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:

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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2h 3min
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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1h 56min
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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2h 9min
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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2h 41min
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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2h 24min
September 12, 2024604: Minimized Embiggening
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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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2h 46min
September 05, 2024603: Too Smart to Move
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Follow-up:
Mac mini redesign updates from Mark Gurman
Minimum Mac RAM (via Brian)
Apple’s 1996 revival
JPEG XL support (via Kelly Thompson)
Google’s Image Coding Comparisons
Chromium bug
Distance vs. effort vs. quality vs. speed
FTC’s noncompete ban was blocked 👎🏻
World vs. App Store
Spain 🇪🇸
Original announcement (en Español)
India 🇮🇳
UK 🇬🇧
iPhone 15 exit interview
Apple Watch Series 9 & Ultra 2 exit interview
Ask ATP:
How hard is it to maintain server compatibility for old Overcast clients? (via PG&E Delenda Est)
Does following a podcast in Overcast “help the show” in Apple Podcasts or other ways? (via Marc Robinson)
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s Rivian service
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI Angst
Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books
NaNoWriMo’s self-own
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1h 47min
August 29, 2024602: A Glimpse of a Better World
Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
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Follow-up:
Overcast 2024.8.2 update
Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
John makes it through the Apple Intelligence waitlist
Getting Apple Intelligence to create a memory of dirt-covered children (via Simon)
Prompt-injection on Apple Intelligence by Evan Zhou
Adding grammar constraints to LLMs
Llama documentation (via Stephen Tierney)
LLM Generation with Grammar Augmentation
More from an author
A summary found on Reddit
OpenAI’s “structured outputs”
Android’s superior notification history vs. iOS (via Nate)
Apple’s Fall 2024 iPhone Event
Apple doubling RAM in Macs?
Desktop RAM history
Laptop RAM history
iPhone 17 (2026) to feature 12GB RAM?
iPhone 16 camera improvements
Halide
Process Zero
JPEG-XL
Ask ATP:
Restore a new phone from backup or start anew? (via Tom Thorpe)
What happens to Apple Intelligence training for next year? (via Michael Quinn)
Post-show: It’s time for fall vaccinations
Members-only ATP Overtime: Foldable all-screen MacBook rumors
Concept art
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1h 48min
August 22, 2024601: Foreheads Over the Years
Pre-show:
App Store reorganization
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows
Follow-up:
iPhone 16 “Capture Button” (via Aaron Dippner)
iPhone 16 Pro’s fourth color
More from MacRumors
Microsoft Zune
Available on Amazon!
System color picker (via Gus Mueller)
NSColorPanel
Screen recording Vista prompts (via Craig Hockenberry)
Persistent Content Capture
Moom
Remote access software (via Anonymous)
CIRP Mac sales report from last week’s Overtime (via Phil Marshall & Josh Lowitz)
Patreon maybe is using Apple as a scapegoat?
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED lives on (via AJ)
Arc known issues for the Sequoia beta
Reddit thread
Fortnite is on iOS in 🇪🇺
On the Epic Games store
Also on AltStore PAL
Epic puts its money where its mouth is
Apple’s AI prompts discovered in public betas
Reddit thread
Cabel’s issue
Your new best friend is AI
Reveal trailer
ELIZA
Hang in there!
Tamagotchi
Ask ATP:
How should we manage batteries on our devices? (via Jake DeGroot)
macOS: System Settings → Battery → The (i) next to Battery Health → Optimized Battery Charging
Do people actually update their ★☆☆☆☆ reviews if issues get fixed? (via Patrick)
An aside about Overcast plans, including a bombshell
Should apps have open bug trackers? (via shac ron)
Why don’t most podcast apps show per-episode show art? (via Mike Shafer)
Post-show: Revisiting Marco’s kink
Ubiquiti Cameras
Flex switch
Members-only ATP Overtime: More rumors about Apple robots
Gurman
Supply chain
9to5Mac on manufacturer
MacRumors on plans
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1h 54min
August 15, 2024600: Everyone Ends Up at Crab
Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉
Clear Channel
ATP #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
Follow-up:
Vista-fication of macOS
Is the problem really the UI? (via Nathanial Cohen)
What if it’s actually about domestic abuse?
The alerts will now be monthly
How gas stations make money (via David)
Gurman news dump
iPhone 16 camera button
Advantages of a plastic Apple Watch SE
iPhone 17 Slim won’t fold
Apple sends checks for butterfly keyboards
Vision Pro updates
New Lake Vrangla Environment
New immersive videos
There are now 2500 native apps
The M4 Mac mini will be very mini
Carcinisation
Apple vs. Patreon
Original announcement post
Siderea’s Mastodon thread
The Art of the Possible
Patreon’s creator fees
More from The Verge
Gruber’s take
Post-show: John uses a Meta Quest
Playstation Move
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2h 9min

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