Breaking news and in-depth coverage from our reporter at CES.

• Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
  • 20k Hz
    • The Sound of Apple 1.0
    • The Sound of Apple 2.0
    • Auto-Tone (Rivian)
  • statuslight.com
• Follow-up:
  • That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
    • Former example
    • Actual link we couldn’t [previously] find (via K)
    • Another example
    • And another
  • The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
  • Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
  • The Magic Mouse
    • The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
    • The Mighty Mouse did
    • MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
      • Editorialized reel
    • What will the new one be?
      • Ridiculous mouse rumor
        • Gurman’s take
        • Hello, Computer
      • Death to buttons?
      • Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
      • Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
      • Perhaps a common charging approach?
  • Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
  • Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
• CES 2025
  • TVs
    • What’s John got his eyes on?
    • Sony 💔
    • Samsung’s new QD-OLED
      • HDTVTest
      • Digital Trends
    • LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
      • Microlens
      • Tandem OLED
    • Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
      • “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
      • HDTVTest on the Z95B
    • More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
    • Big TVs are big
  • LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
    • Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
    • Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
  • Dell no longer makes XPS computers
    • Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
    • Engadget’s take
  • Nvidia’s announcements
    • Nvidia announces RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
      • DLSS 4
        • Explainer video from Nvidia
      • Deep learning super sampling
      • John’s post featuring a video about the responsiveness of touch interfaces
    • Nvidia AI supercomputer “Digits”
    • ~~Concepts of~~ a plan for desktop CPU
• TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
• Post-show:
  • Thanks, Patrons 💙
  • Marco bought something.
    • HDCP
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels
  • BBC report 1 and report 2
  • Apple’s response
  • Allen Pike’s Apple Intelligence evaluation

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Apple's in-house radio chips, iOS 18 Photos-app reception, rumors of a new mouse (!), and a good cult to join.

• Pre-show:
  • Holiday results
    • Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
  • Casey’s impending mess
  • John needs technical support
• Follow-up:
  • Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
    • FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
    • The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
  • On Recents in the Finder sidebar
    • Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
    • Odin points out it’s a default
    • Joe Lion has complaints
  • Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
    • Vison Pro teardown
    • Samsung’s screen breakthrough
    • Sony’s OLED microdisplay
  • Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
    • Original blog post
    • ~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
• iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
• Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
  • MKBHD asks Tim Cook about the Magic Mouse
• Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
  • Casey’s super-shady installation
  • LoRa
  • Casey’s starter pack
  • YoLink FAQ
  • John’s starter pack
  • Water Leak Detector
  • YoLink store at Amazon
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
  • WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
    • Direct video link
    • Slides PDF
  • About Apple File System
  • Apple File System Reference
  • dirstat.h
  • dirstat.c

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Disk-cloning drama, recognizing obscene waveforms, Storacusa progress, and the plug-in-hybrid life.

• Pre-show:
  • New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
    • Become an ATP Member to listen
    • ATP Gift Memberships
• Follow-up:
  • “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
    • Can Marco recognize waveforms?
    • Descript
  • Emo Siri
    • It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
    • She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
  • Immersive video
    • More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
      • Insta360 Titan
    • Software-based immersive video
      • Depth Anything
    • Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
      • Welcome to Light Fields
      • Deep View Video
    • Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
      • Demo for the Meta Quest
  • John’s app
    • More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
    • Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
    • Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
• New Vision Pro content — again!
• Apple and bootable macOS backups
  • Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
    • Original blog post from May 2021
    • Secure boot
    • asr: Apple Software Restore
• Ask ATP:
  • Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
  • What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
    • ~/bin
    • /usr/local/bin
  • Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
  • What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
    • Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
      • 27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
      • 16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
      • 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
    • Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
      • 50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
    • Olympus OM-D E-M10
    • Sony a7 III
      • SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
• Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
  • Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024

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A new toy Marco bought, a new toy Marco swears he won't buy, many names John won't use for his app, and a snack of sharks.

• New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
• Follow-up:
  • John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
    • A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
    • Christian Kent’s correction/joke
    • More app name ideas…
    • Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
    • Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
  • Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
• Pinstripes are back, baby!
  • Jeff Johnson
    • Reddit post
• Is Siri… emotional… now?
• Marco’s new e-ink toy
  • Integrations
  • API
  • Note that it’s backordered for a bit
• New Wildlife immersive video episode
• Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
  • _’s toot
  • Quicktime VR
  • Matterport
• Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
  • PlayStation VR2
  • Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
    People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
• Post-show: John’s app progress
  • Casey’s thoughts on [dire lack of] Apple documentation
  • Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI (WWDC 2023)
  • Apple’s Backyard Birds sample app
  • map(_:)
  • Hacking with Swift
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
  • 5K is 5120 × 2880
  • Marc Edwards’ chart
  • Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
    • At the time of recording, on sale for $720
    • Jason’s review
  • ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
    • Review by D. Griffin Jones
  • BenQ PD2730S
  • ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
  • Apple’s plans

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