Accidental Tech Podcast

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
Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
- VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
- Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹

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
Members-only ATP Overtime: Siri is falling ever-further behind
- 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
Members-only ATP Overtime: New “Apple-like” camera: Sigma BF

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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
Members-only ATP Overtime: Robots are, like, so in right now.