Accidental Tech PodcastAccidental Tech Podcast

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters. Hosted by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa.

159: A Typo On Your Brake Pads

The Ferrari Siracusa, the history of HFS+, and TVs. Yup, John was here.

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158: You Can’t Outlaw Math

Apple and the FBI, Microsoft and Xamarin, and the origin of Comic Sans.

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157: As Many People in the Sandbox as Possible

Federighi and Cue on The Talk Show, Adobe deleting the .functionalhighground, and Microsoft Bob.

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156: A Mac on Fire

Casey got a new job, then couldn't figure out how to use his iPad.

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155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original

Trying to find the functional high ground in a long, horizontally scrolling list.

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154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy

Why are iPad sales declining?

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153: Larger, Less Portable Pastures

The decline of iAd, iOS limitations vs. powerful Mac hacks, and saltines.

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152: Daddy Didn’t Want the Good Graphics Card

Casey bought an iMac. You won't believe what happened next!

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151: The Opposite of Final

We spend CES 2016 talking about USB-C hubs, Swift, and semi-smart watches.

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150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot

Our wish list for 2016. (With very specific parameters.)

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149: Everyone’s on Vacation

Phil Schiller would never order a webfont with egg salad.

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148: Your Feelings Are Real

Managing and understanding negativity about Apple and technology today.

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147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery

Did you hear that Apple released a battery case?

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146: Control + Money + Smallness

Open-source Swift, iPhone headphone jacks, and the final toaster review.

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145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens

2015 tech we’re most thankful for.

‡: Still not Siracusa-approved

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144: Digital Schmear

Tiffany Arment joins us to talk iPad Pro and Apple Pencil after we lament the Mac App Store's latest woes.

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143: Capital F, Capital C

iPad Pro impressions, multitasking paradigms, and Marco actually played a game.

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142: Hateful Game of Frogger

Experiences with the Apple TV so far, the best toaster yet, and an after-show Neutral.

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* This use of the term "follow-out" has not been approved by John Siracusa and does not constitute an endorsement of the phrase.

141: Chain-Link-Fenced Garden

NAS vs. externals, Google cares about podcasts now, and John teaches Marco what a "sound bar" is.

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140: Harpooned a Turtle

Expensive trackpads, Facebook's battery drain, and whether Apple properly balances usefulness, looks, and profit.

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139: I’ve Seen This Train Before

Overcast 2 challenges and lessons learned, avoiding the Facebookization of podcasts, and trying Medium.

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138: Only Microsoft

Microsoft Surface Book, iPhone 6S CPU differences, and the challenge of being Twitter's CEO.

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137: Feature Photos

Ad-blocking estimates, Apple Music three months in, iPhone 6S first impressions, and John doesn't review El Capitan.

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136: War and Peace

Lessons learned from Marco's Peace ad-blocker saga.

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135: Uncomfortable in My Pants

iPhone batteries, WebKit on Apple TV, over-criticism of Apple, iPad Pro apps, and follow-up from last week.

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134: Who Did It Firster?

Apple event analysis: iPad Pro, new Apple TV, and the iPhone 6S.

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133: You Have to Walk the Dog

Amazon and tech workaholism, Apple's recent changes in judgment, Force Touch, and the iPod Hi-Fi.

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132: Digital Hearth

iPad "Pro" challenges, which Mac to buy for home, mouse design, and what John's doing this summer.

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131: Finding Your Way Back In

Skylake power savings, John's superior ECC RAM, iPhone rumors, and Marco's obscene power switch.

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130: Technical Countermeasures

Notebook Xeons, ad blockers, and various letters of the Alphabet.

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129: Tap-to-Click Wizard

Upside-down mice, plastic iPhones, cracked screens, and Casey's buttonless welcome to 2012.

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128: Blue Ring Stud

Rootless in El Capitan, the sad state of the Mac App Store, and more on Reddit.

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127: Not a Cactus in Sight

There's no hole count on Twitter.

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126: The Web Kind of Happens to You

New iPods are actually released, sort of, and Marco compares web apps to Visual Basic.

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125: A Better Future for Everybody

On an infinite timescale, is Safari obligated to implement all web standards?

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124: The Tyranny of Radio

Apple Music, Beats 1, and why you may not want to force TRIM on your SSD.

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123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

Bitcode follow-up, ad-blocking in iOS 9 and El Capitan, and how not to insulate your house.

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122: My Results Were Inconclusive

Bitcode, Swift 2, and slim wallets.

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121: Admitted No Wrongdoing

Our WWDC 2015 special from San Francisco.

Our WWDC 2015 special, live in person from a hotel room in San Francisco:

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120: One Magical Wire

Google Photos, Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C, WWDC predictions, and pears.

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119: Promoretired

Christina Warren joins us to discuss Pebble Time, the Apple Watch native SDK, and Jony Ive’s promotion.

This week we're joined by friend of the show Christina Warren (@film_girl). Christina writes for Mashable and hosts Rocket and Overtired.

As a part of this podcast exchange program, John joined Rocket for this week's episode.

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118: A Fistful of Apple Watches

Shopping in apps vs. websites, WWDC hotels, and MacBooks. Lots of MacBooks.

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117: You Don’t Have the Antibodies

Women-listeners followup, Mac App Store woes, watches and handbags, and Facebook Instant Articles.

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116: Women Aren’t a Minority

What can we do to get more women and girls to listen to the show?

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115: Empathy for the Machine

Photos follow-up, Apple Watch impressions, and this week's Microsoft Build announcements.

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114: So Far, So OK

NAS backups, battery life, WWDC ticketing, the new Photos app, and Casey's terrible mistake.

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113: Get Your Ears Ready to Hear Me Complain

Watch minutia, ATP Shirt, WWDC tickets, and John ends his series of OS X reviews.

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112: The Problem Is You

Apple Watch reviews and picks, and get your modern web design off of our lawn.

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111: That Big Ring Underground Somewhere in Europe

Apple TV vs. Fire TV and Roku, ARM Mac rumors, and weighing Twitter's usefulness against its abuse.

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110: And on That Bombshell…

Nintendo and DeNA, laptop docks and wireless charging, Tim Cook's model-lineup philosophy, and the abrupt end of Top Gear.

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