Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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Buy Your Car an iPhone
Pre-show: Marco’s fans
Peltier plate
Marco’s mount
The alternative stronger cooler
Cooler only, without charging
Follow-up:
Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
Commercial
Snapdragon Computex Keynote
Previously, for Intel
Apple’s M1 ad with John Hodgman (“PC”)
Gruber’s take
Jason on macOS permissions dialogs
Windows Recall is a security “disaster”
Steal everything in two lines of code
AMD enters the AI chat
Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs
When Apple said “The M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores” they really meant “9 GPU cores”
Performance wasn’t affected though
How LLMs learn
Retrieval-augmented generation (via Adeiko)
Problems with RAG
Research paper
On ∞ context (via Stephen Tierney)
Research paper
WWDC Preview
Read my lips: no new hardware
Developer app immersive environment
OpenAI deal
XCTest
Fluent Assertions
Ask ATP:
Any chance the expected late-2024 M4 MacBook Pro gets Thunderbolt 5? (via James)
Any chance we’ll get 16GB RAM in the eventual M4 MacBook Air? (via David Martin)
Could the lack of cellular Mac be because there’s no Apple modem? (via Winnie Lewis)
Post-show Neutral: Kid cars, revisited
ATP Neutral: Car shopping
Casey’s Wireless CarPlay adapter
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s in-car dreams are a bit of a 🎢
Mercedes says “nothx”
Decoder episode
Polestar says “maybes”
Decoder episode
Apple 🤝 Rivian?
Digitimes (Paywalled)
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The Correct Amount of Rocks
Follow-up:
New Vision Pro Content
Experience Immersive (“Sizzle Reel”)
Adventure Episode 2: Parkour
What If…?
Jason Snell’s review
Even the low-storage 13” iPad Pros have 12 GB of RAM, despite only using 8 GB? 🤨
Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the tweets X’s in this whole 🤬 thread, because Twitter X won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him.
Shahram Mohktari (iFixIt Lead Teardown Technician)
Could it be binning?
Maybe, but unlikely. For real
M4 iPad Pro flicker?
Pulse-width modulation
Reddit thread 1
Reddit thread 2
Reddit thread 3
Reddit thread 4
MacRumors
TOPS measurements (via Michael Thompson)
iCloud Drive & node_modules (via Eric Jacobsen)
nosync-icloud
asimov
Excluded directory list
Audio routing during Vision Pro guest mode (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
Gurman on what to expect at WWDC
Neven Mrgan gets an email
Breaking news on Siri “scripting”
App Intents
NSUserActivity
LLM check-in
Google scrambles to manually clean up its AI-generated mess
Pachinko
3Blue1Brown neural networks playlist
Chapter 5: But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers
Chapter 6: Attention in transformers, visually explained
Google on its LLM goals at I/O
Post-show: Marco’s desk setup
KEF Q150
Sonos Era 300
Sonos Move
Sonos Combo Adapter
Sub (Gen 3)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law
Legal challenges that lie ahead for TikTok — in both US & China
TikTok sues the US government
TikTok seems to be dodging App Store commissions in Epic fashion
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Sync Up Your Cycle
Follow-up:
John’s iPad Pro (M4) review
MKBHD’s magnets reel doesn’t show the rail; it’s on the cover. (via Odin)
The iPad Pro can bend, but it’s difficult
JerryRigEverything @ 8m40s
Quinn’s stunning Pencil Pro observation
Sebastian de With
Zoom audio for Marco’s town meetings (via Steve J Stutz, among others)
Delta gets its first legal challenge
The Verge
The reason behind the lack of GameCube/Wii emulators on iOS
Original blog post
No New Mac Studio nor Mac Pro Until Mid-2025?
Microsoft pushes [again] toward ARM PCs [and AI]
Blog post
The Verge
Windows RT
Ars Technica
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus
Nuvia
Copilot+PC Surface Laptop
…with fans?
WorksOnWoA
Copilot+PC roundup
Surface Pro
Microsoft Recall
Demo short
Ars Technica
Rewind
Post-show: Parental Vision Pro demos
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝 OpenAI
OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson clone voice
Altman’s tweet
…after she told them to go outside & play hide and go 🤬 themselves
Maybe they didn’t copy her voice?
Don’t add glue to your pizza sauce, kids
Cabel’s take
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No Dots Are Going to Help Me
New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
Raven scanner (defunct)
Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
Follow-up:
Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
Charlie Chapman’s 📱💨
AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
Extend your AppleCare+ coverage
iPad nano-texture glass
Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the tweets X’s in this whole 🤬 thread, because Twitter X won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him.
iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
MKBHD’s reel
Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
Apple stickers (via Scott)
The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
NEON
M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
Tom’s Hardware
M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
Apple announces new accessibility features
Vehicle Motion Cues demo video
Shelly Brisbin’s take
John’s brief iPad Pro review
iPad Pro dissatisfaction
Federico Viticci: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
Steve Troughton-Smith: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)
John Gruber: The M4 iPad Pros
Ask ATP:
Will the M4’s new display driver set us up for a 2-external-display computer with M4? (via Rumee Ahmed)
Why is there so much discussion about CPU power in iPads but not iPhones? (via Mike Runcieman)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
Meta announcement
Meta Quest 🤝 Xbox
Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure
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Do a Barrel Roll!
Follow-up:
More on RAM in base-model Macs
HomeKit light controls UI
Holoplot speakers in the Sphere
Festival speakers
One last ride for FineWoven?
Apple’s May Event
🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺: Charger sold separately
And no soup stickers for anyone
Apple’s commercial hullabaloo
Hydraulic Press Channel
Federico’s Thunderbolt image
Quinn Nelson’s Tandem OLED video
Binning
Rick Williams’ question
Logitech Combo Touch keyboard
Apple Pencil Pro box designs
Infuse
Post-show Neutral: The Cybertruck has landed across the street from Casey
Pontiac Aztek
Subaru BRAT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Silicon in AI servers?
MacRumors in April
MacRumors in May
The Wall Street Journal on May 6
The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+ link)
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Everyone Heard the Same Nonsense
Pre-show: Casey’s after-action report
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
RelayFM Podcastathon 2023 Part 1 & Part 2
Follow-up:
It’s possible to toggle a dimmable light in Home.app (via Dan Sturm)
The Hayes AT command set is still going strong 😱 (via Pedro Fernandes)
TSMC unveils 1.6nm process for 2026 chips
Anandtech’s coverage
Rabbit R1 reviews
Stephen Robles
MKBHD
David Pierce @ The Verge
Ben Lovejoy @ 9to5Mac
Dave2D
Riley Testut on Delta availability
iPadOS is classified as “Gatekeeper” under the DMA
No new Vision Pro until late 2026?
May 7 Apple event
Tim Cook’s tweet
M4 iPad rumor
Ask ATP:
Did Marco give up on fussy coffee, as Casey’s prophecy foretold? (via Charlie Sorrel)
Trade Coffee (literally sponsoring this episode)
YES PLZ (has previously sponsored)
Cometeer frozen coffee pods (Marco’s referral link)
Can we give WWDC tips? (via Andy)
Are we worried about charging station privacy? (via Wade)
Automakers are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior with Insurance Companies (11 March 2024)
GM Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers (22 March 2024)
Post-show: Marco’s after-action report
The Sphere
How the Sphere Works
The Verge’s coverage
Pillow Jets video (🍄🎆)
Drew Carey’s review (NSFW)
AmazeVR
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Limitless pendant
Previously on ATP…
Introductory video
The Verge coverage
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Avis
Hypercritical meets Build & Analyze
Easily the highlight of my podcasty week. Hearing geek god John Siracusa pitted against tech wonder child Marco Arment is a joy - and Casey does his best to balance these super powers. Also recommend going through the backlog of Hypercritical shows.
Repeating same things
The same stuff is repeated every single episode over and over and they rarely talk about actual current Apple news as they used to. New Apple products are launched and they barely mention them to hate on Musk and Twitter.
Informative entertainment
I wake up just a little bit earlier every Sunday morning and listen to this podcast. It's great!