Ranking selected emoji, based on our usual, precise, rational criteria.

Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, the state of the 27 OSes heading into the public betas, what FileMaker was (or is?), and looking for a new home for Maestral.

• Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
  • catatp (see also Statistics)
  • Bootleg visualization
• Follow-up:
  • Public beta check-in
  • Casey’s iMessage notification issue
  • Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
  • Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
  • Mac-assed Mac Apps
    • Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT
      • Gruber #1
      • Gruber #2
    • Gus Mueller
    • Gruber
  • Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)
    • LaunchAgent
      • ~/Library/LaunchAgents
    • Casey’s former keyboard
      • Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A
  • Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)
  • Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)
  • Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers
• Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What was is FileMaker
  • Agentic development
• Goodbye, Maestral 🫡
  • Gruber
• Apple Sues OpenAI
  • Apple Inc. vs. Liu
  • Chance Miller’s summary
  • The Verge
  • Gruber
  • Dithering
  • OpenAI’s response and part 2
• Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition
  • Unifi Travel Router
  • Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
  • GL Comet Q
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs
  • Ars Technica
  • The funeral has begun
  • Ars Technica on library erasure
  • The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld

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Someone got us started on app icons again.

• Pre-show: Casey’s oops
  • Magic TrackPad
  • Magic Keyboard
  • Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
• Follow-up:
  • Casey may have fixed his notification problem!
  • Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon)
  • RAMAgeddon
    • Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan)
    • Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture)
    • Steam Machine difficulties
      • Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s)
    • Collusion! Well, maybe.
    • Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math
  • We’re Fable is so back, baby
    • More at Ars Technica
  • Siri AI
    • No web browsing for you!
    • Apple removed the waitlist workaround in macOS β2
    • Determining what model is used (via Gui Rambo)
• Revamped icons by Parakeet
  • Design services price list
  • SwitchGlass
    • SwitchGlass dark icon
    • SwitchGlass old icon
  • Front and Center
    • Front and Center old icon
  • Callsheet
    • Callsheet old icon
    • Jelly’s write-up
    • Ste Grainer
    • The ATP member special where we rated iOS icons
  • Overcast
  • Marco’s [REDACTED] Reminders App
    • Fire Island Lighthouse
  • Parakeet’s post about our icons
• Apple adds paste protection to Terminal
  • Apple support document
  • Opera joins the party
• Xcode 𝑥OS 27 & DerivedData
  • DevCleaner (App Store link)
• Post-show: Casey is jealous of Marco
  • Goose
  • Big Modern!
    • Casey likes Savenger, Good2B, and Torero
  • Nugs
  • Micro Tyvek Wallet
  • Micro Soft Shell Wallet
  • Studio Neat
  • Casey’s fan
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple create a handheld gaming platform?
  • Quinn Nelson’s pitch
  • Game Porting Toolkit 4

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Siri AI impressions, M6 and M7 rumors, Apple’s role in the supply chain, languages for LLMs, and price hikes for everyone!

• Pre-show: Who’s bored?
• 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
• Follow-up:
  • Nugs and Sonos
  • As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
  • Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
  • Rumors about Siri AI indexing
  • Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
  • Price increases abound! ☹️
    • On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
    • Steam Machine (More)
    • Xbox
    • Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)
      • Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
        • Previously, in Palm Pilots
  • Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓
    • Financial Times
• No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽
  • Touchscreen MacBook Pro
• Intel to fabricate the M7‽
  • GFHK?
  • More reporting
• New Siri
  • Iconography
    • Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
    • Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)
  • Joanna Stern’s review
  • Gui Rambo’s experiment
  • Dan Moren
  • John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)
    • Question 1
    • Question 2
• Ask ATP:
  • Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
  • If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)
    • 3Blue1Brown
    • Avoiding Copland 2010
  • Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)
    • Casey:
      • ThinkPad 701C
      • ThinkPad T30
    • John:
      • eMate
      • Newton 2000
      • Trashcan
• Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS
  • Announcement video
  • On the store
  • All Ubiquiti NAS offerings
  • Xserve RAID

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