Accidental Tech Podcast

311: Mutually Assured Destruction

Marco Arment — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:58:12 +0000

Follow-up:
- 👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻 screwed up "finsta"
- Debate over the prevalence of the stage lighting problem
- Silence of Siri and other IoT info
- Wireless Accessory Config
Does anyone doubt that Facebook is straight garbage?
Apple's FaceTime bug
Bloomberg/Gurman iPhone Scoop
#askatp
- Is it worth cleaning dust out of MacBooks? (via Oliver Dejon)
- Is it worth upgrading the CPU on a family iMac? (via Jeremy Kenison)
  - Geekbench Browser
- Is tweeting a good idea? (via Andrew)
Post-show:
- John is very angry at WeRateDogs
- Overcast Instant Search
- Casey's CR-V Review

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310: Apple Playstore

Marco Arment — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:03:58 +0000

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Follow-up:
- The Terminator saga continues
- "Apple One" feedback
Instagram, friendstagrams, and spam accounts
- Google+ Circles
John's Internet of Things
Casey's [Broader] Internet of Things
MacBook Pro "stage light" fault and iterative development
- American Original
#askatp
- What happens to projects like homebrew if the ARM transition happens? (via Andrew Jaffe)
- How do we avoid crapping on future tech that we don't inherently understand? (via John Wilander)
- How do we handle snark? Why is it so prevalent in tech? (via Mike McPhaden)
  - Analog(ue)
Post-show: What would you say it is you do here, Casey?

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309: Do Not Expect Five Nines From My Plex

Marco Arment — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:47:16 +0000

Pre-show: Affluent bezelles (Overcast: bezelle, correction)
Follow-up: Casey's WAF-F20 waffle maker 🤤
John's Terminator woes
- Apple's universal subscription-management URL
- Movies Anywhere
iPhone Smart Battery Cases
Apple's 2019: what do we want, and what will affect Apple the most?
- iPad Mini and/or iPod Touch?
- iPhone Upgrade Program
#askatp
- Why didn't John buy a 2013 Mac Pro? (via Wojtek Pietrusiewicz)
- Do we all play Super Smash Brothers? (via Marco Silva)
Post-show: Three middle-aged men explain Instagram to each other
- Casey on Instagram

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308: Left-Handed Streaming Service

Marco Arment — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:39:30 +0000

Pre-show: What is a jam band, mannnnn?
Follow-up:
- Unshaky
- China is an equal-opportunity financial disappointment for everyone
Firefox is still a thing
Apple is putting iTunes and/or AirPlay 2 in various TVs
MicroLED
#askatp
- What Siri Shortcuts do we use? (via FoTS Todd Vaziri)
  - Casey's old "on my way home" workflow
- How does one preserve podcasts? (via Fred McCann)
  - Cool URIs don't change
- Apparently something Destiny-related. Your show notes author tuned out. Thanks a lot, Graham Wetzler.
Post-show: Is today Mac Pro day?

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307: Casey Apple Pencil

Marco Arment — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:56:39 +0000

Happy new year!
John reviews the Tesla Model 3
John reviews Casey's Volvo XC90
John reviews Casey's iPad Pro
- Casey's sticker situation
Casey reviews his Apple Pencil
- SketchParty TV
Marco reviews Linea
- Linea blog post
Screen protector update
Apple's financial news
- Gruber's take
- Ben Thompson's warning in 2017
Is falling stock price going to cause a retention problem?
- Gruber on retention in 2013
- RSU
#askatp
- What does John think about the Nintendo Switch controller? (via Josh A.)
  - Reconcilable Differences
  - Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
- How will the new AirPods charge? (via Ankur Oberoi)
- What's up with Apple putting Beats stereos in Volkswagens? (via NEN)
Post show
- More on Beats
  - Beats partnerships
  - VW Jetta
- HomeKit
  - Wemo plug

306: My Watch Has Ended

Marco Arment — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:17:53 +0000

Follow-up:
- Casey gets ~~medium~~ very upset about Medium
- Did Google really cripple Edge's YouTube performance?
John's 2018 Butterfly Keyboard Watch
- Paul and Storm tweet
- Clean your Mac at a 75º angle
Marco's fingerprinty iPad solution
- Paperlike
- John's LEGO and the instructions
John Giannandrea appointed to Apple executive team
- Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space
  - (Overcast timestamp where smartwatch power-consumption analysis begins)
iPad Pros can ship bent... 🤷🏻‍♂️
- Dan Riccio's comments
- Marco inspects his situation
#askatp
- Does Overcast do anything special to inhibit cookies? (via Mitch Cohen)
  - Could Overcast get blocked by publishers for not implementing RAD?
- If Intel got its act together, would Apple cancel any ARM Mac plans and stick with Intel? (via Gabriel Salkin)
  - Intel's new architecture
- What's the ATP editing process? (via Markus N)
- Do Marco and Casey use Xcode in full-screen mode? (via Erik)

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305: An Uneasy Peace

Marco Arment — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:26:48 +0000

Follow-up:
Apple Music sunsets Connect
Microsoft Edge is coming to macOS
- ATP #8: Hold Me!
- Hacker News post
NPR's Remote Audio Data (RAD) spec
#askatp
- What's important for a new TV? (via Kapila Wimalaratne)
- How does one compress a ripped Blu-ray? (via Iván)
- How do I learn the command line? (via Brian Edwards)
  - man page
  - Unix Power Tools

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304: Island of Shortcuts

Marco Arment — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:43:22 +0000

Marco's lost video
Casey reviews a product that Marco loves
- Patagonia Micro-Puff Hoody
Accidental Trunk Podcast
- An update on Marco's Tesla problems
  - What is the mystery box in the trunk?
- i3 frunk is not weather-sealed
- Casey's superior cars
- Porsche Panamera
- Audi A7
- BMW 3-series GT
- Porsche Taycan
The power of macOS
- Virtual output device for simultaneous multi-Bluetooth-headphone listening via Audio MIDI Setup
- Descent and Thrustmaster Joysticks
  - QWOP
  - Colony
    - Walkthrough video 1 & video 2
Fixing a tricky Overcast crashing bug
- How does Marco manage bugs?
  - TaskPaper
  - Things
Shortcuts vs. the command line
- Script Debugger
#askatp
- Why not use Dropbox or equivalent for everything? (via Drew Shannon)
- What kind of hardware should one get to run a Plex server? (via Justin Winchester)
  - NVIDIA Shield
  - Limitations when running Plex Media Server on NVIDIA SHIELD
- How do we balance work and play? (via Eric Wagner)
Post show Neutral: Electric cars
- Audi e-tron GT concept
- Honda Insight

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303: Your Mahogany World

Marco Arment — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:22:21 +0000

Follow-up:
- Another iSH and youtube-dl update
  - Unknown encoder 'copy'
  - Github issue
Maybe 8K is all about @3x?
- PenTile
More theories on Apple price increases
- Comparing modern devices against their premiere versions
- What about tariffs? (via Andy Hansen)
Is Apple's prioritization of profit over marketshare the right approach?
- Upgrade #222: That's Not a Plan
Marco flies next to a Microsoft commercial
- Apple's other operating system
#askatp
- Do we have opinions about endianness? (via Matt Christensen)
  - Two's complement
- Are "real" cameras really better than the really good iPhone cameras? (via David Beck)
  - Casey's camera
  - Marco's camera
- What's the highest value food item, quality vs. effort? (via Brent Traut)
  - Marco's cashews
  - Briermere Farms
Post show: Marco's Tesla robbery
- Early lease rumors

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302: Paint This Square

Marco Arment — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:42:08 +0000

Follow-up:
- Another iSH and youtube-dl update
- Google Photos
- Disk images and filesystems — oh my!
- Tips for transitioning careers for employees and hiring managers
  - Fizz Buzz Test
What happened to 5K displays?
Apple Entrepreneur Camp
- David Smith's tweet
- Jessie Char on Layers
How much does it cost to get a Mac that performs as well as an iPad Pro?
Apple's ever-increasing prices
- Ben Thompson's post
#askatp
- How do we power manage our Macs? (via Angelo Fiorentino)
  - Hear Casey on Angelo's show, Double Density!
- What is our photo management workflow? (via Paul Walker)
  - Casey's now-outdated workflow
  - GeoTag
- How does Marco do power testing? (via Dustin Goldman)
  - Plugable USB-C Voltage/Amperage Meter
  - IOKit
Post show: Thanksgiving Desserts of Siracusa County

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301: I Cut Them Up in the Air

Marco Arment — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:50:02 +0000

Essential's "audiophile" headphone-bump dongle
Follow-up: Total ATP length so far
The Surface Go is more interesting than we thought
An update on youtube-dl and iSH
Google Photos has let Casey down
#askatp
- How would we quarterback a x86 → ARM transition? (via Cameron Kerr)
  - Rosetta
- Can one switch careers into development in one's late-30s?
- How do we slice bagels? (via Dave Altizer)
  - Bagel guillotine
  - Bread knife
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300: First of All, It's Easy

Marco Arment — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:45:19 +0000

🎉 300th Episode Spectacular! 🎉
Follow-up:
- Retina MacBook Air battery replacements are easier
- Mac Pro Pontification
iPad Pro impressions
MacBook Air impressions
#askatp
Post-show: Marco's adventures on YouTube
- MacBook Pro Review (from a year ago)
- Mac Mini Review
- iPad Pro Review
- DJI Osmo Mobile (newer version than what Marco has)
- FiLMiC Pro
- iZotope
- Neewer
- Curtis Judd
- Chase Reeves
- John's channel
- Casey's channel

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299: Headphone Bump

Marco Arment — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 01:00:19 +0000

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Follow-up:
- The Good News Podcast #201 with Jeremy Burge
- iPad Pro and Apple Pencil compatibility
- Some Macs' microphones are disconnected by hardware
- Our website is now dark-mode enabled! Thanks, Spencer Wohlers!
iPad Pro impressions
#askatp
- How has being a programmer changed our world view? (via Jonathan Bowling)
  - VIC-20
- Why do high-end iOS devices need so much less RAM than Macs? (via Benedikt Beckmann)
Post-show: More iPad thoughts & John's homework laptop

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298: Protective Sandwich

Marco Arment — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:22:32 +0000

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297: It Also Deserves to Die

Marco Arment — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:21:11 +0000

Instagram stories and the dynamimcs of retweets
- Independence #37: Evolution of an App
Follow-up:
- Marco's lookahead limiter
- iOS and memory swapping
  - Wear leveling
- John's last Apple Photos book
The iPhone XR
The forthcoming iPad event
#askatp
- Apple chip naming (via Cameron Deardorff)
  - BMW M1
- What's the last Apple product in each category that had no regressions? (via Michael)
- What do we use Shortcuts.app for? (via Fabian Diehm)
  - A Shortcut to check contact photo sizes
Post-show: Casey's Waffle Woes

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296: Giant Buffers of Floats

Marco Arment — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:10:44 +0000

Pre-show: Marco's look-ahead limiter
- Accelerate framework
- objc_msgSend()
  - Let's build objc_msgSend
Apple fixes bagel emoji
Follow-up:
- Screen Time issues abound
- Emergency bypass
  - Casey's blog post
- Apple iCloud contacts sync limits
- Apple printer compatibility list
Palm Phone
Photoshop CC on iPad
- Virtual memory
  - Paging
- The Verge's review
#askatp
- How do we stay informed about non-tech news? (via Jake)
  - Overton window
- Did we have a senior project in school? (via Stephen Kim)
  - FLAC
- Which Destiny videos do John watch? (via tobogranyte)
Post-show: Dark patterns in Destiny

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295: Outlets That Suck

Marco Arment — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:39:42 +0000

Watch pontification
- Panerai watches
Trading in with Apple GiveBack
Follow-up:
- ARMv8.3 improves JavaScript benchmarks
- Minecraft left Apple TV
Screen Time
- Quitter
iCloud Family accounts
Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie
- Intercom systems and central vacuums
Bloomberg's story on Chinese spy chips
- Upgrade #214: Nobody Seems to Know Anything
- Joe Fitzpatrick on his interview with Bloomberg
#askatp
- Storyboards for iOS development? (via Bastian Inuk)
- What's the worse compromise: Fusion Drive or hybrid cars? (via Spencer Wohlers)
- Do we enjoy racing games? (via Marc-André Weibezahn)
Post-show: RIP manual transmissions?
- 300whp MR2

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294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever

Marco Arment — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:04:52 +0000

The abomination that is Apple's take on the bagel emoji
iPhone 🎾 charging times
Follow-up:
- The A12 has a lot of cache (via Henrik Wannheden)
- Chris Lattner weighs in on 64-bit watches and excuses
- Apple Watch fall detection is only on by default for people at least 65 years old
Critiquing others' work
- Ken Kocienda's original tweet
- Linda Dong's reply thread (first post)
Mojave
#askatp
- How do I protect from ⚡? (via David Brownman)
  - Trip Lite Isobar 2
- Should I buy a 🎾 or a 📷? (via Matt Taylor)
  - Olympus O-MD E-M10
- The botany of filesystems (via Benjamin Jex)
Post-show: Casey dabbles with a drone

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293: You Know My Pouches

Marco Arment — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:08:21 +0000

Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
- Apple Watch making-of fire/water faces video
- Apple Watch 64-bit compilation magic
  - Steve Troughton-Smith
  - Chris Lattner interview
- iPhone 🎾 is fast
- The iPhone 🎾 camera is good
~~Our~~ Marco & John's new toys
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Post-show: Marco's ocean status

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292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer

Marco Arment — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:38:28 +0000

Please give some money to St. Jude. It literally helps save lives.
Follow-up:
- Ben Bajarin on A-fib detection
  - Dead man's switch
- 50% faster tessellation... maybe?
  - Works on contingency. No money down.
Underplayed improvements to iPhone XR/XS camera and Watch Series 4
- Gruber's iPhone review
- Gruber's Watch review
No landscape home screens on XR/XS Max
What did we order?
- John is clairvoyant
- Nomos Minimatik
Testing HomePod's multiple named timers
Overcast 5
- Under the Radar #141: Implementing Search
Post-show Casey on Cars: 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI Autobahn
- Video
- Blog post
- Notes from suggestions:

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291: John's Special Day

Marco Arment — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:57:12 +0000

Follow-up:
- Nokia phone with five cameras
  - We're doing five blades
- Phil: "muhmoji"
Apple's September Event
- Leaked names
- Tim's tweet
- Apple Watch
  - Casey's wrist
  - Ben Bajarin's picture
    - Another side-by-side
  - Thinner... ish?
    - Side view
    - Apple's image
  - Dear Apple video
  - 64-bit with 32-bit pointers?
- iPhone XS, XS Max, XR
  - Todd's tweet
  - Steve Troughton-Smith's tweet
- AirPower?
- HomePod & tvOS
Post-show: John's special day

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290: A Weird Sandwich

Marco Arment — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:43:59 +0000

Follow-up:
- AirPrint on old printers
- Eero competitors and privacy
- iPhone preorder PSA
iPhone "XS" marketing image found
- ATP #1: iPhone Plus
- Naked Robotic Core
Apple Watch "Series 4" marketing image found
#askatp:
- Getting started with backups (via JD Lewin)
- Pre-ordering an unlocked iPhone (via the very handsome Stephen Kim)
- What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
  - Programmer's switch
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289: Everybody's in the Alliance

Marco Arment — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:14:13 +0000

Follow-up:
- MoCA and MoCA Bridge
- Hades Canyon NUCs
The AirPort Express lives!
- Snell's iPod Hi-Fi
- Sonos Connect
The End of AirPort
iPhone mockups preview
- iPhone SE 2?
- Upgrade #208: The Villain of the Macintosh
#askatp:
- Why run both Plex and Infuse? (via Adam Porter)
- Why are Apple's ARM chips so much faster than their competitors? (via Will Faught)
- What's your home printer setup? (via Mark Igloliorte)
Post-show:
- John's 🐝
- Casey's Car Conundrum

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288: Rich Person's Raspberry Pi

Marco Arment — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:47:26 +0000

Follow-up:
- Photo books → PDF (File → Export → Export Book as PDF → ☑️ Production PDF)
- Active vs. Passive Thunderbolt 3 cables
- Graphing Calculator vs. Grapher
  - This American Life
Low-end Mac rumors
#askatp:
- Long-distance Wi-Fi
- OLED TVs
  - Marco's TV
- Jaguar i-Pace (via Wayne Robinson)
  - Top Gear's overview
  - Porsche Taycan
  - Small electric cars:
Post-show: John's 🐝

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287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich

Marco Arment — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:39:14 +0000

Follow-up:
- Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
  - Finding the settings
- Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
- Backblaze
  - Data retention
  - Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
- Dock auto-hide delay
  - defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
  - defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
Marco reviews his 2018 13" MacBook Pro
Fall laptop predictions
#askatp:
- Why isn't there a RSS-like thing for video?
  - Squarespace
  - Libsyn
- Why trust the cloud at all if we can't have future-proof encryption?
- Which macOS feature gets 🌆 first? (via Marc Edwards)
  - Konfabulator
  - Graphing calculator story
Post-show: 🐝
- Yellow stripey things

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286: I Respect a Good Crust

Marco Arment — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:58:35 +0000

Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
- John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
- CrashPlan, John, and Java
  - java mx
  - java mx {newNumber}m
  - SpiderOak
  - BackBlaze
  - BackBlaze B2
  - Arq
- John's Photo books
- AMD and TSMC and 7nm
- DigitalFoundry on the Intel Core i9 9900K
- Some Neutral FU about the Golf R
Apple removes Infowars propoganda from its podcast directory
#askatp:
- Dock strategies (via Fabian Diehm)
- Sleep strategies (via Cecil Scheib)
- Transmission strategies (via Thomas Brock)
Post-show Neutral: Tesla screws up a good thing

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285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House

Marco Arment — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:27:00 +0000

Follow-up:
- The law is complicated
- Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
- RISC-V
- Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
- Michael Tsai's summary
- Marco's comment
#askatp:
- Overflowing portable drives (via Bronwyn Erb)
  - Casey's Synology primer
- When do we replace our computers? (via Chris Tucker Mear)
  - MacRumors Buyer's Guide
- Swift and Copland 2010 (via Rob Mathers)
  - Copland 2010 revisited
- How is the new Dave Matthews Band album? (via Ted Hardy)
Post-show: Neutral
- Casey on Cars: Volkswagen Golf R
- Blog post

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284: Hotel California Keyboard

Marco Arment — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:40:56 +0000

Follow-up:
- Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
- Membranes are for ingress prevention
- Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
  - The mythical USB-C hub
  - Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Corrections on the throttling discussion from last week
VRM-throttling theory
Apple's official throttling fix
- Macworld's tests
Intel Power Gadget
- Removed, and then reappears
Intel and the Danger of Integration
#askatp:
- Retina screen settings (via Greg Kolodziejczk)
  - Eye Friendly
- What tech opinions do we regret? (via James)
  - Casey's journey to the Mac
  - The iPhone: I'll care later
- John's pasta-sauce recipe (via James Evans)
  - Rao's Vodka Sauce
Post-show: The ~~Spanish~~ Italian food inquisition
- Lidia's lasagna recipe
- The basis for John's "carbonara"

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283: Just Lower Your Standards

Marco Arment — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:53:42 +0000

Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
Follow-up:
- Patenting the perpetual motion machine
- Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware the Core i9"
- Reddit thread
- Marco's tweet
- Thermal design power
- Notebook Check tests the 13"
- CPU data sheets:
  - 13": 2017, 2018
  - 15": 2017, 2018
Apple ends photo printing operation
#askatp:
- Is a dedicated picture machine useful? (via Colton Belfils)
- Does John like Node.js (via Aaron Bushnell)?
  - NPM
  - CPAN
  - Semantic Versioning
  - Camel
- What $15k-or-less car, at least 25 years old, would you buy? (via Gareth Thomas)
Post-show Neutral
- Smart Roadster

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282: Not Unreliable Enough

Marco Arment — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 15:23:01 +0000

Follow-up:
- Distributing Marzipan Apps
- Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
- Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
#askatp:
- Capturing out-of-warranty hardware (via Ali Shah)
- How do I use a 34" monitor? (via Andrew Troup)
- Lost picture troubleshooting for Brian Sturm
Post-show: Let's talk about Europe.

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281: My Private Siri

Marco Arment — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:50:34 +0000

Home repairs: Window air conditioners
- Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
- Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
  - Local snapshots maybe?
- Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
- Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
- A A A A Very Good Song lives on?
- Duplicate-file managers:
  - Gemini 2, also on the App Store (via Gualtiero Frigerio)
  - Photo Sweeper
Mojave LaunchServices can launch flat-style app bundles
Google Home impresses John
Apple Maps is getting a whole lotta love
- Google Maps Moat
- Welcome to Joytown
AirPod (and headphone!) rumors
- Apple In-Ear Headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM2
#askatp
- Mojave and autiomatic dark mode (via Ishan Sharma)
  - tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
- Back to the... iOS? (via Scott Nourse)
  - Citrix Mouse
- If the Millennium Falcon was a car, what would it be? (via Brent Billings)
Post-show: Neutral

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280: Extinction-Level Event

Marco Arment — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:23:58 +0000

Follow-up:
- Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
- Adobe is rethinking things
- Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
  - One example of many
- The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
  - A a a a a Very Good Song
Apple launches butterfly-keyboard repair program
- Casey's repair strategy
Marco's new 🏖️💻
- Looking good, buddy.
Marzipan
- Carbon vs. Cocoa
- Gus Mueller's take
- Becky Hansmeyer asks and then answers what makes a Mac app a Mac app?
#askatp
- James Veitch gives us a self-destructing envelope
- Robert Barat wants to know about 4K monitor sizes
  - Bjango's explainer
- Will Law is [justifiably] upset
Post-show: Casey had a falling out with (not of) the Jeep

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279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing

Marco Arment — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:52:20 +0000

Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
- AT&T International Day Pass
- Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
- Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
  - cp -c
- Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
- Carrying case
John's reload extension lives thanks to Isaac Halvorson
ATP appears in WWDC Session 501: Introducing Podcast Analytics! (~11 minutes)
- Forecast
- MP3 ID3v2 Chapters spec
More on WWDC
- Memoji are gender neutral
- Password improvements and 1Password
  - Default Folder X
- Xcode 10 no longer compiles 32-bit apps
- Office 365 is now in the app store, as with some Adobe stuff.
- Metal and eGPUs
#askatp
- Slow iOS 12 adoption among teens because of big ~~brother~~ parent? (via Somename)
- Are Kindles worth it over iPads for reading? (via Ashely A)
- What does the alternate Apple-bought-Bungie universe look like? (via joshhunt)
  - Marathon
  - Pathways out of darkness
Post-show: "Casey's" Jeep
- IIHS rating

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278: Best Worst Influence

Marco Arment — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:35:40 +0000

Follow-up:
- WWDC Intro Video
  - It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough
  - A perspective from Jen Simmons
  - Feminist Frequency
- It's Road Trip!
RIP, other chat networks in Messages.app (via Sam Gross)
APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Leinhart)
How's the iOS 12 beta?
Stereo HomePod pair review
- Jeff Foxworthy
- Paradigm Atom
- Zac Hall provides RTFU 1 2
More on iOS 12
- MeasureKit
- FaceID & "Alternative Appearance"
macOS 10.14 Mojave: Possibly The John Siracusa Review
#askatp
- What are essential Mac apps for novices? (via Rodrigo Palau)
  - Casey's Mac install checklist
- Could iMessage for Android exist? (via Jack Johnson)
- Streamed gaming is the new hotness; are consoles going away? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
Post-show: Casey quit his job
- Casey's blog post
- Analog(ue) #134: Running Toward a Better Future

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277: You're Not a Mac App Yet

Marco Arment — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 22:29:42 +0000

We're live from WWDC 2018!

iOS 12
- ARKit 2
- Siri Shortcuts
- Activity reports and App Limits
- Notification management
- Memoji
watchOS 5
macOS Mojave
- John's "pile" metaphor
UIKit apps on Mac
Neutral: The electric-scooter invasion

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276: Observing a Black Hole

Marco Arment — Thu, 31 May 2018 15:04:33 +0000

App Camp for Girls fundraiser: Live Near WWDC
iOS 11.4
- Messages in the Cloud: Settings → {Your Name} → iCloud → Messages
WWDC
- No OS filter
- Upgrade #195: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2018
Marco's 🏖️💻 problem
- Lavolta Carrying Case for iMac
#askatp
- What is the best way to "accidentally" ~~stalk~~ find us at WWDC? (via CW Bennett)
- How do we maintain multiple development environments? (via Pat Murphy)
Post-show Neutral: Casey is a sad panda

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275: It's Difficult When You’re a Billionaire

Marco Arment — Thu, 24 May 2018 22:21:28 +0000

Follow-up:
- People can change their minds, and that's okay. Right, old Marco?
  - Your logical fallacy is...
- How old are your ears?
  - Some Analog(ue) #132 follow-out
  - Cortex #69: Minimum Viable
Tesla and Elon Musk
- Grimes, Elon's girlfriend
- Top Gear kerfuffle
- Elon announces "Pravda"
- United Automobile Workers
- Who would buy Tesla?
- Jaaaaaaaaag-you-are I-Pace
Marco is dabbling with Swift (‼️)
- WWDC 2015 #408 – Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
#askatp
- Is it important to learn vim or emacs? (via Aaron Robeson)
  - BBEdit
- Is it paranoid to avoid Google? (via Luther Richardson)
  - DuckDuckGo
  - Upgrade #194: Game of Jenga with Drivers
- What lenses should one get for a Sony α6500? (via Peter Johnson)
Post-show Neutral: Marco drove something ridiculous

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274: Not the Teddy Bear's Fault

Marco Arment — Thu, 17 May 2018 20:59:42 +0000

Yanny vs. Laurel
- New York Times article
Follow-up:
- Raise to listen in 🇨🇳
- Google Duplex
  - Bob Burrough's summary
  - Matt Drance 1 & 2
  - Duplex will identify as non-human
  - First-hand story from retail
Amazon and executive diversity
🤬 Twitter.
Google I/O
- Continued conversation
- Linux on Chromebooks
Apple Keyboard class action lawsuit
- Online petition
Microsoft Surface Hub 2
#askatp
- What's Apple's focus? (via Ish Shabazz)
  - The Talk Show #221: Slathered in Incompetence
- Will the new Mac Pro have only USB-C? (via Owl City)
- What the future for manuals? (via Adam Roark)
Post-show: Casey's Car Corner
- Maserati Levante

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273: Playing You Like a Video Game

Marco Arment — Thu, 10 May 2018 14:37:30 +0000

Follow-up: Disabling "Raise to Listen" on iPhone X
You should go to Layers
Jony Ive interviewed by Hodinkee
- Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Google Duplex
20 years of USB
#askatp
- How do we have Finder configured? (via Kymer)
- What do we think about Volvo adopting Google products for their infotainment? (via Andreas Ekegren)
- Cartridges/discs or digital downloads for video games? (via Hutson Hayward)

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272: 60% Satisfied

Marco Arment — Tue, 01 May 2018 05:05:01 +0000

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Follow-up:
- More on 32-bit deprecation
- Raise to Listen and phantom audio messages on iPhone X
  - What about Apple Pay and Siri? (via Andrew Milham)
More about Marzipan
What is left for WWDC?
Apple's rumored AR glasses
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
- htmLawed
- Content Security Policy
- NSURLProtocol
  - More at NSHipster
#askatp
- Apple IDs at work (via Alex Faber)
- Camera paranoia (via Ryan Taylor)
  - Previous hack
- CarPlay thoughts (via John)

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271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet

Marco Arment — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:11:11 +0000

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Follow-up:
- Would Bitcode make an Intel → ARM transition easier?
  - ATP Interview with Chris Lattner
- Marco's backpack woes
  - Tom Bihn Synapse 25
  - Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L
- Marco's Facebook Groups conclusion
NOT A TOUCH SCREEN
Turns out™, Siri sucks
iPhone X Mid-Cycle Performance Review
Safari dark mode?
#askatp
- What does Apple gain by ending 32-bit support? (via Jacob Ford)
- 🙄 Destiny talk 🙄 (blame Juho Leinonen)
- What used Wrangler or convertible would we buy with $15k for weekend fun? (via Mike)
Post-show Neutral: Casey's moving violations

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270: Three Major Zippers

Marco Arment — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:52:19 +0000

Backpacks:
HomePod sales look bad
CloudFlare goes ARM
When was Apple's heyday?
#askatp
- What if the Apple Mac CPU is neither ARM nor x86? (via Colin McKellar)
- Cribbing cooling from the iMac Pro for future not-Pro iMacs (via Scott Nourse)
- How would Apple have treated the Mac Pro and Mac Mini in years past? (via Nick Alexander)
Post-show: Topics we don't feel we need to cover

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269: Cooled by Jellyfish

Marco Arment — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 01:33:52 +0000

Follow-up:
- iPhone throttling notification
- macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings
  - Learn More...
- ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding)
- Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon
- Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir)
- San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think it is. Or so we're told. 🤷🏻‍♂️
The Mac Pro and Apple's Pro Workflow Team
#askatp
- Coffee gear (via Bosie Mon Crieff and Doggo Boii)
  - Hand grinders: the skinny one that sucks and the Skerton that sucks less
  - Marco's pricy Hottop Roaster, Basic
    - Midrange pick: Behmor 1600 Plus
    - Entry-level pick: Use an air popper
  - Fancy instant coffees:
    - Sudden Coffee (most convenient)
    - Swift Cup (best tasting)
    - Viola Coffee (smallest to pack)
  - Baratza Virtuoso grinder
  - Brewing methods:
    - AeroPress for small amounts
    - Hario V60 size 03 pour-over for larger amounts
    - Oxo cold-brew maker (not mentioned in the show, but good for cold-brew)
- Which TiVo should one use? (via Bryce Mintie)
- Which clipboard manager? (via KG)
  - Casey uses Alfred
  - Marco uses LaunchBar
  - John uses Pastebot
  - Previously: Jumpcut
Post-show
- Around the Corner

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268: A Tarnished Brass Age

Marco Arment — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:47:26 +0000

Follow-up:
- HAM radio and GMRS licenses
- New iOS onboarding screens are indeed about GDPR
- Education feedback
  - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Pulsating help prompts
iCloud's free storage
Classroom for Mac: What does it mean?
Inductive charging is great. Who knew‽
Apple to use its own CPUs in Macs?
- ATPTipster: "bug multiplier"
- Rocket app
#askatp
- Lyft at WWDC? (via ohples)
- Should we use the new CloudFlare DNS? (via Bart Hoefs)
- External GPUs for John? (via Josh Rapoport)
Post-show Neutral:

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267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals

Marco Arment — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:07:36 +0000

Pre-show: Marco's road trip
- Sudden Coffee
- Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit
Follow-up:
- Breath of the Wild and the Wii U
- Space Gray accessories are available to everyone
  - Keyboard
  - Mouse
  - Trackpad
ATP Live at WWDC
Walkie talkies for tandem road trips
Apple's education event
- Joe Cieplinksi on Twitter
The new 9.7" iPad
- Logitech Crayon
#askatp
- Best bang-for-your-buck Apple products (via Chris Ovrebo)
- Musical ATP hosts (via Anson Jablinski)
- Backpacks for 15" MBP (via "The Italian Stallion" (not John))
  - Casey:
    - Tom Bihn Cadet
    - Tom Bihn Synapse
  - Marco:
  - John:
    - L.L. Bean Quad Pack
- Packing cubes
Post-show: Impossible feats of packing by "Underscore" David Smith

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266: Text Adventure Mode

Marco Arment — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:43:39 +0000

Follow-up:
- Compound commands in cylinders
- You shut down your computer because of a problem...
- GDPR
  - Personal data
  - PCI
  - HIPAA
This keyboard feels so real, mannnnnn...
Apple is developing its own display tech
#askatp
- What's the deal with gaming consoles and "bits"? (via Simon Ejsing)
- What's the deal with sports? (via Johnny O)
- What's the deal with Instagram? (via TT On Air)
  - Reconcilable Differences
Post-show Neutral
- Jaguar iPace
- Cars of Ronin

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265: Simon Says Volume Five

Marco Arment — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:15:57 +0000

Follow-up:
- Onboarding and GDPR
  - GDPR for web developers
- Slack 💔 IRC
Alexa can solicit follow-up
Siri drama at The Information
- Daring Fireball writeup
Crumb-proof keyboards
MacBook Air refresh?
- The Talk Show #219: Podcast Amnesia
MacBook fantasies
- Casey's USB-C → SD Card Reader
- Anker USB-C charger
WWDC 2018 announced
Apple acquires Texture
- Zinio
#askatp
- Migrations between Macs (via Matt Wallin)
- Polite language in user interfaces (via Bill Balinor)
  - Apple dialog
- Video game completionists (via Chad Toporski)
Post-show: Do working developers need to know the "fundamentals"?

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264: Every Building Has Bugs

Marco Arment — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:49:50 +0000

Follow-up:
- Laptop arrow keys
  - Dell's abomination
- Erin and Alexa
Onboard all the things
Apple Park is hazardous
#askatp
- Automotive windowing strategies (via Vamsi)
- Slack on Mac vs. IRC (via Peter Gosling)
- The Halting Problem (via Juan Pablo Rodríguez)
  - John's original tweet
  - Fork bomb
Post-show Neutral: What car would we pick for our other hosts?

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263: Old Potato

Marco Arment — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:52:12 +0000

Follow-up:
- John is on NoMAD
  - Active Directory
  - Jamf's blog post
Casey adopts a new child
- Timber
- Fireball
- AnyList
- Nexia
AOL Instant Messenger handles
- ICQ
Vulkan is coming to macOS
- More from AnandTech
- Metal
Apple's dual-display patent
- ATP #193: The Escape Zone
#asktiff
#askatp
- Max out ❤️ or 🍩? (via Jimmy Bosse)
- 👾 nostalgia (via Brian Middleton)
- 📷 for beginners (via Simon Tännler)
Post-show: Playing for Fun

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262: A Clear Path to Okayness

Marco Arment — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:56:32 +0000

Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions
Siri all up in Daniel Jalkut's business
Sonos and wood
Who has a HomePod?
- Echo Spot
- Google Home Mini
Doubting Apple
- "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
- Creative Nomad
Siri
- The Talk Show #215: The "Press Real Hard" Era
Apple pumps the brakes
- Six Colors 2017 report card
- Steven Sinofsky tweets: 28, 31, 32, End
#askatp
- Modular Mac Pro saves the Mac Mini? (via Barton Meeks)
- Why should one avoid monkeying with framerates? (via Alastair Campbell)
  - MakeMKV
- How do you preserve ebooks? (via Benjamin Esham)
  - Calibre
Post-show: Post-show Neutral: Car buying challenge

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261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage

Marco Arment — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:38:54 +0000

Pre-show: Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Cookout
Follow-up:
- Battery feedback: 1, 2, 3
- Casey's boneheaded mistake
- Marco's grocery-list apps
  - Clear
HomePods put a ring on it
Waze
- CarPlay
- Valentine 1
#askatp
- Are advanced safety features in cars comparable across marques?
- What's the deal with Leica cameras?
  - Marco's M9 review
Post-show: Parenting

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260: The Todoyist Problem

Marco Arment — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:01:41 +0000

Follow-up:
- Is throttling old phones really better?
- Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers?
- Raspberri Pi music player update
  - Plastic Player
  - Mini NES Console
Apple's emoji is theirs and you can't have it.
Marco's to-do app spirit walk
- Taskpaper
- Due
- AnyList
- Clear
- Todoist
- Omnifocus
- Things
- Fantastical
- Calculator Construction Set
#askatp
- Does Casey miss C#/.NET?
- Single vs. multithreading
  - Embarrassingly parallel
- Meditation
Post-show:
- Baby update
- Casey's Car Corner

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259: I Hired Myself

Marco Arment — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:34:06 +0000

Who ordered a HomePod?
Casey orders an Ethernet adapter
Casey's Mac "app"
Marco's secret project
#askatp
- Long-term file storage
  - M-Disc
- AAA games for iOS/tvOS (via Lewis Thompson)
Post-show: Casey on Cars Episode 2: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Ti

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258: Non-Beta Data

Marco Arment — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:52:51 +0000

Follow up: Battery replacement reticence
iOS 11.3 battery health messaging
macOS Spectre and Meltdown fixes go back to El Capitan
HomePod preorders and ship date announced
- Some interaction tidbits
iOS 11.3 preview
- Bohemian Rhapsody Animoji Karaoke
- Jason Snell's wishful thinking
tvOS 11.3
macOS 10.13.4 and the end of 32-bit
#askatp
- Unifying 3D Touch and long presses (via Todd Vaziri)
- What is AirPlay 2? (via Alex)
  - WWDC 2017 Session
- John's spines (via Andrew Lymn-Penning)
Post-show: BMW are money-grubbing jerks
- Gruber's clarification
- CarPlay availability

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257: Smell the Wind

Marco Arment — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:58:28 +0000

Casey and Erin had a baby!
- John's first and second dad comics
Casey's photo management workflow
Follow-up: Europe's black Mac
PCalc About screen, revver of fans
ARM Windows PCs
Windows 10 Sets
#askatp
- Non-Pro iMac upgrade cadence (via Erik Berlin)
- John's 🧀 grater (via Andy Hume)
- Messages in iCloud (via Kurt)
Post-show: A gift for Casey

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256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain

Marco Arment — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:55:09 +0000

Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement
iMac Pro peripherals on eBay
Follow-up: Arctic Silver
Follow-up: Battery replacements and solving customer problems
Follow-up: iPhone X screen burn-in
Marco's iMac Pro, one week in
Sony α7R III review
- DP Review on the α7R III
- Canon 5D Mark IV
#askatp
- Would apple delay the Mac Pro for a new CPU architecture? (via Clint)
- What does root do that sudo doesn't? (via Bryson)
- Sonos One w/ Alexa? (via Jim Andeway)
Post-show:
- Baby baby baby
- Tyco Typhoon Hovercraft
- Typhoon over water

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255: The Thermal Paste Lottery

Marco Arment — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:35:42 +0000

Apple's battery slowdown PR
- Accelerated rollout
- The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam
- Phone throttling isn't always the issue
iMac Pro thermal throttling
Marco's iMac Pro
- Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard
Intel CPU exploit
#askatp
- What if we had to use iOS? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- What if we had to use Windows? (via Brandon Butler)
  - Audacity
- What if we didn't have advertisers? (via Mark W)
Post-show: Marco stages an intervention for Casey
- Free Agents #34: I Think I Just Got Fired

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254: Hot Box With Knobs

Marco Arment — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:16:07 +0000

Follow up:
- Secure Boot KBase Article
  - Cabel's screenshot
- Women car journalists
  - From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective
#askatp
- Attention detection and Apple Watch (via Scott Lougheed)
- RAID and SSDs and Thunderbolt (via Max Velasco Knott)
  - Tiff's OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini
    - Noctua quiet fan
- Soundproofing in our in-home studios (via Joshua Rogers)
iPhone Performance and Battery Age
iOS and macOS apps as one?
Post-show: The Grand Tour season 2 review (so far)
- Sabine Schmitz

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253: I Think I Ordered One

Marco Arment — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:18:58 +0000

Follow up:
- Jeep Wranglers
- iMac Pro RAM upgrades
- iMac Pro input devices
- Mac Pro will be "upgradeable"
- iMac Pro orders
#askatp
- Entry-level open-backed headphones (via JD Lewin)
  - Schiit Fulla 2
  - Grado SR60e: $80, but uncomfortable
  - Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro: $225, for treble lovers (250-ohm recommended)
  - Sennheiser HD 650: $300, for treble haters
- Car magazines for kids (via Jeremy Nachman)
- Do we really need ECC RAM? (via japhisu)
  - Google study
  - IBM study
NVIDIA vs. AMD GPUs in Macs
- CUDA
More about the iMac Pro
- Table of Skylake Xeon workstation processors
- T2
  - Startup Security Utility
  - Recovery procedure
Post-show Analog(ue): Marco reflects on his interesting phone call
- John's autobiography

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252: Any Day Could Be Mac Pro Day

Marco Arment — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:49:19 +0000

Pre-show Neutral: Casey has car problems
Follow up: Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is apparently bendy
#askatp
- Holiday gift ideas
- Code nostalgia
- A not-so-brief interlude about Overcast and feed redirects
- sudo
John's black screen of death
- ATP #96: The Windows of Siracusa County
iMac Pro
Post-show: More iMac Pro
- The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

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251: Uninstall Your Water Reminder App!

Marco Arment — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:45:17 +0000

Casey argues for day/month/year instead of year/month/day (ISO 8601)
- Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperature
Follow up:
- Root bug post was in the dev forums, not the support forums.
- Reporting to product-security@apple.com
- XProtect and Xplorer
  - Shell script
- iOS keyboard woes and Gboard
John's Touch Bar switch
- DragThing
Jony Ive hears your feedback
#askatp
- Should we get rid of paper books? (via Josh Keegan)
- Will Apple ever make backlit desktop keyboards? (via Craig)
- How does dynamic podcast-ad targeting work? (via Prodan Statev)
iOS 11.2 emergency release for December 2 bug
"Month 13 is out of bounds" bug in High Sierra
John's phone is full
- Google Photos ad
- Sparse bundle
Post-show: Forecast

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250: We're Doing a Show

Marco Arment — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:06:51 +0000

Keyboard imprints on laptop screens
Marco is no longer case-liss
Follow-up: Fingerprint gloves 1 2
Thanksgiving follow-up: What about the Nintendo Switch?
- Casey has fun at work
#askatp
- Thoughts on Super Mario Odyssey (via Starsasumi)
- Robotic vacuum cleaners (via Maroš Žofčin)
- Marco's editing approach (via Erik Neu)
High Sierra "root" security issue
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249: Beehives Full of Bees

Marco Arment — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:31:11 +0000

Follow up:
- iPhone X multitasking gesture
- Requesting refunds on AppleCare (via John Himm)
- Fake fingerprint stickers
- iCloud restores during iPhone X setup
HomePod gets delayed
- Upgrade #168: Hail Hydrant
- Welcome to Macintosh #14: Hey Siri
Regarding conspiracy theories (#caseywasright)
- Jonathan's near-RTFU
- Neutral #1: Big, Fat, and Bloated
#askatp
Tech Thanksgiving
- Marco
  - Marco's Ancient Laptop
  - Anker stuff
  - 10.5" iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard
  - Sound Devices (USBPre 2)
- Casey
- John
Casey's iPhone X Problems
- Keratoconus
Marco's best laptop ever
- Buy new or refurbished from Apple, or new from B&H
- MacRumors link
- Hacker News link
- Image-retention test
- Anti-reflective coating repairs
- Marco on USB-C
Post-show Neutral: Tesla Roadster

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248: Chili Cookoff

Marco Arment — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 06:01:10 +0000

Follow up:
- Tradespeople and Face ID
- Multitasking gesture wonkiness on the home screen
- "I got this phone for $50 and it's fine"
- Pro-rated AppleCare+
- MacBook key repairs
OLED and burn-in
- Kbase article (👋🏻, Stephen)
- iOS' commentary
iPhone X camera
- Joe Rosensteel has thoughts about portrait mode
- Casey notices some failures too
- Focos
#askatp
- GeForce Now (via Kim Ahlberg)
  - OnLive
- VPNs (via MarcMV)
  - Encrypt.me
- AirPower for Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard
- What does "close to the metal" mean? (via Jonathan Bowling, who clarifies his position)
Qi chargers

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247: A Place to Stick Your Gum

Marco Arment — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:14:10 +0000

Follow up:
- Apple TV 11.2ß makes John happy
- Time Machine local snapshots
App Camp for Girls fundraiser
#askatp
- iPhone X cases (via Nathan Walls)
  - Apple Leather Case (Casey bought black)
- Impact of Siri's ineptitude (via Kapila Wimalaratne)
- Sony A7R III (via Ananda)
  - Canon 5D Mark IV
iPhone X: The ATP Review
- iStockNow
- FaceID Security Guide
Post-show: Casey's odd in-flight activities

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246: I Just Want My Stories

Marco Arment — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 21:36:41 +0000

Follow up: F1 flappy paddles
iPhone X preorder results
Recent performance of the rumor mill
Marco's iMac returns
MacBook Pro keyboard repair cost
Apple TV output formats
#askatp
- Mac antivirus software?
- Would we use Apple OSes on any other hardware if they were theoretically compatible?
  - Retro ThinkPad
  - Back to Work #346
- Apple fires engineer involved in iPhone X leak (via Tim Walker)
  - Casey's Instagram post
iPhone X reviews, and the PR strategy
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245: Senior-Citizen Advantage

Marco Arment — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 21:16:09 +0000

Follow up: The right to chair arms
#askatp
- Bitcoin
  - The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
- iPhone SE... X?
  - Macintosh SE/30
- How to catch Phish
  - A Live One
  - Live Phish
It's preorder time
- Casey's tips
What are the iPhone X's biggest risks?
The Mac Mini is... still a thing?
- Riccardo Mori's 3 options
Post-show: Casey's still a car journalist

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244: The Mac Renaissance

Marco Arment — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:31:15 +0000

Pre-show: ATP 243 notes
Follow up:
- Sky platform exclusivity
- John's chair
  - Torx
  - John's alternative chair
- Apple Express Replacement Service
  - Example image
- Apple Watch and proxied notifications
  - Due weighs in
#askatp
Marco's MacBook Pro
MacBook keyboard failures
Somehow Casey got backed into a ton of Mac Pro talk (🙄 –Ed.)
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- Songonauts podcast from The Truth: An '80s cartoon for your ears. It's about Doc, Penny and Jojo who are in a band that's going nowhere - until they find a magical drum machine that transports them into their songs.
Post-show: The VBR experiment
- Top Four #33: Pumpkin Spice Everything 🎃

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243: Knew About the Dollar Signs

Marco Arment — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:42:31 +0000

Pre-show: macOS upgrades vs. clean installs
Follow up:
- Google Pixel preorders (via Hannes Hauer)
- Google customer service strategy
- Casey has received his first AT&T bill with his Apple Watch
- Sonos and Google sitting in a tree...
  - Anker and Amazon are K-I-S-S-I-N-G
  - Speaker fragmentation
- Google Home Max and Mini
- Casey's 👋🏻⛰️ FOMO
#askatp
- Browser choices (from Kyle)
- Accord thoughts (from Sebastian)
- Command line (from Comay)
  - Git Tower
  - tcsh
  - Perforce
  - fish
Apple Phone → Watch notifications
- Due
Twitterrific for Mac
Apple TV gaming and Sky
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show Neutral: Casey has pipe dreams about cars

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242: These Arms Are Coming Off

Marco Arment — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 01:01:26 +0000

Pre-show:
- iPhone X
- New Google Pixels
Follow up: John received his Apple TV 4K
#askatp
- iOS error-logging frameworks
- Qi chargers
- Mike Bolton proposes a typing challenge
New Amazon Echo announcements
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: John buys a chair

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241: Jazzercise Boot Camp

Marco Arment — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:15:35 +0000

Pre-show: Jazzercise 1982 video compilation
Follow up:
- St. Jude Fundraiser Update
- Apple TV 4K has a fan 😭
  - Teardown
- Downloading 4K iTunes movies
- Boot Camp and cheesy Apple videos
- Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings clarifies TLX DCT
#askatp
- Being good beta citizens and not making @tapbot_paul angry
- APFS and Fusion drives
Apple Watch Series 3 review
👋🏻⛰️
- Stephen Hackett's review
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Casey is a car journalist

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240: Undefined Wait Period

Marco Arment — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:51:29 +0000

Stephen Hackett's St. Jude's Fundraiser
Follow up:
- iPhone X screen size
- John Siracusa, Dongletown, USA
- Window management
- Apple Watch LTE pricing: Data is substitutive, not additive (via Oliver Thomas)
More on Apple TV 4K
- Whether it has a fan or supports 24 Hz output
- 32 vs. 64 GB
Craig Federighi's Face ID apology tour
- The Talk Show #200
- Confirmation of John's prediction about face swipe timing
Running Mac betas
- No APFS for Fusion Drives
More on Apple Retail
- Genius Bar appointments
- Seinfeld on car reservations
#askatp
- Mac Pro & Nvidia
- Twitter app preferences
  - Twitterrific for Mac: Project Phoenix
Training FaceID
- Federighi interview on TechCrunch
Last week's keynote, continued
- Watch capacities and LTE streaming behavior
- iPhone cables & dongles & predictions
  - Casey's theory
- Fast-charging equipment
- AirPower vs. Nightstand Mode
- iPhone X production delays?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- TwIM
- Acura TLX and dual screens
- CarPlay, and touch screens
- Acura NSX
  - Original NSX

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239: Set This Money on Fire

Marco Arment — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:27:34 +0000

Apple Special Event, September 2017
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco figures out how to buy a bike
- Penny-farthing
- Fuse 6Fattie/29
- Orbea Loki 27+ H10
- Special thanks to:
  - Budnitz Bicycles
  - Albert's Westwood Cycle, an excellent bike shop in New Jersey that's worth the drive

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238: Begging for the Hub

Marco Arment — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:06:47 +0000

Follow-Up:
- Isn't iCloud close to full-machine backup?
- Do you really need to spend $1000 on a camera?
- Printing photos
- Photo resolution
#askatp
- iPhone-buying strategies
  - Casey's lessons learned
- Is 4K worth it?
  - Steve Yedlin on 4K
  - Viewing distance calculator
- Why & how we use Plex
John's 2017 MacBook Pro impressions
iPhone 7 exit interview
iPhone 7S/8/Pro/Edition predictions
Apple Watch predictions
Wildcard predictions
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco is still obsessed with bikes

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237: You Are Not a Datacenter

Marco Arment — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:58:20 +0000

Follow-Up:
- Marco's tukhus, sit bones, and cushioned saddles
- Backing up /Applications
  - Casey's new-Mac strategy
- CrashPlan native client may not be for small business
- CrashPlan migrations over 5 TB
- Arq and macOS metadata
  - Michael Tsai: What Backblaze Doesn't Back Up
- Backblaze's 30 day retention
- Peer-to-peer NAS backups
- Synology C2 backup
- Dan Moren: iCloud Backup for Mac?
- Casey's MacBook keyboard woes
  - Apple KnowledgeBase article (👋🏻, @ismh)
#askatp
- Photo storage between generations
- Camera advice for beginners
- Playing the notoriety card
APFS in High Sierra
No home button on "iPhone 8"?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Caseys deep thought about batteries

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236: Irresponsible Use of Infinite Terabytes

Marco Arment — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:21:42 +0000

Pre-show:
Follow-Up:
- iTunes U → Apple Podcasts
- Marco's hindquarters
#askatp
- OLED vs. LCD
- Mall of Marco
  - Gazelle
  - Mac Me an Offer
- Have we had RSI issues?
  - Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Casey's Bad News
- Google Photos Uploader
- The new M5
CrashPlan sunsets consumer backups
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco's security adventures
- Nest IQ
- Reconcilable Differences

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235: Notch-Savvy

Marco Arment — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 05:28:40 +0000

Pre-show: Always on vacation in... New York?
Follow-Up:
- Mighty, the Spotify "iPod Shuffle"
- Audio bit depth
  - 24/192 Music Downloads... and why they make no sense
  - Monty's explainer video
"iPhone Pro" notch
- What happens in landscape?
- Why bother with a notch?
  - Android notch
1Password backpedals a bit
A a a a a Very Good Song
#askatp
Google's diversity "memo"
Apple sets $1B budget for original TV/movies
No more send-to-watch in Overcast
- Under the Radar #91: Removing Features
- Clockwise #202: Explode a Knee
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco's continued bike escapades

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234: Everybody Has Asterisks

Marco Arment — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 04:11:04 +0000

Toasters
- Toaster reviews
- Do By Friday
Cameras
Ad Blockers
- 1Blocker
- Better
A/V
- FLAC
- Pono
- Tidal
Brace styles
Dolphin emulator behind the scenes
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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233: Nobody Cares But Me, But I Do Care

Marco Arment — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 04:04:19 +0000

Follow-Up:
- TSMC 10nm vs. Intel 10nm
- Home audio & subwoofers
  - HiFiMan HE-6
  - Christmas Island crabs
- ~~Neutral~~ Coast?
- A Christmas Story quote corrected by @ATPReferences
The HomePod firmware leak
RIP [most] iPods
RIP Flash
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Storing photos

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232: You've Exceeded Some Limit

Marco Arment — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:30:00 +0000

Send us questions! Tweet with the hashtag #askatp!
The A10X is 10nm as per AnandTech
- Source & Drain
- Larrabee
Netflix credits skipping
- John's original complaint
Community management
- Disney may have wanted to buy Twitter... a long time ago
- Player Unknown's Battlegrounds
Odd Overcast crash
Post-show: Mongoose Californian
- Alternative image
- Storming Mortal #15: Apple Kool-Aid and the Mongoose (dated 18 June 2014)
- John realizes his full potential
- Pee Wee's bike
- Huffy White Heat

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231: I Am Not a Salad Power User

Marco Arment — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:26:11 +0000

Follow-up:
- Calibrating a TV
  - Rtings TV Settings
  - Chopt or SaladWorks
  - Smart Signage
  - Samsung Frame TV
  - THX Tune-Up app
    - Lightning Digital AV Adapter
    - Panic's surprise
  - Sony / 7669
- Marco's discontinued small speaker amp: NuForce Dia. Some alternatives Marco has considered (but not tested!):
  - Grace Digital GDI-BTAR513, $110
  - SMSL Q5, $140
  - NuForce DDA-120, $300
  - Teac AI-301DA, $350
  - NAD D 3020, $400
- Type-C Personality
- OLED image retention
  - Marco's image retention test
- Apple's silence on Net Neutrality
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1Password kerfuffle
- Their blog post
- TextExpander
Overcast UI Dilemma
- Under the Radar #87: Old Code vs. New APIs
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Neutral: Casey's latest impulse buy
- The family

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230: Auto, Dynamic, Fresh, Dank

Marco Arment — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:41:25 +0000

Follow-up:
- Windows Hello
- mDNSResponder
- On rewriting dyld
- Mac IIfx
  - F/X
  - Movie Magic
Marco's latest impulse buy
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann (a brief return of the Summer 2014 remix)
Post-show:
- Double Dare
  - Let People Enjoy Things
  - Oral History of Double Dare
- Net Neutrality

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229: Just Smush the Screen Somewhere

Marco Arment — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:14:37 +0000

Follow-up:
- DragonDrop replacement: Yoink (App Store)
- Mac stuff for 👵🏻👴🏻 (including Stephen Hackett)
- dyld vs. dyldd vs. closured
- App launch time thanks to dyld
  - Relevant WWDC 2016 talk
- Encoding/decoding new formats on old hardware
  - Sorenson
- WebRTC and Opus
iOS 11 Multitasking
- Connected with Federico Viticci, Myke Hurley, Stephen Hackett
- Canvas with Fraser Speirs and Federico Viticci
- Cortex with CGP Grey and Myke Hurley
- Upgrade with Jason Snell and Myke Hurley
- WIMP
New iPhone Rumors
- Connected #149: Caramel
- Sneakers
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: LG UltraFine 5K Display

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228: I Never Cancel a Drag

Marco Arment — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:20:46 +0000

Follow-up:
- MacBook Adorable
  - Example multi-use hub
  - Casey's Review
- Keyboard "shim kit"
- USB-C hubs
  - Belkin hub
- HomePod's "screen"
  - Marco's favorite follow-up ever in Analog(ue) #10
Echo Show
iOS Drag and Drop
- Dr. Wave
- DragonDrop
dyld 3
- App Startup Time: Past, Present, Future
Marco gets his VBR wish
- Original ATP discussion (Overcast timestamp link)
- This episode, for example:
  - Official CBR version, 80 MB
  - VBR version, 56 MB
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- PC Convertible
- Spaaaaacccccceeeeeee

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227: Typing on Pillows

Marco Arment — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:55:54 +0000

Follow-up:
- Serenity Caldwell on the new iPad
- Ryan Jones makes some observations
  - New lock & power off behavior
  - "Offload"ing unused apps
    - Springboard treatment
- Steve Troughton-Smith makes some observations
  - Spaces persistence
    - Spatial Finder
  - Document-based apps' launch UI
- FaceTime capture of Live Photos
- ADAs and default apps
- HEIF is good! is good
- 32-bit support "sunset" in macOS
  - Non-fragile ivars
- High Sierra Format
  - CD caddy
- APFS is good!
- iMac Pro price comparison
- Oddities between iMac Tiers
- HomeKit is available to all
- Apps can allow "programming environments"
- App Store reviews don't have to reset on update
- Keynote presentation diversity
- Siracusa reviews Goodfellas
Casey got a MacBook Adorable
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- WWDC doughnuts
- TitleCase.com

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226: Smooth Scrolling Is For Suckers

Marco Arment — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:40:49 +0000

Pre-show: Lots of Follow Up
John's ancient, slow, Mac Pro
APFS WWDC session and file name encoding
- Norm forms
- Compression vs. HFS+
iOS 11
- Dots vs. Bars for signal strength
- Drop of third party service integration
  - Perhaps the APIs were removed?
- Many touch options for iOS 11 home screens on non-Force Touch devices
- Log your friends into your WiFi
- Multiple file uploads → Mobile Safari
Tidbits from The Talk Show #193: Crack Marketing Team
tvOS
iCloud storage: 1TB → 2TB
Sonnet eGFX
Apple Wireless Keyboard A1016
New iPads
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Casey steals something from WWDC
- Marco holds court at Social Policy (more on Run Loop and Under the Radar)
- Jackets and pins
- WWDC Food
  - Philadelphia cream cheese brick

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225: A Conversation with Siri

Marco Arment — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 07:45:41 +0000

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224: Yearning for Reflection

Marco Arment — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:08:02 +0000

Follow up:
- Multiple versions of photos
- Quietly improving MacBook Pro keyboards
Pre-WWDC hopes and dreams
- Upgrade #143: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2017
- What If the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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223: Throw the Fork Away

Marco Arment — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:53:31 +0000

Follow up:
- Those ✂️️🔑
- More on box lunches!
Denise Young Smith: VP, HR → VP, Inclusion & Diversity
Thunderbolt to become royalty-free (Intel press release)
Apple Siri-speaker-with-screen
Google I/O
Kotlin
- Compared to Swift
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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222: As Thin as Humans Will Tolerate

Marco Arment — Thu, 18 May 2017 18:06:44 +0000

Follow up: Revisiting the quiz from last episode
MP3 is dead; long live MP3
iPad Mini is dead?
MacBooks and MacBook Pros are alive?
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Apple Park
- MIT Stata Center

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221: Personal Body Chemistry

Marco Arment — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:27:16 +0000

Follow up:
- The politics in the last episode
- Rear Touch ID and prototypes
- Dirty laptop fabric
- Are people being backed into liking touchscreen laptops?
- WikiTribune
  - ...is based on Wordpress and not maintained by Wikimedia
  - ...already has a competitor called Wikinews
Amazon Echo Show
Brief Quiz
Dropping Dropbox
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco and Casey can't shut up about the Switch and Mario Kart

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220: Executive Box Lunch

Marco Arment — Thu, 04 May 2017 18:51:03 +0000

Follow up: Moscone food research by Daniel Jalkut
More on the potential rear Touch ID
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Assistive Touch
- Turning off Haptics:
  Settings → Sounds & Haptics → System Haptics
WikiTribune
Basic humanity
Amazon Echo Look
- Download #1: Wardrobe Philosophy
Microsoft Surface Laptop
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Casey really loves his new copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Mario Kart over LAN

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219: Million Dollar Lunch

Marco Arment — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:01:32 +0000

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Follow up:
- APFS compression?
- WWDC lunches are probably about $40 each (via David Carlton)
- Connected #139 where Casey discusses Plex
Touch ID moving to the back?
- Revisiting the iPhone 7 Taptic home button
- Touch ID is capacitive
Overcast improvements
- M4A chapter support
- Forecast
- Watch support 1 & 2
- Apple Design Awards
Uber is über-gross
- IOKit
- UIDevice
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: John travels to 🇬🇧

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218: MagSafe Cups of Water

Marco Arment — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:42:34 +0000

Follow up:
- APFS iOS app updates hit the app store
- Marco's Overcast hacks
  - Podlove Simple Chapters
- APFS free space
- Nvidia coming back to the Mac
- Kieran Healy's thoughts regarding Marco's comments about schedules
- Clips gets special treatment in the app store
- T-Shirts! will be available until April 26.
  - We know what the site says. Trust us.
  - Jet Black considerations
    - Example Jet Black
  - Inverted Jenny
Apple USB-C MagSafe patent
- Xbox breakaway cable
Beginning of the end for iTunes?
John's evaluation of Nintendo today
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: WWDC lunches
- Casey loves Odwalla... a lot. Really.

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217: Apology Mac Pro

Marco Arment — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:15:22 +0000

Follow up:
- Mac Pro transcript posted
- Workflow on ice
- APFS and free space
- T-Shirt Update
Clips
Mac Pro
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Marco convinces himself Casey owes him $5
- Managing Mac Pro expectations
- Apple speed bumps
- MacRumors Buyer's Guide

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216: Thermal Corner

Marco Arment — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 18:49:01 +0000

Follow up:
- APFS file name encoding
- WWDC sitrep
RIP Jason Seifer
The Mac Pro
The new iMac... Pro?
- Project Ara
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- We adjudicate a bet
- T-Shirts are for sale! until 26 April

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215: Pots Are Made to Be Broken

Marco Arment — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:41:53 +0000

Follow up:
- APFS on iOS
  - Settings → General → Storage & iCloud Usage → Manage Storage
  - Oddities with file names
- Ahoy, Telephone!
- Naked-er Robotic Core
Marco eats waffles
- Aerial
MacBook One vs. MacBook Adorable
- Hello Internet, Cortex
WWDC
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Tiff joins us to talk Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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214: Christmas Phone

Marco Arment — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:13:21 +0000

Follow-up:
- Wii U display lag from Steven Impson
- Zelda heads-up-display woes
- Intel X99 high-end desktop options
- Reasons for delaying the Mac Pro
- Americans are cheap jerks
Marco needs a new pair of shoelaces
- Analog(ue) #9: My Shoes Are a Bit Dusty
- Úll
Apple executive diversity shareholder vote
Apple buys Workflow
- Workflow on the App Store
- Workflow removes Chrome
- Workflow change log (see 1.7.3)
- x-callback-url
New Apple products
- Red iPhone 7
  - Six Colors
  - Branding in China
- New iPhone SE storage sizes
- New 9.7" iPad
  - Six Colors
  - Stephen Hackett on marketing
- New Watch bands
- Clips iOS App
  - Press release
  - Wired
- What was missing
  - Gruber on the 10" iPad
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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213: Siri in a Can

Marco Arment — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:18:16 +0000

Pre-show: A friendly bet for January 1, 2018
Follow up:
- Windows on iPad (for example, Blackboard)
- Steve Troughton-Smith's Floating Keyboard Playground
  - Writeup from 9to5mac
- Apple in Education
Apple's HomeKit Promo Website & Video
- Scott McNulty's Tweet
YouTube TV (Verge Writeup)
Intel goes 14nm again
AMD Ryzen
Xeon Gold
Tim Cook's tease at the shareholders meeting
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Initital thoughts on the Nintendo Switch

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212: Meatspace Windows

Marco Arment — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:09:41 +0000

Follow-up: USB-C iPhone 8
MacBook Boost case
Windowing on iOS
- Steve Troughton-Smith writes Finder-like app for iOS
- PanelKit
Accidental programmers
Apple's decline in the education market
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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