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:

March 28, 2024580: Socks in the Knob-Hole
Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Follow-up:
Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
DMA compliance feedback session is live
Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)
Gruber’s summary
Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
European Commission press release
Dan Moren’s take
Reuters interview with Margrethe Vestager
Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
Artificial tooth monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽
Forum shopping
Legal experts praise DOJ case
DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing
WWDC announced
Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
People are fed up with useless tech in their cars
EuroNCAP is doing the Lord’s work
New CarPlay is Apple’s last hope to crack cars?
Real-time operating system
QNX vs. Android Automotive
QNX
Ask ATP:
How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)
Everyone’s Sony alarm clock
What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)
Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer
PaintCode
Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of Apple ID
To be rebranded as “Apple Account”? (February 2024)
More from MacRumors (March 2024)
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1h 46min
March 22, 2024579: Use Your Words
Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
Follow-up:
The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart
Warmart press release
Apple Silicon & Project Titan
Safari hangs (via Wade)
Apple’s DMA compliance efforts
Apple DMA compliance workshop
Gruber’s take
Kay Jebelli’s recap on Twitter
AI-generated transcript
Video of Riley Testut’s question/answer
John’s curious obsession with street widths
Marco: 8’ / ~2.5m
Underscore: 19’4” / ~6m
John: 23’5” / ~11m
Magnets in Apple Watch bands (via Harvey Simon)
Modern Buckle
Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
The Verge
Lawsuit PDF
Transcript of prepared remarks
Toot from Glyph
Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates
Another AI paper from Apple
VentureBeat summary
Stratechery recap (Paywalled)
Apple partnering with Google or OpenAI?
Bloomberg coverage
Humane Ai Pin
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1h 56min
March 14, 2024578: Weird Can Be Beautiful
Pre-show:
ATP Overtime
ATP Insider: John’s Windows
ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County
ATP Membership FAQ
AppStories
Follow-up:
Callsheet available on visionOS
“Put me on Aux” (via Sam Davies)
Spotify & free users (via Colin Meney)
256 GB M3 MacBook Air has 2× 128 GB NAND chips
iFixIt Teardown
Project Titan chip rumors
What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
Epic’s developer account reinstated
Gruber’s take
Upgrade #503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the Field
More options for 🇪🇺 distribution
Getting ready for Web Distribution
Newly proposed Apple flow
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED gets first attempted fix
Original feature
Google Gemini’s revisionist history
Reconcilable Differences #228: Big Filter Boy
Stratechery: Aggregator’s AI Risk
Gemini refuses to answer election questions
Reuters
Ask ATP:
How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
Super Smash Brothers
Mega Man 2
OpenEmu
Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)
Playdate
Swift on the Playdate
Pico 8
Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rabbit r1
Interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu
Neuro-symbolic model
CueCat
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1h 52min
March 07, 2024577: Colorful Criticism
Pre-show: Old men talk about old car stereos
Follow-up:
John’s notes export via privacy.apple.com
Apple Vision Pro & Project Titan (via James Anthony)
JIBO
gita (the robot Casey was thinking of)
Gurman’s article (or on Apple News)
Apple Vision Pro’s inevitable future (via Matt Johnson)
M3 MacBook Airs
Gurman on forthcoming Apple events
Hector Martin on two displays
Apple confirms backport of two-display support to M3
RIP the 🧀
Apple fined $2 billion by EU for App Store practices
The Verge
EU ruling
Apple’s response
Sherman Antitrust Act
AltStore has received its MarketplaceKit entitlement
Apple’s DMA policy updates
Updated rules
Apple terminates Epic’s developer account
Epic’s blog post
Example tweet
Post-show Ask ATP: If we could solve one of Apple’s legal problems, what would it be? (via Marc Robinson)
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1h 57min
February 29, 2024576: Quiet Little Leech
Pre-show: Marco is many things, but patient is… not one of them.
Blackbox
Crouton
Joanna Stern’s video
Television (App Store link)
ForeFlight Voyager
Flight Control
Follow-up:
Vision Pro demand
Clarification about Apple’s new iMessage encryption
Extracting data from iCloud (via John Males)
Apple Privacy
Magnets and compasses
…in ✨ space ✨ (via Adam Wuerl)
…can be canceled out by Core Motion (via Zev Eisenberg)
Vision Pro & motion blur (via Orlando Herrera)
Meta’s “Pixel Codec Avatars” vs. Personas (via Gottfried Chen)
Facebook video
Uncanny valley graph
Casey’s podcast appearance
CrackGate
Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan
MacRumors coverage
New York Times coverage
Tim Cook on cars in 2017
MJ Tsai
Jeff Johnson
Ask ATP:
What email clients do we use? (via Joe)
Claris Emailer
Entourage
Why hasn’t Marco fallen off the deep end explored a DIY mechanical keyboard? (via Warren Bakay)
How interested are we in LLMs & generative AIs?
sdxl⚡lightning
Post-show: WWDC wish-casting
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1h 60min
February 22, 2024575: Walk a Little Faster
Pre-show:
Vision Pro comfort
Light Seal Sizes Decoded
ATP Movie Club: Steve Jobs
Follow-up:
Vision Pro motion blur (via Chase)
Blur Busters
Vision Pro and warped images
Eyes as input vs. output (via Tony DiTaranto)
Fitts’s Law and the Dock
Apple 🤝🏻 Qualcomm
Apple & Patents
Mangets & Compasses (via Harvey Simon)
Modern buckle
Line/letter of credit (via Brian Coffey)
Vision Pro
Personas
…are getting better in 1.1?
1.0 → 1.1 examples
Charlie Chapman’s example
Persona Studio (App Store link)
Apple defends against future iMessage attacks
Apple blog post
Ask ATP:
How do we evangelize Mac-assed Mac apps? (via Ian Malczewski)
If we could get one new API for our apps, what would it be? (via Julian Gamble)
Could Marco best/first/favorite Phish concerts? (via Winnie Lewis)
Reconcilable Differences
Live Phish
Post-show: Using a high-end camera and gear for Vision Pro panoramas
Fuji GFX
Canon dual fisheye lens
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2h 2min
February 15, 2024574: Weird Forking Scenario
Pre-show: Casey’s Persona Surprise
Follow-up:
iPad Pro 11” PPD
PPD calculator
A note on field of view and eye movement
Some discussion about Mac Virtual Display fidelity
Turning off Apple Vision Pro
The Developer Strap (requires login) is Thunderbolt capable
Orion (HDMI display app for iPad)
Casey’s HDMI capture dongle
“Real” vs. “Fake” 3D (via Matt Rigby)
Rotoscoping
More thoughts from friend-of-the-show Todd Vaziri
More [now un-paywalled!] thoughts from FotS Joe Rosensteel
iMessage will not be regulated as part of DMA
WhatsApp interoperability strategy
Riley Testut of AltStore weighs in on third-party marketplaces
What is a €1M “line of credit”, anyway?
Apple Vision Pro
Guest mode
HDCP
Voices of VR Podcast with Bert Nepveu
Fitts’ Law on Dithering
⌘-Tab
EyeSight
Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro after-action report
Casey’s blog post
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2h 15min
February 08, 2024573: Look at It Harder
Follow-up:
YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)
John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint
€0.50 is “50 cents”
Prescription lens pairing
Wide Lightning™ and Wider Lightning™
Developer Strap (requires developer account)
Vision Pro weight discussed in Vanity Fair
Bluetooth peripherals
Intel Macs & Mac Virtual Display
Support Document
Vision Pro syncs when not in use
Performance throttling
Vision Pro for movies & TV
Color reproduction
iFixit estimates resolution
“Ideal” field of view for movies
Pixels per degree:
iPad Pro 11” @ 14” / 35cm = 67 ppd
65” 4K TV @ 5 feet / 1.5m = 76 ppd
Pro Display XDR @ 2 feet / 0.6m = 100 ppd
Real vs. Fake 3D
iFixit Teardown
Video part 1
Video part 2
Vision Pro initial thoughts
John on spatial computing
Captain EO
Soarin’
VAC
Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro train experience
Casey Neistat’s video
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2h 37min
February 01, 2024572: Cryptofarts and Copyright Infringement
Follow-up:
Vision Pro talk begins next week; some good reviews for now:
Nilay Patel @ The Verge
Video review
Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal
Brian Tong
Gruber
MKBHD’s using Vision Pro
YouTube API (via Alex Chan)
Quota costs
Console hardware margins in the App Store & consoles
Customer ownership
Stolen Device Protection & device repairs (via Niru Maheswaranathan)
European eye prescriptions (via René Schätzl)
Apple’s EU DMA compliance
Apple Newsroom
Apple Developer documentation
Apple Developer News
Gruber’s summary
Apple Fee Calculator
Marketplace requirements
MarketplaceKit
Developer documentation
Upgrade #497: The Poison Pill
Tapestry Kickstarter
Actual DMA text
English
Steven Sinofsky’s Summary
MacStories Summary
Ask ATP:
Do we ever go mono on our AirPods? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
Are there any apps we’d make if there weren’t already ♾️ takes on that app? (via Aaron Thomas)
Total Annihilation
Ferrite
What settings do we use for Apple Music? (via Christian Kent)
Mimi Hearing Test
Post-show: Casey is amped about his forthcoming Mac monitor
Ensemble to pull individual windows into visionOS
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2h 19min
January 26, 2024571: Adding Some Carrot
Pre-show: YouTube updates
Follow-up:
SCSI DB-25 was on the back of Macs, not DB-50
D-subminiature
iOS Screen Sharing is a thing
No control for remote users though
On Apple’s 30% cut and payment processing fees
The Art of the Possible (John’s blog post)
Whose customer is this, anyway?
Apple’s compliance with EU law is likely to go exactly as expected
Apple News link
Apple Vision Pro optics (via Todd Zarwell & jkahnk)
Apple’s software workaround for Masimo-related import ban
Gruber’s take
Apple Vision Pro preorders
Accessories
Battery
Belkin Battery Holder
Travel Case
Light Seal
Light seal sizes? (via Quinn Nelson)
Light Seal Cushion
Solo Knit Band
Dual Loop Band
Optical inserts (readers or prescription)
Please don’t break one 💸
The Verge
Weight
You have to pair the optical inserts
Launch inventory was 80,000 units?
But sales may have hit 180k?
Reseller market is optimistic
ebay Search
Apple Vision Pro Guided Tour
Sorry, non-🇺🇸
Ask ATP:
Does the Apple Vision Pro work like a camera viewfinder? (via Nigel Warren)
Do we do anything to back up our emails? (via Lawrence Koteff)
Google Takeout
Do we use iMessage Contact Key Verification? (via Severin)
Post-show: Family Apple Vision Pro vibe check
QuickDraw 3D
Scrapbook
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1h 32min

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