Accidental Tech Podcast

605: Manage the Moisture Situation

September 17, 2024 02:23:32 • Download (138 MB)

More on the new iPhones, cases, MagSafe, hot tips for migration, and a special Neutral.

Pre-show: It’s early 🥱
- ATP live announcement post
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
  - Specifications
  - AirPods 3 listening time
- Case Updates
  - Beats iPhone 16 Pro Case with MagSafe Midnight Black
  - Bullstrap Minimalist Case Black Edition
- 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
  - Apple support article
- Preview does support HDR
  - Test pattern
- FDA issues AirPods hearing aid certification
  - FDA press release
- Apple Watch bands
  - Titanium watch bands (via Wolf)
    - Milanese Loop
  - New link bracelet (via Josh Harris)
    - Gold link bracelet in 2015
- Third-party cases and the iPhone 16 flash
  - Torras
- Apple Intelligence notification summary memes are surely coming
  - Joe Kimberlin
  - More from Cabel Sasser
- Zach Kahn provides details on Apple Podcasts charts
- Huawei’s newspaper phone
Apple starts activation locking components
- Thieves attempt to get a victim to remove activation lock (via Like Kanies)
Ask ATP:
- Do our phones listen to us or not? (via Yoav Zoldan)
  - Cox Media’s admission
  - 404 reveals a pitch deck
- How do we feel about MagSafe these days? (via Peter Wagoner)
  - Qi
- What are our credit card setups? (via Jonathan Cirillo)
  - American Express Platinum
  - Apple Card website
Post-show Neutral: A Rivian update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Will Apple pull a Google?
- Apple cuts jobs in online services division
- Ping

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ATP Insider: Photo Workflows

September 15, 2024

Sure, our photography gear… but more interestingly, how we manage our photo collections.

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604: Minimized Embiggening

September 12, 2024 02:45:17 • Download (159 MB)

The September 2024 Apple event, with the Apple Watch Series 10, iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, AirPods 4, and These AirPods.

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Apple September 2024 Event
Post-show: Marco’s 🪿 after-action report
- Goose
- Volvo XC90 Recharge
Members-only ATP Overtime: iPhone 16 Case Conundrum

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603: Too Smart to Move

September 5, 2024 01:46:31 • Download (103 MB)

Exit interviews for the outgoing iPhones and Apple Watches, and what we hope to see from their successors next week.

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Follow-up:
- Mac mini redesign updates from Mark Gurman
- Minimum Mac RAM (via Brian)
  - Apple’s 1996 revival
- 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
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI Angst
- Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books
- NaNoWriMo’s self-own

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602: A Glimpse of a Better World

August 29, 2024 01:47:16 • Download (104 MB)

Finally, base-model Macs might come with more RAM.

Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
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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
Members-only ATP Overtime: Foldable all-screen MacBook rumors
- Concept art

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