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Pre-show: Mophie 3-in-1
Analog(ue) #228: We Don’t Have to Talk About Air Conditioning (Posted on Sunday, 11 August)
Follow-up:
Apology Tour
Mistaken theme song
“Users hate all change”
Sonos still reeling after new app release
Curbside charging does exist in t...
598: Three-Burner Stove
Follow-up:
Rivian Repair
Becki & Chris (timestamp link) (via Matt Rigby)
Marco’s Repair Breakdown
Parts: 39%
Right Uniside assembly quarter panel: $2,751
Bumper cover: $940
Right tail lamp assembly: $630
Right quarter panel glass: $537
Labor: 53%
Miscellaneou...
597: Apple Watch Shuffle
Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
Follow-up:
Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access
EU announcement
Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rej...
596: A New Foundation for Progress
Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
Follow-up:
More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Cul...
595: The Best Secret Store
Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe
Fully Herman Miller Jarvis
Follow-up:
An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
The origins of S-Tier in tier lists (via David Schaub)
Grading in Japan
AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphon...
594: We Just Found It on the Doorstep
Pre-show:
Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
New member’s special: iPod Tier List
Follow-up:
Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
One EU citizen’s persp...
593: Not a European Lawyer
Pre-show: Casey’s thought processes and traditions
The Last Dance
Follow-up:
iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia
Ricky Mondello on
Chrome Native Messaging JSON files documentations
Simeon (formerly Chrome, now Firefox) weighs in
Use alternative i...
592: I Think He Won the Game
Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro
The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
Theatre (App Store link)
Sandwich
SpatialGen
ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
Microsoft Recall
7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall
Micros...
ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
- Holly Borla: Swift Language Engineering Manager
- @holly on Mastodon
- Ben Cohen: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Swift Team
- @airspeedswift on Mastodon
591: That’s Why I Like Computers
Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.
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590: Buy Your Car an iPhone
Pre-show: Marco’s fans
Peltier plate
Marco’s mount
The alternative stronger cooler
Cooler only, without charging
Follow-up:
Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
Commercial
Snapdragon Computex Keynote
Previously,...
589: The Correct Amount of Rocks
Follow-up:
New Vision Pro Content
Experience Immersive (“Sizzle Reel”)
Adventure Episode 2: Parkour
What If…?
Jason Snell’s review
Even the low-storage 13” iPad Pros have 12 GB of RAM, despite only using 8 GB? 🤨
Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big B...
588: Sync Up Your Cycle
Follow-up:
John’s iPad Pro (M4) review
MKBHD’s magnets reel doesn’t show the rail; it’s on the cover. (via Odin)
The iPad Pro can bend, but it’s difficult
JerryRigEverything @ 8m40s
Quinn’s stunning Pencil Pro observation
Sebastian de With
Zoom audio for Marco’...
587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me
New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
Raven scanner (defunct)
Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
Follow-up:
Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
Charlie Chapman’s 📱💨
AppleCare+ for educational-discounted product...
586: Do a Barrel Roll!
Follow-up:
More on RAM in base-model Macs
HomeKit light controls UI
Holoplot speakers in the Sphere
Festival speakers
One last ride for FineWoven?
Apple’s May Event
🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺: Charger sold separately
And no soup stickers for anyone
Apple’s commercial hullaba...
585: Everyone Heard the Same Nonsense
Pre-show: Casey’s after-action report
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
RelayFM Podcastathon 2023 Part 1 & Part 2
Follow-up:
It’s possible to toggle a dimmable light in Home.app (via Dan Sturm)
The Hayes AT command set is still going strong 😱 (via Pedro...
584: Daisy Hates Ticketmaster
Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
🚨 THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING 🚨
Remember members get 15% off!
Follow-up:
Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS v...
583: I’ve Spent a Lot of Time in the Address Bar
Pre-show: Power problems
The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
Remember members get 15% off!
New member special: ATP Insider: Computing Origin Stories
Follow-up:
How little kids write 4s
Marco sample
Casey sample
John sample
Field ...
582: Can’t Render, Fog It
Pre-show: SD-card failures
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! 👕
Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
Remember members get 15% off!
Follow-up:
The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
Explanatory video
Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
ARM Exception Levels
DMP
Y...
581: A Different Way to Be Evil
Pre-show: John’s two-year anniversary
Follow-up:
WWDC lottery results
John’s Affinity Designer struggles
Marco’s convert stroke → shape suggestion from the bootleg
Offset path using Contour Tool (via Vitor)
Create Compound (via Julian Kissman)
Inconsistencies note...
580: Socks in the Knob-Hole
Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Follow-up:
Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
DMA compliance feedback session is live
Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)
Gruber’s summary
Apple/Meta/Goog...
579: Use Your Words
Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
Follow-up:
The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart
Warmart press release
Apple Silicon & Project Titan
Safari hangs (via Wade)
Apple’s DMA comp...
578: 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...
577: 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...
576: 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...
575: 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
...
574: 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...
573: 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
Bl...
572: Cryptofarts and Copyright Infringement
Follow-up:
Vision Pro talk begins next week; some good reviews for now:
Nilay Patel @ The Verge
Video review
Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal
Brian Tong
Gruber
MKBHD’s using Vision Pro
YouTube API (via Alex Chan)
Quota costs
Console hardware margins i...
571: Adding Some Carrot
Pre-show: YouTube updates
Follow-up:
SCSI DB-25 was on the back of Macs, not DB-50
D-subminiature
iOS Screen Sharing is a thing
No control for remote users though
On Apple’s 30% cut and payment processing fees
The Art of the Possible (John’s blog post)
Whos...