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🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos
Tim Cook teaser
History lesson
Mac Studio
General announcement
M3 Ultra announcement
M3 Ultra
Ars Technica
It is 2× M3 Max
According to to 🇫🇷 website: no interposer in M4 Max
Gurman in April 2024
M4 ...
628: There’s a Certain Smell
Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
Zoom F1
USB Pre 2
Schiit Jotunheim
Follow-up:
New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
Bono Autobiography
Prospects for humanoid robots
macOS testing (via Anonymous)
With apologies to Joe Rosensteel
Exhibit A
Exhi...
627: Dragged Across the Line
Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
VoIP
ATA
Ubiquiti Managed VoIP
Follow-up:
Apple Account transfers
Updated restrictions & guidelines
Stephen’s take
The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos
Matthew Green’s blog post
ma...
626: No Longer ery Good
Follow-up:
Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
Tailgate Tub
Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ry...
625: Time and Smoke
Pre-show: BBQ
ZZQ
Q
Follow-up:
New immersive video: Man vs. Beast
“Historical Commission”?
Sonos volume changes are local
DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave)
Docker
Rosetta (via Brian Reiter)
Hypervisor.framework
Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Bri...
624: Do Less Math in Computers
🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
Lenovo Legion Go S
R...
623: It’s About Human Connection
Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️
Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America
Follow-up:
Apple pauses notification summaries for news apps
Marco’s BMW does have dual-screen CarPlay
Acura RSX: Honda’s first all-original EV
Another 5K monitor enters the arena: ViewSonic VP2788-5K
Tho...
622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process
Follow-up:
AirPod noises
Gui Rambo & AirBuddy
One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach)
Also, more on status lights (via Tom French)
Another noise is a calibration noise (via Ian Williamson)
Knowledge base
How to turn off charging sounds
L...
621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want
Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
20k Hz
The Sound of Apple 1.0
The Sound of Apple 2.0
Auto-Tone (Rivian)
statuslight.com
Follow-up:
That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
Former example
Actual link we co...
620: Mostly Cookies
Pre-show:
Holiday results
Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
Casey’s impending mess
John needs technical support
Follow-up:
Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
The one we were actually ...
619: Master Plan to Take Over the World
Pre-show:
New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
Become an ATP Member to listen
ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
“Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
Can Marco recognize waveforms?
Descript
Emo Siri
It started...
618: Type System Says No
New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
Christian Kent’s correction/joke
More app name ideas…
Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
Alternative space-savin...
617: An Incredibly Dangerous App
Pre-show: Laundry tactics
Follow-up:
Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
Channels
Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
CGPath
Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
FotS Jonat...
616: I Have No Grippers
Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
Follow-up:
Yet more football (🏈) news
Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
TVEverywhere & Channels
AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
...
615: A Mildly Brisk Walk
Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
Sunday Ticket updates
On sale!
It was free yesterday… kind of
TV Everywhere
An alternative approach
DAZN
NFL Replay
Tailscale and Exit Nodes
Concert for One: Ray...
614: Don’t Puke for the Show
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
The Weeknd: Open Hearts
Link to the video itself
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Lensrentals: Vision Pro
M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johan...
613: Dress for the Chip You Want
🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday!
Follow-up:
Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
“Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
Mac mini
“Modular” storage
Quinn’s teardown
...
612: Screen on Face
Pre-show: Politics later.
#195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
Follow-up:
Mac mini
Headphone jack placement
Quinn’s observation
Cruical 32GB DIMM
Samsung SSD
iMac
Apple removes colo...
611: RAM Christmas
Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
Submerged
Sleep No More
Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
Please don’t elect a racist with facist goals
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
No, Kamala isn’t perfect, but she’s far better.
I Wi...
610: More Values in the Darkness
Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
Follow-up:
New iPad Mini
“Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?
David Pierce disagrees though
Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon?
Some follow...
609: You’re the Oreo Cookie
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️
Follow-up:
Marco updates
AutoSleep
iPhone leather backs
Suti PhoneBack
Nomad Magnetic Leather Back
HDR photos from big cameras
Apple laptops can run without a battery connected
XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Obj...
608: Boot to Toot
Follow-up:
NotebookLM podcast
Camera Control button material
iPhone case suggestions
Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit
Arc Pulse
Leather backs
Suti
Nomad
Atom Studios
Sleep-tagging app suggestions
Windows anti-malware app suggestions
Adaptive Transparency report
Wirel...
607: The Structure and Vibe of a Podcast
Pre-show: Windows woes
Follow-up:
Thank you, listeners. 💙
Hard-wired camera indicator light
AirPods 4 bass & new MagSafe puck (via Wayne Dixon)
Quinn’s AirPods 4 review
The A18 is not a binned A18 Pro
Fabian Häusler’s interpretation
The tiny ∆ between These...
606: A Decade of Half-Presses
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Ryan Ricard’s great idea
Calculate your Marco Offset
Podcastathon: Casey was live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
Follow-up:
John filename extraction from Photos
Fr...
605: Manage the Moisture Situation
Pre-show: It’s early 🥱
ATP live announcement post
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Calculate your Marco Offset
Podcastathon: Casey will be live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
🗣️ New ATP Member’s s...
604: Minimized Embiggening
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Apple September 2024 Event
Quinn’s video on Apple’s new OLED
Underscore’s Apple Watch size comparison
AirPods 4’s hidden capacitive button
Camera Control overview
Qi 2 [and more!...
603: Too Smart to Move
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Follow-up:
Mac mini redesign updates from Mark Gurman
Minimum Mac RAM (via Brian)
Apple’s 1996 revival
JPEG XL support (via Kelly Thompson)
Google’s Image Coding Comparison...
602: A Glimpse of a Better World
Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Donate in ATP’s name!
Follow-up:
Overcast 2024.8.2 update
Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
John makes it through the Apple ...
601: Foreheads Over the Years
Pre-show:
App Store reorganization
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows
Follow-up:
iPhone 16 “Capture Button” (via Aaron Dippner)
iPhone 16 Pro’s fourth color
More from MacRumors
Microsoft Zune
Available on Amazon!
System color picker (...
600: Everyone Ends Up at Crab
Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉
Clear Channel
ATP #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
Follow-up:
Vista-fication of macOS
Is the problem really the UI? (via Nathanial Cohen)
What if it’s actually about domestic abuse?
The alerts will now be monthly
How gas st...