Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.


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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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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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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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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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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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