Accidental Tech Podcast

The Chart Is Terrifying

  • Pre-show:
    • Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco
    • Marco’s trip report
      • Gucci Osteria
  • Follow-up:
    • John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube)
    • Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield)
    • Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27
      • Steve Riggins notes it takes a while
      • Alex concurs
    • Apple’s AI Tech Talk
      • What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall)
      • Bootleg video (via sayrer)
    • Is Spatial Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh)
    • Tesla 🤝 CarPlay?
      • New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle)
        • WWDC session on YouTube
    • The US has approved a new sunscreen ingredient!
      • Marco’s favorite: Rohto Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel
    • Tracking Apple’s environmental progress
      • TOSTracker (via Andrew Leahey)
      • Direct product comparisons
        • Example: M1 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Air
    • Apple’s AI server infrastructure (expanding on ATP #680)
      • General overview (via Gui Rambo)
      • cloudOS job listing
      • How to run PCC (via Zoe Knox)
  • Tim Cook takes one for the Ternus (News+ link) (17 June)
    • Chart
    • South Korean chip company bonuses are creating inflation pressures
    • Even ChatGPT is stupefied by RAM pricing 🤭😭
      • We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!
  • 25 June: Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads (News+ link)
    • Stephen’s tables
    • Gruber’s tables
    • Apple also raised refurbished prices 🤨
    • Good timing:
      • tmcgeary
      • Aaron
      • Greg Pierce
  • Ask ATP:
    • Why doesn’t Apple just… make its own RAM? (via Brian Webster)
      • Joe Lion
      • Blake Patterson
    • Is new Siri an attack vector for, say, TSA searches? (via Anonymous)
  • Post-show: Casey’s blog post about AI
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