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631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni
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
- “Hidra”
- M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
- M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
- …nor does the M4 Max
- Reticle limits
- Apple Silicon info Google Sheet
- Apple’s multi-OS redesign (via Jon Tatum)
- 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)
- Post-show: Restaurant soft opening results
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple News+ Food
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630: Time to Spiral
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
- iPad Air corner
- “2× bass” false alarm
- Appeal
- Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
- 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
- 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
- ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
- 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
- M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
- More from Ars Technica
- GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
- Threads timeline setting update
- Thoughts on Feedback
- Vision Pro Corner
- Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
- Post-show: John’s speaker update
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629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me
The M4 MacBook Air, M4/M3 Mac Studio, A16 iPad, and M3 iPad Air.
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos
- Tim Cook teaser
- 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
- iPad
- iPad Air
- Post-show:
- Casey does free labor for Apple
- John’s computer speakers are dying ☹️
- Possible replacement #1: Kanto ORA
- Possible replacement #2: Kanto ORA4
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Siri is falling ever-further behind
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628: There’s a Certain Smell
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
- 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
- C1 is “just the start”
- It’s really quite impressive (via Pedro Fernandes)
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- 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
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
- Full statement
- Screenshot
- Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
- 🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
- iPhone 17 camera bumps
- Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
- Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
- Members-only ATP Overtime: New “Apple-like” camera: Sigma BF
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627: Dragged Across the Line
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
- The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
- macOS UNIX compliance
- Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
- iPhone 16e announced
- 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
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”?
- Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
- DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
- Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
- macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
- 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)
- Casey’s new arrivals
- Hyperspace updates
- Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
- Slack
- An aside about bug reporting
- Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
- ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
- Ask ATP:
- 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)
- Members-only ATP Overtime: iOS 19 UI rumors and the design language of Apple Invites
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625: Time and Smoke
Zen and the art of restaurant wiring.
- Pre-show: BBQ
- 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)
- Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
- Sending email
- ddev.com (via Bram Esposito)
- Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke)
- Marco’s TV audio sync issues
Match FormatandMatch Dynamic Range(via Marco Arment)- Quick Media Switching
- 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)
- Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
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624: Do Less Math in Computers
DeepSeek's impact, Apple's position in AI, updates on scrolling and home LEDs, and an adaptive apology.
- 🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Follow-up:
- Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
- Apple insists it’s still going to
make fetch happenship next-generation CarPlay - Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
- Ryan London is trolling John
- John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
- Hyperspace scrolling updates
- Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
- Casey’s notification/LED project
- Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
- ESP32
- Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
- 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
- Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
- R1 censorship
- Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
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623: It’s About Human Connection
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 🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️
- 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
- Fast directory sizing lives!
/System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.utilman apfs.util
- Apple sample code is on GitHub (via David Rönnqvist)
- Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato)
- Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware
- Hyperspace updates
- Ask ATP:
- What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher)
- Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified?
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622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process
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)
- 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
- DLSS
- History (via Hampus Jensen)
- Explanation (via flunkedflank)
- Digital Foundry explanation video
- Mac monitors
- Some foreign options (via Henry Chen)
- Another option (via Tim Ngwena)
- Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
- AirPod noises
- 🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
- TestFlight subscriptions on macOS
- TestFlight for ATP members
- 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
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
- 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
- What will the new one be?
- 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
- LG’s flagship goes MLA → 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
- TVs
- TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
- Post-show:
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels
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620: Mostly Cookies
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
- 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
Recentsin 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
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
- iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
- Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
- Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
- WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
- About Apple File System
- Apple File System Reference
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619: Master Plan to Take Over the World
Disk-cloning drama, recognizing obscene waveforms, Storacusa progress, and the plug-in-hybrid life.
- Pre-show:
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
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- ATP Gift Memberships
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
- 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)
- Software-based immersive video
- Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
- Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
- 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
- “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
- New Vision Pro content — again!
- Apple and bootable macOS backups
- Ask ATP:
- Does the new
Recentsitem 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
- Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
- Does the new
- Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
- Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
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618: Type System Says No
A new toy Marco bought, a new toy Marco swears he won't buy, many names John won't use for his app, and a snack of sharks.
- New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
- Follow-up:
- John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
- A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
- Christian Kent’s correction/joke
- More app name ideas…
- Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
- Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
- Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
- John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
- Pinstripes are back, baby!
- Is Siri… emotional… now?
- Marco’s new e-ink toy
- Integrations
- API
- Note that it’s backordered for a bit
- New Wildlife immersive video episode
- Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
- Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
- PlayStation VR2
- Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
- Post-show: John’s app progress
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
- 5K is 5120 × 2880
- Marc Edwards’ chart
- Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
- At the time of recording, on sale for $720
- Jason’s review
- ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
- BenQ PD2730S
- ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
- Apple’s plans
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617: An Incredibly Dangerous App
A new adventure awaits.
- Pre-show: Laundry tactics
- Follow-up:
- Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
- Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
- Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
- Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
- FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance
- M1-M3:
ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController - M4:
ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller
- M1-M3:
- M4 Extreme is allegedly canceled
- John’s adventures in saving space
- visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and Mac Virtual Display
- Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature?
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616: I Have No Grippers
Third-party Mac SSDs, using Threads and Bluesky, Intel's CEO-firing, and what features we'd add to our apps without the fear of rejection.
- Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
- Follow-up:
- Yet more football (🏈) news
- Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
- TVEverywhere & Channels
- AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
- Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
- We are one again asking you to consider CleanupBuddy
- Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via Alex)
- More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)
- Yet apparently reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?
- Yet more football (🏈) news
- Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
- Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel
#askatp:- What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents?
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- Members-only ATP Overtime: Photography Corner
- Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
- Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
- Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)
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615: A Mildly Brisk Walk
Casey's adventures in sports piracy, John's loss of apes, and Marco's visions of pores.
- Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
- Follow-up:
- Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
- Sunday Ticket updates
- TV Everywhere
- An alternative approach
- DAZN
- NFL Replay
- Tailscale and Exit Nodes
- Concert for One: Raye
- Using large external drives with macOS
- Photos library
- An anecdote from Marc Wickens
- Booting from an external
- Downloading large App Store apps
App Store→Settings
- Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
- Apple Intelligence notification summaries
- Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
- DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
- Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
#askatp:- Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
- Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
- Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
- Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
- Services on macOS
- Making a system-wide service
ThisService(now defunct)- In Automator
- Save your
.workflowfiles in~/Library/Services/ - To assign a keyboard shortcut:
System Settings→Keyboard→Keyboard Shortcuts(button) →Services(sidebar) →Text(list section)
- Save your
- FastScripts
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614: Don’t Puke for the Show
A new spatial video, iPhone security, why Apple doesn't compete with NVIDIA's highest-end GPUs, and anything else to avoid having to do more in-app-purchase testing.
- 🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Follow-up:
- The Weeknd: Open Hearts
- M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)
- Quinn’s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini
- Apple storage pricing
- Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro
- Apple vs. market SSD prices
- Retailers are also hamstrung
- M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology
- Alternative drag cancellation options
- iOS Inactivity Reboot
- Wes Davis at The Verge
- 404 Media (Paywalled)
- Demo video
- Reverse engineering
#askatp:- Post-show: Casey’s adventures in remote television
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- Progressive vs. regressive taxation
(Apple is the former)
- Progressive vs. regressive taxation
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ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
In this special members-only episode, we watch and discuss "Kiki’s Delivery Service" (1989).
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613: Dress for the Chip You Want
More details on the M4 and Mac Mini, and the rumored Apple… WallPod? HomeScreen? Intellivision. There we go. No potential naming issues at all.
- 🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday!
- Follow-up:
- Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
- “Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
- Mac mini
- “Modular” storage
- Other tidbits
- Heatsink differences
- 256 GB = 2× 128 GB
- Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
#askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)- Thunderbolt performance limits
- Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
- Apple’s smart home ambitions
#askatp:- Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
- Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
- What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
- Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
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612: Screen on Face
More details about the new Macs, M4 Pro and Max benchmarks, why Apple TV isn't a game platform, and future hardware possibilities for the Vision Pro line.
- Pre-show: Politics later.
- 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
- Follow-up:
- Mac mini
- Headphone jack placement
- Quinn’s observation
- iMac
- M4 vs. M4 Pro/Max SSD limits
- M4 Pro & M4 Max performance
- Walmart still sells a Mac with 8GB RAM
- Apple’s new USB-C Accessories require Sequoia
- Apple’s $69 Thunderbolt 5 cable (via Daniel Luz)
- There exists at least one dock with 10GbE (via Daniel Nelson)
- iFixIt’s iPad Mini (A17 Pro) teardown
- AppleTV gaming (via killvore)
- Keyboard Cleaning & MacBook Booting
- CleanupBuddy by Gui Rambo
- Alternative incantation from Daniel Pieper
- Power the machine off
- Left ⌃ and ⌘ as well as Right ⇧ for 7 seconds
- While still holding, hold the power button for 7 seconds
- This is not an SMC reset, but it’s close.
- Only lasts until the next boot 😑
- Mac mini
- Apple buys Pixelmator
- Apple buys stake in Globalstar
- Vision Pro v2 changes?
- Post-show: Group therapy
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence experiences
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611: RAM Christmas
The new Mac Mini, updated iMacs and MacBook Pros, putting things on bottoms, and some fun surprises.
- Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
- Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
- 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
- October Macs
- Monday: iMac
- Announcement video
- The RAM drought is over!
- 120Hz display‽
- The turtle remains harpooned
- Magic Keyboard with lock key‽ 🤨
- Relocated Fn key?
- Quinn’s video
- Tuesday: Mac mini
- Wednesday: MacBook Pros
- Monday: iMac
- Post-show: Marco bought something. Because of course he did.
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610: More Values in the Darkness
Who will be the last person in the world using Quicksilver? We'll give you one guess.
- Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
- Follow-up:
- New iPad Mini
- Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
- Some follow-up from the most recent member’s special
- Photo editing
- Exposing to the right
- DPReview
- More via Sam Doran
- Color spaces
- …are only applicable on JPEGs (via Léo Natan)
- Daniel Laan’s take
- What do we do with our computer’s color tweaks while editing (via Josh Harris)
- John’s thoughts on cropping
- Exposing to the right
- Parallelizing file compression/decompression
unxip(via Mihai Parparita)- More from
unxipauthor Saagar Jha - Apple Archive (see also
aa)
- “No hats, no walkmen” (via Dan Pierce)
- iPhone SE 4 rumors
- Aside: iPhone product mix from ATP #609 Overtime
- Case leak
- October Macs? 🧐
- Ask ATP:
- How do we protect sensitive information like driver’s licenses? (via Jochen Marschall)
- How do we assist parents with account management and legacy planning? (via Kaleb)
- How do we clean our keyboards‽ (via Randall Miller)
- Post-show: John’s Quicksilver update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: What even is a photo, anyway?
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609: You’re the Oreo Cookie
Submerged, the new iPad Mini, getting started with photo editing, and a weird new driver-assist mode.
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Marco updates
- AutoSleep
- iPhone leather backs
- HDR photos from big cameras
- Apple laptops can run without a battery connected
- You can soon get Apple TV+ on Prime Video
- Soccer corner
- “Drive to Survive” knockoff is coming (via Devon Dundee)
- On Messi/MLS popularity
- Shipping Forecast (via Antony Johnson)
- Enabling/disabling audio modes on AirPods 4 w/ ANC (via Scott Zero)
- John’s AirPods update
- GPX exports for geotagging photos (via Ryan Mikulovsky)
- More thoughts on global keyboard shortcuts in Sequoia (via Michael Berk)
- Passkey benefits
- Apple says “🤨” to OpenAI claims about reasoning
- Google breakup is a possibility
- Marco updates
- New iPad Mini
- Submerged
- Ask ATP:
- How do you get started editing photos? (via Maxel Amador)
- What’s the point in performance cores if they’re not used? (via Scott Schuchart)
- Members-only ATP Overtime: What is the right product mix for iPhone
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608: Boot to Toot
The Google ruling, sports (?), PC-gaming laptops over time, and whether non-case iPhone cases can tempt case-less Casey Liss.
- Follow-up:
- NotebookLM podcast
- Camera Control button material
- iPhone case suggestions
- Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit
- Arc Pulse
- Leather backs
- Sleep-tagging app suggestions
- Windows anti-malware app suggestions
- Adaptive Transparency report
- Wireless phone recovery
- End ↔ end encryption coming for iPhone ↔ Android RCS messages
- More tweaks to screen recording prompts
- Hotkey registration in Sequoia
- Liquid detection in Sequoia
- Epic gets a win against Google
- Apple nopes out of OpenAI investment
- Ask ATP:
- Will John buy the new $700 Playstation Pro?
- Have the Vehicle Motion Cues helped John’s motion sickness? (via Justin Waring)
- When will the first true “built from the ground up for AI” phone be? (via Neil McGregor)
- Is it time to move to Passkeys?
- Post-show: Adam’s gaming PC adventures
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607: The Structure and Vibe of a Podcast
Meta Orion, NotebookLM's generated podcasts, leather iPhone 16 cases, and a request for two simple apps. How hard can they be?
- Pre-show: Windows woes
- Follow-up:
- Thank you, listeners. 💙
- Hard-wired camera indicator light
- AirPods 4 bass & new MagSafe puck (via Wayne Dixon)
- Quinn’s AirPods 4 review
- The A18 is not a binned A18 Pro
- The tiny ∆ between These AirPods
- iPhones 16 battery life
- Battery limiting
- AlDente app for managing charge settings
- Electrical battery release with reversed polarity (via David Schaub)
- Verizon activation problems
- Verizon self-service (via Steven)
- Bullstrap case review
- Apple Store experience (via Eli Liebman)
- Marco’s call for help
- Masimo founder resigns as CEO after board ouster
- Meta Orion
- NotebookLM
- Post-show: Torturing John Again
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Kids and phones at school
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606: A Decade of Half-Presses
Our first impressions of the Camera Control, iPhone 16 Pro cases, (These) AirPods 4 with ANC, and the Apple Watch Series 10.
- Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Follow-up:
- John filename extraction from Photos
- From the ATP Insider: Photo Workflows special
- John’s AppleScript
- Other suggestions
- Shortcuts (for example, Josh Woodward’s)
osxphotos(via Muli)- Directly read SQLite database
- Use Swift/
PhotoKit
- Always sending photos to the shared library (via Alexander Faxå)
- JPEG-XL in iOS 18 on iPhone 16
- iPhone apps and spying via the microphone
- Eavesdropping via Siri
- Secure Exclave
- iPhone 16 & 16 Plus battery removal
- Jeff Johnson figured out how to silence the monthly screen recording prompts
- John filename extraction from Photos
- iPhone 16 Pro Impressions
- AirPods 4 with ANC Impressions
- Apple Watch Series 10 Impressions
- Post-show Neutral: Volvo EX90’s annoying “feature”
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605: Manage the Moisture Situation
More on the new iPhones, cases, MagSafe, hot tips for migration, and a special Neutral.
- Pre-show: It’s early 🥱
- Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Insider: Photo Workflows 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- John finally admits what Casey and Marco knew last week
- It’s MicroLED not Micro OLED. The offending party has been sacked.
- AirPods 4 listening time
- Case Updates
- iPhone 16 vs. iPhone 16 Pro (via Steve Stutz)
- New charging speeds
- iPhone 16 Pro demand is… not great?
- USB sync speeds
- A Public Service Announcement by Dave Mark
- Preview does support HDR
- FDA issues AirPods hearing aid certification
- Apple Watch bands
- Titanium watch bands (via Wolf)
- New link bracelet (via Josh Harris)
- Third-party cases and the iPhone 16 flash
- Apple Intelligence notification summary memes are surely coming
- Zach Kahn provides details on Apple Podcasts charts
- Huawei’s newspaper phone
- Apple starts activation locking components
- Ask ATP:
- Do our phones listen to us or not? (via Yoav Zoldan)
- How do we feel about MagSafe these days? (via Peter Wagoner)
- What are our credit card setups? (via Jonathan Cirillo)
- Post-show Neutral: A Rivian update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Will Apple pull a Google?
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604: Minimized Embiggening
The September 2024 Apple event, with the Apple Watch Series 10, iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, AirPods 4, and These AirPods.
- Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Apple September 2024 Event
- Quinn’s video on Apple’s new OLED
- Underscore’s Apple Watch size comparison
- AirPods 4’s hidden capacitive button
- Camera Control overview
- Qi 2 [and more!] MagSafe
- Dr. Drang’s titanium grades
- iPhone 16 Pro gets JPEG-XL
- Della Huff on Instagram
- All models get 8GB RAM
- mmWave lives on!
- Everyone gets SIMs but America
- All iPhones 16 support Wi-Fi 7
- iPhones 16 Pro are feature-identical
- Software release dates
- Post-show: Marco’s 🪿 after-action report
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603: Too Smart to Move
Exit interviews for the outgoing iPhones and Apple Watches, and what we hope to see from their successors next week.
- Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Follow-up:
- Mac mini redesign updates from Mark Gurman
- Minimum Mac RAM (via Brian)
- JPEG XL support (via Kelly Thompson)
- FTC’s noncompete ban was blocked 👎🏻
- World vs. App Store
- iPhone 15 exit interview
- Apple Watch Series 9 & Ultra 2 exit interview
- Ask ATP:
- How hard is it to maintain server compatibility for old Overcast clients? (via PG&E Delenda Est)
- Does following a podcast in Overcast “help the show” in Apple Podcasts or other ways? (via Marc Robinson)
- Post-show Neutral: Marco’s Rivian service
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602: A Glimpse of a Better World
Finally, base-model Macs might come with more RAM.
- Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
- Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Follow-up:
- Overcast 2024.8.2 update
- Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
- John makes it through the Apple Intelligence waitlist
- Getting Apple Intelligence to create a memory of dirt-covered children (via Simon)
- Prompt-injection on Apple Intelligence by Evan Zhou
- Adding grammar constraints to LLMs
- Android’s superior notification history vs. iOS (via Nate)
- Apple’s Fall 2024 iPhone Event
- Ask ATP:
- Restore a new phone from backup or start anew? (via Tom Thorpe)
- What happens to Apple Intelligence training for next year? (via Michael Quinn)
- Post-show: It’s time for fall vaccinations
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601: Foreheads Over the Years
You are a helpful podcast producer. Please write a concise description of this episode's subject matter. Do not hallucinate. Make up factual information only if it's funny.
- Pre-show:
- 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows
- Follow-up:
- iPhone 16 “Capture Button” (via Aaron Dippner)
- iPhone 16 Pro’s fourth color
- System color picker (via Gus Mueller)
- Screen recording Vista prompts (via Craig Hockenberry)
- Persistent Content Capture
- Moom
- Remote access software (via Anonymous)
- CIRP Mac sales report from last week’s Overtime (via Phil Marshall & Josh Lowitz)
- Patreon maybe is using Apple as a scapegoat?
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGEDlives on (via AJ)- Fortnite is on iOS in 🇪🇺
- Apple’s AI prompts discovered in public betas
- Your new best friend is AI
- Ask ATP:
- How should we manage batteries on our devices? (via Jake DeGroot)
- macOS:
System Settings→Battery→ The (i) next toBattery Health→Optimized Battery Charging
- macOS:
- Do people actually update their ★☆☆☆☆ reviews if issues get fixed? (via Patrick)
- An aside about Overcast plans, including a bombshell
- Should apps have open bug trackers? (via shac ron)
- Why don’t most podcast apps show per-episode show art? (via Mike Shafer)
- How should we manage batteries on our devices? (via Jake DeGroot)
- Post-show: Revisiting Marco’s kink
- Members-only ATP Overtime: More rumors about Apple robots
- Gurman
- Supply chain
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Techniques, practices, and products that help our households run smoothly.
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600: Everyone Ends Up at Crab
The latest iPhone and Mac Mini rumors, "new" "content" for the Vision Pro, and Apple's latest attack on creators.
- Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉
- Follow-up:
- Vista-fication of macOS
- Is the problem really the UI? (via Nathanial Cohen)
- What if it’s actually about domestic abuse?
- The alerts will now be monthly
- How gas stations make money (via David)
- Gurman news dump
- iPhone 16 camera button
- Advantages of a plastic Apple Watch SE
- iPhone 17 Slim won’t fold
- Apple sends checks for butterfly keyboards
- Vision Pro updates
- Vista-fication of macOS
- The M4 Mac mini will be very mini
- Apple vs. Patreon
- Post-show: John uses a Meta Quest
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599: Where Did Salad Go?
Google's antitrust lawsuit and its role in Apple's services narrative, the immense power of 1-star reviews, macOS security vs. utility, and a road trip that relied on Electrify America.
- Pre-show: Mophie 3-in-1
- Analog(ue) #228: We Don’t Have to Talk About Air Conditioning (Posted on Sunday, 11 August)
- Follow-up:
- Apology Tour
- Mistaken theme song
- “Users hate all change”
- Curbside charging does exist in the US! 😱
- PlugNYC (via Gareth Edwards)
- Berkeley (via James Brown)
- Seattle (via kiiile)
- Baltimore (via Seth Carus)
- North Carolina (via Juan Boyce)
- Portland (via Sam Grover)
- A spiritual visit from the Color Czar
- CrowdStrike
- Lawsuits and EULAs
- Release propagation
- Auto-disabling crashing kernel extensions
- Recovering unbootable Windows machines
- A discussion about computing monoculture spurred by Michael Cook
Windows VistamacOS Sequoia’s new way to nag- Jason files a Feedback
- FB14689927
- John dupes it as FB14698922
- Jason writes it all up
- Craig Hockenberry has a possible solution
- Jason found some good news though
- Jason files a Feedback
- Apology Tour
- Google is ruled a monopolist
- Apple’s hidden AI prompts discovered in macOS beta
- Post-show: Marco’s Rivian drama
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598: Three-Burner Stove
CrowdStrike, iPhone "Slim" rumors, the Apple Intelligence rollout, and updates on our apps.
- Follow-up:
- Rivian Repair
- Becki & Chris (timestamp link) (via Matt Rigby)
- Marco’s Repair Breakdown
- Parts: 39%
- Right Uniside assembly quarter panel: $2,751
- Bumper cover: $940
- Right tail lamp assembly: $630
- Right quarter panel glass: $537
- Labor: 53%
- Miscellaneous & taxes: 8%
- Parts: 39%
- PDR videos
- Pictures of the R1S side panel
- Another example of outrageous car body panel prices
- EV charge port locations (via Craig Ritchie)
- Gas-hole locations (via David Barber)
- Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1
- Rivian Repair
- CrowdStrike
- iPhone 17 “slim” rumors
- Post-show: Overcast launch & Callsheet renewals
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597: Apple Watch Shuffle
OpenAI drama, wearable rumors and opportunities, and somehow also HomePod news?
- Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
- EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access
- Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rejection
- More on
robots.txt(via Mike Lewis)
- Maybe Open AI ain’t such a great group, after all
- Apple Watch SE with… plastic casing?
- New HomePod Mini color
- Apple “Home Accessory”
- Ask ATP:
- Should one even bother learning an ancient language today?
- What’s the correct placement for an EV charger? (via Thomas Brock)
- How do we keep our backup vortexes from becoming backup black holes? (via Russell Fitzpatrick)
- Why doesn’t Apple include a small battery in desktop Macs? (via Ty Bolt)
- Post-show: Marco’s 🍌 has come home
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596: A New Foundation for Progress
The big Overcast rewrite is finally here on the app's tenth birthday.
- Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
- Follow-up:
- More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
- More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
- David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
- European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
- More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
- 🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Culture Clash explained (via Ryan Lee)
- Overcast’s 10th Anniversary… Launch!
🎉 × 1️⃣0️⃣ - Post-show: Casey’s new office audio setup
- Era 300
- Premium Immersive Set with Arc (Casey has the same Arc soundbar, the same Sub Gen 3, but One SLs as rears)
- Sub (Gen 3)
- Move (Casey has a Move 1)
- Roam (Casey has a Roam 1)
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Notarization changes in Sequoia
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595: The Best Secret Store
Considerations for blocking AI crawlers, tech's labor issues, and Apple's continued battles with the world.
- Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe
- Follow-up:
- An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
- The origins of
S-Tierin tier lists (via David Schaub) - AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphone
- Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)
- What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu)
- Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking
- Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker
- Tech and Labor
- Ask ATP:
- Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Feature Requests for Death
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594: We Just Found It on the Doorstep
AI vs. web publishers, AI vs. the record labels, AI vs. creators, John vs. creation, and self-identifying as a robot.
- Pre-show:
- Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
- New member’s special: iPod Tier List
- Follow-up:
- Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
- An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
- One EU citizen’s perspective on DMA (via Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst)
- Suggestions for “Brexit”-style colloquialisms for Apple leaving the EU
iQuit(via Oliver Thomas)iLeave(via Jared Counts)AXiT(via Frederik Björeman)
- CarPlay audio
- Using AirPods Pro as hearing protection (via Kirk Northrop)
- Apple is using Google Cloud infrastructure to train/serve AI
- Apple’s “Help Me Choose” Wizard
- AI Training & Data Rights
- Google Zero
- Music industry giants cry copyright foul on AI firms
- Figma pulls AI tool after it apes Apple’s design
- I Made This - John’s post about AI and the act of creation
- Monkey selfie copyright dispute
- Post-show: John’s Mac Pro[blems]
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Vision Pro plans
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593: Not a European Lawyer
The EU giveth, and Apple taketh away.
- Pre-show: Casey’s thought processes and traditions
- Follow-up:
- iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia
- Ricky Mondello on
- Simeon (formerly Chrome, now Firefox) weighs in
- Niléane points out Network Locations was already back in Sonoma
- iPhone Mirroring doesn’t help with rearranging your home screen (via Hunt 2013)
- HomePods apparently have 1GB RAM
- Some insight on InSight
- Chess is around 35 years old
- CarPlay
- iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia
- Apple Found in Breach of DMA
- Apple may delay features because of DMA
- Ask ATP:
- Does anyone keep track if rumor mongers’ claims are true are not? (via Todd Vaziri)
- Post-show: An update on Erin’s car situation
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple plans thinner devices?
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592: I Think He Won the Game
Tons more info and follow-up from WWDC and the beta OSes.
- Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro
- The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
- Theatre (App Store link)
- Sandwich
- SpatialGen
- ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
- Microsoft Recall
- 7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
- 13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall
- CoPilot+PCs on Intel and AMD won’t get Copilot AI features
- UTM has gotten told to pound sand
- Apple and Meta could face charges for violating 🇪🇺 DMA rules
- Casey was in the keynote!!
- tvOS
- InSight will use your iPhone
- InSight uses ML to identify actors and songs?
- Turning off sports notifications on the Apple TV
- watchOS 11 offers rest days
- “Apple ID” → “Apple Account”
- macOS Sequoia
- Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad in Sidecar already works!
- Chris Chelberg has a galaxy brain moment
- Network Locations have returned in Sequoia
- Passwords.app passwords are still right-aligned
- Sequoia window tiling can be disabled
- Chess has been updated! (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Comparison (via Cabel Sasser)
- iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia (via Jonathan Freese)
- Sequoia VMs allow logging into iCloud
- Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence & third-party mail apps (via Rick Knowler)
- Xcode AI code completions
- Hardware requirements (via David Steer)
- Apple’s AI training data
- How to tell Apple “no thanks” on your website data
- Tim Cook interview in the Washington Post
- ST-S asks about Siri unsupported devices
- Apple Silicon in Apple’s Private Cloud Computing servers
- Apple & OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet
- The Sane on the impact of Apple Intelligence
- iOS 18
- visionOS 2.0
- Features not mentioned in the keynote
- Customize your Home View
- See your keyboard in any environment
- Guest user improvements
- Enterprise APIs
- Other spots by The Verge
- Features not mentioned in the keynote
- Swift
- HomeKit: You can now pick your HomeKit hub
- CarPlay
- Post-show: Erin’s no-good, very bad week
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Blue Ocean, revisited
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