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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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

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
April 01, 2025633: Moonshoot
Pre-show:
🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
Happy anniversary, Siracusa!
ATP #476
Hypercritical: Independence Day
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner: Volume control (via D. Griffin Jones & Victor Prieto)
 & 🇪🇺
Prioritization (via Karan J)
A less complementary take from Thom Holwerda
More theories on behind-closed-doors talks (via illustro)
Case document
Will EU releases whither? (via David Shayer)
An anecdote about John Giannandrea (via Wolf)
Netflix in search on Apple TV (via Ryan Budish)
Sony’s new RGB backlight tech shines
Previously on ATP
Digital Trends
HDTVTest
Folding MacBook? Giant iPad? Folding iPhones? Oh, my!
Neo Cancellation
Display sizes leak
Weibo post
Oppo Find N5
Under-screen Face ID?
Weibo post
“Six Things to Know About Apple’s Upcoming Foldable iPhone”
MKBHD on the Oppo Find N5
Ask ATP:
How do we approach feedback? Why are we held to different standards than Apple?
Are smaller, incremental releases of software killing the joy of a new major version? (via Thom Bullock)
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Post-show: Casey finally stops kicking another can
Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare Pages Functions
Example page
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vibe coding
Tim, don’t kill my vibe
Cursor
Replit
v0
Gruber’s response
Fourth-generation programming language
Good Programming Quotes compiled by Henrik Warne
UNIX shell as a fourth-generation language
Swift Assist isn’t even in beta yet
Apple (June 2024)
John Voorhees did get a demo though
kironet’s take
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2h 10min
March 27, 2025632: The Uncertainty Is Gone
Pre-show: Marco’s BMW sitrep
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Insider: Our Websites
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner
Spatial Gallery has an update!
Volume control (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
Siri delays (via Stephen Klinck)
Gurman on the smart home hub
Apple sued over false Apple Intelligence advertising
Siri shake-up
Threads lets you default to following… for real this time
iPhone 16e
Camera arrangement justifications
MKBHD doesn’t care for it
Full review
Teardown from REWA
Teardown from iFixIt
Battery size comparison
17e already appearing in supply chain?
Weibo post
iPhone 17 Pro: 12GB RAM?
WWDC 2025 Announced
EU requires major changes in iOS 19 & iOS 20
EU post
Timelines
Wi-Fi Aware
Apple stamps its feet
Portless iPhones coming?
AI continues to eat the world
Apple Developer: What’s New
Post-show: Casey has to pay to play
The Movie Database
Members-only ATP Overtime: Solid-state cooling revisited
Frore AirJet
Frore 🤝🏻 iodyne
Dave 2D on a new solid-state fan system
Ventiva
CFM
Pascals
Increasing performance with heat management
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1h 47min
March 20, 2025631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni
Pre-show: Casey received a present
Follow-up:
Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert
Colorful Macs
MacBook Adorable
“Hidra”
List of Apple codenames
Hidra
M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
EE Times 🇯🇵
Tech Insights
…nor does the M4 Max
Reticle limits
Apple Silicon info Google Sheet
Apple’s multi-OS redesign (via Jon Tatum)
Under the Radar #314: Optimism vs. Pessimism
Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Apple confirms [one] Siri delay
Upgrade #555: What You Are Is What You Ship
SMOP: Simple Matter Of Programming
Ask ATP:
Do we set our phones on a surface face-up or face-down? (via Aaron Bushnell)
What’s up with version numbers these days? (via Joe O’Connor)
Semantic Versioning
Post-show: Restaurant soft opening results
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple News+ Food
Paprika
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2h 13min
March 13, 2025630: Time to Spiral
Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
Vision Pro Corner
New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
Spatial Gallery
Metallica immersive special is coming
Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
iPad Air corner
“2× bass” false alarm
404
Appeal
Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
Example video from Fabian
More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)
MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography
Regarding the “Hidra”
ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
Interview with Srouji (timestamp link)
Lernaean Hydra
Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra
Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6
GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757
20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003
CPU:
M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813
~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921
M3 Ultra multi-core: 28,119
~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373
~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647
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Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
Threads timeline setting update
ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
Thoughts on Feedback
Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
Post-show: John’s speaker update
Vanatoo Transparent Zero Plus
ADAM Audio D3V
Kanto ORA
Kanto S2 speaker stands
Kanto ORA4
Kanto S4 speaker stands
SoundSource
Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹
ID.2all concept
The Verge’s coverage
Volvo ES90
Euro NCAP puts their foot down
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2h 37min
March 07, 2025629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos
Tim Cook teaser
History lesson
Mac Studio
General announcement
M3 Ultra announcement
M3 Ultra
Ars Technica
It is 2× M3 Max
According to to 🇫🇷 website: no interposer in M4 Max
Gurman in April 2024
M4 MacBook Air
Announcement
iPad
6GB RAM, as was foretold
Gurman misssed on this one
iPad Air
Announcement
Audio regression?
Post-show:
Casey does free labor for Apple
John’s computer speakers are dying ☹️
Possible replacement #1: Kanto ORA
Possible replacement #2: Kanto ORA4
Members-only ATP Overtime: Siri is falling ever-further behind
Next-gen Siri is delayed? (14 February)
Apple Intelligence Reaches Make-or-Break Point? (3 March)
Siri remains trash
Amazon steps up to the AI plate
Interview with Panos Panay
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2h 22min
February 28, 2025628: There’s a Certain Smell
Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
Zoom F1
USB Pre 2
Schiit Jotunheim
Follow-up:
New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
Bono Autobiography
Prospects for humanoid robots
macOS testing (via Anonymous)
With apologies to Joe Rosensteel
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Netflix’s Apple TV integration
It’s more than just the app (via Serena)
What purpose does the TV app serve? (via Daniel Luz)
Implementation details (via Anonymous)
iPhone 16e
Name implications
Possible role? (via Patch)
Apple C1
MagSafe isn’t a problem
No, really
C1 is “just the start”
Wendover video link
It’s really quite impressive (via Pedro Fernandes)
0.0000000000000316 W
Andru Edwards’ Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Qualcomm licensure? (via Casey in episode 476 at around 40m)
FTC vs. Qualcomm
2018 article on licensing costs
The licensing costs were also lowered in 2018
Gurman on future Cx chips
Apple investigates custom Wi-Fi chips as well
Apple approves new wording for emails
Not just in the EU
Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
Full statement
Screenshot
Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
iPhone 17 camera bumps
Leak
Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
Upgrade #552: Table for Six
Woes in North Carolina
Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
Members-only ATP Overtime: New “Apple-like” camera: Sigma BF
Introductory video
PetaPixel’s first reaction
L-Mount lens
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1h 58min
February 20, 2025627: Dragged Across the Line
Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
VoIP
ATA
Ubiquiti Managed VoIP
Follow-up:
Apple Account transfers
Updated restrictions & guidelines
Stephen’s take
The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos
Matthew Green’s blog post
macOS UNIX compliance
Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
Jay Peters at The Verge
Humane press release
Humane support document
iPhone 16e announced
Intro video
Apple TV app is now on Android
Netflix and foot-guns
The Verge, 14 February, 9:25 AM: Hell hath frozen over
Screenshot of linking Netflix account
Apple TV app
The Verge, 14 February, 2:17 PM: Netflix says “our bad”
Joe Rosensteel
Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board
Installation photo
HomeSeer HS-WD200+
Dongle
ZWave
ZWaveJS UI
Members-only ATP Overtime: Robots are, like, so in right now.
Meta
Bloomberg coverage
Tesla
As usual, Elon is a blowhard
Google
Apple
Kuo’s tweet
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2h 4min

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