Accidental Tech PodcastAccidental Tech Podcast

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

109: Bigger in the Pocket

MacBook follow-up, Tim Cook and the Edition, battery anxiety, and learning to appreciate the iPhone 6 Plus.

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108: Zero is Better Than One

In-depth coverage of the new MacBook and some other thing Apple showed at the Spring Forward event.

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107: We Get the Most Boring Tips

Car follow-up, Spring Forward event expectations, and an anonymous tip perfectly suited for our show.

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106: That’s Slightly Right

Alternative Apple-car theories, Pebble Time, and Marco drives a Tesla.

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105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?

A car show we accidentally created while trying to do a tech podcast.

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104: Minutiæ

Please email us about Photos.app, UXKit, and React.

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103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan

Handwriting recognition, net neutrality, hosting Overcast, and a special post-show Neutral.

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102: Marco Is Not a Platform

Whether it's worth answering email, learning new languages, using Apple's money to solve problems, and the British Isles.

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101: Big Plastic Finger

Who wants a stylus? You have to get ‘em, and put ‘em away, and you lose ‘em… yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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100: MacBook Shuffle

Our 100th Episode Spectacular!

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99: Pop-Up Headlights

Adventures in Go, Apple's software-quality issues, Marco's blogging issues, and the rumored 12-inch MacBook Air.

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98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits

Marco's Node results, Apple's developer marketing survey, and getting back into the iPad.

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97: You Have to Know When to Stop

Marco leaves his house for the first time, Casey travels to Italy on his iPad, and John rescues his family from outdated operating systems.

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96: The Windows of Siracusa County

We wouldn't use a Siracusa County title lightly.

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95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You

App Store drama, detecting push-notification spam, and obligations to maintain your old apps and open-source projects.

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94: Spirited Defense of Pong

Push-notification ads, Apple vs. Today widgets, feasibility of pro podcasting apps, and Crossy Road.

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93: I’m Not Running a Boarding House Here

Homescreen shaming, why there's no Overcast for Mac yet, and a very special Neutral after-show.

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92: You Don’t Know My Pants

WatchKit, the Nokia iPad Mini, and John's iPhone.

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91: Press Agree to Drive

Twitter's strategy, CarPlay development, and .NET open-sourcing.

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90: Speculative Abandonware

Marco hasn't seen it, Microsoft Band, iWork file formats, and the Retina iMac in reality.

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89: DeLorean + McLaren

Casey's new-parenthood, Tim Cook's coming out, iMac minutia, FILM CRIT HULK, and discovering f/1.4.

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88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym

Twitter and developers, Apple Pay, interest waning in OS X, and GamerGate.

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87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills

Chairman Honeycrisp let Granny Smith spend a bit too much time with the Supreme Allied Commander of Super Secrecy.

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86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block

Ello and Twitter, iPhone 6 Plus scaling, and the iPhone 6's appeal vs. usability tradeoff.

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85: The Unexpected Hard Part

Adaptive apps, iPhone 6 Plus scaling, invisible spreadsheets, marquetry, and proprietary eponyms.

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84: The Load-Bearing Finger

Upgradeable watches, Steve Jobs fan fiction, and of course, what three nerds think of the new iPhones.

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83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life

Marco explains photography to Casey, John explains watches to Marco, and Casey explains credit cards to Europeans.

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82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate

Our iPhone 6/6+, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch spectacular.

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81: You Left Your Money in a Bank

Anand goes to Apple, celebrity photo theft and iCloud security, event predictions, women in gaming, Atwood Markdown, and the button-fly agenda.

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80: Tangled in Version Numbers

52X CD-ROM drives, TiVo Roamio OTA for cord-cutters, version numbers, podcast patents, and trolling via domain names.

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79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve

Reversible USB, Twitter further ruining itself, and whether we'll ever get a major iTunes rewrite.

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78: Fleece the Whales

We've finally done it: an entire show of follow-up. Sort of.

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77: Full-Stack Businessperson

Transport Tycoon, sausages, ARM Macs, and making money in the App Store.

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76: Not Suitable for Any Purpose

Overcast post-launch, Pixar and wage-fixing, Yosemite beta, and a very special after-show.

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75: You Had Your Moment

Summer amusements, server-side parsing, UI meets the real world, sapphire, and the Apple/IBM partnership.

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74: One Of Us Shipped Something

Unfortunately, it wasn't Fast Text for iOS 7.

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73: Notifications Duck

Product choices in social circles, 4K and plasma, sapphire displays, and a post-show in memory of Firefox.

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72: Take Your Co-Host To Work Day

Follow-up from doctors and Android enthusiasts, Aperture and iPhoto parking their sunsets into Photos for Mac, and designing for aesthetics over usefulness.

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71: Security By Guilt

Let's put Google I/O in the parking lot so we can talk about Million Dollar Homepage.

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70: The Endgame Is Omnipotence

Are games more like apps or movies? Amazon Fire Phone, Mayday vs. Apple stores, Continuity, and playing to your strengths.

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69: Welcome to the Web, Casey

Casey learns web programming, App Bundles as upgrade pricing, HFS+ (of course), Metal, and the next Apple TV as a disruptive game console.

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68: Siracusa Waited Impatiently For This

WWDC reactions.

Our initial WWDC reactions.

Recorded live at Macworld's podcast studio. Thanks, Jason Snell!

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67: Tim Said, Man

WWDC predictions.

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66: Boiling A Pretty Big Lake

Beats and headphone alternatives, Nintendo's situation, iOS 8 predictions, and the state of the iTunes Store infrastructure.

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65: The Year Of Casey

Casey's big news, Monument Valley, Apple and Beats, and the crazy world of Javascript.

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64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived

Apple/Amazon as a net neutrality debate, App.net's grim future, Chrome beta's URL bar, and Casey goes open-source.

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63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard

ATP T-shirts (hurry!), average gamer age and game genres falling out of favor, Facebook App Links, and Apple's 30% commission vs. Amazon and customers.

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62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You

Developers learning new things, using OS X betas, Thunderbolt 3, what's holding the iPad back, whether tablets will be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops, and the Sega CD.

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61: Perfectly Neutral

Vinyl sound, Apple/Samsung trial documents, Greg Christie's departure, pCell, performance vs. scaling, and why Marco never uses JOINs.

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60: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013

WWDC tickets, Heartbleed, Dropbox Carousel, and a spirited after-show about the causes of app crashes and Casey's phonographic tea ceremony.

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