A mountain of follow-up and new info on the iPhone 15 series, a bunch of USB-C nerdery, and some Rivian hacks with mixed results.

• Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
• 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
  • The Marco Offset
• ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
• Follow-up:
  • Apple-products-save-your-life video
  • Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
  • Titanium watches
    • Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
    • Warranty (via Doug Miller)
  • Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
  • Casey’s live adventure
    • Related The Verge article
    • Marco’s option
  • Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
  • Apple “blue” over time
  • iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
    • iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
    • iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
  • iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
    • 14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
    • PetaPixel was confused too
    • The arrangement changed
    • iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
    • 5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
    • 3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
    • iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
    • PetaPixel camera review
    • DPReview
  • USB-C begets external display support
    • Apple support document
    • Panic on The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
  • USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen)
    • Example
  • iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
  • iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
    • Revegnus’ tweet
    • Kal’s tweet
    • Nuvia
      • Lawsuit dropped
  • iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
  • Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
    • Similar to Peak Design case?
  • Apple 2030
    • Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
    • Environment FAQ
  • Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
    • New York Times interview from 2020
• Gruber’s post
  • Geekbench 6
    • Single-core
      • M2 Max: 2,803
      • Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 4,220
    • Multi-core
      • M2 Ultra: 21,299
      • Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 29,015
  • Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
    • Luke Miani
    • Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs
• #askatp:
  • How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
    
    • The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
  • How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
  • Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
• Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks

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In this member-exclusive episode, we rank our favorite laptops of all time (so far) and argue, Top Four-style.

Impressions and analysis of Apple's fall event featuring the iPhone 15 series, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, and Apple 2030.

• Pre-show: Marco’s Wi-Fi Woes
  • RealPlayer
• 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
  • The Marco Offset
• Apple Event on September 12
  • System in a Package (SiP)
  • System on a Chip (SoC)
  • Six Colors’ small discoveries
  • GE fuel injector AM article
  • Dr. Drang’s post on iPhone physics
  • Grade 5 titanium
  • iPhone 14 teardown
  • Action button settings UI video
  • Sony Xperia 1 IV
• Not in the keynote:
  • iOS 17 on 18 September
  • Sonoma on 26 September
  • USB-C Lightning Adapter
  • Apple kills MagSafe Duo & MagSafe Battery pack
• Post-show: What color is Marco’s car?

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Rumors, expectations, and hopes for the iPhone event next week.

• Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
• Follow-up:
  • iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
  • iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
    • Flighty
    • Sports Alerts (App Store link)
  • You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
  • Apple Park & garbage cans
• Apple Event on September 12
  • WiFi 6 vs. 6E
  • Google Pixel ad
  • Czinger 21C
  • Twill
• Post-show Neutral:
  • Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option

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Exit interviews for the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, and Apple Watch Series 8, and our first ever Exit Salute for a much greater outgoing product.

• Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
• Follow-up:
  • Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
  • Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
  • Child Gmail Accounts
    • Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
    • Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
  • Trouble in HomePod paradise
  • iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
  • Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
  • Truck routing
    • Truck Map has a skip button (via Ezekiel Elin)
    • Garmin sells bespoke truck GPS units (via Jonathan Llamas)
    • Some recommendations (via Andrew Larson)
      • inRoute
      • TomTom/Garmin
• Apple Event on September 12
• Exit Interviews
  • iPhone 14
  • Watch Ultra
  • Watch Series 8
  • A special Exit Salute
• Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
  • DS1621+
  • Western Digital Red 18 TB

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