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110: And on That Bombshell…

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109: Bigger in the Pocket

Follow-up: Tipster's compatriot Nintendo World Championships Stadium Events - The rare Nintendo cartridge that starts with an "s." McLaren F1 resale Bluetooth headphones Casey's headphones Marco's Bluetooth headphones (discontinued) AptX codec VoiceOver (via @lionc...

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108: Zero is Better Than One

Pre-Show: Last Exile Follow-Up: More on Crossy Road Previously on ATP 94, 95, 96 Previous interview with Crossy Road creators Anonymous tips from last episode Casey's tweet recap USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter USB-C VGA Mulitport Adapter Monday's Apple...

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107: We Get the Most Boring Tips

Pre-show: How Marco and John approach owning nice things Analog(ue) Ferrari 488 GTB 488 Seat controls Follow-up: Tesla margins (as brought up by William Fairaday) Being enthusiastic about your "team" Tesla vs. Top Gear Tesla vs. The New York Times Heathrow's self-dr...

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106: That’s Slightly Right

Follow-up: Tesla and "customer sat" Tweet from Elon Musk Apple's Minivan Apple Columbus iPhone prototypes BMW X7 testing BMW i3 Apple/Tesla poaching 9to5Mac staff details 9to5Mac on hiring of Mercedes Benz head of R&D What is Apple building? Jason Snell at Si...

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105: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Phones for the Rest of Your Life?

Follow-up: Where does Apple use iCloud Core Data Sync? Trailers App? Keyboard Shortcuts? React in the objc.io interview with Andy Matuschak Apple making a car? Neutral CarPlay 9to5 Mac on hiring Mercedes-Benz R&D Wall Street Journal Tesla GM EV1 Nissan Leaf Mr....

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104: Minutiæ

Follow-up Email to the show's feedback form What's a toaster oven? The canonical "Breville" J'SON Photos.app does exist! Jason Snell's Preview Jason Snell's Q&A, including info on hard links The Verge's FAQ Learning to Love Photo Management Casey's script Dr. D...

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103: An Atheist or a Howard Stern Fan

Using Safari's Inspector into the iOS Simulator Follow-up: Handwriting recognition @dansherson Will Hains' Video Jumanji Inkwell John's OS X 10.2 Review Marco hates everyone and their email FCC and Net Neutrality Title II Tom Wheeler Apple sensor cars Running Ov...

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102: Marco Is Not a Platform

Follow-up: Handwriting recognition with non-Roman languages (via @dansherson) Marco's possibly-hypocritical (but not hypercritical) thoughts on Apple developer relations The Talk Show #107: Now It's All Floppy Overcast earnings Hello Internet #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Rep...

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101: Big Plastic Finger

Follow-up: 12" MacBook Air Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port. RIP Thunderbolt? Sessile Thunderbolt Display Duo Dock Belkin Thunderbolt Dock How do you power it? WiTricity Demo video Artemis/pCell ATP #61 ATP #62 Back ...

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100: MacBook Shuffle

Pre-show: 🎉 Episode 100 🎉 Hypercritical Build and Analyze Roderick on the Line: A Minimum of Eels Showbot woes (again) Camel updates marked markdown-it Showbot issue screencap Follow-up: Anecdotal evidence of USB usage Context of the 12" Air discussion Keynote Th...

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99: Pop-Up Headlights

Follow-Up: SSL In schools & corporations Gogo actually issues their own certificates to intercept SSL SOCKS Using C# outside Windows (via Frank A. Krueger) Marco's Go feed poller update IDE Eclipse Rust Communicating sequential processes Apple's Software Qua...

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98: Landmines, Pitfalls, and Bottomless Pits

Follow-up: More on John's windowing strategy Application Switcher Menu (the developer's site is down) DragThing Why one would run SSL on "read-only" sites Marco (mostly) hates new things again Node Go Python Generics C Macros Operator overloading Rails John's though...

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97: You Have to Know When to Stop

Follow-Up: Google giving SSL Sites search ranking boost (via (@thesupermikey) Let's Encrypt plans to give free SSL certs Google Authenticator and handling web forms appropriately Marco expands his horizons POODLE attack cURL SSL/TLS Node.js supervisord beanstalkd cu...

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96: The Windows of Siracusa County

Casey upgrades his podcasting setup after an awkward Apple store experience Follow-up: App Store Woes Panic's Transmit woes reversed DragonDrop Timebar Launcher Crossy Road financials PS4 DLNA support is coming (via @asendra_) Plex has announced PS4 support (via @retur...

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95: The Bear Wakes Up and Bites You

Follow-Up: Ad income isn't included in Top Grossing (Joe F.) Crossy Road added a coin doubler (Steve Lubitz) and developer response Daniel Jalkut's idea for Push Notification Traps This week's App Store drama The phone call to Launcher's developer Apple's questionabl...

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94: Spirited Defense of Pong

Follow-Up: Casey clears up his car intentions Golf R Wagon/Estate Apple using push notifications for an advertisement App Store Rule 5.6 Paul Haddad's Idea Drafts' Today Widget fiasco Tweets from Greg Pierce, author of Drafts One, two, three, four PCalc's Today W...

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93: I’m Not Running a Boarding House Here

Follow-up: Correction on battery increases year over year Hypercritical #74 Apple's priorities and engineering tradeoffs The Prompt (succeeded by Connected) Palm V IIS on !Windows Kestrel libuv nginx Scott Hanselman's summary Casey can't manufacture that thing l...

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92: You Don’t Know My Pants

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91: Press Agree to Drive

Twitter's absurd mission strategy statement Demotivational Poster Should we use a carousel? Follow-up: More on app bundles Does iWork help Apple sell hardware? RiMac GPUs are throttled? It's possible to get hot even in OS X Gaming benchmarks More from Ars iStat Menus...

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90: Speculative Abandonware

Follow-up: Declan night one It's Andy Samberg that is part of Lonely Island, not "Adam Sandberg". Many of the videos below contain explicit lyrics. Saturday Night Live Brooklyn Nine-Nine "Lazy Sunday" "On a Boat" "[Cheney] in a Box" T-Pain Autotune "Semicolon" App stor...

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89: DeLorean + McLaren

Casey's new arrival Some background The Jackal Follow-Up: Marco's Retina iMacs may be on a boat The Talk Show FU: the new iMac displays are laminated FCC sues AT&T for heavy throttling of their "unlimited" plan ECC RAM is actually worth it Marco's intentions ...

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88: Standing on Opposite Sides of the Gym

Follow-up: SMS Relay doesn't require Bluetooth Low Energy (Tweet by @Jury) Is a grandfathered AT&T unlimited-data plan worth keeping? Dropbox versus iCloud Drive versus OneDrive Dropbox document picker Bluetooth mesh networking Twitter's developer conference Twitt...

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87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills

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86: Moving the Party to the Bar Down the Block

Trends in social networks App.net Broadcast Ello (@marcoarment, @caseyliss, @johnsiracusa, @atpfm) Cupcake The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin Follow-up: iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research) Dev Forums Hendrik's video Test patt...

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85: The Unexpected Hard Part

Follow-Up: John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger Thumb commercial Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape) iPad resizable-apps vid...

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84: The Load-Bearing Finger

Follow-Up: Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs Upgradeable Apple Watches Apple S1 How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store? Apple Watch Edition's special box Apple Pay and banking The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling Trade names and the NFL If Steve...

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83: Entering the iTouch Phase of My Life

Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets Follow-up: More on Retina displays for the Mac Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake iPhones 6 and 6 Plus Optical image stabilization Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review Barefeats benchmark Marco teaches Casey about photography ...

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82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate

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81: You Left Your Money in a Bank

Follow-up: TiVo service charges and OTA channels Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple Anand's announcement Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III Hackers stea...