553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland

Episode description

• Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
• 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
  • The Marco Offset
• ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
• Follow-up:
  • Apple-products-save-your-life video
  • Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
  • Titanium watches
    • Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
    • Warranty (via Doug Miller)
  • Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
  • Casey’s live adventure
    • Related The Verge article
    • Marco’s option
  • Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
  • Apple “blue” over time
  • iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
    • iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
    • iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
  • iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
    • 14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
    • PetaPixel was confused too
    • The arrangement changed
    • iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
    • 5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
    • 3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
    • iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
    • PetaPixel camera review
    • DPReview
  • USB-C begets external display support
    • Apple support document
    • Panic on The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
  • USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen)
    • Example
  • iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
  • iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
    • Revegnus’ tweet
    • Kal’s tweet
    • Nuvia
      • Lawsuit dropped
  • iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
  • Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
    • Similar to Peak Design case?
  • Apple 2030
    • Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
    • Environment FAQ
  • Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
    • New York Times interview from 2020
• Gruber’s post
  • Geekbench 6
    • Single-core
      • M2 Max: 2,803
      • Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 4,220
    • Multi-core
      • M2 Ultra: 21,299
      • Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 29,015
  • Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
    • Luke Miani
    • Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs
• #askatp:
  • How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
    
    • The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
  • How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
  • Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
• Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks

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