Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa•atp.fm

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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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 Hayes Racing (archived) D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF Article Video John discusses the design of the Mac Pro iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen) Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power) Server P...

May 01, 2025•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 637

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 user uprising (This is a Hacker News link to Reddit, so, uh, tread lightly.) 🫏🕳️ leaders are not good John continues to try to spend Marco’s money Rtings’ new glare testing LG G5 brightness Apple’s self-servi...

Apr 23, 2025•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 636

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 Tim Cook’s top two skills 13 April: …except maybe not? John’s boosted post Cross-platform photo management Immich (via bapt ) Nintendo Switch 2 4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon) Specifications Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibso...

Apr 15, 2025•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 635

634: We Don’t Have Enough Bees

The Accidental Tech Podcast crew discusses dishwasher detergent, Dropbox client choices, browser compatibility issues, and the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. They also cover Apple's OS redesign, iPhone 17 Pro rumors, and strategies for documenting complex setups. Finally, they discuss the economic uncertainty surrounding tech purchases and offer advice for navigating the current market.

Apr 10, 2025•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 634

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 complementary take from Thom Holwerda More theories on behind-closed-doors talks (via illustro ) Case document Will EU releases whither? (via David Shayer) An anecdote about John Giannandrea (via Wolf ) Netflix in search on Apple TV (v...

Apr 01, 2025•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 633

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 false Apple Intelligence advertising Siri shake-up Threads lets you default to following… for real this time iPhone 16e Camera arrangement justifications MKBHD doesn’t care for it Full review Teardown from REWA Teardown from ...

Mar 27, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 632

631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni

The ATP hosts discuss Casey's fiber project, the Vision Pro Metallica concert, colorful Macs, and Apple's software delays. They also analyze Apple's culture, Siri's shortcomings, and software versioning, sharing personal experiences and offering critiques. Marco details his restaurant soft opening, highlighting staff success and personal growth.

Mar 20, 2025•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 631

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 screen (notes John Spurlock ) 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly) Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe) Example video from Fabian More on colors (via Yossi Kanner) MacBook Air’s keyboard ...

Mar 13, 2025•3 hr 37 min•Ep. 630

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 M 3 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 MacBook Air Announcement iPad 6GB RAM, as was foretold Gurman misssed on this one iPad Air Announcement Audio regression? Post-show: Casey does free labor for Apple John’s computer speakers are dying ☹️ Possible replacement #1: Kant...

Mar 07, 2025•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 629

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 Exhibit B Exhibit C Netflix’s Apple TV integration It’s more than just the app (via Serena ) What purpose does the TV app serve? (via Daniel Luz ) Implementation details (via Anonymous) iPhone 16e Name implications Poss...

Feb 28, 2025•2 hr 57 min•Ep. 628

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 macOS UNIX compliance Goodbye, Humane . We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything. Jay Peters at The Verge Humane press release Humane support document iPhone 16e announced Intro video Apple TV app is now on Android Ne...

Feb 20, 2025•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 627