In this special members-only episode, we watch and discuss "WarGames" (1983).

More Apple-executive turnover, and the risks and upsides of leadership change.

• Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow
• Follow-up:
  • Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro
    • Workout Buddy
    • Previously with Jay Blahnik
  • More adventures with Cloudflare
    • jramskov’s observation
    • TLS Certificate lifetimes
    • Alternatively, GitHub Pages
    • Some thoughts from an anonymous Cloudflare employee
      • Workers
      • Pages
      • R2
      • KV
      • Durable Objects
    • Oops… we broke it
      • Landon’s observation
      • 5 December Outage
        • React.js vulnerability
  • Say my name, Siri!
    • Siri response preferences (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
      • Screenshot
    • AirPods and Contacts (via Oren Idan)
    • We’re… uh… sorry. Our bad.
      • Sean Santry
      • Reid Sorenson
  • iOS 26 rollout 📈
    • Underscore on 20 November
    • Underscore on 8 December
  • Intel 🤝 Apple Commentary
    • Tambourine Man
    • David Beck
    • Goffredo Marocchi
      • Previously on ATP
      • Srouji’s comments (timestamp link to 34m26s)
      • Maybe Intel will just do packaging?
    • Maybe iPhone chips too?
  • Gruber is… not a fan… of Alan Dye
    • Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
• Apple’s revolving door keeps spinning
  • An anonymous observation
  • Gurman, 6 December
  • Gurman, 8 December
  • Gurman’s departing executive tracker image
• Post-show:
  • Messages conversation merging
  • A feature request
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Watch & Mac mini are no longer advertised as “carbon neutral”
  • Apple 2030
  • Apple commits to 100% carbon neutrality for supply chain & products by 2030 (21 July 2020)
  • Carbon removal & offsets

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Christmas came early this year.

• Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
• Follow-up:
  • Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded
    • Vision Pro Size Help tool
  • JPEG XL lives… in PDF
    • Chromium ticket
    • jxl-rs: JPEG XL in Rust
  • Chapter links in Apple Podcasts
    • Stephen Robles on The Talk Show
    • Apple documentation
    • ATP on Threads
  • Malicious content delivery on Podcasts.app?
    • 404 Media article
• Everybody is leaving Apple
  • John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
    • Amar Subramanya’s first-week experience at Microsoft
  • Alan Dye poached by Meta
    • Jason’s take
• Cloudflare’s 18 November Outage
  • Cloudflare
  • Lets Encrypt
  • Hypercritical
  • Callsheet
• Ask ATP:
  • Why can’t Siri pronounce names correctly? (via Tony West)
    • serra queue sah
    • Siri, what’s my full name
• Post-show:
  • What now, bagel snobs?
    • BagelFest
    • Baltik’s Bagel: People’s Choice award
    • Baltik’s Bagel
    • Coverage from the NY metro area
  • Bullstrap Minimalist Case
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝 Intel?
  • Intel 18A vs. TSMC N2
  • MTr/mm²

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Egg! Egg! Egg!

• Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy
  • ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
  • Bryan’s toot
    • pen.tips
    • Paperlike 3
    • Paperlike Pencil Tips
• Follow-up:
  • macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electon slowdown (per shamelectron)
  • Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
  • Gaming in ARM
    • Anti-cheat complications (via Tyler)
    • Windows 11 on ARM (via David Gaw)
  • OpenAI Egg update
    • Interview video
    • Fred T
  • Apple N1 > Broadcom
  • An iPhone camera cluster theory
  • The UK is still trying to make fetch happen get themselves a back door
    • Financial Times
• Apple Fitness+ is “Under Review”
• Fast charging & battery health
  • Juli Clover summary @ MacRumors
• Ask ATP:
  • Now that Marco owns a restaurant, does he tip differently? (via Max Velasco Knott)
  • What do we think about third-party packages? (via Eric Jacobsen)
    • swift-collections
    • swift-async-algorithms
    • CPAN
    • Flow
  • Is organizing /Applications a poor choice? (via Nathan)
  • Are our kids better than we are at video games yet? (via Omri Arbiv)
    • Ultimate Chicken Horse
    • SongPop Party
    • UltraKill
    • Universal Paperclips
    • Cookie Clicker
• Post-show: The saga of Overcast episode images
  • Core Intuition
  • Linode Object Storage
  • CloudFlare R2
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we ever be forced to put away our phones? (via Philip McDermott)

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The rumored end of the Mac Pro, the rumored end of Tim Cook's CEO tenure, and the resurrection of matte screens.

• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
  • ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
• Follow-up:
  • The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
    • Wikipedia
  • Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
    • Paperlike
    • Rock Paper Pencil
  • Steam Machine
    • EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidShaub)
  • PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
    • Wikipedia
    • PS Dev Wiki
  • Steam Frame
    • Lenses (via Michael)
    • Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
    • Top strap image
    • Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
      • Guide on Reddit
  • SteamOS
    • Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
    • Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
      • Bazzite
      • CachyOS
    • Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
    • Screw it, I’m installing Linux
  • Steam strategy
    • Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
      • Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
        • Additional thoughts from Ava
    • Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
  • Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
  • “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
• John mourns the recent news
  • GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
  • GeekBench Metal scores
    • Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
    • Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
  • The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
• Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
  • Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
    • As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
  • Financial Times, 14 November 2025
  • Gruber’s take
  • Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
    • Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
• Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
  • Rage-baiting
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
  • Dan Moren @ Six Colors
  • MJ Tsai
  • Apple shipped its source maps
    • Svelte
  • See also: Apple Maps on the web
    • Announcement
  • See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
    • Juli Clover @ MacRumors

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