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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”
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta kicks Apple when it’s down
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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?
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- 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
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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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ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
In this special episode from the Apple podcast studio at WWDC 2024, we interview Swift Core Team members Holly Borla and Ben Cohen.
- Holly Borla: Swift Language Engineering Manager
- @holly on Mastodon
- Ben Cohen: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Swift Team
- @airspeedswift on Mastodon
591: That’s Why I Like Computers
At WWDC 2024, together at last!
Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.
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590: Buy Your Car an iPhone
A strange but useful new product, how LLMs can learn, and our hopes and expectations for WWDC next week.
- Pre-show: Marco’s fans
- Follow-up:
- Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
- Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
- Windows Recall is a security “disaster”
- AMD enters the AI chat
- Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs
- When Apple said “The M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores” they really meant “9 GPU cores”
- How LLMs learn
- Retrieval-augmented generation (via Adeiko)
- On ∞ context (via Stephen Tierney)
- WWDC Preview
- Ask ATP:
- Any chance the expected late-2024 M4 MacBook Pro gets Thunderbolt 5? (via James)
- Any chance we’ll get 16GB RAM in the eventual M4 MacBook Air? (via David Martin)
- Could the lack of cellular Mac be because there’s no Apple modem? (via Winnie Lewis)
- Post-show Neutral: Kid cars, revisited
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s in-car dreams are a bit of a 🎢
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589: The Correct Amount of Rocks
Rumored AI features for WWDC, the state of LLMs, and a ridiculous desktop speaker setup.
- Follow-up:
- New Vision Pro Content
- Even the low-storage 13” iPad Pros have 12 GB of RAM, despite only using 8 GB? 🤨
- Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the
tweetsX’s in this whole 🤬 thread, becauseTwitterX won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him. - Shahram Mohktari (iFixIt Lead Teardown Technician)
- Could it be binning?
- Maybe, but unlikely. For real
- Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the
- M4 iPad Pro flicker?
- TOPS measurements (via Michael Thompson)
- iCloud Drive &
node_modules(via Eric Jacobsen) - Audio routing during Vision Pro guest mode (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
- Gurman on what to expect at WWDC
- LLM check-in
- Post-show: Marco’s desk setup
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588: Sync Up Your Cycle
We… talked about Microsoft for 90 minutes?!
- Follow-up:
- John’s iPad Pro (M4) review
- MKBHD’s magnets reel doesn’t show the rail; it’s on the cover. (via Odin)
- The iPad Pro can bend, but it’s difficult
- Quinn’s stunning Pencil Pro observation
- Zoom audio for Marco’s town meetings (via Steve J Stutz, among others)
- Delta gets its first legal challenge
- The reason behind the lack of GameCube/Wii emulators on iOS
- No New Mac Studio nor Mac Pro Until Mid-2025?
- Microsoft pushes [again] toward ARM PCs [and AI]
- Post-show: Parental Vision Pro demos
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587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me
Apple's accessibility announcements, returning to an old scanner friend, and leaping into the iPad discourse.
- New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
- Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
- Raven scanner (defunct)
FujitsuRicoh ScanSnap iX1600
- Follow-up:
- Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
- AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
- iPad nano-texture glass
- Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
- Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the
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- iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
- Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
- Apple stickers (via Scott)
- The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
- M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
- M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
- Apple announces new accessibility features
- John’s brief iPad Pro review
- iPad Pro dissatisfaction
- Ask ATP:
- Will the M4’s new display driver set us up for a 2-external-display computer with M4? (via Rumee Ahmed)
- Why is there so much discussion about CPU power in iPads but not iPhones? (via Mike Runcieman)
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
- Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure
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586: Do a Barrel Roll!
Good morning! We have a huge show ahead of us, and it's all about iPad. This is the biggest show about iPad since its introduction. But first…
- Follow-up:
- Apple’s May Event
- Post-show Neutral: The Cybertruck has landed across the street from Casey
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585: Everyone Heard the Same Nonsense
Hopes for the iPad event next week, Rabbit R1 reviews, (slightly) less-fussy coffee, and the experience of Phish at the Sphere.
- Pre-show: Casey’s after-action report
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- RelayFM Podcastathon 2023 Part 1 & Part 2
- Follow-up:
- It’s possible to toggle a dimmable light in Home.app (via Dan Sturm)
- The Hayes AT command set is still going strong 😱 (via Pedro Fernandes)
- TSMC unveils 1.6nm process for 2026 chips
- Rabbit R1 reviews
- Riley Testut on Delta availability
- iPadOS is classified as “Gatekeeper” under the DMA
- No new Vision Pro until late 2026?
- May 7 Apple event
- Ask ATP:
- Did Marco give up on fussy coffee, as Casey’s prophecy foretold? (via Charlie Sorrel)
- Trade Coffee (literally sponsoring this episode)
- YES PLZ (has previously sponsored)
- Cometeer frozen coffee pods (Marco’s referral link)
- Can we give WWDC tips? (via Andy)
- Are we worried about charging station privacy? (via Wade)
- Automakers are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior with Insurance Companies (11 March 2024)
- GM Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers (22 March 2024)
- Did Marco give up on fussy coffee, as Casey’s prophecy foretold? (via Charlie Sorrel)
- Post-show: Marco’s after-action report
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584: Daisy Hates Ticketmaster
The Delta emulator, AltStore PAL, M4 Mac rumors, and some promising news about Casey's favorite company.
- Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
- The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
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- 🚨 THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING 🚨
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- Follow-up:
- Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS volumes
- Handedness & “jumped” vs. “jumps”
- Clarifications on the
xzsabotage (via Mat Gadd) - The Delta game emulator is now available!
- Apple allows using used parts for repairs
- Ceiling fan switches
- Lutron Caséta (smart home switches/dimmers/fan controls)
- Lutron Sunnata (dumb dimmer)
- Waveform lighting
- Ticketmaster finally getting what it deserves?
- M4 Macs are coming this year?
- iPhone 16/16+ to have more RAM?
- Installing audio apps is going to get easier?
- Ask ATP:
- Is the M4 generation worth holding out for?
- Why don’t we have 32-bit emulation? (via Joe Bezdek)
- Will the [presumably HDR] phantom OLED iPad Pro work well as a second display with something SDR?
- Post-show: Marco is going to The Sphere
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583: I’ve Spent a Lot of Time in the Address Bar
EU app stores, retro emulators, what computer usage does to your handwriting, and important family light-switch policies.
- Pre-show: Power problems
- The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
- Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
- Remember members get 15% off!
- New member special: ATP Insider: Computing Origin Stories
- Follow-up:
- How little kids write
4s - Three-step car buying process (via Paul Chernoff)
- Rivian software update helps avoid trash EV chargers
- Joe Lion on reticle limits
- High-NA EUV
- ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
- Johny Srouji interview (Timestamp link to 34m28s)
- Belkin phone holders
- How little kids write
- A first look at 🇪🇺’s alternative app stores
- Apple opens App Store to “retro” game emulators
- Ask ATP:
- How does John manage new Safari windows? (via Jan Wedekind)
- Do we use case-sensitive file systems on our Macs? (via Pedro Fernandes)
- What kind of fan did Marco buy? (via Matt McCurdy)
- Post-show:
- Lutron Diva smart switch
- Lutron Claro accessory switch for Diva dimmers on multi-way circuits
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582: Can’t Render, Fog It
Spatial personas in the Vision Pro, how to buy a car, how to charge a car, and how not to make cars.
- Pre-show: SD-card failures
- The ATP Store is BACK, baby! 👕
- Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
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- Follow-up:
- The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
- Explanatory video
- Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
- DMP
- Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
- An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
- Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
- Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
- Reticle limits
- Apple laying off 700+ workers
- Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock
- Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
- The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
- Casey has tried Spatial Personas
- Upgrade #507: Differently Social
- Game Room (App Store link)
- Gucci (App Store link)
- Turok
- Ask ATP:
- How does one buy a car? (via Chandler Kent)
- What even is ownership, these days? (via Anonymous)
- Egghead Software
- SimCity copy protection (the red image on the right-hand side)
- Overton Window
- This article says Catalyst is abandoned; is it? (via Jonathan Sibley)
- Post-show: Rivian Bluetooth & Fast-Charging Sitrep
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple making robots? 🤖
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581: A Different Way to Be Evil
Apple Podcasts transcription, how Microsoft and Apple handle antitrust, speculating on M3 Ultra and beyond, and the Vision Pro's recent updates and struggles.
- Pre-show: John’s two-year anniversary
- Follow-up:
- WWDC lottery results
- John’s Affinity Designer struggles
- Marco’s convert stroke → shape suggestion from the bootleg
- Offset path using Contour Tool (via Vitor)
Create Compound(via Julian Kissman)- Inconsistencies noted by Christian Meyer
- Sam Abuelsamid on real-time OSes in cars
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED
fix
is in Chrome 124 beta- Has Casey considered running any of his monitors in portrait? (via Bilal Khan)
- Apple IDs & real-world verification (via Simone Rizzo)
- Non-email Apple IDs do still exist (via Erik)
- Apple podcast transcripts & ☁️ computing (via Ben)
- Microsoft is learning from Apple’s mistakes and is pre-emptively splitting Teams off from Office
- No UltraFusion interconnect on M3 Max?
- Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas
- Apple’s MLS Playoffs immersive video
- Post-show: New theme song! Thank you, Jonathan Mann!!
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580: Socks in the Knob-Hole
John is not a fan of cars, screens, software, or… fans.
- Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation
- Follow-up:
- Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
- DMA compliance feedback session is live
- Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)
- Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
- Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
- Artificial tooth monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽
- DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing
- WWDC announced
- People are fed up with useless tech in their cars
- EuroNCAP is doing the Lord’s work
- New CarPlay is Apple’s last hope to crack cars?
- Ask ATP:
- How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)
- What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)
- Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer
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579: Use Your Words
The US antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
- Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
- Follow-up:
- The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart
- Apple Silicon & Project Titan
- Safari hangs (via Wade)
- Apple’s DMA compliance efforts
- John’s curious obsession with street widths
- Marco: 8’ / ~2.5m
- Underscore: 19’4” / ~6m
- John: 23’5” / ~11m
- Magnets in Apple Watch bands (via Harvey Simon)
- Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?
- US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
- Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
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578: Weird Can Be Beautiful
The latest sports scores, sports reporting, betting odds, sports apps, and sports analysis from your most trusted and knowledgable sports experts.
- Pre-show:
- Follow-up:
- Callsheet available on visionOS
- “Put me on Aux” (via Sam Davies)
- Spotify & free users (via Colin Meney)
- 256 GB M3 MacBook Air has 2× 128 GB NAND chips
- Project Titan chip rumors
- What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
- Epic’s developer account reinstated
- More options for 🇪🇺 distribution
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGEDgets first attempted fix
- Google Gemini’s revisionist history
- Ask ATP:
- How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
- Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)
- Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
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577: Colorful Criticism
Apple continues to release great products while needlessly antagonizing just about everyone.
- Pre-show: Old men talk about old car stereos
- Follow-up:
- John’s notes export via
privacy.apple.com - Apple Vision Pro & Project Titan (via James Anthony)
- JIBO
- gita (the robot Casey was thinking of)
- Gurman’s article (or on Apple News)
- Apple Vision Pro’s inevitable future (via Matt Johnson)
- John’s notes export via
- M3 MacBook Airs
- Apple fined $2 billion by EU for App Store practices
- AltStore has received its MarketplaceKit entitlement
- Apple terminates Epic’s developer account
- Post-show Ask ATP: If we could solve one of Apple’s legal problems, what would it be? (via Marc Robinson)
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576: Quiet Little Leech
The cancelation of Apple's car project, excitement for potential AI applications, the wonders of email clients, and starting a car in fifth gear.
- Pre-show: Marco is many things, but patient is… not one of them.
- Blackbox
- Crouton
- Television (App Store link)
- ForeFlight Voyager
- Flight Control
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro demand
- Clarification about Apple’s new iMessage encryption
- Extracting data from iCloud (via John Males)
- Magnets and compasses
- …in ✨ space ✨ (via Adam Wuerl)
- …can be canceled out by Core Motion (via Zev Eisenberg)
- Vision Pro & motion blur (via Orlando Herrera)
- Meta’s “Pixel Codec Avatars” vs. Personas (via Gottfried Chen)
- CrackGate
- Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan
- Ask ATP:
- What email clients do we use? (via Joe)
- Why hasn’t Marco
fallen off the deep endexplored a DIY mechanical keyboard? (via Warren Bakay) - How interested are we in LLMs & generative AIs?
- Post-show: WWDC wish-casting
575: Walk a Little Faster
Three weeks into the Apple Vision Pro, OLED motion, PQ3, and experiments with a LOT of megapixels.
- Pre-show:
- Vision Pro comfort
- ATP Movie Club: Steve Jobs
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro motion blur (via Chase)
- Vision Pro and warped images
- Eyes as input vs. output (via Tony DiTaranto)
- Fitts’s Law and the Dock
- Apple 🤝🏻 Qualcomm
- Apple & Patents
- Mangets & Compasses (via Harvey Simon)
- Line/letter of credit (via Brian Coffey)
- Vision Pro
- Personas
- Apple defends against future iMessage attacks
- Ask ATP:
- How do we evangelize Mac-assed Mac apps? (via Ian Malczewski)
- If we could get one new API for our apps, what would it be? (via Julian Gamble)
- Could Marco best/first/favorite Phish concerts? (via Winnie Lewis)
- Post-show: Using a high-end camera and gear for Vision Pro panoramas
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574: Weird Forking Scenario
We spent nearly 8 minutes talking about other topics… but, of course, this is mostly more about the Apple Vision Pro. There's a lot to cover!
- Pre-show: Casey’s Persona Surprise
- Follow-up:
- iPad Pro 11” PPD
- A note on field of view and eye movement
- Some discussion about Mac Virtual Display fidelity
- Turning off Apple Vision Pro
- The Developer Strap (requires login) is Thunderbolt capable
- Orion (HDMI display app for iPad)
- Casey’s HDMI capture dongle
- “Real” vs. “Fake” 3D (via Matt Rigby)
- Rotoscoping
- More thoughts from friend-of-the-show Todd Vaziri
- More [now un-paywalled!] thoughts from FotS Joe Rosensteel
- iMessage will not be regulated as part of DMA
- Riley Testut of AltStore weighs in on third-party marketplaces
- What is a €1M “line of credit”, anyway?
- Apple Vision Pro
- Guest mode
- Fitts’ Law on Dithering
- ⌘-Tab
- EyeSight
- Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro after-action report
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573: Look at It Harder
Our real-world Apple Vision Pro impressions so far.
- Follow-up:
- YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)
- John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint
- €0.50 is “50 cents”
- Prescription lens pairing
- Wide Lightning™ and Wider Lightning™
- Developer Strap (requires developer account)
- Vision Pro weight discussed in Vanity Fair
- Bluetooth peripherals
- Intel Macs & Mac Virtual Display
- Vision Pro syncs when not in use
- Performance throttling
- Vision Pro for movies & TV
- Color reproduction
- iFixit estimates resolution
- “Ideal” field of view for movies
- Pixels per degree:
- iPad Pro 11” @ 14” / 35cm = 67 ppd
- 65” 4K TV @ 5 feet / 1.5m = 76 ppd
- Pro Display XDR @ 2 feet / 0.6m = 100 ppd
- Real vs. Fake 3D
- iFixit Teardown
- Vision Pro initial thoughts
- Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro train experience
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572: Cryptofarts and Copyright Infringement
Apple's EU DMA compliance and our excitement for the Vision Pro.
- Follow-up:
- Vision Pro talk begins next week; some good reviews for now:
- YouTube API (via Alex Chan)
- Console hardware margins in the App Store & consoles
- Customer ownership
- Stolen Device Protection & device repairs (via Niru Maheswaranathan)
- European eye prescriptions (via René Schätzl)
- Apple’s EU DMA compliance
- Ask ATP:
- Do we ever go mono on our AirPods? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
- Are there any apps we’d make if there weren’t already ♾️ takes on that app? (via Aaron Thomas)
- What settings do we use for Apple Music? (via Christian Kent)
- Post-show: Casey is amped about his forthcoming Mac monitor
- Ensemble to pull individual windows into visionOS
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571: Adding Some Carrot
Much more information about Apple Vision Pro.
- Pre-show: YouTube updates
- Follow-up:
- SCSI DB-25 was on the back of Macs, not DB-50
- iOS Screen Sharing is a thing
- On Apple’s 30% cut and payment processing fees
- The Art of the Possible (John’s blog post)
- Whose customer is this, anyway?
- Apple’s compliance with EU law is likely to go exactly as expected
- Apple Vision Pro optics (via Todd Zarwell & jkahnk)
- Apple’s software workaround for Masimo-related import ban
- Apple Vision Pro preorders
- Accessories
- Battery
- Belkin Battery Holder
- Travel Case
- Light Seal
- Light seal sizes? (via Quinn Nelson)
- Light Seal Cushion
- Solo Knit Band
- Dual Loop Band
- Optical inserts (readers or prescription)
- Please don’t break one 💸
- Weight
- You have to pair the optical inserts
- Launch inventory was 80,000 units?
- Reseller market is optimistic
- Apple Vision Pro Guided Tour
- Sorry, non-🇺🇸
- Accessories
- Ask ATP:
- Does the Apple Vision Pro work like a camera viewfinder? (via Nigel Warren)
- Do we do anything to back up our emails? (via Lawrence Koteff)
- Do we use iMessage Contact Key Verification? (via Severin)
- Post-show: Family Apple Vision Pro vibe check
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570: The Local Mooching Situation
The imminent launch of Apple Vision Pro, the latest Apple Watch sales ban, and Apple's graceful and pragmatic response to the latest App Store court decision.
- Pre-show: Some Administrivia
- New ATP member’s special!
- ATP episodes are now on YouTube!
- Follow-up:
- Marco’s UPS issue
- Eaton UPS backup (via Jeff Strobel)
- UPSes don’t like “dirty” power
- Yes, y’all, John can be wrong sometimes.
- But maybe he was 🤏🏻 right too? 🤔
- John Gruber on the iPhone launch
- Apple Vision Pro ordering details
- Apple Vision Pro has 10 GPU cores
- More on the Apple Vision Pro demos
- Maybe not all prescriptions work? (via Justin Yost)
- Apple turns off blood oxygen sensor to avoid import ban
- Marco’s UPS issue
- Dear Epic, 🖕. Love, Apple
- Ask ATP:
- How would we set up an iOS device for the elderly? (via Seppe Rutten)
- Why do audio-free apps sometimes stop playback of other apps? (via Wilson Martinez)
- Levis app (App Store link)
- Why doesn’t Apple just make HomePod mini into a mesh router? (via Saif Khan)
- Post-show: What is a truck, anyway?
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