Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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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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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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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 -
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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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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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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Customer Reviews
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.
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.
It has become so boring…
I’ve been hitting the skip button on more and more chapters.