Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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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


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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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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

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Previously on ATP…
Introductory video
The Verge coverage



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Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
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Follow-up:


Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS volumes
Handedness & “jumped” vs. “jumps”


Pangrams

Clarifications on the xz sabotage (via Mat Gadd)
The Delta game emulator is now available!


🇪🇺 AltStore PAL
🌎 App Store


#1 free app!


Apple allows using used parts for repairs


Stephen’s take
Apple’s lobbying history
Apple press release
iFixit blog post

Ceiling fan switches


Lutron Caséta (smart home switches/dimmers/fan controls)
Lutron Sunnata (dumb dimmer)
Waveform lighting


Ticketmaster finally getting what it deserves?


Wall Street Journal
Broadband labels

M4 Macs are coming this year?
iPhone 16/16+ to have more RAM?


Mac desktop RAM chart
Mac laptop RAM chart

Installing audio apps is going to get easier?


Rogue Amoeba’s 2024 Sitrep

Ask ATP:


Is the M4 generation worth holding out for?
Why don’t we have 32-bit emulation? (via Joe Bezdek)
Will the [presumably HDR] phantom OLED iPad Pro work well as a second display with something SDR?

Post-show: Marco is going to The Sphere


Billy Joel: The 100th
The New Yorker on Billy’s helicopter rides
But apparently he’s given up the helicopter rides
Turn the Lights Back On

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Jony Ive & Sam Altman seeking funding for “personal AI device”
Apple’s screen-reading AI system


Paper (PDF link)

3Blue1Brown videos


But what is a GPT?
Attention in transformers, visually explained




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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

Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏


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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