Accidental Tech Podcast

659: Lose the Ear Lottery

October 2, 2025 02:14:07 • Download (129 MB)

Cases and bumpy starts with our new iPhones, our reviews of the AirPods Pro 3, and a baffling USB odyssey.

Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…
- M5 iPad Pro
- FCC leaks
🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum
Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney)
- iOS 26.0.1 allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues
  - CarlinKit wireless CarPlay dongle
- What does iCloud back up? (via Dayton Lovell)
- iCloud for Messages
  - A ringing endorsement from Nick
  - A potential fix for ∞ GIFs (via Nathan)
- iPhone Transfers
  - Why not pre-populate them, Kindle-style? (via Winnie Lewis)
  - TestFlight is… better now? (via Daniel Nelson)
  - Some thoughts from Nick
- Apple’s onboarding enshittification (via Imthaz)
- Thought to text & AlterEgo
  - Firefox (1982)
  - Prior MIT project (via Hannes)
  - CJ’s thoughts
    - Preview video
    - EMG
    - EEG
More first impressions
Ask ATP:
- How do we really know if something is encrypted? (via Joshua Wold)
- What is the point of neural engine cores, anyway? (via Tom Cole)
  - SIMD
  - Evaluating the Apple Silicon M-Series SoCs for HPC Performance & Efficiency
  - AMX Units
  - Neural Engine
- Does filling a phone SSD slaughter performance? (via Sean Harding)
Post-show: Marco’s USB odyssey
- CalDigit Thunderbolt Element 4
- BLE caberQu
Members-only ATP Overtime: NAS Noodling
- Synology [sorta] says third-party drives will be supported in the future
  - Synology Solution Day 2025 teaser video
- Ubiquiti’s new NAS units
  - UNAS 2
  - UNAS 4

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ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum

September 29, 2025

How computer science and computer engineering were taught to us in college, what's different today, and the evolving role it plays in preparing students (or not) for practical industry work.

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658: Your First Mistake Phone

September 25, 2025 02:26:17 • Download (141 MB)

iPhone Air vs. iPhone 17 Pro in our daily lives… if Casey's transfer ever finishes.

Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset
- Podcastathon 2025
Follow-up:
- Auburn’s colors are UVA’s colors (via Tony Scida)
- You don’t need the trick new Apple charger to charge an iPhone 17 at full speed
- iPhone Air
  - Why people are buying the iPhone Air / 15” MacBook Air
  - Bending the iPhone Air
    - Apple (via Tom’s Guide)
      - Direct video link
    - JerryRigEverything (timestamp link to 6m35s)
      - Same video, different timestamp (7m37s)
  - Battery life
  - Speaker (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  - Thermals
    - MaxTech
  - iFixIt Teardown
  - Thickness
    - Visual comparison of thickness (via Ludwig Schubert)
    - Thin iPhone future? (via Ian)
- iPhone 17 Pro
  - Teardowns
  - Scratches on the back?
- iPhone sales
  - The Information (MacRumors summary)
iPhone setup advice
- Casey’s tale of woe (see also Upgrade #582: First Chance to Make One Impression)
First impressions: iPhone 17 Pro
- Scratchability
- Telephoto camera
  - iPhone 16 Pro 5× vs. iPhone 17 Pro 8×
Post-show:
- HP M553
- HP M554
Members-only ATP Overtime: Anthropic’s $1.5B book piracy settlement
- The Verge: Settlement announced, 5 September
- Previously, on ATP #656: Anthropic asked for $1.5B/yr from Apple
- The Verge: Settlement paused, 9 September
- Ars Technica, 9 September

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657: Ears Are Weird

September 16, 2025 01:53:25 • Download (109 MB)

An iconic plateau of follow-up.

Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT
Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”
μm is a “micron”
The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all
iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed
- Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter
- Anker Nano 45W charger
A19 vs. A19 Pro
A19 Pro benchmarks
The N1 is in every new iPhone
The whole of the iPhone Air is in the camera plateau
- Large image
Casey’s memory problems corner
- ATP #655 (Overcast timestamp link)
The mmWave antenna window is back
- Background
Logo placement on Apple’s cases
- Clear Case with MagSafe
- TechWoven Case with MagSafe
Some funny renders from iPhone case makers
Theories about the iPhone 17 Pro colors
- Every masterpiece has its cheap copy
- Luke Skywalker
- University of Virginia
- Denver Broncos
- Auburn University
  - 2021 impactful boosters
iPhone Air
- Will it bend?
  - Joz (& Ternus) with an incredible [lack of] flex
- 17 was a last-second decision? (via Sam Henri Gold)
- Max Tech’s discoveries
  - The Air does not have stereo speakers
  - The Dynamic Island is lower than on other phones
  - The USB-C port is not vertically centered
    - Image
  - No Cinematic Mode video, including the selfie camera
  - The new selfie camera is actually a 24MP sensor
- No LiDAR scanner
- Air & 17 non-Pro are limited to USB 2
  - USB 2.0
Every new iPhone screen has the same specifications, save size/resolution
- Apple iPhone comparison page
iPhones 17 can now toggle screen flickering off
- Pulse-width modulation
- 9to5Mac’s coverage
- PWM sensitive subreddit
Apple Watch
- Satellite data requires a cellular plan
- Jason & Greg Pierce agree
- Is “24-hour” battery claim because of a change in measurement?
- Underscore’s observations about the Ultra
  - Apple Watch battery
AirPods
- Ear shapes (via Tirial)
- About that “2×” noise reduction
  - AirPods product page
- The new AirPods Pro case is not smaller
- “New generation of Ultra Wideband technology” is the U2 chip
- Live translation is on-device (not in ☁️)
- Live translation is blocked for EU users with EU Apple Accounts
  - Apple feature availability
Safari on iOS 26’s compact toolbar
Tahoe Toolbars (via Zhenyi Tan) * Frosting download link * Frosting test page
Post-show: John’s red dot
Members-only ATP Overtime: Alterego and “thought to text” translation
- How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back
  - A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control
- Meet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind
  - Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus
- Scientists develop interface that “reads” thoughts from speech-impaired patients
- Alterego

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656: A Long T-Shirt

September 9, 2025 02:36:29 • Download (151 MB)

The iPhone event! Reactions and analysis of the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and Air; the Apple Watch Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3; and the AirPods Pro 3.

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset
iPhone event
- AirPods Pro 3
- Apple Watch Series 11
  - No new System-in-Package?
  - Whoop Band
- Apple Watch SE 3
- Apple Watch Ultra 3
  - LTPO
  - Satellite can-kicking continues
- iPhone 17
  - Memory Integrity Enforcement
- iPhone Air
  - iPhone Air MagSafe Battery 💔
- iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max
- Software ship dates
Post-show:
- Apple trade-in
- ✨ Tina’s dream has come true! ✨
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s competing implementations for the new Siri

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655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type

September 4, 2025 02:04:21 • Download (120 MB)

The iPhone 16 Pro's exit interview, what we're expecting to see next week in the iPhone 17 lineup, and a parade of fun euphemisms.

Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset
Follow-up:
- Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
  - Settings → Apps → Safari
- Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged
  - Place your phone face-down (via. A. O.)
  - Sleep focus is an option (via A. M.)
  - So is Theater Mode and, if taps are an issue, water lock (via Ryan)
  - How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time by D. Griffin Jones
  - Fun fact: you can add it to the Health app! (via Niv Ben-Porath)
    - …but it won’t affect your rings
  - A truly hilarious story from Anonymous
- Developing “product sense” (via Joseph Kibe)
  - Productive Tensions by Christopher B. Bingham & Rory M. McDonald
iPhone 16 exit interview
iPhone event preview
- Crossbody strap
- Apple Natural Titanium Milanese Loop (Marco’s summer watch band)
Post-show: Smaller e-ink note-taking tablets
Members-only ATP Overtime: US government buys 10% of Intel

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654: Athletically Engaged

August 28, 2025 01:47:59 • Download (105 MB)

The final iOS 26 developer push, the upcoming iPhone event, and exciting news about… iPhone-case materials!

Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
- Ben Rice McCarthy
- Under the Radar
Follow-up:
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
  - The Marco Offset
- Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
- Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆
- 🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬
- Help with Trackpad dragging
  - System Settings → Accessibility → Pointer Control → Trackpad Options… → Dragging Style → Three Finger Drag
    - Screenshot
  - …or Drag Lock
- Masimo comes for [more] blood
- UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation
- Studio Display with A19
  - Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs
  - Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning
- Apple’s Hide my Email feature
  - An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points out
  - Anecdote from David Beck
Apple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ
- Interactive logo
  - Still image for posterity
- Reverse-engineering by sam henri gold
“TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked
- Maijin Bu on TechWoven
- …and on Liquid Silicone (and again)
Apple will simplify the Camera Control button
Ask ATP:
- What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst)
  - Hyperspace
- Why is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)
- How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)
Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26.
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
- Apple readies first upgrade to its struggling Vision Pro headset

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653: Warning Stories

August 21, 2025 01:47:01 • Download (103 MB)

Marco thought the bunnies were real.

Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
- AITAH
Follow-up:
- Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
  - John’s dancing controls
- ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
  - Merriam-Webster’s take
- Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
  - Auto Layout
- John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
  - Nic’s Fix
  - Watch John’s actual repair happen
- 🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
  - John’s tantrum
  - AppleCare One Terms & Conditions
Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
- Gruber’s take
- Victoria Song at The Verge
😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
- Previously, in low-cost MacBook rumors: A18 Pro
Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
- CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes()
- FB13375033
Ask ATP:
- Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
- How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs

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ATP Insider: Vacations

August 18, 2025

What we consider a vacation, the types of vacations we enjoy, and our roles in our families when on vacation.

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652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply

August 14, 2025 02:08:41 • Download (124 MB)

Apple’s latest design updates, developing product sense, AppleCare One friction, and endangered mice.

Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.
Follow-up:
- Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️
  - Short Pump
- John cycled his mouse again
- AppleCare One
  - Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)
  - Tina’s iPhone
  - Tina’s Mac Studio
- Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves
- iOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changes
- Smart TV interfaces over time
  - “Shortcut”
  - New Magic Remote
- Running your own mail server
  - How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip)
  - Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio)
  - Jason Diller thinks it’s not so bad
- Post-quantum cryptography
  - Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray)
  - Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland)
    - Apple Security Research blog post
  - Compelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis)
  - Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer)
    - 2024: State of post-quantum internet
    - 2025: Update
John wages war against icons
- Adopting Liquid Glass: App Icons
- WWDC 2025 #361: Create Icons with Icon Composer
- John’s Mastodon thread
  - Václav Slavík’s solution
  - FB19437407
  - FB19497128
  - FB17892659
- There’s likely to be a lot more of this
Ask ATP:
- Is Liquid Glass on macOS a subtle move toward touchscreen Macs? (via Daniel Liu)
- How does one build a “good product sense”? (via Ian Anderson)
  - Inspired by Marty Cagan
- How does one effectively de-duplicate photos using Photos.app? (via Keith Heaton)
Post-show: Marco’s air-conditioning “update”
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI voice control as a threat to Apple’s platforms
- Apple’s Upcoming AI Voice Control will Change how People Use iPhones

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651: Your Judgement About Pockets

August 7, 2025 01:44:15 • Download (101 MB)

Apple’s Trump support, flagship TV UIs, beta design tweaks, Xcode’s appetite for disk space, and a safe space for Casey… but not his devices.

Pre-Show:
- Brief vacation results
- Tim Cook kisses the… ring
  - Video
Follow-up:
- HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
- TV shootout results
  - Nilay’s comments
- AppleCare One
  - iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
  - iCare Calculator web app
  - John’s experience
- B&H
  - Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order
- Retro computing corner
  - Revisiting eWorld
- More on Tahoe
  - Gus Mueller
    - …on checkboxes
    - …on sliders
  - Beta 5 improves selection legibility
- Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford)
  - Bleeping computer
- Art & science of UI design
  - Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)
iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design
- Majin Bu
- iPhone 16
Apple’s “Answers” team
Ask ATP:
- How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop?
  - Jettison
- Why is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff)
  - Time Machine local snapshots
    - Deleting snapshots with Disk Utility
  - DevCleaner (App Store link)
  - Github
  - GrandPerspective
  - Disk Inventory X
  - DaisyDisk
- How are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward)
Post-show: Apple Express Replacement
Members-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes
- Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS

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650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded

July 28, 2025 01:27:19 • Download (85 MB)

AppleCare One, the OS 26 public betas, and tensions between art and usability in interface design.

Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
Follow-up:
- D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
- Casey’s struggles with iperf3
  - Tutorial
  - iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
- John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
- Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
  - Research paper
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
  - Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
- Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
  - Apple support app → Chat
  - Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
- CloudFlare & AI crawlers
  - Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
  - Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
  - Thoughts from Anonymous
    - JA3/JA4 fingerprint
- The 𝓍26 public betas are out
  - Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
- Tahoe beta 4
  - Contrast will decrease until morale improves
    - Startup disk selection (cropped)
    - Startup disk selection (full)
  - News summaries are back, baby! 😬
Apple and interfaces
- Tog in Interface (1992)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Tog on Software Design (1995)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
AppleCare One
- Dan Moren’s take
- The Verge
- Fees & deductibles
- FAQ (scroll way down)
Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project

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649: Prove It With Cameras

July 22, 2025 01:56:31 • Download (112 MB)

Our broken and drowned electronics, Apple's lawsuit against Prosser, Cloudflare's power exercise, and Marco's solution to sunscreen.

Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
- CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
- CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
- iperf3
Follow-up:
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
  - Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
    - F1 TV
    - Vroom
  - John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
    - To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
- John’s toaster update
- AirPods & AppleCare+
- Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
  - defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
- Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
  - mandonam
Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
- Press release
- ChangeDetection.io
- Stratechery (paywalled)
Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
- John’s hat that he likes
- John’s hat that is cheaper but that he likes less
- 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
- 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
- Australian sunscreen video
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea?

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648: Part of the Movement

July 17, 2025 01:55:28 • Download (112 MB)

Jeff Williams' retirement, Liquid Glass revisions, and our review of F1® The Movie. While supplies last. Terms apply.

Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
- Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
- SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
  - Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder
  - Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder
  - Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder
  - FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
- Toolbars
  - Safari
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
    - The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
  - Terminal
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
  - iOS 26 Beta 3
- YouTube’s new player UI
- “Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
- HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
  - Demo project
✌️ out, Jeff Williams
- Gruber
- Gurman
Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
- Casey in Dongletown
Post-show: John & Casey review F1
- Plumber Problem
- Guenther Steiner
- Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
- Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
- Casey’s pinball machine
Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
- John Giannandrea

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ATP Tier List: Pizza Toppings

July 15, 2025

Ranking the entire set of pizza toppings available in central Long Island in the 1900s.

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647: You Get One Exclamation Point

July 7, 2025 01:58:30 • Download (114 MB)

Job advice for CS graduates, whether external drives should be USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire, and a draft of how we'd make the worst MacBook.

Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
- Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
- FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
- Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
  - Developer downloads
  - ↳ Direct link
- Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
- UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
- Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
  - Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
  - Rebuttal
  - Rebuttal of the rebuttal
  - More from Gary Marcus
  - The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
- HDR in 𝑥26
- iPadOS 26 window limits
- “Glass iPhone” demo
  - ↳ Direct video link
- That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
Ask ATP:
- Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
  - CalDigit TS5+
- What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
  - Atto Xtend SAN
- How does a new grad land a job?
Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
- YouTube Premium Lite
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU

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646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

July 1, 2025 01:57:22 • Download (113 MB)

John made an important purchase.

Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
- 11 June 2011
- Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)
- John’s beloved
- Ninja
- Anova
- After Dark
Follow-up:
- We’re doing good work here, folks
  - YoLink leak sensors
  - Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub
  - Travel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton)
    - Allianz concierge
- Window widget size in Tahoe
- Apple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2
- Floating tab bars in iOS 26
- Apple “Ducks”
  - The Architect’s Lions
- Maybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester)
- It’s the world that’s wrong, not me: iPhone 16 Pro case edition
  - “We Messed Up”
  - Bullstrap open-bottom case
- Ads in YouTube
  - Why not use uBlock Origin? (via Igor Kulman)
  - …or perhaps Vinegar (App Store link) (via Michael Brown)
RIP FireWire
Apple marketing continues to misfire
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
- OpenAI/Meta leadership talent rivalry
Ask ATP:
- Is it worth buying a laptop where Tahoe is preinstalled? (via François-Olivier Leblanc)
- How much faster will an M4 be than an M1 for Xcode Simulator launches? (via Alistair Logie)
- How do we choose a new UPS? (via David Levine)
Post-show: Marco restaurant-tech MVPs… from his co-hosts!
- Tailscale (Tailscale is a prior sponsor)
  - Casey’s introductory post
  - Tailscale 4via6
- YoLink temperature sensors (even cheaper with a smaller temp. range)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we pay developers like athletes?
- Sam Altman claims Meta has made $100M offers
  - Jack Altman’s podcast
  - Reuters coverage

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645: More Frosting

June 26, 2025 01:42:53 • Download (99 MB)

macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 beta 2 updates, the latest AI-training kerfuffles, life with CarKey, and flagship OLED TVs.

Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
- Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront
- Belkin UltraGlass 2
Some Administrivia:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
  - Sneakers (1992)
- ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
Follow-up:
- Persistent icon replacement helper apps
  - Pictogram
  - Replacicon
- Tahoe beta 2
  - Finder icon updated!
    - Louie Mantia tries again
  - New menu bar background setting!
    - Beta 2, with background
  - Tahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor)
  - Safari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo)
    - Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bar
    - <meta name="theme-color">
    - theme_color
    - Yosemite Safari tabs
      - From John’s review
  - Installing betas and DFU mode
    - macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry)
    - DFU Blaster (via Brian LaShomb)
    - InstallAssistant.pkg (via Andy Beyer-Bowden)
- iOS 26 Beta 2
  - Frost all the things!
  - The case of Marco’s missing download/check buttons
    - Roman’s observation
- iPadOS 26 window limits (via Jon Edwards)
- “Apple Vision Pro 4K” (via Greg Kaplan)
All your data are belong to AI companies
- Apple training models on Feedback attachments ಠ_ಠ
  - Original report from Joachim
- Meta AI staffers take an interesting approach
- New York Times 🤝🏻 Amazon AI
- You can train AI models without copyrighted material… it’s just a pain in the 🍑
- Anthropic gets a W… maybe?
Ask ATP:
- Does Marco use Apple CarKey? His car should support it. (via Samuel Polay)
  - CarPlay Ultra partners list is looking… sparse
  - Ferrari keyfob
- Why does macOS want USB mass storage ejected, but iPadOS doesn’t? (via David Campbell)
Post-show: TV Update for Marco
Members-only ATP Overtime: Overlap between appdev & gamedev
- Coyote time & jump buffering
- Secrets to a great platformer with Unity
- Destiny health
- Examples in our apps

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644: You Have to Invert

June 19, 2025 02:22:24 • Download (137 MB)

Impressions of iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, iPadOS 26, and Liquid Glass after a week of using the first developer betas. Surprisingly, we have thoughts.

Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
- Bespoke 3D-printed mount
- Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
What betas are we running?
- Virtual Buddy
𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
- iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
  - ProcessInfo
  - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist
- Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley)
  - SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16
  - null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26
Liquid Glass
- Adopting Liquid Glass
  - Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things
- Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood)
- Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky)
macOS Tahoe
- Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd)
- Squircle Jail
  - Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung)
  - Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons
  - Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring)
- Speaking of rounded corners…
  - Build an AppKit App with the New Design
- Chonky stoplights
  - macOS 26 window control buttons are no longer smol (via Avi Drissman)
  - -[NSTitledFrame sizeOfTitlebarButtons]
- Missing title bars
- Missing menu bar fixes
  - GlassBar
  - Boring Old Menu Bar
- Alignment
- Finder icon controversy
  - Stephen tried Icon Composer with solid results
  - Michael Flarup
  - D. Griffin Jones
- Icons next to menu items
  - Previously in the HIG (via Stefan Habel)
  - Today in the HIG
- Tabs contrast
  - Terminal tabs
- Safari contrast
  - Ridiculous pink in the toolbar in Safari
- Arrow cursor has been updated
  - Discovery by Nathan Manceaux-Panot
  - Hand cursor as well
- Floating elements & compartmentalization
- Clipboard history
  - Stephen Robles
  - Overview video
- Future of Rosetta
  - Ars Technica
- New disk image format: ASIF
  - Howard Oakley write-up
iOS 26
- UI impressions
- New slider thumbs reveal new info (via Niki Tonsky)
  - Video
iPadOS 26
- Open window limits (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
  - Previously, in Mac OS X 10.0…
- Slideover is 💀
- UI impressions
Testing Liquid Glass
- UIDesignRequiresCompatibility
Vision Pro 4K? (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
Post-show: WWDC Favorites
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June 17, 2025

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643: You Go to Squircle Jail

June 9, 2025 02:53:57 • Download (168 MB)

Impressions and analysis from WWDC 2025: Apple's new universal UI design with "Liquid Glass", all of the new 26-series OSes using it, and the potential of the new Apple Intelligence APIs.

Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- Mario Kart World
WWDC
- F1
- Sam Henri Gold
- Marcel
- Flighty
- Parcel
- Control Plane
- Acorn
Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
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- Previously discussed on ATP #609
- GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
- Gary’s 1998 paper
- Gary’s 2001 book

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642: A Rebuilding Year

June 5, 2025 02:18:59 • Download (134 MB)

Hopes, dreams, and predictions for WWDC 2025… after an hour of U2.

Follow-up:
Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
- Bono: Stories of Surrender
- Open: An Autobiography
- Rattle and Hum
- Apple Immersive Screenshots:
  - Crowd
  - Stadium
  - TV
PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
- Casey’s toot
- FB17661404
WWDC hopes & predictions
Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
- Retreating to Safety
- Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
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641: We're Saving That for the Egg

May 29, 2025 02:09:33 • Download (125 MB)

Tiny EV trucks, what Jony and Sam might be making, and how Apple might turn around developer sentiment.

Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
- Five Whys
Follow-up:
- SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
- Vision Pro on The Price is Right
- What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
  - Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
  - Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
- Alexa Plus Update
- Neutral:
  - Slate Truck Top Gear review
  - TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
    - There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
    - DeMuro’s review
    - Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
  - Pickup beds over time
Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- DeWalt LED Work Light
- DeWalt Tire Inflator
- DeWalt 60V Blower
- Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
- 3M VHB Tape
- Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
- Knipex Wire Stripper
- Wago Connectors
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640: Put It in a Potato

May 22, 2025 02:15:21 • Download (131 MB)

OpenAI buys Jony Ive, the alleged AI story inside Apple, the potential for AI APIs, and why we all need to buy Aston Martins for our work.

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
  - How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
- SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff)
  - SpinRite (Intel-only)
- Fornite is back in the US App Store
- Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco
  - Previously on ATP
- The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all
  - Apple documentation
Apple to open AI models to developers?
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io
- Sam and Jony
- Gurman’s coverage
Ask ATP:
- What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison)
  - FBLA
  - Disc camera
- What’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid)
  - Show art
  - Wheel size explained
- Is there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson)
Post-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra
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- European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA
  - Gruber did the math
- New smartphone labels for battery life & repairability

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639: Crimp the World

May 15, 2025 01:58:47 • Download (115 MB)

Even John finally flipped.

Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
- CalDigit TS5
Follow-up:
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
  - Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
  - Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
- AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
- “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
  - A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini
- Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
- Apple appeals App Store rule changes
- Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
  - More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
- Meanwhile, in the App Store…
- Home networking corner
  - Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
  - Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
  - What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
  - Casey’s sitrep
    - 2× U6-LR installed
      - Ugly PoE injectors
    - 10GbE card installed in Synology
    - Switches just arrived
      - Lite 8 PoE
      - Flex Mini
    - Camera time?
Apple Turnover
Some fun Apple media
- Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly
  - Gui Rambo’s investigation
- A conversation with Jony Ive
Backblaze drama
Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor
Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
- Cable Matters
- Marco’s crimping toolkit
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- Video
- M-DISC

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May 13, 2025

In a completely original podcast format, we rank our favorite videogame consoles.

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638: Hop, Hop, Hop

May 6, 2025 02:14:02 • Download (129 MB)

Hyperspace updates, more on Apple's in-app-purchase injunction, how to choose Ubiquiti gear (and when not to), and some actual vibe-coding (we think?).

Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
Follow-up:
- At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
- Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
  - Blue Man Group
- Epic vs. Apple
Ubiquiti
- Marco Recommendations
- Cloud Gateway Fiber
- changedetection.io
- Pushover
- magicplan
- Ubiquiti Designer
Hyperspace update
Casey’s Coding Corner
- Vibe coding journey
  - GIFWrapped
  - Casey on Bluesky
- SF Symbols journey
Post-show: Marco’s vibe coding journey
- LaTeX
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- “Vision Air”
- XREAL glasses

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637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls

May 1, 2025 02:07:32 • Download (123 MB)

The ruling against Apple, the Slate Truck, and using a reMarkable e-ink tablet.

Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
- ThinOptics round clear
New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now
Follow-up:
- A surprising Vision Pro corner:
- D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF
- iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen)
- Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power)
  - Server Part Deals
Judge tells Apple “yeah, no”
Marco returns to YouTube
Ask ATP:
- Is it even possible for Siri to get good? (via David MacQueen)
- Do we stll carry wallets? (via Stephen Klinck)
  - John’s ridiculous wallet
- How do we share photos outside of a family unit? (Dylan Copeland)
Post-show Neutral: Slate Truck
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI continues to eat the world
- Apple Developer: What’s New
- Research paper
- LoRA not LoRa

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April 29, 2025

How our experiences in school in the 1980s and 1990s were better and worse (mostly worse) than our kids' modern schooling.

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636: Nose-Biting Territory

April 23, 2025 02:02:23 • Download (118 MB)

Spending Casey's money.

🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
- Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
  - AliExpress
- AirPods Pro case swaps (via Steven Merrill)
  - USB-C MagSafe Charging Case ($100‼️)
- Cursor IDE support hallucinates policy causing user uprising
  (This is a Hacker News link to Reddit, so, uh, tread lightly.)
- 🫏🕳️ leaders are not good
- John continues to try to spend Marco’s money
  - Rtings’ new glare testing
  - LG G5 brightness
- Apple’s self-service repair program (via Sky Velleity)
iPadOS 19 rumors
Footguns and Synology
- Enshittification
- Ars Technica’s Synology coverage
Post-show: Marco’s first batch of restaurant-tech MVPs
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635: An Effective Operator

April 15, 2025 02:19:05 • Download (134 MB)

Chaos in the government, chaos in the Siri group, chaos in Casey's AirPods case… and new T-shirts!

Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- 12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
  - Message from US Customs & Border Protection
  - Connor Mason’s post about Tim Cook’s top two skills
- 13 April: …except maybe not?
  - John’s boosted post
- Cross-platform photo management
  - Immich (via bapt)
- Nintendo Switch 2
  - 4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon)
    - Specifications
  - Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibson)
  - Other open-world racing games
  - Console games price history
- Dropbox & File Provider
- John’s daughter’s college laptop
- Folding aspect ratios
  - iPhone Mini… tri-fold? (via Peter Wagoner)
  - MKBHD on the Huawei Mate XT
- Reverse-engineered Mac mini SSDs (via Jonathan Claydon)
  - iBoff
  - Introductory video
How Apple fumbled Siri’s AI makeover
- MacRumors summary
- More on JG’s Siri leadership
- On Robby Walker
- Cross-towngroup tensions
- That fateful demo
- NIH syndrome
- New York Times on Apple GPU purchases
Post-show: AI mind-share
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634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

April 10, 2025 02:19:42 • Download (135 MB)

The Nintendo Switch 2, iOS-redesign rumors, finally surrendering in three old battles, and our plans for [waving hands] all of this.

Pre-show:
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
- Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
- New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner:
  - Voices of VR #1557: Apple Immersive Video BTS
    - Adventure: Ice Dive
  - VIP: Yankee Stadium
- Feedback on Feedback
  - Some thoughts on scale (via Matthew Fenselau)
    - Fermi Paradox
  - Do indies really get that much email?
  - A response from Apple‽ 🤨 (via Vítor)
- Apple’s big OS redesign
Nintendo Switch 2 launch
- Launch video
- Hands-on:
  - The Verge
  - Ars Technica
- The Joy-Cons are now mice
  - Tweet
- microSD Express only
- Chunky hinges
- Pricing
iPhone 17 Pro 48MP zoom lens
Ask ATP:
- How do we source reviews of purchases? (via Robert Bateau)
- How do I back up my photos?
  - ATP Insider: Photo Workflows
- How do we document complicated setups (via yertle)
Post-show: How do we handle… everything?
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- All-glass Apple Watch?

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633: Moonshoot

April 1, 2025 02:09:56 • Download (125 MB)

Rumors of foldable phones, foldable iPads, foldable MacBooks, foldable TVs, foldable EU directives, foldable unemployment, foldable tech support expectations, and foldable universal links.

Pre-show:
- 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
- Happy anniversary, Siracusa!
  - ATP #476
  - Hypercritical: Independence Day
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner: Volume control (via D. Griffin Jones & Victor Prieto)
-  & 🇪🇺
  - Prioritization (via Karan J)
  - A less complementary take from Thom Holwerda
  - More theories on behind-closed-doors talks (via illustro)
    - Case document
  - Will EU releases whither? (via David Shayer)
- An anecdote about John Giannandrea (via Wolf)
- Netflix in search on Apple TV (via Ryan Budish)
Sony’s new RGB backlight tech shines
Folding MacBook? Giant iPad? Folding iPhones? Oh, my!
Ask ATP:
- How do we approach feedback? Why are we held to different standards than Apple?
- Are smaller, incremental releases of software killing the joy of a new major version? (via Thom Bullock)
  - Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Post-show: Casey finally stops kicking another can
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632: The Uncertainty Is Gone

March 27, 2025 01:46:58 • Download (103 MB)

New Siri leadership, WWDC's announcement, the EU's new demands, and a dropped axe that could've been much worse.

Pre-show: Marco’s BMW sitrep
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Insider: Our Websites
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro corner
  - Spatial Gallery has an update!
  - Volume control (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
- Siri delays (via Stephen Klinck)
- Gurman on the smart home hub
- Apple sued over false Apple Intelligence advertising
- Siri shake-up
- Threads lets you default to following… for real this time
- iPhone 16e
  - Camera arrangement justifications
  - MKBHD doesn’t care for it
    - Full review
  - Teardown from REWA
  - Teardown from iFixIt
    - Battery size comparison
- 17e already appearing in supply chain?
  - Weibo post
- iPhone 17 Pro: 12GB RAM?
WWDC 2025 Announced
EU requires major changes in iOS 19 & iOS 20
AI continues to eat the world
- Apple Developer: What’s New
Post-show: Casey has to pay to play
- The Movie Database
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March 21, 2025

The history of our personal websites and the ridiculous systems we've built to write and serve them.

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631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni

March 20, 2025 02:12:27 • Download (128 MB)

Metallica on Vision Pro, the Apple Intelligence Siri delay, and the partial opening of the restaurant.

Pre-show: Casey received a present
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert
- Colorful Macs
  - MacBook Adorable
- “Hidra”
  - List of Apple codenames
  - Hidra
- M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
  - M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
    - EE Times 🇯🇵
    - Tech Insights
  - …nor does the M4 Max
  - Reticle limits
  - Apple Silicon info Google Sheet
- Apple’s multi-OS redesign (via Jon Tatum)
  - Under the Radar #314: Optimism vs. Pessimism
Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Ask ATP:
- Do we set our phones on a surface face-up or face-down? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- What’s up with version numbers these days? (via Joe O’Connor)
  - Semantic Versioning
Post-show: Restaurant soft opening results
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- Paprika

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630: Time to Spiral

March 13, 2025 02:36:58 • Download (151 MB)

Mac Studio benchmarks, Mac Pro chip rumors, the value of products with colors, and the rumored UI redesigns that may come to this fall's Apple OSes.

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner
  - New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
  - Spatial Gallery
  - Metallica immersive special is coming
    - Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
- iPad Air corner
  - “2× bass” false alarm
    - 404
  - Appeal
    - Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
    - 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
  - Example video from Fabian
- More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)
- MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography
- Regarding the “Hidra”
  - ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
    - Interview with Srouji (timestamp link)
  - Lernaean Hydra
- Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra
- Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6
  - GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
    - 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757
    - 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003
  - CPU:
    - M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
      - ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813
      - ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921
    - M3 Ultra multi-core: 28,119
      - ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373
      - ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647
  - More from Ars Technica
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
  - ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
- Threads timeline setting update
  - ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
  - The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
- Thoughts on Feedback
Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
Post-show: John’s speaker update
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- Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹

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629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

March 7, 2025 02:21:01 • Download (136 MB)

The M4 MacBook Air, M4/M3 Mac Studio, A16 iPad, and M3 iPad Air.

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Tim Cook teaser
- History lesson
Mac Studio
- General announcement
- M3 Ultra announcement
- M3 Ultra
  - Ars Technica
  - It is 2× M3 Max
  - According to to 🇫🇷 website: no interposer in M4 Max
  - Gurman in April 2024
M4 MacBook Air
- Announcement
iPad
- 6GB RAM, as was foretold
- Gurman misssed on this one
iPad Air
- Announcement
- Audio regression?
Post-show:
- Casey does free labor for Apple
- John’s computer speakers are dying ☹️
  - Possible replacement #1: Kanto ORA
  - Possible replacement #2: Kanto ORA4
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- Next-gen Siri is delayed? (14 February)
- Apple Intelligence Reaches Make-or-Break Point? (3 March)
- Siri remains trash
- Amazon steps up to the AI plate
  - Interview with Panos Panay

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628: There’s a Certain Smell

February 27, 2025 01:57:28 • Download (114 MB)

John launches Hyperspace! (That's not the smell. The app is great.)

Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
Follow-up:
- New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
  - Bono Autobiography
- Prospects for humanoid robots
- macOS testing (via Anonymous)
- With apologies to Joe Rosensteel
- Netflix’s Apple TV integration
  - It’s more than just the app (via Serena)
  - What purpose does the TV app serve? (via Daniel Luz)
  - Implementation details (via Anonymous)
- iPhone 16e
  - Name implications
  - Possible role? (via Patch)
- Apple C1
  - MagSafe isn’t a problem
    - No, really
  - C1 is “just the start”
    - Wendover video link
  - It’s really quite impressive (via Pedro Fernandes)
    - 0.0000000000000316 W
  - Andru Edwards’ Behind-the-Scenes Tour
  - Qualcomm licensure? (via Casey in episode 476 at around 40m)
  - Gurman on future Cx chips
- Apple investigates custom Wi-Fi chips as well
- Apple approves new wording for emails
  - Not just in the EU
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
  - Full statement
  - Screenshot
  - Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
iPhone 17 camera bumps
- Leak
Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
- Upgrade #552: Table for Six
- Woes in North Carolina
Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
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627: Dragged Across the Line

February 20, 2025 02:03:04 • Download (119 MB)

The iPhone 16e, a VoIP (mis)adventure, and the latest attempt at a status display in the Liss household.

Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
Follow-up:
- Apple Account transfers
  - Updated restrictions & guidelines
  - Stephen’s take
- The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
  - WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos
  - Matthew Green’s blog post
- macOS UNIX compliance
- Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
iPhone 16e announced
- Intro video
Apple TV app is now on Android
Netflix and foot-guns
Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board
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626: No Longer ery Good

February 13, 2025 01:57:44 • Download (114 MB)

Merging Apple accounts, home-status displays, emotive robots, and why we really do want cellular Macs.

Follow-up:
- Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
- First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
- You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
- Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
  - Tailgate Tub
- Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
- DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
  - Technical report
- Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
- macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
  - Thom at OSnews
- Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another
- The new JoyCons do act as a mouse
- An alternative for Apple TV audio (via Nicholas Correnti)
  - /r/TVTooHigh
- Casey’s new arrivals
  - WS2812B Addressable LED strip
  - TRMNL
- Hyperspace updates
  - Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
  - Slack
- An aside about bug reporting
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
- Original Washington Post article
- BBC coverage
ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
Ask ATP:
- What planning/wireframing tools do we use? (via Glen Lam)
- Is HFS+ still relevant in 2025? (via Mike Hatfield)
  - QNAP
- Would John tell us more about the many pieces of detritus associated with files? (via Leon Cowle)
Post-show: Restaurant-tech update
- Dante
- Ubiquiti Flex (Useful little PoE switch)
- Ubiquiti Flex 2.5G PoE (2.5G version with 10G uplink)
- Ubiquiti Switch Flex XG (10G switch)
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- Jon Prosser’s video
- Invites & Sports apps

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625: Time and Smoke

February 6, 2025 01:56:51 • Download (113 MB)

Zen and the art of restaurant wiring.

Pre-show: BBQ
- ZZQ
- Q
Follow-up:
- New immersive video: Man vs. Beast
- “Historical Commission”?
- Sonos volume changes are local
- DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave)
- Docker
  - Rosetta (via Brian Reiter)
    - Hypervisor.framework
  - Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
  - Sending email
    - Mailhog (via Matt Barlow)
    - Mailpit (via John Caruso)
    - Maildev (via Yves Serrano)
  - ddev.com (via Bram Esposito)
  - Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke)
- Marco’s TV audio sync issues
  - Match Format and Match Dynamic Range (via Marco Arment)
  - Quick Media Switching
    - Previously on ATP…
    - QMS marketing page
    - Demo video (via Nit)
Apple Invites
Pornography on the iPhone
Ask ATP:
- Why are Casey and Marco so excited for cellular Macs? (via Matthew Fenselau)
- Should one use their personal Apple ID on a corporate Mac (via Stephen Swift)
  - Localsend
  - ↪️ Gruber
  - ↪️ Underscore
  - Luna Display
  - Synergy
Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
- Dante
- Food Safety Talk
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- Sonos’ take on the Apple TV?
  - Ventura OS?
- Sonos has another round of layoffs
  - Letter from interim CEO Tom Conrad

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624: Do Less Math in Computers

January 30, 2025 01:52:46 • Download (109 MB)

DeepSeek's impact, Apple's position in AI, updates on scrolling and home LEDs, and an adaptive apology.

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Follow-up:
- Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
- Apple insists it’s still going to ~~make fetch happen~~ ship next-generation CarPlay
- Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
  - Lenovo Legion Go S
- Ryan London is trolling John
  - Black
  - Brown
- John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
- Hyperspace scrolling updates
  - AppKit vs. WebKit
  - NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
  - Every UUID
  - Writing down every UUID
- Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
- Casey’s notification/LED project
  - Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
    - Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
    - ratgdo
  - ESP32
    - ESPHome
  - Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
    - WS2812B
    - Candy buttons
  - Historical commission application process
  - Switch replacement options:
    - HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
    - Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
- Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
- Ben Thompson’s FAQ
- DeepSeek-V3 paper
- DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
- R1 is more open than OpenAI
  - OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought
- Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
- R1 censorship
  - Example 1
  - Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
  - Example 3 (via Gruber)
  - Prompt engineering
  - The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
  - Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor
Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
- x86 images on Apple Silicon
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623: It’s About Human Connection

January 23, 2025 02:08:03 • Download (123 MB)

Nerdy home-buying considerations, Hyperspace updates, the surprisingly difficult engineering challenge of scrolling, and how we're going to get through all of this.

Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️
- Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America
Follow-up:
- Apple pauses notification summaries for news apps
- Marco’s BMW does have dual-screen CarPlay
- Acura RSX: Honda’s first all-original EV
- Another 5K monitor enters the arena: ViewSonic VP2788-5K
  - Thom Bullock’s tweet
  - As per Dave Hamilton (of Mag Geek Gab), $800!
- Fast directory sizing lives!
  - /System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util
  - man apfs.util
- Apple sample code is on GitHub (via David Rönnqvist)
  - Backyard Birds
  - Food Truck
- Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato)
  - Also on YouTube
- Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware
  - Overcast link
Hyperspace updates
- Van Halen’s Brown M&Ms
- John’s Hyperspace Instructions
Ask ATP:
- What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher)
  - MoCA
Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified?
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- The Verge coverage

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622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

January 14, 2025 02:24:02 • Download (139 MB)

New Mac-monitor possibilities, Tim Cook's political moves, and updates on John's app… which now has a name!

Follow-up:
- AirPod noises
  - Gui Rambo & AirBuddy
  - One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach)
    - Also, more on status lights (via Tom French)
  - Another noise is a calibration noise (via Ian Williamson)
    - Knowledge base
  - How to turn off charging sounds
  - Look, ma! We’re famous!
  - AirPod Noises (via Patch)
- TVs at CES 2025
  - Hisense’s 116UX with RGB mini-backlight
    - Digital Trends coverage
    - HDTVTest coverage
  - DLSS
    - History (via Hampus Jensen)
    - Explanation (via flunkedflank)
    - Digital Foundry explanation video
- Mac monitors
  - Some foreign options (via Henry Chen)
    - MacRumors thread
    - Kuycon G27-X
  - Another option (via Tim Ngwena)
- Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
TestFlight subscriptions on macOS
TestFlight for ATP members
- Name reveal
- Manage subscriptions API
Marco and Casey price John’s app
Post-show Neutral:
- Winter report card for Tina’s Civic
- Casey has connected Erin’s car to Home Assistant
- Marco’s new[-ish] car update
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621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want

January 9, 2025 02:12:21 • Download (128 MB)

Breaking news and in-depth coverage from our reporter at CES.

Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
- 20k Hz
- statuslight.com
Follow-up:
- That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
- The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
- Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
- The Magic Mouse
  - The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
  - The Mighty Mouse did
  - MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
    - Editorialized reel
  - What will the new one be?
    - Ridiculous mouse rumor
      - Gurman’s take
      - Hello, Computer
    - Death to buttons?
    - Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
    - Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
    - Perhaps a common charging approach?
- Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
- Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
CES 2025
- TVs
  - What’s John got his eyes on?
  - Sony 💔
  - Samsung’s new QD-OLED
    - HDTVTest
    - Digital Trends
  - LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
    - Microlens
    - Tandem OLED
  - Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
    - “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
    - HDTVTest on the Z95B
  - More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
  - Big TVs are big
- LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
  - Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
  - Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
- Dell no longer makes XPS computers
  - Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
  - Engadget’s take
- Nvidia’s announcements
TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
Post-show:
- Thanks, Patrons 💙
- Marco bought something.
  - HDCP
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620: Mostly Cookies

January 3, 2025 01:46:43 • Download (103 MB)

Apple’s in-house radio chips, iOS 18 Photos-app reception, rumors of a new mouse (!), and a good cult to join.

Pre-show:
- Holiday results
  - Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
- Casey’s impending mess
- John needs technical support
Follow-up:
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
  - FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
  - The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
- On Recents in the Finder sidebar
  - Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
  - Odin points out it’s a default
  - Joe Lion has complaints
- Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
- Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
  - Original blog post
  - ~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
- MKBHD asks Tim Cook about the Magic Mouse
Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
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- WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
  - Direct video link
  - Slides PDF
- About Apple File System
- Apple File System Reference
- dirstat.h
- dirstat.c

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619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

December 26, 2024 02:12:41 • Download (128 MB)

Disk-cloning drama, recognizing obscene waveforms, Storacusa progress, and the plug-in-hybrid life.

Pre-show:
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
  - Become an ATP Member to listen
  - ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
- “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
  - Can Marco recognize waveforms?
  - Descript
- Emo Siri
  - It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
  - She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
- Immersive video
  - More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
    - Insta360 Titan
  - Software-based immersive video
    - Depth Anything
  - Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
    - Welcome to Light Fields
    - Deep View Video
  - Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
    - Demo for the Meta Quest
- John’s app
  - More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
  - Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
  - Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
New Vision Pro content — again!
Apple and bootable macOS backups
- Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
Ask ATP:
- Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
- What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
  - ~/bin
  - /usr/local/bin
- Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
- What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
  - Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
    - 27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
    - 16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
    - 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
  - Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
    - 50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
  - Olympus OM-D E-M10
  - Sony a7 III
    - SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
- Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
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