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Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
iperf3
Follow-up:
F1 (the sport, not the movie)
Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
F1 TV
Vroom
John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
To s...
648: Part of the Movement
Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' ...
647: You Get One Exclamation Point
Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
Developer downloads
↳ Direct link
Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via G...
646: On the Shelf With the Pickles
Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
11 June 2011
Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)
John’s beloved
Ninja
Anova
After Dark
Follow-up:
We’re doing good work here, folks
YoLink leak sensors
Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub
Travel insurance is mor...
645: More Frosting
Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season
Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront
Belkin UltraGlass 2
Some Administrivia:
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️
Sneakers (1992)
ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale
Follow-up:
Persistent ico...
644: You Have to Invert
Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro
Bespoke 3D-printed mount
Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight
What betas are we running?
Virtual Buddy
𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers
iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo)
ProcessInfo
/System/L...
643: You Go to Squircle Jail
- Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
- WWDC
- Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
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642: A Rebuilding Year
Follow-up:
Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied
Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial)
macOS 26: Tahoe?
macOS 26 supported hardware
Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview
MacRumors coverage
Molly White’s newsletter
Polycom “star”/”spider” phones
V...
641: We're Saving That for the Egg
Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
Five Whys
Follow-up:
SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
Vision Pro on The Price is Right
What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
Alexa P...
640: Put It in a Potato
Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
Follow-up:
Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernof...
639: Crimp the World
Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
CalDigit TS5
Follow-up:
Letterboxd SF Symbol
Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
“A fine is a p...
638: Hop, Hop, Hop
Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
Follow-up:
At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
Blue Man Group
Epic vs. Apple
The Verge on Apple’s decision making
Apple’s Response
Apple Appeals
App Store rules have been changed
MJ Tsai’s R...
637: Rotate Those Tennis Balls
Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone
ThinOptics round clear
New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now
Follow-up:
A surprising Vision Pro corner:
Adventure: Hill Climb
Laura’s Hot Lap
Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now
Laura...
636: Nose-Biting Territory
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
Casey’s bug-reporting experience with Slack
Third-party SSDs (via J. Mullins)
AliExpress
AirPods Pro case swaps (via Steven Merrill)
USB-C MagSafe Charging Case ($100‼️)
Cursor IDE support hallucinates policy causing ...
635: An Effective Operator
Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
Porsche Taycan
Ioniq 5
BMW i4
Chevy Bolt
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Follow-up:
12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
Message from US Customs & Border Protection
Connor Mason’s post about ...
634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees
Pre-show:
Technology Connections on dishwashers
Maestral
How to excise Dropbox
Brave
Firefox
Kagi
Orion
Arc
Palm Pre
🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
Old hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3909
New hoodie: Bella + Canvas 3729
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner:
Vo...
633: Moonshoot
Pre-show:
🏳️⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️
Happy anniversary, Siracusa!
ATP #476
Hypercritical: Independence Day
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner: Volume control (via D. Griffin Jones & Victor Prieto)
& 🇪🇺
Prioritization (via Karan J)
A less com...
632: The Uncertainty Is Gone
Pre-show: Marco’s BMW sitrep
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Insider: Our Websites
Follow-up:
Vision Pro corner
Spatial Gallery has an update!
Volume control (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
Siri delays (via Stephen Klinck)
Gurman on the smart home hub
Apple sued over fals...
631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni
Pre-show: Casey received a present
Follow-up:
Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert
Colorful Macs
MacBook Adorable
“Hidra”
List of Apple codenames
Hidra
M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
EE...
630: Time to Spiral
Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
Vision Pro Corner
New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
Spatial Gallery
Metallica immersive special is coming
Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
iPad Air corner
“2× bass” false alarm
404
Appeal
Affordable big...
629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me
🗣️ 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 ...