Accidental Tech PodcastAccidental Tech Podcast

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters. Hosted by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa.

629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

The M4 MacBook Air, M4/M3 Mac Studio, A16 iPad, and M3 iPad Air.

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Nobody is immune to the perils of the modern logo redesign.

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628: There’s a Certain Smell

John launches Hyperspace! (That's not the smell. The app is great.)

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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.

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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.

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625: Time and Smoke

Zen and the art of restaurant wiring.

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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.

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ATP Movie Club: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


In this special members-only episode, we watch and discuss "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986).

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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.

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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!

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621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want

Breaking news and in-depth coverage from our reporter at CES.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ATP Insider: Making the Show


How we prepare for, record, edit, and publish the podcast.

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617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

A new adventure awaits.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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611: RAM Christmas

The new Mac Mini, updated iMacs and MacBook Pros, putting things on bottoms, and some fun surprises.

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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.

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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.

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In the entire history of this show, John has never been so wrong.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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605: Manage the Moisture Situation

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

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ATP Insider: Photo Workflows


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

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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.

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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.

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602: A Glimpse of a Better World

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

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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.

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ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows


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.

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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.

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598: Three-Burner Stove

CrowdStrike, iPhone "Slim" rumors, the Apple Intelligence rollout, and updates on our apps.

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597: Apple Watch Shuffle

OpenAI drama, wearable rumors and opportunities, and somehow also HomePod news?

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ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen


In this member-exclusive special, we judge each other's iPhone home screens.

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596: A New Foundation for Progress

The big Overcast rewrite is finally here on the app's tenth birthday.

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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.

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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.

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We're all wrong, but we can all agree that John is the most wrong.

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593: Not a European Lawyer

The EU giveth, and Apple taketh away.

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592: I Think He Won the Game

Tons more info and follow-up from WWDC and the beta OSes.

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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.

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.

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