Episode description

• 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 microphone
  • Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)
  • What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu)
  • Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking
  • Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker
    • Epic accuses Apple of delaying its EU alternative store launch
      • Epic’s statements
    • Apple approves Epic Games Store
    • Tim Sweeney pops off
• Tech and Labor
  • FTC has banned noncompete agreements for workers
  • TSMC’s Struggles in Arizona
    • Gruber’s summary
  • US-made chips will cost Apple more
    • The Financial Times
  • Judge says “just kidding” to FTC’s noncompete ruling
• Ask ATP:
  • Is moving to a bundled password manager safe (via Trager)
  • Is Apple’s embrace of AI enough to prevent it from being the next crypto? (via Jamie)
  • What makes iCloud Keychain different than the Windows Recall database? (via Jon Wilson)
  • Is Apple still a privacy-first company? (via Steven Wood)
• Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house
  • Technology Connections video on heat pumps
  • Inverted U-shaped heat pumps
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Feature Requests for Death
  • Greg Pierce
  • Craig Hockenberry
  • Louie Mantia

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