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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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
January 18, 2024570: The Local Mooching Situation
Pre-show: Some Administrivia
New ATP member’s special!
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Follow-up:
Marco’s UPS issue
Eaton UPS backup (via Jeff Strobel)
UPSes don’t like “dirty” power
Yes, y’all, John can be wrong sometimes.
But maybe he was 🤏🏻 right too? 🤔
John Gruber on the iPhone launch
Apple Vision Pro ordering details
Apple Vision Pro has 10 GPU cores
More on the Apple Vision Pro demos
Apple Vision Pro entertainment experiences
Maybe not all prescriptions work? (via Justin Yost)
Meta Oculus Quest 2 Inserts
Apple turns off blood oxygen sensor to avoid import ban
Dear Epic, 🖕. Love, Apple
Support page
MacRumors summary
The Art of the Possible
Tyler Hall on “Modern-day Apple”
Ben Thompson’s take at Stratechery (Paywalled)
Ask ATP:
How would we set up an iOS device for the elderly? (via Seppe Rutten)
Assistive Access
Why do audio-free apps sometimes stop playback of other apps? (via Wilson Martinez)
Levis app (App Store link)
Why doesn’t Apple just make HomePod mini into a mesh router? (via Saif Khan)
Post-show: What is a truck, anyway?
Casey’s poll
Maybe not a northern thing?
Greg Pierce gets nerdy about it
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2h 18min
January 11, 2024569: Do Grasshoppers Have Tongues?
Pre-show: Dad Dreams
Follow-up:
New watch bands will actually be… cases? (via Videoalex)
Swatch example
NATO straps
Time-shifting was successful
OLED iPad Pros will also break the bank
Apple 🤝 AWS
Retrieval Augmented Generation
How LLMs work
People… write answers for Alexa‽ 🤯
Incase 🤝 Microsoft
The Verge article
Vision Pro launches 2 February
Vision Pro will have 16GB RAM
YouTubers will get two demos
Apple’s “Get Ready” ad
Previously: “Hello”
Apple is very particular about how you represent “Vision Pro”
Apple is offering Vision Pro demos
Apple Vision Pro focal distance?
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1h 58min
January 04, 2024568: The Year of Romance
Pre-show: Time-shifting
Dave Matthews Band Crew Q&A
Follow-up:
AI Agita
Apple’s paper regarding optimizing on-device LLM
Summary by luokai
Apple explores AI training deals with news publishers
New York Times sues OpenAI & Microsoft for copyright infringement
Hard cases make bad law
Masimo Mess
26 December: Biden administration does not overturn ban
27 December, 11:55 AM: Ban temporarily paused by US Court of Appeals
27 December, 5:21 PM: Apple Watch sales resumed
Apple 2024 Preview
PolyCam
AirPods 4 Redesign?
Side-loading in the EU
Post-show: Yearly Themes
YouTube video
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2h 15min
December 26, 2023567: macOS Uranus
Pre-show: Running public sound
Automixing
Sound Devices Mix Pre-10 II
Zoom F8n
Zoom LiveTrak L8
Reminder that gift memberships make for a great last-minute gift!
Follow-up:
iCloud.com login with only a password
Apple Store experience (via Morgan Schönberger)
More details via Ian Williamson
icloud.com/find
Joanna Stern’s prison interview
Beeper → Beeped
Blog post
MacRumors
Virtualization options for macOS
UTM was recommended by several, including Luke Channings and Glenn Brown
Steve Troughton-Smith’s write-up
Is Masimo a patent troll?
The Verge article
LA Times article from October
Apple working on a software workaround?
Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
Against Intellectual Monopoly (PDF)
EVs that [allegedly] satisfy all of Rangachari Anand’s requirements
Rick Gore really likes VAG
e-tron GT
e-tron Q4
e-tron Q8
Daphne Sakellarides suggests the Hyundai Kona
Doug Spry reiterates Casey’s pick of the Chevy Bolt
Thestrategery recommends the Mini Cooper SE
Sam Abuelsamid
Honda Prologue
Acura ZDX
Mercedes EQB
Chevy Blazer EV
On car controls
Volkswagen reneges on all the crummy controls
Sam Abuelsamid’s take
iPhone 16 “Capture Button”
Next Apple Watch breaks band compatibility? 😱
Google loses antitrust case to Epic
Stratechery (Paywalled)
#askatp:
Do Nvidia & Apple mean different things by the word “core”? (via Ammar)
If Apple really does make Siri better, will it land in existing HomePods? (via Ryan McDonough)
A complete 🤬 trainwreck of a third #askatp. No spoilers.
Hauppage!
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s adventure
Maxtrax
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2h 32min
December 19, 2023566: Using It Is Wearing It Out
Gift memberships make for great last-minute gifts!
Follow-up:
Apple devices and OLED burn-in
iPhone XS burn-in (via David Gian-Cursio)
iPhone 11 Pro burn-in (via Jamieson Weiss)
Apple Watch Series 5 & iPhone 13 Pro Max (via Keith)
Apple Store diagnostics
Stolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3 beta
Maybe “trusted locations” is unwise? (via Russell Quinn)
How does this work with two-factor? (via Richard Harris)
Exceptions to 🇪🇺 battery legislation (via Matthaus Woolard)
Vexed has been ported to iOS (App Store link)
Apple updates “required reasons” for certain APIs
Resetting your only Apple device
Apple Halting Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 & Ultra 2 in 🇺🇸
Six Colors
Software workaround in the works?
Adobe 💔 Figma
Old TestFlight data leaked
Steve Troughton-Smith
Rairii
#askatp:
What’s the best way to run old versions of OS X in 2023? (via Thom Bullock)
VMWare Fusion
Parallels
VirtualBox
Rangachari Anand wants us to find them an EV
Requirements
Does not have a full glass roof
Has a sunroof that opens
Has physical HVAC, gear, seat controls
Adaptive cruise control
CarPlay
Gauge cluster (or HUD)
Center screen not safety critical
Chevy Bolt
Kia EV6
IONIQ 5 N
BMW i3
How’s Callsheet doing? (via Josiah Katz)
Upgrade #491: The 2023 Upgradies
Apple Design Awards
Post-show: The evolution of the App Store awards
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2h 6min
December 14, 2023565: Trickle-Up Concern
Pre-show: Cauterized pants
Show administrivia
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Follow-up:
More on Apple’s Blue Ocean
The 🇪🇺 is doing 🇪🇺 things
…and Apple is doing Apple things
📟 Battle
Yet more on ECC RAM from Jonathan Dietz Jr.
Micron whitepaper
US fabs and semiconductor business (via Joe Lion)
Sonos Roam audio skipping
Report #1
Report #2
Report #3
Report #4
Report #5
How does AWS S3 Glacier store data more cheaply than S3?
Photos.app processing tied to… external monitors? 🤨
Governments are spying via push notifications
Wyden’s original letter
Patriot Act
Gruber’s take
Apple 🇺🇸 guidelines
Apple non-🇺🇸 guidelines
Stolen Device Protection
Original article by Joanna Stern & Nicole Nguyen
Follow-up
9To5Mac explainer
#askatp:
Are we worried about burn-in on our iPhones? (via Will Leinweber)
Does Marco consider embracing Swift & SwiftUI in line with his “extreme minimalism” for libraries? (via Julian Gamble)
Do we like the Action Button? (via Torstein)
Post-show: Marco’s new desk toy
Photo next to an iPhone 15 Pro
John’s game: Vexed (also on PalmDB)
Marco’s games: Rally 1000 (clone of Mille Bornes) and Hearts
AvantGo
Toshiba e740
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2h 5min

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