Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
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Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access


EU announcement

Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rejection


infinitemac.org

More on robots.txt (via Mike Lewis)


MISP
Verifying Googlebot & other Google crawlers
Verifying Bingbot


Maybe Open AI ain’t such a great group, after all


Phil Schiller to join OpenAI’s board as an “Observer”
Wait, j/k j/k j/k
Open AI silences whistleblowers


SEC Whistleblower Program


Apple Watch SE with… plastic casing?
New HomePod Mini color


Press release

Apple “Home Accessory”


Touchscreen HomePod rumors

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Should one even bother learning an ancient language today?
What’s the correct placement for an EV charger? (via Thomas Brock)
How do we keep our backup vortexes from becoming backup black holes? (via Russell Fitzpatrick)


Arq Backup

Why doesn’t Apple include a small battery in desktop Macs? (via Ty Bolt)

Post-show: Marco’s 🍌 has come home


Before photo

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Product Longevity


Apple improving battery replacements
Apple commits to at least 5 years of security updates
Apple’s Don’t Let Me Go ad
Gruber’s response


Follow-up
iCloud vs. Competition




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Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
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More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Culture Clash explained (via Ryan Lee)

Overcast’s 10th Anniversary… Launch!

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Blackbird
FCModel

Post-show: Casey’s new office audio setup


Era 300
Premium Immersive Set with Arc (Casey has the same Arc soundbar, the same Sub Gen 3, but One SLs as rears)
Sub (Gen 3)
Move (Casey has a Move 1)
Roam (Casey has a Roam 1)

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Follow-up



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Tailscale: A secure network that just works.
1Password: More than a password manager.


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Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe


Fully Herman Miller Jarvis

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An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
The origins of S-Tier in tier lists (via David Schaub)


Grading in Japan

AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphone
Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)
What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu)
Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking
Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker


Epic accuses Apple of delaying its EU alternative store launch


Epic’s statements

Apple approves Epic Games Store
Tim Sweeney pops off


Tech and Labor


FTC has banned noncompete agreements for workers
TSMC’s Struggles in Arizona


Gruber’s summary

US-made chips will cost Apple more


The Financial Times

Judge says “just kidding” to FTC’s noncompete ruling

Ask ATP:


Is moving to a bundled password manager safe (via Trager)
Is Apple’s embrace of AI enough to prevent it from being the next crypto? (via Jamie)
What makes iCloud Keychain different than the Windows Recall database? (via Jon Wilson)
Is Apple still a privacy-first company? (via Steven Wood)

Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house


Technology Connections video on heat pumps
Inverted U-shaped heat pumps

Members-only ATP Overtime: Feature Requests for Death


Greg Pierce
Craig Hockenberry
Louie Mantia



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Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
New member’s special: iPod Tier List

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Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
One EU citizen’s perspective on DMA (via Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst)
Suggestions for “Brexit”-style colloquialisms for Apple leaving the EU


iQuit (via Oliver Thomas)
iLeave (via Jared Counts)
AXiT (via Frederik Björeman)

CarPlay audio


New version of Casey’s dongle

Using AirPods Pro as hearing protection (via Kirk Northrop)
Apple is using Google Cloud infrastructure to train/serve AI


AxLearn
AxLearn Infrastructure


Apple’s “Help Me Choose” Wizard


Giulio Montagner discovers the dark truth
A PCI Express break-out box compatible with Apple Silicon Macs

AI Training & Data Rights


John Voorhees from MacStories
Protecting MacStories from AI Bots
OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring robots.txt as well


robots.txt

MJ Tsai roundup
Perplexity CEO doesn’t really seem to care
Microsoft’s AI boss actively doesn’t care about your feelings

Google Zero
Music industry giants cry copyright foul on AI firms


The Verge
Andy Baio


404 Media

The RIAA versus AI, explained

Figma pulls AI tool after it apes Apple’s design
I Made This - John’s post about AI and the act of creation
Monkey selfie copyright dispute
Post-show: John’s Mac Pro[blems]
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Vision Pro plans


Gurman’s take
Jason’s take



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Pre-show: Casey’s thought processes and traditions


The Last Dance

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iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia


Ricky Mondello on


Chrome Native Messaging JSON files documentations

Simeon (formerly Chrome, now Firefox) weighs in


Use alternative installation methods for Chrome extensions
Sideloading addons in Firefox

Niléane points out Network Locations was already back in Sonoma
iPhone Mirroring doesn’t help with rearranging your home screen (via Hunt 2013)
HomePods apparently have 1GB RAM
Some insight on InSight
Chess is around 35 years old


Infinite Mac

CarPlay


Next-Generation CarPlay Design System
Next-generation CarPlay Architecture



Apple Found in Breach of DMA


Apple Statement
Margrethe Vestager

Apple may delay features because of DMA


Press release

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Does anyone keep track if rumor mongers’ claims are true are not? (via Todd Vaziri)

Post-show: An update on Erin’s car situation
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple plans thinner devices?


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Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro


The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
Theatre (App Store link)
Sandwich
SpatialGen

ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
Microsoft Recall


7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall


Microsoft blog post


CoPilot+PCs on Intel and AMD won’t get Copilot AI features
UTM has gotten told to pound sand


More from Michael Tsai
Dolphin and the App Store

Apple and Meta could face charges for violating 🇪🇺 DMA rules
Casey was in the keynote!!
tvOS


InSight will use your iPhone
InSight uses ML to identify actors and songs?
Turning off sports notifications on the Apple TV

watchOS 11 offers rest days


Matthew Willoughby with an excellent flex

“Apple ID” → “Apple Account”
macOS Sequoia


Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad in Sidecar already works!
Chris Chelberg has a galaxy brain moment
Network Locations have returned in Sequoia
Passwords.app passwords are still right-aligned
Sequoia window tiling can be disabled
Chess has been updated! (via Steve Troughton-Smith)


Comparison (via Cabel Sasser)

iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia (via Jonathan Freese)
Sequoia VMs allow logging into iCloud


Apple documentation


Apple Intelligence


Apple Intelligence & third-party mail apps (via Rick Knowler)
Xcode AI code completions
Hardware requirements (via David Steer)
Apple’s AI training data
How to tell Apple “no thanks” on your website data
Tim Cook interview in the Washington Post
ST-S asks about Siri unsupported devices
Apple Silicon in Apple’s Private Cloud Computing servers


The Talk Show

Apple & OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet


Gurman’s report

The Sane on the impact of Apple Intelligence

iOS 18


Bezel indents


GIF

Caleb Denman on iOS flashlight features


Quinn’s video

Third-party cameras on the iOS lock screen (via ST-S)


WWDC video
Obscura


visionOS 2.0


Features not mentioned in the keynote


Customize your Home View
See your keyboard in any environment
Guest user improvements
Enterprise APIs
Other spots by The Verge


Swift


Moved out of github.com/apple


New home

Swift Testing


Github


HomeKit: You can now pick your HomeKit hub
CarPlay


New features
Next-gen CarPlay video

Post-show: Erin’s no-good, very bad week


A very expensive pebble

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Blue Ocean, revisited


John’s original blog post
Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery



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