Accidental Tech Podcast

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters. Hosted by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa.

642: A Rebuilding Year

June 5, 2025 02:18:59 • Download (134 MB)

Hopes, dreams, and predictions for WWDC 2025… after an hour of U2.

Follow-up:
Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
- Bono: Stories of Surrender
- Open: An Autobiography
- Rattle and Hum
- Apple Immersive Screenshots:
  - Crowd
  - Stadium
  - TV
PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
- Casey’s toot
- FB17661404
WWDC hopes & predictions
Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
- Retreating to Safety
- Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sky: a new AI app for macOS

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641: We're Saving That for the Egg

May 29, 2025 02:09:33 • Download (125 MB)

Tiny EV trucks, what Jony and Sam might be making, and how Apple might turn around developer sentiment.

Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
- Five Whys
Follow-up:
- SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
- Vision Pro on The Price is Right
- What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
  - Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
  - Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
- Alexa Plus Update
- Neutral:
  - Slate Truck Top Gear review
  - TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
    - There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
    - DeMuro’s review
    - Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
  - Pickup beds over time
Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- DeWalt LED Work Light
- DeWalt Tire Inflator
- DeWalt 60V Blower
- Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
- 3M VHB Tape
- Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
- Knipex Wire Stripper
- Wago Connectors
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple OS rebranding & macOS name predictions

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640: Put It in a Potato

May 22, 2025 02:15:21 • Download (131 MB)

OpenAI buys Jony Ive, the alleged AI story inside Apple, the potential for AI APIs, and why we all need to buy Aston Martins for our work.

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
  - How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
- SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff)
  - SpinRite (Intel-only)
- Fornite is back in the US App Store
- Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco
  - Previously on ATP
- The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all
  - Apple documentation
Apple to open AI models to developers?
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io
- Sam and Jony
- Gurman’s coverage
Ask ATP:
- What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison)
  - FBLA
  - Disc camera
- What’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid)
  - Show art
  - Wheel size explained
- Is there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson)
Post-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra
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- European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA
  - Gruber did the math
- New smartphone labels for battery life & repairability

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639: Crimp the World

May 15, 2025 01:58:47 • Download (115 MB)

Even John finally flipped.

Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
- CalDigit TS5
Follow-up:
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
  - Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
  - Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
- AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
- “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
  - A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini
- Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
- Apple appeals App Store rule changes
- Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
  - More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
- Meanwhile, in the App Store…
- Home networking corner
  - Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
  - Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
  - What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
  - Casey’s sitrep
    - 2× U6-LR installed
      - Ugly PoE injectors
    - 10GbE card installed in Synology
    - Switches just arrived
      - Lite 8 PoE
      - Flex Mini
    - Camera time?
Apple Turnover
Some fun Apple media
- Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly
  - Gui Rambo’s investigation
- A conversation with Jony Ive
Backblaze drama
Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- Cable Matters
- Marco’s crimping toolkit
Members-only ATP Overtime: SSD data doesn’t last forever
- Video
- M-DISC

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ATP Top Four: Game Consoles

May 13, 2025

In a completely original podcast format, we rank our favorite videogame consoles.

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