Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Pre-show: Power problems
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Follow-up:


How little kids write 4s


Marco sample
Casey sample
John sample
Field Notes

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


iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Apple TV 4K
Auto-Tracking Stand Pro with DockKit


A first look at 🇪🇺’s alternative app stores


Jason’s fresh-install experience

Apple opens App Store to “retro” game emulators


Official guidelines
James Thomson
Ben McCarthy’s forthcoming Ketchup app
First emulators arrive


iGBA removed for unknown reasons
Riley’s take
Apple’s clarification why iGBA was removed

Nintendo nukes Yuzu


The Verge initial coverage & follow-up


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)


Unicode normalization

What kind of fan did Marco buy? (via Matt McCurdy)


Fanimation


Post-show:


Lutron Diva smart switch
Lutron Claro accessory switch for Diva dimmers on multi-way circuits

Members-only ATP Overtime: Visiting with old friends


Automattic acquires Beeper


NY Times coverage
Adium
texts.com

Humane AI Pin reviews


David Pierce @ The Verge
MKBHD


Cybertruck clip

Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?




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Pre-show: SD-card failures
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Follow-up:


The “unpatchable” M-series exploit


Explanatory video
Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”


ARM Exception Levels

DMP

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LG DualUp Monitor

An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today


DAI

Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)


Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
Reticle limits


NVIDIA GH100 GPU


Apple laying off 700+ workers


MacRumors

Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock


Reuters

Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine

Casey has tried Spatial Personas


Upgrade #507: Differently Social
Game Room (App Store link)


Battleship

Gucci (App Store link)


Trailer

Turok

Ask ATP:


How does one buy a car? (via Chandler Kent)


CarEdge
Deal School 3.0

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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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


QNX
Wind River
Green Hills
Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit

ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED fix is in Chrome 124 beta
Has Casey considered running any of his monitors in portrait? (via Bilal Khan)


LG DualUp Monitor

Apple IDs & real-world verification (via Simone Rizzo)
Non-email Apple IDs do still exist (via Erik)
Apple podcast transcripts & ☁️ computing (via Ben)


MacWhisper


Microsoft is learning from Apple’s mistakes and is pre-emptively splitting Teams off from Office
No UltraFusion interconnect on M3 Max?


MacRumors
Vadim Yuryev

Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas


Connected #496: I Tried to Put My Finger in Myke’s Mouth
Jason’s take
Stephen’s take

Apple’s MLS Playoffs immersive video


Jason’s take
Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Mad Max: Fury Road


Centered framing
The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing

Vroom


F1TV
MultiViewer


Post-show: New theme song! Thank you, Jonathan Mann!!
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Hardware vulnerability in Apple Silicon


Michael Tsai’s coverage summary
Explanatory video

xz Utils backdoor


The Verge coverage
xz attack shell script
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Compulsory xkcd
I am not a supplier
OSQI




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Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation


Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers

Follow-up:


Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
DMA compliance feedback session is live
Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)


Gruber’s summary

Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations


European Commission press release
Dan Moren’s take
Reuters interview with Margrethe Vestager

Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
Artificial tooth monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽


Forum shopping
Legal experts praise DOJ case

DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing

WWDC announced



Greg Jozwiak’s tweet

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?


Real-time operating system
QNX vs. Android Automotive


QNX


Ask ATP:


How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)


Everyone’s Sony alarm clock

What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)

Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer


PaintCode

Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of Apple ID


To be rebranded as “Apple Account”? (February 2024)
More from MacRumors (March 2024)



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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


Warmart press release

Apple Silicon & Project Titan
Safari hangs (via Wade)
Apple’s DMA compliance efforts


Apple DMA compliance workshop
Gruber’s take
Kay Jebelli’s recap on Twitter
AI-generated transcript
Video of Riley Testut’s question/answer

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)


Modern Buckle

Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones


The Verge
Lawsuit PDF
Transcript of prepared remarks
Toot from Glyph

Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates


Another AI paper from Apple


VentureBeat summary
Stratechery recap (Paywalled)

Apple partnering with Google or OpenAI?


Bloomberg coverage

Humane Ai Pin



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Pre-show:


ATP Overtime
ATP Insider: John’s Windows


ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County

ATP Membership FAQ
AppStories

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


iFixIt Teardown

Project Titan chip rumors
What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
Epic’s developer account reinstated


Gruber’s take
Upgrade #503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the Field

More options for 🇪🇺 distribution


Getting ready for Web Distribution
Newly proposed Apple flow

ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED gets first attempted fix


Original feature


Google Gemini’s revisionist history


Reconcilable Differences #228: Big Filter Boy
Stratechery: Aggregator’s AI Risk
Gemini refuses to answer election questions


Reuters


Ask ATP:


How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)


Super Smash Brothers
Mega Man 2
OpenEmu

Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)


Playdate


Swift on the Playdate

Pico 8


Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
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Interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu
Neuro-symbolic model
CueCat



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