Accidental Tech Podcast

ATP Insider: School, Then and Now

April 29, 2025

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

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636: Nose-Biting Territory

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

Spending Casey's money.

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

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635: An Effective Operator

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

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

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

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634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

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

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

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

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633: Moonshoot

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

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

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

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