Impressions of our new Apple hardware so far, plans for iPhone Duo development, and an update on the Mac Mini fleet.

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  • Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
  • The Marco Offset™
  • Flying Spaghetti Monster
• Follow-up:
  • New treats
    • John
      • iPhone 18 Pro
        • John’s case
      • AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case
        • IP57
          • Dust protected
          • Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes
        • Oddities
        • Volume control
    • Marco
      • Apple Watch S12 Ceramic
        • Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?
      • Mac mini
    • Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum
  • How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)
  • Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)
  • Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores
    • Chart
  • Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)
• iPhone Duo dev tools released
  • Aaron Vegh’s video
• Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update
  • Ubiquiti WAN Switch
  • GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one
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  • Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi
  • The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7
  • Introductory video

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A mountain of follow-up and updates about the iPhone event, new chips, iPhone 18 Pro, and iPhone Duo.

• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  • The Marco Offset™
• Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
  • Comparison video
  • Previously, in 2018
• Making of (via Techzha)
• Preliminary Geekbench scores
  • A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)
    • CPU
    • GPU
  • M6
    • CPU
    • GPU
  • M5 Ultra
    • CPU
• iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2
• Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)
  • Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space
• Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera
  • MKBHD’s review
  • PetaPixel’s Review
  • Explaining starbursts
  • Straight vs. rounded examples
  • Debate on DPReview forums
• iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)
• iPhone Duo
  • How will iPhone Mirroring work?
  • No Action Button 💔
  • The Duo does have a split keyboard
  • An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo
  • Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2
    • Thomas Ricker at The Verge
  • Stephen Robles insights
    • iPhone side-dock example
    • MagSafe accessories will be… tough
  • A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)
  • Apple Pencil support
    • USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro
    • Gruber
    • Steve Troughton-Smith
  • Fake bezel
    • Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac
    • Demo video (Twitter link)
• iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing
• Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)
• Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)
• John’s cheap S3 setup
  • Configuration
  • CLI invocation:
    aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \ --bucket my-cool-bucket-name \ --lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \ --transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class
• _DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales
  • Gruber’s breakdown
    • iPhone 17: 36.5%
    • iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%
    • iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%
    • iPhone 17e: 2.5%
    • iPhone Air: 1.5%
• Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer
  • Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay
  • Modesty panel
  • Command Strips
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar?

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On this member-special episode, we answer questions about the history of ATP and Neutral, the ups and downs of the business over time, and the show's most iconic songs and sounds.

The iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro, the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Ultra 4, the AirPods 5, and the other AirPods 5.

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  • The Marco Offset™
• September 2026 event
  • MacRumors on the cellular chips
  • SynthID Standard
  • Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview
  • Surface Duo
  • PowerBook Duo
  • Rafa’s toot about layouts
  • Apple Developer Videos
• Post-show: Jetty update
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU
  • Ben Thompson’s breakdown
  • Gruber’s take
  • Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent

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Exit interviews for the outgoing iPhones and Phil Schiller (but not Tim Cook), baseball in the Vision Pro, and expectations for the iPhone event next week.

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  • The Marco Offset™
• Follow-up:
  • Luz fooled me, Jerry!
    • Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
    • Mea culpa
  • Apple fooled us all
  • Siri blobs fix
    • System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)
  • John is happy with new Macs timetable
  • Are photo libraries on external disks supported?
    • Knowledge base
    • Iris
  • Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro
    • Dithering
  • Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)
• ✅ Tim Cook exit interview
  • AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)
• Phil takes another step toward the door
  • Emma Roth at The Verge
  • Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too
• iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews
• iPhone event preview
• Post-show: John’s storage update
  • Backblaze B2
  • Amazon S3
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro
  • 10 May: Mark Gurman
  • 3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors
  • 21 August: Gurman
  • 30 August: Gurman

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