Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.... more

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June 10, 2025643: You Go to Squircle Jail
Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
Mario Kart World
WWDC
F1
Sam Henri Gold
Marcel
Flighty
Parcel
Control Plane
Acorn
Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
Previously discussed on ATP #609
GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
Gary’s 1998 paper
Gary’s 2001 book
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2h 54min
June 05, 2025642: A Rebuilding Year
Follow-up:
Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied
Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial)
macOS 26: Tahoe?
macOS 26 supported hardware
Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview
MacRumors coverage
Molly White’s newsletter
Polycom “star”/”spider” phones
Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
Bono: Stories of Surrender
Open: An Autobiography
Rattle and Hum
Apple Immersive Screenshots:
Crowd
Stadium
TV
PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
Casey’s toot
FB17661404
WWDC hopes & predictions
Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
Physicality: The new age of UI by Sebastiaan de With
Windows Aero
Newton’s cradle
Sendable
Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
Retreating to Safety
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sky: a new AI app for macOS
Federico’s exclusive
Stu Maschewitz’s take
Software Applications Incorporated
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2h 19min
May 29, 2025641: We're Saving That for the Egg
Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
Five Whys
Follow-up:
SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
Vision Pro on The Price is Right
What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
Alexa Plus Update
Neutral:
Slate Truck Top Gear review
TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
DeMuro’s review
Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
Pickup beds over time
Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
ATP #639: Crimp the World
Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory
Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event from 2010
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
DeWalt LED Work Light
DeWalt Tire Inflator
DeWalt 60V Blower
Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
3M VHB Tape
Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
Knipex Wire Stripper
Wago Connectors
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple OS rebranding & macOS name predictions
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2h 10min
May 22, 2025640: Put It in a Potato
Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
Follow-up:
Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff)
SpinRite (Intel-only)
Fornite is back in the US App Store
App Store link
Judge YGR’s filing
Apple 🤝🏻 Epic
Epic courts Apple developers
Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco
Previously on ATP
The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all
Apple documentation
Apple to open AI models to developers?
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io
Sam and Jony
Gurman’s coverage
Ask ATP:
What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison)
FBLA
Disc camera
What’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid)
Show art
Wheel size explained
Is there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson)
Matt on Instagram
Pancake lens
Fuji GFX 100RF
APS-C
LensRentals
Sony RX100
Ricoh GR IIIx
Post-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra
Top Gear review
Previously on ATP
The Vergecast
Members-only ATP Overtime: Meanwhile, in Europe…
European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA
Gruber did the math
New smartphone labels for battery life & repairability
Official release
Nutrition label
Energy Star
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2h 16min
May 15, 2025639: Crimp the World
Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
CalDigit TS5
Follow-up:
Letterboxd SF Symbol
Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
“A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini
Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
Apple appeals App Store rule changes
Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
Meanwhile, in the App Store…
Home networking corner
Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
Casey’s sitrep
2× U6-LR installed
Ugly PoE injectors
10GbE card installed in Synology
Switches just arrived
Lite 8 PoE
Flex Mini
Camera time?
Apple Turnover
The Art of the Possible
Hypercritical #42: The Wrong Guy
Upgrade #563: Peanut or a Banana
Some fun Apple media
Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly
Gui Rambo’s investigation
A conversation with Jony Ive
Backblaze drama
Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor
Morpheus Research report
Backblaze’s initial response
Backblaze’s formal response
Profit breakdowns
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
Cable Matters
Marco’s crimping toolkit
Members-only ATP Overtime: SSD data doesn’t last forever
Video
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1h 59min
May 06, 2025638: Hop, Hop, Hop
Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
Follow-up:
At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
Blue Man Group
Epic vs. Apple
The Verge on Apple’s decision making
Apple’s Response
Apple Appeals
App Store rules have been changed
MJ Tsai’s Roundup
Ryan Jones
Gruber
Upgrade #562: Let’s Break the Law
Tim Sweeney continues grandstanding
Fortnite may be coming back… via 🇸🇪?
Epic Games announces plans for a shop for iOS developers
Press release
As was foretold, Stripe has entered the chat
Stripe documentation
Patreon has also entered the chat
Friend of the show Riley Testut works fast
Spotify has also entered the chat
Screenshots
Ubiquiti
Marco Recommendations
Cloud Gateway Max
Switch Ultra
U7 Lite
Cloud Gateway Fiber
changedetection.io
Pushover
magicplan
Ubiquiti Designer
Hyperspace update
Casey’s Coding Corner
Vibe coding journey
GIFWrapped
Casey on Bluesky
SF Symbols journey
Post-show: Marco’s vibe coding journey
LaTeX
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro successor rumors
“Vision Air”
XREAL glasses
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2h 15min
May 01, 2025637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls
Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
ThinOptics round clear
New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now
Follow-up:
A surprising Vision Pro corner:
Adventure: Hill Climb
Laura’s Hot Lap
Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now
Laura Hayes Racing (archived)
D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF
Article
Video
John discusses the design of the Mac Pro
iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen)
Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power)
Server Part Deals
Judge tells Apple “yeah, no”
9to5 Mac
The Verge
“Kafkaesque”
Marco returns to YouTube
reMarkable 2
Astropad iPad screen film & Apple Pencil tips
Mac Power Users #789: Back to the Mac, with Matt Gemmell
Supernote Manta
Ask ATP:
Is it even possible for Siri to get good? (via David MacQueen)
Do we stll carry wallets? (via Stephen Klinck)
John’s ridiculous wallet
How do we share photos outside of a family unit? (Dylan Copeland)
Post-show Neutral: Slate Truck
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI continues to eat the world
Apple Developer: What’s New
Research paper
LoRA not LoRa
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2h 8min
April 23, 2025636: Nose-Biting Territory
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
AliExpress
AirPods Pro case swaps (via Steven Merrill)
USB-C MagSafe Charging Case ($100‼️)
Cursor IDE support hallucinates policy causing user uprising
(This is a Hacker News link to Reddit, so, uh, tread lightly.)
🫏🕳️ leaders are not good
John continues to try to spend Marco’s money
Rtings’ new glare testing
LG G5 brightness
Apple’s self-service repair program (via Sky Velleity)
iPadOS 19 rumors
Footguns and Synology
Enshittification
Ars Technica’s Synology coverage
Post-show: Marco’s first batch of restaurant-tech MVPs
Waveform lighting
Ubiquiti
Power over Ethernet
Toast
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s AI doctor
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2h 3min
April 15, 2025635: An Effective Operator
Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
Porsche Taycan
Ioniq 5
BMW i4
Chevy Bolt
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
Message from US Customs & Border Protection
Connor Mason’s post about Tim Cook’s top two skills
13 April: …except maybe not?
John’s boosted post
Cross-platform photo management
Immich (via bapt)
Nintendo Switch 2
4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon)
Specifications
Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibson)
Other open-world racing games
Console games price history
Dropbox & File Provider
John’s daughter’s college laptop
Folding aspect ratios
iPhone Mini… tri-fold? (via Peter Wagoner)
MKBHD on the Huawei Mate XT
Reverse-engineered Mac mini SSDs (via Jonathan Claydon)
iBoff
Introductory video
How Apple fumbled Siri’s AI makeover
MacRumors summary
More on JG’s Siri leadership
On Robby Walker
Cross-towngroup tensions
That fateful demo
NIH syndrome
New York Times on Apple GPU purchases
Post-show: AI mind-share
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces its 2025 TVs
FlatPanelsHD
The Verge
HDTVTest
Pricing
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2h 20min
April 10, 2025634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees
Pre-show:
Technology Connections on dishwashers
Maestral
How to excise Dropbox
Brave
Firefox
Kagi
Orion
Arc
Palm Pre
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner:
Voices of VR #1557: Apple Immersive Video BTS
Adventure: Ice Dive
VIP: Yankee Stadium
Feedback on Feedback
Some thoughts on scale (via Matthew Fenselau)
Fermi Paradox
Do indies really get that much email?
A response from Apple‽ 🤨 (via Vítor)
Apple’s big OS redesign
Mark Gurman
Solarium
iOS 19 Leak
Front Page Tech video
Nintendo Switch 2 launch
Launch video
Hands-on:
The Verge
Ars Technica
The Joy-Cons are now mice
Tweet
microSD Express only
Chunky hinges
Pricing
iPhone 17 Pro 48MP zoom lens
Ask ATP:
How do we source reviews of purchases? (via Robert Bateau)
How do I back up my photos?
ATP Insider: Photo Workflows
How do we document complicated setups (via yertle)
Post-show: How do we handle… everything?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s all-glass hardware ambitions
All-glass Apple Watch?
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2h 20min

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