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ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos

February 28, 2025

Nobody is immune to the perils of the modern logo redesign.

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628: There’s a Certain Smell

February 27, 2025 01:57:28 • Download (114 MB)

John launches Hyperspace! (That's not the smell. The app is great.)

Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
Follow-up:
- New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
  - Bono Autobiography
- Prospects for humanoid robots
- macOS testing (via Anonymous)
- With apologies to Joe Rosensteel
- Netflix’s Apple TV integration
  - It’s more than just the app (via Serena)
  - What purpose does the TV app serve? (via Daniel Luz)
  - Implementation details (via Anonymous)
- iPhone 16e
  - Name implications
  - Possible role? (via Patch)
- Apple C1
  - MagSafe isn’t a problem
    - No, really
  - C1 is “just the start”
    - Wendover video link
  - It’s really quite impressive (via Pedro Fernandes)
    - 0.0000000000000316 W
  - Andru Edwards’ Behind-the-Scenes Tour
  - Qualcomm licensure? (via Casey in episode 476 at around 40m)
  - Gurman on future Cx chips
- Apple investigates custom Wi-Fi chips as well
- Apple approves new wording for emails
  - Not just in the EU
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
  - Full statement
  - Screenshot
  - Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
iPhone 17 camera bumps
- Leak
Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
- Upgrade #552: Table for Six
- Woes in North Carolina
Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
Members-only ATP Overtime: New “Apple-like” camera: Sigma BF

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627: Dragged Across the Line

February 20, 2025 02:03:04 • Download (119 MB)

The iPhone 16e, a VoIP (mis)adventure, and the latest attempt at a status display in the Liss household.

Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
Follow-up:
- Apple Account transfers
  - Updated restrictions & guidelines
  - Stephen’s take
- The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
  - WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos
  - Matthew Green’s blog post
- macOS UNIX compliance
- Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
iPhone 16e announced
- Intro video
Apple TV app is now on Android
Netflix and foot-guns
Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board
Members-only ATP Overtime: Robots are, like, so in right now.

626: No Longer ery Good

February 13, 2025 01:57:44 • Download (114 MB)

Merging Apple accounts, home-status displays, emotive robots, and why we really do want cellular Macs.

Follow-up:
- Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
- First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
- You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
- Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
  - Tailgate Tub
- Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
- DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
  - Technical report
- Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
- macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
  - Thom at OSnews
- Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another
- The new JoyCons do act as a mouse
- An alternative for Apple TV audio (via Nicholas Correnti)
  - /r/TVTooHigh
- Casey’s new arrivals
  - WS2812B Addressable LED strip
  - TRMNL
- Hyperspace updates
  - Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
  - Slack
- An aside about bug reporting
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
- Original Washington Post article
- BBC coverage
ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
Ask ATP:
- What planning/wireframing tools do we use? (via Glen Lam)
- Is HFS+ still relevant in 2025? (via Mike Hatfield)
  - QNAP
- Would John tell us more about the many pieces of detritus associated with files? (via Leon Cowle)
Post-show: Restaurant-tech update
- Dante
- Ubiquiti Flex (Useful little PoE switch)
- Ubiquiti Flex 2.5G PoE (2.5G version with 10G uplink)
- Ubiquiti Switch Flex XG (10G switch)
Members-only ATP Overtime: iOS 19 UI rumors and the design language of Apple Invites
- Jon Prosser’s video
- Invites & Sports apps

625: Time and Smoke

February 6, 2025 01:56:51 • Download (113 MB)

Zen and the art of restaurant wiring.

Pre-show: BBQ
- ZZQ
- Q
Follow-up:
- New immersive video: Man vs. Beast
- “Historical Commission”?
- Sonos volume changes are local
- DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave)
- Docker
  - Rosetta (via Brian Reiter)
    - Hypervisor.framework
  - Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
  - Sending email
    - Mailhog (via Matt Barlow)
    - Mailpit (via John Caruso)
    - Maildev (via Yves Serrano)
  - ddev.com (via Bram Esposito)
  - Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke)
- Marco’s TV audio sync issues
  - Match Format and Match Dynamic Range (via Marco Arment)
  - Quick Media Switching
    - Previously on ATP…
    - QMS marketing page
    - Demo video (via Nit)
Apple Invites
Pornography on the iPhone
Ask ATP:
- Why are Casey and Marco so excited for cellular Macs? (via Matthew Fenselau)
- Should one use their personal Apple ID on a corporate Mac (via Stephen Swift)
  - Localsend
  - ↪️ Gruber
  - ↪️ Underscore
  - Luna Display
  - Synergy
Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
- Dante
- Food Safety Talk
Members-only ATP Overtime: Subsequent Sonos Stuff
- Sonos’ take on the Apple TV?
  - Ventura OS?
- Sonos has another round of layoffs
  - Letter from interim CEO Tom Conrad