577 episodes

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

    • Technology
    • 4.4 • 2K Ratings

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

    Weird Can Be Beautiful

    Weird Can Be Beautiful

    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
    Members-only ATP Overtime: Rabbit r1


    Interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu
    Neuro-symbolic model
    CueCat



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    • 1 hr 51 min
    Colorful Criticism

    Colorful Criticism

    Pre-show: Old men talk about old car stereos
    Follow-up:


    John’s notes export via privacy.apple.com
    Apple Vision Pro & Project Titan (via James Anthony)


    JIBO
    gita (the robot Casey was thinking of)
    Gurman’s article (or on Apple News)

    Apple Vision Pro’s inevitable future (via Matt Johnson)

    M3 MacBook Airs


    Gurman on forthcoming Apple events
    Hector Martin on two displays
    Apple confirms backport of two-display support to M3
    RIP the 🧀

    Apple fined $2 billion by EU for App Store practices


    The Verge
    EU ruling
    Apple’s response
    Sherman Antitrust Act

    AltStore has received its MarketplaceKit entitlement


    Apple’s DMA policy updates
    Updated rules

    Apple terminates Epic’s developer account


    Epic’s blog post
    Example tweet

    Post-show Ask ATP: If we could solve one of Apple’s legal problems, what would it be? (via Marc Robinson)


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    • 1 hr 56 min
    Quiet Little Leech

    Quiet Little Leech

    Pre-show: Marco is many things, but patient is… not one of them.


    Blackbox
    Crouton


    Joanna Stern’s video

    Television (App Store link)
    ForeFlight Voyager
    Flight Control

    Follow-up:


    Vision Pro demand
    Clarification about Apple’s new iMessage encryption
    Extracting data from iCloud (via John Males)


    Apple Privacy

    Magnets and compasses


    …in ✨ space ✨ (via Adam Wuerl)
    …can be canceled out by Core Motion (via Zev Eisenberg)

    Vision Pro & motion blur (via Orlando Herrera)
    Meta’s “Pixel Codec Avatars” vs. Personas (via Gottfried Chen)


    Facebook video
    Uncanny valley graph
    Casey’s podcast appearance

    CrackGate

    Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan


    MacRumors coverage
    New York Times coverage
    Tim Cook on cars in 2017
    MJ Tsai
    Jeff Johnson

    Ask ATP:


    What email clients do we use? (via Joe)


    Claris Emailer
    Entourage

    Why hasn’t Marco fallen off the deep end explored a DIY mechanical keyboard? (via Warren Bakay)
    How interested are we in LLMs & generative AIs?


    sdxl⚡lightning


    Post-show: WWDC wish-casting

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Walk a Little Faster

    Walk a Little Faster

    Pre-show:


    Vision Pro comfort


    Light Seal Sizes Decoded

    ATP Movie Club: Steve Jobs

    Follow-up:


    Vision Pro motion blur (via Chase)


    Blur Busters

    Vision Pro and warped images
    Eyes as input vs. output (via Tony DiTaranto)
    Fitts’s Law and the Dock
    Apple 🤝🏻 Qualcomm
    Apple & Patents
    Mangets & Compasses (via Harvey Simon)


    Modern buckle

    Line/letter of credit (via Brian Coffey)

    Vision Pro


    Personas


    …are getting better in 1.1?
    1.0 → 1.1 examples
    Charlie Chapman’s example


    Persona Studio (App Store link)



    Apple defends against future iMessage attacks


    Apple blog post

    Ask ATP:


    How do we evangelize Mac-assed Mac apps? (via Ian Malczewski)
    If we could get one new API for our apps, what would it be? (via Julian Gamble)
    Could Marco best/first/favorite Phish concerts? (via Winnie Lewis)


    Reconcilable Differences
    Live Phish


    Post-show: Using a high-end camera and gear for Vision Pro panoramas


    Fuji GFX
    Canon dual fisheye lens



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    • 2 hr 1 min
    Weird Forking Scenario

    Weird Forking Scenario

    Pre-show: Casey’s Persona Surprise
    Follow-up:


    iPad Pro 11” PPD


    PPD calculator

    A note on field of view and eye movement
    Some discussion about Mac Virtual Display fidelity
    Turning off Apple Vision Pro
    The Developer Strap (requires login) is Thunderbolt capable


    Orion (HDMI display app for iPad)
    Casey’s HDMI capture dongle

    “Real” vs. “Fake” 3D (via Matt Rigby)


    Rotoscoping
    More thoughts from friend-of-the-show Todd Vaziri
    More [now un-paywalled!] thoughts from FotS Joe Rosensteel

    iMessage will not be regulated as part of DMA


    WhatsApp interoperability strategy

    Riley Testut of AltStore weighs in on third-party marketplaces
    What is a €1M “line of credit”, anyway?

    Apple Vision Pro


    Guest mode


    HDCP
    Voices of VR Podcast with Bert Nepveu

    Fitts’ Law on Dithering
    ⌘-Tab
    EyeSight

    Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro after-action report


    Casey’s blog post



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    • 2 hr 14 min
    Look at It Harder

    Look at It Harder

    Follow-up:


    YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)
    John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint
    €0.50 is “50 cents”
    Prescription lens pairing
    Wide Lightning™ and Wider Lightning™


    Developer Strap (requires developer account)

    Vision Pro weight discussed in Vanity Fair
    Bluetooth peripherals
    Intel Macs & Mac Virtual Display


    Support Document

    Vision Pro syncs when not in use
    Performance throttling
    Vision Pro for movies & TV


    Color reproduction
    iFixit estimates resolution
    “Ideal” field of view for movies
    Pixels per degree:


    iPad Pro 11” @ 14” / 35cm = 67 ppd
    65” 4K TV @ 5 feet / 1.5m = 76 ppd
    Pro Display XDR @ 2 feet / 0.6m = 100 ppd

    Real vs. Fake 3D

    iFixit Teardown


    Video part 1
    Video part 2


    Vision Pro initial thoughts


    John on spatial computing
    Captain EO
    Soarin’
    VAC

    Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro train experience


    Casey Neistat’s video



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    • 2 hr 36 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
2K Ratings

2K Ratings

Aditya514 ,

My kind of people

My favorite tech podcast. Marco, Casey and John are my kind of people. Been listening for the past 3 years and will keep listening. Wish there was an easy way to catch up with older episodes.

Gameman114 ,

If You Hate Apple Then This Is the Podcast for You!!

Every episode is essentially the same: over 2 hours of the hosts constantly talking about all the things they hate about Apple. Occasionally one of them will break in to remind the audience that they actually love Apple, so they don’t lose subscribers, but then it’s right back to the hate. This podcast gets tiresome VERY quickly.

adiago1492 ,

It has become so boring…

I’ve been hitting the skip button on more and more chapters.

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