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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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
More from Ars Technica
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
February 13, 2025626: No Longer ery Good
Follow-up:
Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
Tailgate Tub
Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
Technical report
Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
Thom at OSnews
Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another
The new JoyCons do act as a mouse
An alternative for Apple TV audio (via Nicholas Correnti)
/r/TVTooHigh
Casey’s new arrivals
WS2812B Addressable LED strip
Home is Where the Smart Is
WLED
ESP32
TRMNL
Hyperspace updates
Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
Slack
An aside about bug reporting
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
Original Washington Post article
BBC coverage
ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
Ask ATP:
What planning/wireframing tools do we use? (via Glen Lam)
Is HFS+ still relevant in 2025? (via Mike Hatfield)
QNAP
Would John tell us more about the many pieces of detritus associated with files? (via Leon Cowle)
Post-show: Restaurant-tech update
Dante
Ubiquiti Flex (Useful little PoE switch)
Ubiquiti Flex 2.5G PoE (2.5G version with 10G uplink)
Ubiquiti Switch Flex XG (10G switch)
Members-only ATP Overtime: iOS 19 UI rumors and the design language of Apple Invites
Jon Prosser’s video
Invites & Sports apps
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1h 58min
February 06, 2025625: Time and Smoke
Pre-show: BBQ
ZZQ
Q
Follow-up:
New immersive video: Man vs. Beast
“Historical Commission”?
Sonos volume changes are local
DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave)
Docker
Rosetta (via Brian Reiter)
Hypervisor.framework
Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
Sending email
Mailhog (via Matt Barlow)
Mailpit (via John Caruso)
Maildev (via Yves Serrano)
ddev.com (via Bram Esposito)
Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke)
Marco’s TV audio sync issues
Match Format and Match Dynamic Range (via Marco Arment)
Quick Media Switching
Previously on ATP…
QMS marketing page
Demo video (via Nit)
Apple Invites
App Store
Web
Competitive (and very similar) app Partiful
It’s not great on Android
Demo video from Stephen Robles
Flighty
Sorry, iPad
Pornography on the iPhone
AltStore’s post
Riley’s response
AltStore’s second response
Jason’s take
Ask ATP:
Why are Casey and Marco so excited for cellular Macs? (via Matthew Fenselau)
Should one use their personal Apple ID on a corporate Mac (via Stephen Swift)
Localsend
↪️ Gruber
↪️ Underscore
Luna Display
Synergy
Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
Dante
Food Safety Talk
Members-only ATP Overtime: Subsequent Sonos Stuff
Sonos’ take on the Apple TV?
Ventura OS?
Sonos has another round of layoffs
Letter from interim CEO Tom Conrad
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1h 57min
January 30, 2025624: Do Less Math in Computers
🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
Lenovo Legion Go S
Ryan London is trolling John
Black
Brown
John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
Hyperspace scrolling updates
AppKit vs. WebKit
NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
Every UUID
Writing down every UUID
Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
Casey’s notification/LED project
Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
ratgdo
ESP32
ESPHome
Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
WS2812B
Candy buttons
Historical commission application process
Switch replacement options:
HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
Ben Thompson’s FAQ
DeepSeek-V3 paper
DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
R1 is more open than OpenAI
OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought
Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
R1 censorship
Example 1
Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
Example 3 (via Gruber)
Prompt engineering
The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor
Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
x86 images on Apple Silicon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits ✌️
…and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin ✌️
…and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay
Wall Street Journal coverage
The Last King of Scotland
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1h 53min
January 23, 2025623: It’s About Human Connection
Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️
Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America
Follow-up:
Apple pauses notification summaries for news apps
Marco’s BMW does have dual-screen CarPlay
Acura RSX: Honda’s first all-original EV
Another 5K monitor enters the arena: ViewSonic VP2788-5K
Thom Bullock’s tweet
As per Dave Hamilton (of Mag Geek Gab), $800!
Fast directory sizing lives!
/System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util
man apfs.util
Apple sample code is on GitHub (via David Rönnqvist)
Backyard Birds
Food Truck
Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato)
Also on YouTube
Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware
Overcast link
Hyperspace updates
Van Halen’s Brown M&Ms
John’s Hyperspace Instructions
Ask ATP:
What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher)
MoCA
Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified?
ATP #376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle
Raspberry Pi Zero WH
UDP
Homebridge
Home Assistant
MQTT
Mosquitto
Eric Welander
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nintendo Switch 2 announced
The Verge coverage
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