553 episodes
Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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Is This Your Dog?
Pre-show: Marco is… somewhere unexpected
Modern 5G hotspots vs. tethering
Casey’s travel router
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
Podcastathon Part 1
Podcastathon Part 2
Follow-up:
John’s PR
…and Docker explorations
fish
iPhone 15 data transfers over USB-C
Samuel Polay’s Apple Store experience
Chris Jones’ experience
USB-A ↔ USB-C adapters (via Eric Merrill)
EdgeGate
LeakGate
Sharp Tech
CaseGate
Casey’s planned case
Anker USB-C cable (the cable that didn’t fit)
Umefly USB-C cable (the cable that does fit)
Apple silicone case (via Ben Rabicoff)
Viticci’s staining
Apple Store examples
Straps are the answer? (via Gem)
Apple & chip binning
A17 Pro is powerful but not efficient?
Razer Phone Cooler Chroma
People, Pets, & Places
Initial iPhone reviews
Casey’s car in 3× & 5×
Goose in 3× & 5×
Lenses
John’s real bokeh
Post-processing an automatic portrait mode photo
Casey’s PopSocket
Post-show: Marco discovers America
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Cut the Bridges to the Mainland
Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
Follow-up:
Apple-products-save-your-life video
Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
Titanium watches
Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
Warranty (via Doug Miller)
Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
Casey’s live adventure
Related The Verge article
Marco’s option
Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
Apple “blue” over time
iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
PetaPixel was confused too
The arrangement changed
iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
PetaPixel camera review
DPReview
USB-C begets external display support
Apple support document
Panic on The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen)
Example
iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
Revegnus’ tweet
Kal’s tweet
Nuvia
Lawsuit dropped
iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
Similar to Peak Design case?
Apple 2030
Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
Environment FAQ
Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
New York Times interview from 2020
Gruber’s post
Geekbench 6
Single-core
M2 Max: 2,803
Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 4,220
Multi-core
M2 Ultra: 21,299
Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 29,015
Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
Luke Miani
Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs
#askatp:
How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks
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Not a Saturated Year
Pre-show: Marco’s Wi-Fi Woes
RealPlayer
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
Apple Event on September 12
System in a Package (SiP)
System on a Chip (SoC)
Six Colors’ small discoveries
GE fuel injector AM article
Dr. Drang’s post on iPhone physics
Grade 5 titanium
iPhone 14 teardown
Action button settings UI video
Sony Xperia 1 IV
Not in the keynote:
iOS 17 on 18 September
Sonoma on 26 September
USB-C Lightning Adapter
Apple kills MagSafe Duo & MagSafe Battery pack
Post-show: What color is Marco’s car?
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Tickle Rock You
Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
Flighty
Sports Alerts (App Store link)
You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
Apple Park & garbage cans
Apple Event on September 12
WiFi 6 vs. 6E
Google Pixel ad
Czinger 21C
Twill
Post-show Neutral:
Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option
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A Wizard With No Choices
Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
Child Gmail Accounts
Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
Trouble in HomePod paradise
iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
Truck routing
Truck Map has a skip button (via Ezekiel Elin)
Garmin sells bespoke truck GPS units (via Jonathan Llamas)
Some recommendations (via Andrew Larson)
inRoute
TomTom/Garmin
Apple Event on September 12
Exit Interviews
iPhone 14
Watch Ultra
Watch Series 8
A special Exit Salute
Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
DS1621+
Western Digital Red 18 TB
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Unauthorized Trash Can
Pre-show:
Marco’s box truck
TruckMap
Trucker Path
🗣️ New ATP Membership Survey 🗣️
(This is for everyone, not just members)
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Follow-up:
iMac Tier List
Intel Core vs. Core 2 ∆s (via Michael Gabriel)
Marco claims vindication
Core Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,327
Core 2 Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,423 (4% faster), 64-bit: 2,739 (17% faster)
How much faster is “2 Duo” than “Duo”?
21” was (eventually) Retina, writes Max Wilkie
More text editors
CotEditor (via Taher Rangwala)
Chime
Pronouncing “Niléane” (and more)
Apple can’t design for humans
Photo editing on the Mac (via Ezekiel Elin)
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Dumb TV workarounds (also via Ezekiel Elin)
Apple, TV+, Disney+, and Games (via Aaron Thomas)
Marco’s review of Ubiquiti Security Cameras
G5 Bullet
Switch Flex
Scrypted
SecuritySpy
#askatp:
How do we handle kid e-mail addresses? (via Greg)
What are our expectations for subscription apps? (via Michael)
How do we prevent losing access to our password managers? (via Denis Čapkovič)
Post-show:
Marco’s latest gift shipment to Casey
Marco’s latest gift shipment to John
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Customer Reviews
One of my favorites
Been listening for years. Only podcast that I give money to for extra content. Each week I can’t wait for the new episode!
What’s wrong with the tech world
This show used to be great. Then they got caught up in politics and virtue signaling too much. Aside from raising money for St Jude, they don’t contribute anything to make the world better even though they think their mere existence as woke white men makes up for their whiteness. I’d like to see them cede the show to 3 genders of color that aren’t white or men. Only then will they be as good as they think they are.
A podcast in decline
Over the past four years or so ATP has declined substantially in content and relevancy. There’s way too much about Marco’s living conditions, his car, his travails using the ferry. John’s rants have become longer and even less focused. As a result he’s entering into the old man waving his cane at kids to keep off the lawn. Sometimes he has interesting thoughts and perspectives — but they are becoming fewer and farther between. And Casey apologizes a lot for no good reason beyond a pathological need not to upset anyone ever.
And there’s the push for merch and the pleas to subscribe and send them money.
Honestly, guys, you were better as amateurs than professional podcasters. When you actually focused on tech you added value. Today I can easily skip 50% of the podcast and often more.
It’s a sad decline.