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Accidental Tech Podcast
By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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November 14, 2024613: Dress for the Chip You Want - 🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday!
- Follow-up:
- Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
- “Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
- Mac mini
- “Modular” storage
- Quinn’s teardown
- dosdude1 demonstrates an upgrade
- Apple 8TB SSD Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro
- Differences between M4 and M4 Pro SSDs
- Benchmarks
- M4 512 GB
- M4 Pro 512 GB
- iFixit Teardown
- Apple’s replacement guide
- Other tidbits
- Heatsink differences
- 256 GB = 2× 128 GB
- Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
- #askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)
- Thunderbolt performance limits
- Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
- iPhone Pro Clock speeds
- Ken Case’s observation
- Apple’s smart home ambitions
- #askatp:
- Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
- Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
- What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
- Alfred
- Rocket
- SwitchGlass
- Front and Center
- Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
- Marco’s OWC drive enclosure
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
- Patrick’s original question
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...more November 07, 2024612: Screen on Face - Pre-show: Politics later.
- #195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
- 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
- Follow-up:
- Mac mini
- Headphone jack placement
- Quinn’s observation
- Cruical 32GB DIMM
- Samsung SSD
- iMac
- Apple removes color-matched pointing devices option
- M4 vs. M4 Pro/Max SSD limits
- M4 Pro & M4 Max performance
- Walmart still sells a Mac with 8GB RAM
- Apple’s new USB-C Accessories require Sequoia
- Apple’s $69 Thunderbolt 5 cable (via Daniel Luz)
- There exists at least one dock with 10GbE (via Daniel Nelson)
- iFixIt’s iPad Mini (A17 Pro) teardown
- AppleTV gaming (via killvore)
- Keyboard Cleaning & MacBook Booting
- CleanupBuddy by Gui Rambo
- Alternative incantation from Daniel Pieper
- Power the machine off
- Left ⌃ and ⌘ as well as Right ⇧ for 7 seconds
- While still holding, hold the power button for 7 seconds
- This is not an SMC reset, but it’s close.
- Only lasts until the next boot 😑
- Apple buys Pixelmator
- Apple buys stake in Globalstar
- Press release
- Globalstar
- Vision Pro v2 changes?
- Ming-Chi Quo
- Mark Gurman
- Post-show: Group therapy
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence experiences
- Photo cleanup shoot-out by Joe Rosensteel
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...more October 31, 2024611: RAM Christmas - Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
- Submerged
- Sleep No More
- Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
- Please don’t elect a racist with facist goals
- A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
- No, Kamala isn’t perfect, but she’s far better.
- I Will Vote
- vote.gov
- 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
- October Macs
- Monday: iMac
- Announcement video
- The RAM drought is over!
- 120Hz display‽
- The turtle remains harpooned
- Magic Keyboard with lock key‽ 🤨
- Prior art
- Relocated Fn key?
- Quinn’s video
- Tuesday: Mac mini
- Announcement video
- Thunderbolt 5 vs. Thunderbolt 4
- Apple Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable
- Wednesday: MacBook Pros
- Announcement video
- Post-show: Marco bought something. Because of course he did.
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Security research on Private Cloud Compute
- Odd licensing
- License
- Mike Hearn’s discoveries
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...more October 24, 2024610: More Values in the Darkness - Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
- Follow-up:
- New iPad Mini
- “Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?
- David Pierce disagrees though
- Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
- Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon?
- Some follow-up from the most recent member’s special
- Photo editing
- Exposing to the right
- DPReview
- More via Sam Doran
- Color spaces
- …are only applicable on JPEGs (via Léo Natan)
- Daniel Laan’s take
- What do we do with our computer’s color tweaks while editing (via Josh Harris)
- John’s thoughts on cropping
- Parallelizing file compression/decompression
- unxip (via Mihai Parparita)
- More from unxip author Saagar Jha
- Apple Archive (see also aa)
- “No hats, no walkmen” (via Dan Pierce)
- iPhone SE 4 rumors
- Aside: iPhone product mix from ATP #609 Overtime
- Case leak
- October Macs? 🧐
- Ask ATP:
- How do we protect sensitive information like driver’s licenses? (via Jochen Marschall)
- How do we assist parents with account management and legacy planning? (via Kaleb)
- How do we clean our keyboards‽ (via Randall Miller)
- KeyboardCleanTool
- Post-show: John’s Quicksilver update
- Alfred
- LaunchBar
- Raycast
- Members-only ATP Overtime: What even is a photo, anyway?
- The Verge’s post
- Craig Federighi’s WSJ interview
- The Verge’s recap
- More from Allison Johnson
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...more October 17, 2024609: You're the Oreo Cookie - 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Marco updates
- AutoSleep
- iPhone leather backs
- Suti PhoneBack
- Nomad Magnetic Leather Back
- HDR photos from big cameras
- Apple laptops can run without a battery connected
- XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Objects
- You can soon get Apple TV+ on Prime Video
- Soccer corner
- “Drive to Survive” knockoff is coming (via Devon Dundee)
- On Messi/MLS popularity
- Shipping Forecast (via Antony Johnson)
- Enabling/disabling audio modes on AirPods 4 w/ ANC (via Scott Zero)
- John’s AirPods update
- GPX exports for geotagging photos (via Ryan Mikulovsky)
- Pedometer++
- More thoughts on global keyboard shortcuts in Sequoia (via Michael Berk)
- NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents
- Passkey benefits
- Import/export is forthcoming
- Press release
- 1Password blog post
- Apple says “🤨” to OpenAI claims about reasoning
- Research paper
- Thread from Mehrdad Farajtabar
- More from Gary Marcus
- How LLMs might store facts
- Google breakup is a possibility
- Google’s response
- New iPad Mini
- Submerged
- Making of Submerged
- Vergence-accommodation conflict
- Ask ATP:
- How do you get started editing photos? (via Maxel Amador)
- What’s the point in performance cores if they’re not used? (via Scott Schuchart)
- Amdahl’s Law
- Members-only ATP Overtime: What is the right product mix for iPhone
- Max Tech’s iPhone 17 naming wishcasting
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...more October 10, 2024608: Boot to Toot - Follow-up:
- NotebookLM podcast
- Camera Control button material
- iPhone case suggestions
- Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit
- Arc Pulse
- Leather backs
- Suti
- Nomad
- Atom Studios
- Sleep-tagging app suggestions
- Windows anti-malware app suggestions
- Adaptive Transparency report
- Wireless phone recovery
- 9to5Mac screenshot
- End ↔ end encryption coming for iPhone ↔ Android RCS messages
- More tweaks to screen recording prompts
- Jason’s toot
- Hotkey registration in Sequoia
- Response from Apple frameworks engineer
- Liquid detection in Sequoia
- Epic gets a win against Google
- Apple nopes out of OpenAI investment
- Ask ATP:
- Will John buy the new $700 Playstation Pro?
- Have the Vehicle Motion Cues helped John’s motion sickness? (via Justin Waring)
- When will the first true “built from the ground up for AI” phone be? (via Neil McGregor)
- Is it time to move to Passkeys?
- Ricky’s post
- Post-show: Adam’s gaming PC adventures
- Razer gaming laptops
- Marco’s “is this bad” post
- iFixit toolkit
- Members-only ATP Overtime: AI moats & trade secrets
- OpenAI doesn’t want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking”
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...more October 04, 2024607: The Structure and Vibe of a Podcast - Pre-show: Windows woes
- Follow-up:
- Thank you, listeners. 💙
- Hard-wired camera indicator light
- AirPods 4 bass & new MagSafe puck (via Wayne Dixon)
- Quinn’s AirPods 4 review
- The A18 is not a binned A18 Pro
- Fabian Häusler’s interpretation
- The tiny ∆ between These AirPods
- iPhones 16 battery life
- Battery limiting
- AlDente app for managing charge settings
- Electrical battery release with reversed polarity (via David Schaub)
- Verizon activation problems
- Verizon self-service (via Steven)
- Bullstrap case review
- Peel Magnetic iPhone 16 Pro Case
- Apple Store experience (via Eli Liebman)
- Marco’s call for help
- Exist.io
- Sleep++
- ATP #497: The Hotness Has to Go Somewhere
- Audio Advice Video
- Catchin’ Sync
- Masimo founder resigns as CEO after board ouster
- More from Matt Levine
- More from Ben Thompson
- Meta Orion
- Meta Connect overview
- NotebookLM
- Simon Willison’s writeup
- I Made This
- Post-show: Torturing John Again
- Better Pasta
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Kids and phones at school
- The Verge coverage
- California’s Phone-Free School Act
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...more September 24, 2024606: A Decade of Half-Presses - Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Donate in ATP’s name!
- Ryan Ricard’s great idea
- Calculate your Marco Offset
- Podcastathon: Casey was live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
- Follow-up:
- John filename extraction from Photos
- From the ATP Insider: Photo Workflows special
- John’s AppleScript
- Other suggestions
- Shortcuts (for example, Josh Woodward’s)
- osxphotos (via Muli)
- Directly read SQLite database
- Suggestion from Will Leinweber
- Use Swift/PhotoKit
- Example from Alex Mazanov
- SwiftBar
- Always sending photos to the shared library (via Alexander Faxå)
- JPEG-XL in iOS 18 on iPhone 16
- iPhone apps and spying via the microphone
- Eavesdropping via Siri
- Secure Exclave
- iPhone 16 & 16 Plus battery removal
- iFixIt teardown
- iFixIt blog post
- Jeff Johnson figured out how to silence the monthly screen recording prompts
- Sometimes the keys are bundle IDs
- Shell script to push everything out a year by Kyle Rubenok
- Amnesia App has come out to handle this for you
- TextSniper
- iPhone 16 Pro Impressions
- Is it green or blue?
- Belkin UltraGlass 2 Screen Protector
- Hypercritical #86: Naked Robotic Core
- AirPods 4 with ANC Impressions
- Apple Watch Series 10 Impressions
- Post-show Neutral: Volvo EX90’s annoying “feature”
- Animation
- Timestamp link to a video review
- Still images
- Bugatti Chiron
- Headlight replacement
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta kicks Apple when it’s down
- Meta canceled its Vision Pro competitor
- The Information
- Zuckerberg calls Meta the “opposite of Apple”
- Interview video
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...more September 17, 2024605: Manage the Moisture Situation - Pre-show: It’s early 🥱
- ATP live announcement post
- Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Donate in ATP’s name!
- Calculate your Marco Offset
- Podcastathon: Casey will be live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Insider: Photo Workflows 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- John finally admits what Casey and Marco knew last week
- It’s MicroLED not Micro OLED. The offending party has been sacked.
- AirPods 4 listening time
- Specifications
- AirPods 3 listening time
- Case Updates
- Beats iPhone 16 Pro Case with MagSafe Midnight Black
- Bullstrap Minimalist Case Black Edition
- iPhone 16 vs. iPhone 16 Pro (via Steve Stutz)
- New charging speeds
- iPhone 16 Pro demand is… not great?
- USB sync speeds
- A Public Service Announcement by Dave Mark
- Apple support article
- Preview does support HDR
- Test pattern
- FDA issues AirPods hearing aid certification
- FDA press release
- Apple Watch bands
- Titanium watch bands (via Wolf)
- Milanese Loop
- New link bracelet (via Josh Harris)
- Gold link bracelet in 2015
- Third-party cases and the iPhone 16 flash
- Torras
- Apple Intelligence notification summary memes are surely coming
- Joe Kimberlin
- More from Cabel Sasser
- Zach Kahn provides details on Apple Podcasts charts
- Summary
- Following vs. Subscribing
- Distribution
- Huawei’s newspaper phone
- Apple starts activation locking components
- Thieves attempt to get a victim to remove activation lock (via Like Kanies)
- Ask ATP:
- Do our phones listen to us or not? (via Yoav Zoldan)
- Cox Media’s admission
- 404 reveals a pitch deck
- How do we feel about MagSafe these days? (via Peter Wagoner)
- Qi
- What are our credit card setups? (via Jonathan Cirillo)
- American Express Platinum
- Apple Card website
- Post-show Neutral: A Rivian update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Will Apple pull a Google?
- Apple cuts jobs in online services division
- Ping
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...more September 12, 2024604: Minimized Embiggening - Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Donate in ATP’s name!
- Apple September 2024 Event
- Quinn’s video on Apple’s new OLED
- Underscore’s Apple Watch size comparison
- AirPods 4’s hidden capacitive button
- Camera Control overview
- Qi 2 [and more!] MagSafe
- Dr. Drang’s titanium grades
- iPhone 16 Pro gets JPEG-XL
- Della Huff on Instagram
- All models get 8GB RAM
- mmWave lives on!
- Everyone gets SIMs but America
- All iPhones 16 support Wi-Fi 7
- iPhones 16 Pro are feature-identical
- Software release dates
- Post-show: Marco’s 🪿 after-action report
- Goose
- Volvo XC90 Recharge
- Members-only ATP Overtime: iPhone 16 Case Conundrum
- RIP, FineWoven
- iPhone 16 Silicone Case has a dedicated flash hole
- Beats iPhone 16 Case
- Novada cut-out example
- Ryan London has covered their bottom
- Paul Hayes’ toot
- Bullstrap
- Closed
- Open
- iPhone 16 Pro Clear Case
- Beats iPhone 16 Pro Case
- Nomad Traditional Leather Case
- Bullstrap Minimalist Case
- Peak Design Everyday Case
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