John Ternus was announced as Apple’s next CEO! We review the strengths and weaknesses of the Tim Cook era as he transitions to Executive Chairman.

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• Follow-up:
  • GL.iNet KVM security issues?
    • Mark Wadham’s write-up
    • Dan Godin at Ars Technica
  • MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
  • Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
  • More component delays
• It’s Ternus time
  • Fashion
    • Cook’s shoes
    • Ternus’s Shirt
    • Cook’s Shirt
  • Johny Srouji named Chief Hardware Officer
  • Tim’s letter
  • New York Times coverage
  • Marco’s blog post
• Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
  • Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue
  • Infinite Loop by Michael S. Malone
  • Revolution in the Valley
    
    • folklore.org
  • Jason’s recommendations
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception
  • Stephen Robles’ $3,000 video box
    • Kaleidescape Strato
  • MakeMKV
  • Tom’s Hardware: Audiophiles are full of 💩
    • Original post
  • One Man’s Dream (Callsheet link)
    • RIP, Ken Fritz

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Ads in Apple Maps, copyright of AI output, and a short supply of flawed chips.

• Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
  • Roon
  • Nugs
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• 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
• Follow-up:
  • Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
    • Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
  • The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
    • Previously:
      • Eric Portis on Color Spaces
      • Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything
  • Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
  • Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
    • Others with this issue
    • Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago
  • Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
    • See also:
      • Krebs on Security
      • Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)
• Ads are coming to Apple Maps
  • Newsroom
• AI-generated code & copyright
  • AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted
  • Can coding agents “relicense” through clean-room re-implementation?
    • No right to relicense this project
  • Monkey selfie
  • Claude, rewrite yourself
• Ask ATP:
  • When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)
  • Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)
• Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
  • Alex’s overview
  • Screenshot of a Linux machine
  • Screenshot of a Mac
• Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
  • Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
  • What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
    • MK1 High Density Rack Mount
  • Bandwidth comparisons
    • Thunderbolt 5
      • 80 Gbit/s symmetric
      • 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
    • SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
      • 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
      • 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
    • PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
      • 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
      • 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
      • …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
        • 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
  • Internal vs. external SSD
    • 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
    • OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
    • OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
    • PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
      • Kickstarter (ended November 2024)

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Lessons of various sizes that we’ve learned as software developers.

John’s next Mac is going to be very expensive.

• Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
  • UniFi Travel Router
  • Cascades trail
  • Shenandoah National Park
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• Follow-up:
  • Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
    • Stephen Robles
      • 1
      • 2
    • Casey’s snarky toot
    • Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
  • John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
  • How much hotter can a Mac get?
    • Mac Studio power consumption
    • Mac Pro power consumption
  • Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
  • Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
  • RetinaDisplays.com
  • CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
    • They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
    • The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
      • Mechanical Watch
    • CIE updates from 2015
    • On Apple’s CMF
  • Long Island and “mainland”
    • United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)
• The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
  • Overcast link
  • Every other podcast app
  • Casey’s write-up
• Marco’s letter to John Ternus
  • A Tale of Two Letters
• Ask ATP:
  • How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
• Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
  • Suunto Race S Titanium (Amazon)
  • Garmin Venu 4
  • Garmin Forerunner 970
  • Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
  • Regex to detect user anger
  • “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
  • Future plans

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Farewell, Mac Pro.

• Pre-show:
  • Happy independence day, John!
  • The Great Saunter
    • Pedometer++
  • The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
• 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
  • More about the flag
• Follow-up:
  • Overcast transcripts
    • Missed Apex
  • MacBook Neo
    • Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
    • New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
      • iBook “Snow”
    • Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
      • Framework
    • MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
      • “NFW”, says Henry
      • “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
  • “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
    • Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac
      • Original article 🇩🇪
    • PCI Express
  • Ubiquiti
    • What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
      • UniFi Travel Router
    • “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
      • YouTube announcement
      • Blog post
    • Some shadiness from January
• 🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
  • Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa
  • CUDA
• Ask ATP:
  • Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
  • How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
• Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
  • Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”
• Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
  • 10 February: Delayed to 2027
  • 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
    • The Information

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