marco is going to The Sphere
  • Billy Joel: The 100th
  • The New Yorker on Billy’s helicopter rides
  • But apparently he’s given up the helicopter rides
  • Turn the Lights Back On
• Members-only ATP Overtime: AI devices… now with more “Apple”!
  • Jony Ive & Sam Altman seeking funding for “personal AI device”
  • Apple’s screen-reading AI system
    • Paper (PDF link)
  • 3Blue1Brown videos
    • But what is a GPT?
    • Attention in transformers, visually explained

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• Pre-show: Power problems
• The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
  • Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
  • Remember members get 15% off!
• New member special: ATP Insider: Computing Origin Stories
• Follow-up:
  • How little kids write 4s
    • Marco sample
    • Casey sample
    • John sample
    • Field Notes
  • Three-step car buying process (via Paul Chernoff)
  • Rivian software update helps avoid trash EV chargers
  • Joe Lion on reticle limits
    • High-NA EUV
    • ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
      • Johny Srouji interview (Timestamp link to 34m28s)
  • Belkin phone holders
    • iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Apple TV 4K
    • Auto-Tracking Stand Pro with DockKit
• A first look at 🇪🇺’s alternative app stores
  • Jason’s fresh-install experience
• Apple opens App Store to “retro” game emulators
  • Official guidelines
  • James Thomson
  • Ben McCarthy’s forthcoming Ketchup app
  • First emulators arrive
    • iGBA removed for unknown reasons
    • Riley’s take
    • Apple’s clarification why iGBA was removed
  • Nintendo nukes Yuzu
    • The Verge initial coverage & follow-up
• Ask ATP:
  • How does John manage new Safari windows? (via Jan Wedekind)
  • Do we use case-sensitive file systems on our Macs? (via Pedro Fernandes)
    • Unicode normalization
  • What kind of fan did Marco buy? (via Matt McCurdy)
    • Fanimation
• Post-show:
  • Lutron Diva smart switch
  • Lutron Claro accessory switch for Diva dimmers on multi-way circuits
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Visiting with old friends
  • Automattic acquires Beeper
    • NY Times coverage
    • Adium
    • texts.com
  • Humane AI Pin reviews
    • David Pierce @ The Verge
    • MKBHD
      • Cybertruck clip
    • Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?

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• Pre-show: SD-card failures
• The ATP Store is BACK, baby! 👕
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• Follow-up:
  • The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
    • Explanatory video
    • Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
      • ARM Exception Levels
    • DMP
  • Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
    • LG DualUp Monitor
  • An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
    • DAI
  • Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
    • Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
    • Reticle limits
      • NVIDIA GH100 GPU
  • Apple laying off 700+ workers
    • MacRumors
  • Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock
    • Reuters
  • Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
• Casey has tried Spatial Personas
  • Upgrade #507: Differently Social
  • Game Room (App Store link)
    • Battleship
  • Gucci (App Store link)
    • Trailer
  • Turok
• Ask ATP:
  • How does one buy a car? (via Chandler Kent)
    • CarEdge
    • Deal School 3.0
  • What even is ownership, these days? (via Anonymous)
    • Egghead Software
    • SimCity copy protection (the red image on the right-hand side)
    • Overton Window
  • This article says Catalyst is abandoned; is it? (via Jonathan Sibley)
• Post-show: Rivian Bluetooth & Fast-Charging Sitrep
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple making robots? 🤖
  • ImageWriter

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• Pre-show: John’s two-year anniversary
• Follow-up:
  • WWDC lottery results
  • John’s Affinity Designer struggles
    • Marco’s convert stroke → shape suggestion from the bootleg
    • Offset path using Contour Tool (via Vitor)
    • Create Compound (via Julian Kissman)
    • Inconsistencies noted by Christian Meyer
  • Sam Abuelsamid on real-time OSes in cars
    • QNX
    • Wind River
    • Green Hills
    • Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit
  • ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED fix is in Chrome 124 beta
  • Has Casey considered running any of his monitors in portrait? (via Bilal Khan)
    • LG DualUp Monitor
  • Apple IDs & real-world verification (via Simone Rizzo)
  • Non-email Apple IDs do still exist (via Erik)
  • Apple podcast transcripts & ☁️ computing (via Ben)
    • MacWhisper
• Microsoft is learning from Apple’s mistakes and is pre-emptively splitting Teams off from Office
• No UltraFusion interconnect on M3 Max?
  • MacRumors
  • Vadim Yuryev
• Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas
  • Connected #496: I Tried to Put My Finger in Myke’s Mouth
  • Jason’s take
  • Stephen’s take
• Apple’s MLS Playoffs immersive video
  • Jason’s take
  • Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
  • Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
    • Centered framing
    • The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing
  • Vroom
    • F1TV
    • MultiViewer
• Post-show: New theme song! Thank you, Jonathan Mann!!
• Members-only ATP Overtime:
  • Hardware vulnerability in Apple Silicon
    • Michael Tsai’s coverage summary
    • Explanatory video
  • xz Utils backdoor
    • The Verge coverage
    • xz attack shell script
    • A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
    • Compulsory xkcd
    • I am not a supplier
    • OSQI

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• Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation
  • Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
• Follow-up:
  • Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
  • DMA compliance feedback session is live
  • Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)
    • Gruber’s summary
  • Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
    • European Commission press release
    • Dan Moren’s take
    • Reuters interview with Margrethe Vestager
  • Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
  • Artificial tooth monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽
    • Forum shopping
    • Legal experts praise DOJ case
  • DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing
• WWDC announced
  
  • Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
• People are fed up with useless tech in their cars
• EuroNCAP is doing the Lord’s work
• New CarPlay is Apple’s last hope to crack cars?
  • Real-time operating system
  • QNX vs. Android Automotive
    • QNX
• Ask ATP:
  • How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)
    • Everyone’s Sony alarm clock
  • What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)
• Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer
  • PaintCode
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of Apple ID
  • To be rebranded as “Apple Account”? (February 2024)
  • More from MacRumors (March 2024)

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• Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
• Follow-up:
  • The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart
    • Warmart press release
  • Apple Silicon & Project Titan
  • Safari hangs (via Wade)
  • Apple’s DMA compliance efforts
    • Apple DMA compliance workshop
    • Gruber’s take
    • Kay Jebelli’s recap on Twitter
    • AI-generated transcript
    • Video of Riley Testut’s question/answer
  • John’s curious obsession with street widths
    • Marco: 8’ / ~2.5m
    • Underscore: 19’4” / ~6m
    • John: 23’5” / ~11m
  • Magnets in Apple Watch bands (via Harvey Simon)
    • Modern Buckle
  • Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?
• US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
  • The Verge
  • Lawsuit PDF
  • Transcript of prepared remarks
  • Toot from Glyph
• Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates
  • Another AI paper from Apple
    • VentureBeat summary
    • Stratechery recap (Paywalled)
  • Apple partnering with Google or OpenAI?
    • Bloomberg coverage
  • Humane Ai Pin

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• Pre-show:
  • ATP Overtime
  • ATP Insider: John’s Windows
    • ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County
  • ATP Membership FAQ
  • AppStories
• Follow-up:
  • Callsheet available on visionOS
  • “Put me on Aux” (via Sam Davies)
  • Spotify & free users (via Colin Meney)
  • 256 GB M3 MacBook Air has 2× 128 GB NAND chips
    • iFixIt Teardown
  • Project Titan chip rumors
  • What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
  • Epic’s developer account reinstated
    • Gruber’s take
    • Upgrade #503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the Field
  • More options for 🇪🇺 distribution
    • Getting ready for Web Distribution
    • Newly proposed Apple flow
  • ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED gets first attempted fix
    • Original feature
• Google Gemini’s revisionist history
  • Reconcilable Differences #228: Big Filter Boy
  • Stratechery: Aggregator’s AI Risk
  • Gemini refuses to answer election questions
    • Reuters
• Ask ATP:
  • How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
    • Super Smash Brothers
    • Mega Man 2
    • OpenEmu
  • Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)
    • Playdate
      • Swift on the Playdate
    • Pico 8
• Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Rabbit r1
  • Interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu
  • Neuro-symbolic model
  • CueCat

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• Pre-show: Old men talk about old car stereos
• Follow-up:
  • John’s notes export via privacy.apple.com
  • Apple Vision Pro & Project Titan (via James Anthony)
    • JIBO
    • gita (the robot Casey was thinking of)
    • Gurman’s article (or on Apple News)
  • Apple Vision Pro’s inevitable future (via Matt Johnson)
• M3 MacBook Airs
  • Gurman on forthcoming Apple events
  • Hector Martin on two displays
  • Apple confirms backport of two-display support to M3
  • RIP the 🧀
• Apple fined $2 billion by EU for App Store practices
  • The Verge
  • EU ruling
  • Apple’s response
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
• AltStore has received its MarketplaceKit entitlement
  • Apple’s DMA policy updates
  • Updated rules
• Apple terminates Epic’s developer account
  • Epic’s blog post
  • Example tweet
• Post-show Ask ATP: If we could solve one of Apple’s legal problems, what would it be? (via Marc Robinson)

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• Pre-show: Marco is many things, but patient is… not one of them.
  • Blackbox
  • Crouton
    • Joanna Stern’s video
  • Television (App Store link)
  • ForeFlight Voyager
  • Flight Control
• Follow-up:
  • Vision Pro demand
  • Clarification about Apple’s new iMessage encryption
  • Extracting data from iCloud (via John Males)
    • Apple Privacy
  • Magnets and compasses
    • …in ✨ space ✨ (via Adam Wuerl)
    • …can be canceled out by Core Motion (via Zev Eisenberg)
  • Vision Pro & motion blur (via Orlando Herrera)
  • Meta’s “Pixel Codec Avatars” vs. Personas (via Gottfried Chen)
    • Facebook video
    • Uncanny valley graph
    • Casey’s podcast appearance
  • CrackGate
• Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan
  • MacRumors coverage
  • New York Times coverage
  • Tim Cook on cars in 2017
  • MJ Tsai
  • Jeff Johnson
• Ask ATP:
  • What email clients do we use? (via Joe)
    • Claris Emailer
    • Entourage
  • Why hasn’t Marco fallen off the deep end explored a DIY mechanical keyboard? (via Warren Bakay)
  • How interested are we in LLMs & generative AIs?
    • sdxl⚡lightning
• Post-show: WWDC wish-casting

• Pre-show:
  • Vision Pro comfort
    • Light Seal Sizes Decoded
  • ATP Movie Club: Steve Jobs
• Follow-up:
  • Vision Pro motion blur (via Chase)
    • Blur Busters
  • Vision Pro and warped images
  • Eyes as input vs. output (via Tony DiTaranto)
  • Fitts’s Law and the Dock
  • Apple 🤝🏻 Qualcomm
  • Apple & Patents
  • Mangets & Compasses (via Harvey Simon)
    • Modern buckle
  • Line/letter of credit (via Brian Coffey)
• Vision Pro
  • Personas
    • …are getting better in 1.1?
    • 1.0 → 1.1 examples
    • Charlie Chapman’s example
      • Persona Studio (App Store link)
• Apple defends against future iMessage attacks
  • Apple blog post
• Ask ATP:
  • How do we evangelize Mac-assed Mac apps? (via Ian Malczewski)
  • If we could get one new API for our apps, what would it be? (via Julian Gamble)
  • Could Marco best/first/favorite Phish concerts? (via Winnie Lewis)
    • Reconcilable Differences
    • Live Phish
• Post-show: Using a high-end camera and gear for Vision Pro panoramas
  • Fuji GFX
  • Canon dual fisheye lens

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• Pre-show: Casey’s Persona Surprise
• Follow-up:
  • iPad Pro 11” PPD
    • PPD calculator
  • A note on field of view and eye movement
  • Some discussion about Mac Virtual Display fidelity
  • Turning off Apple Vision Pro
  • The Developer Strap (requires login) is Thunderbolt capable
    • Orion (HDMI display app for iPad)
    • Casey’s HDMI capture dongle
  • “Real” vs. “Fake” 3D (via Matt Rigby)
    • Rotoscoping
    • More thoughts from friend-of-the-show Todd Vaziri
    • More [now un-paywalled!] thoughts from FotS Joe Rosensteel
  • iMessage will not be regulated as part of DMA
    • WhatsApp interoperability strategy
  • Riley Testut of AltStore weighs in on third-party marketplaces
  • What is a €1M “line of credit”, anyway?
• Apple Vision Pro
  • Guest mode
    • HDCP
    • Voices of VR Podcast with Bert Nepveu
  • Fitts’ Law on Dithering
  • ⌘-Tab
  • EyeSight
• Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro after-action report
  • Casey’s blog post

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• Follow-up:
  • YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)
  • John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint
  • €0.50 is “50 cents”
  • Prescription lens pairing
  • Wide Lightning™ and Wider Lightning™
    • Developer Strap (requires developer account)
  • Vision Pro weight discussed in Vanity Fair
  • Bluetooth peripherals
  • Intel Macs & Mac Virtual Display
    • Support Document
  • Vision Pro syncs when not in use
  • Performance throttling
  • Vision Pro for movies & TV
    • Color reproduction
    • iFixit estimates resolution
    • “Ideal” field of view for movies
    • Pixels per degree:
      • iPad Pro 11” @ 14” / 35cm = 67 ppd
      • 65” 4K TV @ 5 feet / 1.5m = 76 ppd
      • Pro Display XDR @ 2 feet / 0.6m = 100 ppd
    • Real vs. Fake 3D
  • iFixit Teardown
    • Video part 1
    • Video part 2
• Vision Pro initial thoughts
  • John on spatial computing
  • Captain EO
  • Soarin’
  • VAC
• Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro train experience
  • Casey Neistat’s video

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• Follow-up:
  • Vision Pro talk begins next week; some good reviews for now:
    • Nilay Patel @ The Verge
      • Video review
    • Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal
    • Brian Tong
    • Gruber
    • MKBHD’s using Vision Pro
  • YouTube API (via Alex Chan)
    • Quota costs
  • Console hardware margins in the App Store & consoles
  • Customer ownership
  • Stolen Device Protection & device repairs (via Niru Maheswaranathan)
  • European eye prescriptions (via René Schätzl)
• Apple’s EU DMA compliance
  • Apple Newsroom
  • Apple Developer documentation
  • Apple Developer News
  • Gruber’s summary
  • Apple Fee Calculator
  • Marketplace requirements
    • MarketplaceKit
    • Developer documentation
  • Upgrade #497: The Poison Pill
  • Tapestry Kickstarter
  • Actual DMA text
    • English
  • Steven Sinofsky’s Summary
  • MacStories Summary
• Ask ATP:
  • Do we ever go mono on our AirPods? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
  • Are there any apps we’d make if there weren’t already ♾️ takes on that app? (via Aaron Thomas)
    • Total Annihilation
    • Ferrite
  • What settings do we use for Apple Music? (via Christian Kent)
    • Mimi Hearing Test
• Post-show: Casey is amped about his forthcoming Mac monitor
  • Ensemble to pull individual windows into visionOS

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• Pre-show: YouTube updates
• Follow-up:
  • SCSI DB-25 was on the back of Macs, not DB-50
    • D-subminiature
  • iOS Screen Sharing is a thing
    • No control for remote users though
  • On Apple’s 30% cut and payment processing fees
    • The Art of the Possible (John’s blog post)
  • Whose customer is this, anyway?
  • Apple’s compliance with EU law is likely to go exactly as expected
    • Apple News link
  • Apple Vision Pro optics (via Todd Zarwell & jkahnk)
  • Apple’s software workaround for Masimo-related import ban
    • Gruber’s take
• Apple Vision Pro preorders
  • Accessories
    • Battery
    • Belkin Battery Holder
    • Travel Case
    • Light Seal
      • Light seal sizes? (via Quinn Nelson)
    • Light Seal Cushion
    • Solo Knit Band
    • Dual Loop Band
    • Optical inserts (readers or prescription)
  • Please don’t break one 💸
    • The Verge
  • Weight
  • You have to pair the optical inserts
  • Launch inventory was 80,000 units?
    • But sales may have hit 180k?
  • Reseller market is optimistic
    • ebay Search
  • Apple Vision Pro Guided Tour
  • Sorry, non-🇺🇸
• Ask ATP:
  • Does the Apple Vision Pro work like a camera viewfinder? (via Nigel Warren)
  • Do we do anything to back up our emails? (via Lawrence Koteff)
    • Google Takeout
  • Do we use iMessage Contact Key Verification? (via Severin)
• Post-show: Family Apple Vision Pro vibe check
  • QuickDraw 3D
  • Scrapbook

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• Pre-show: Some Administrivia
  • New ATP member’s special!
  • ATP episodes are now on YouTube!
• Follow-up:
  • Marco’s UPS issue
    • Eaton UPS backup (via Jeff Strobel)
    • UPSes don’t like “dirty” power
  • Yes, y’all, John can be wrong sometimes.
    • But maybe he was 🤏🏻 right too? 🤔
    • John Gruber on the iPhone launch
  • Apple Vision Pro ordering details
  • Apple Vision Pro has 10 GPU cores
  • More on the Apple Vision Pro demos
    • Apple Vision Pro entertainment experiences
  • Maybe not all prescriptions work? (via Justin Yost)
    • Meta Oculus Quest 2 Inserts
  • Apple turns off blood oxygen sensor to avoid import ban
• Dear Epic, 🖕. Love, Apple
  • Support page
  • MacRumors summary
  • The Art of the Possible
  • Tyler Hall on “Modern-day Apple”
  • Ben Thompson’s take at Stratechery (Paywalled)
• Ask ATP:
  • How would we set up an iOS device for the elderly? (via Seppe Rutten)
    • Assistive Access
  • Why do audio-free apps sometimes stop playback of other apps? (via Wilson Martinez)
    • Levis app (App Store link)
  • Why doesn’t Apple just make HomePod mini into a mesh router? (via Saif Khan)
• Post-show: What is a truck, anyway?
  • Casey’s poll
  • Maybe not a northern thing?
  • Greg Pierce gets nerdy about it

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• Pre-show: Dad Dreams
• Follow-up:
  • New watch bands will actually be… cases? (via Videoalex)
    • Swatch example
    • NATO straps
  • Time-shifting was successful
  • OLED iPad Pros will also break the bank
  • Apple 🤝 AWS
    • Retrieval Augmented Generation
    • How LLMs work
  • People… write answers for Alexa‽ 🤯
  • Incase 🤝 Microsoft
    • The Verge article
• Vision Pro launches 2 February
  • Vision Pro will have 16GB RAM
  • YouTubers will get two demos
  • Apple’s “Get Ready” ad
    • Previously: “Hello”
  • Apple is very particular about how you represent “Vision Pro”
  • Apple is offering Vision Pro demos
  • Apple Vision Pro focal distance?

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• Pre-show: Time-shifting
  • Dave Matthews Band Crew Q&A
• Follow-up:
  • AI Agita
    • Apple’s paper regarding optimizing on-device LLM
      • Summary by luokai
    • Apple explores AI training deals with news publishers
    • New York Times sues OpenAI & Microsoft for copyright infringement
    • Hard cases make bad law
  • Masimo Mess
    • 26 December: Biden administration does not overturn ban
    • 27 December, 11:55 AM: Ban temporarily paused by US Court of Appeals
    • 27 December, 5:21 PM: Apple Watch sales resumed
• Apple 2024 Preview
  • PolyCam
  • AirPods 4 Redesign?
  • Side-loading in the EU
• Post-show: Yearly Themes
  • YouTube video

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• Pre-show: Running public sound
  • Automixing
  • Sound Devices Mix Pre-10 II
  • Zoom F8n
  • Zoom LiveTrak L8
  • Reminder that gift memberships make for a great last-minute gift!
• Follow-up:
  • iCloud.com login with only a password
    • Apple Store experience (via Morgan Schönberger)
    • More details via Ian Williamson
    • icloud.com/find
    • Joanna Stern’s prison interview
  • Beeper → Beeped
    • Blog post
    • MacRumors
  • Virtualization options for macOS
    • UTM was recommended by several, including Luke Channings and Glenn Brown
    • Steve Troughton-Smith’s write-up
  • Is Masimo a patent troll?
    • The Verge article
    • LA Times article from October
    • Apple working on a software workaround?
    • Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
      • Against Intellectual Monopoly (PDF)
  • EVs that [allegedly] satisfy all of Rangachari Anand’s requirements
    • Rick Gore really likes VAG
      • e-tron GT
      • e-tron Q4
      • e-tron Q8
    • Daphne Sakellarides suggests the Hyundai Kona
    • Doug Spry reiterates Casey’s pick of the Chevy Bolt
    • Thestrategery recommends the Mini Cooper SE
    • Sam Abuelsamid
      • Honda Prologue
      • Acura ZDX
      • Mercedes EQB
    • Chevy Blazer EV
  • On car controls
    • Volkswagen reneges on all the crummy controls
    • Sam Abuelsamid’s take
• iPhone 16 “Capture Button”
• Next Apple Watch breaks band compatibility? 😱
• Google loses antitrust case to Epic
  • Stratechery (Paywalled)
• #askatp:
  • Do Nvidia & Apple mean different things by the word “core”? (via Ammar)
  • If Apple really does make Siri better, will it land in existing HomePods? (via Ryan McDonough)
  • A complete 🤬 trainwreck of a third #askatp. No spoilers.
    • Hauppage!
• Post-show Neutral: Marco’s adventure
  • Maxtrax

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  • Software workaround in the works?
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    • Kia EV6
    • IONIQ 5 N
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  • How’s Callsheet doing? (via Josiah Katz)
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    • Micron whitepaper
  • US fabs and semiconductor business (via Joe Lion)
  • Sonos Roam audio skipping
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  • Patriot Act
  • Gruber’s take
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  • Photo next to an iPhone 15 Pro
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      • 5 October 2023
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    • Sony X90L
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      • Digital Trends review
      • 65” on Amazon
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• Marco and Casey’s new laptops
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    • ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
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  • Still no Face ID (via Tomer Shemesh)?
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  • Dynamic Caching (via Nitesh Singh)
  • The small-capacity SSDs are better now?
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  • Apple Silicon packaging and a potential M3 Ultra
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  • More thoughts from Jonathan Dietz, Jr
  • A new ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED error report has entered the chat
• MacBook Pro order updates
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  • Chart on Wikipedia
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    • Amazon [Prime] Photos (via Chris Cioffi)
  • On Photos remembering crop aspect ratios in 14.1
  • John’s Docker/Chrome problems
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    • Mac Power Users #713: Photography with Tyler Stalman
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    • Oh no, the problem is inside the hmouse
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  • Do we ever MagSafe charge our MacBooks? (via Chriskast)
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  • Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
  • Apple “blue” over time
  • iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
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    • iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
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    • iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
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  • iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
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    • Kal’s tweet
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  • iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
  • Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
    • Similar to Peak Design case?
  • Apple 2030
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    • Environment FAQ
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    • The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
  • How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
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  • The Marco Offset
• Apple Event on September 12
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  • GE fuel injector AM article
  • Dr. Drang’s post on iPhone physics
  • Grade 5 titanium
  • iPhone 14 teardown
  • Action button settings UI video
  • Sony Xperia 1 IV
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  • iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
  • iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
    • Flighty
    • Sports Alerts (App Store link)
  • You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
  • Apple Park & garbage cans
• Apple Event on September 12
  • WiFi 6 vs. 6E
  • Google Pixel ad
  • Czinger 21C
  • Twill
• Post-show Neutral:
  • Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option

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• Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
• Follow-up:
  • Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
  • Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
  • Child Gmail Accounts
    • Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
    • Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
  • Trouble in HomePod paradise
  • iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
  • Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
  • Truck routing
    • Truck Map has a skip button (via Ezekiel Elin)
    • Garmin sells bespoke truck GPS units (via Jonathan Llamas)
    • Some recommendations (via Andrew Larson)
      • inRoute
      • TomTom/Garmin
• Apple Event on September 12
• Exit Interviews
  • iPhone 14
  • Watch Ultra
  • Watch Series 8
  • A special Exit Salute
• Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
  • DS1621+
  • Western Digital Red 18 TB

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• Pre-show:
  • Marco’s box truck
    • TruckMap
    • Trucker Path
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• 🗣️ New member special: ATP Tier List: Every iMac 🗣️
• Follow-up:
  • iMac Tier List
    • Intel Core vs. Core 2 ∆s (via Michael Gabriel)
    • Marco claims vindication
      • Core Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,327
      • Core 2 Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,423 (4% faster), 64-bit: 2,739 (17% faster)
      • How much faster is “2 Duo” than “Duo”?
    • 21” was (eventually) Retina, writes Max Wilkie
  • More text editors
    • CotEditor (via Taher Rangwala)
    • Chime
  • Pronouncing “Niléane” (and more)
  • Apple can’t design for humans
  • Photo editing on the Mac (via Ezekiel Elin)
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  • Dumb TV workarounds (also via Ezekiel Elin)
  • Apple, TV+, Disney+, and Games (via Aaron Thomas)
• Marco’s review of Ubiquiti Security Cameras
  • G5 Bullet
  • Switch Flex
  • Scrypted
  • SecuritySpy
• #askatp:
  • How do we handle kid e-mail addresses? (via Greg)
  • What are our expectations for subscription apps? (via Michael)
  • How do we prevent losing access to our password managers? (via Denis Čapkovič)
• Post-show:
  • Marco’s latest gift shipment to Casey
  • Marco’s latest gift shipment to John