Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions
  
  
  • Mario Kart World
• WWDC
  
  
  • F1
  • Sam Henri Gold
  • Marcel
  • Flighty
  • Parcel
  • Control Plane
  • Acorn
• Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs
  
  
  • Previously discussed on ATP #609
  • GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe
  • Gary’s 1998 paper
  • Gary’s 2001 book

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• Follow-up:
  
  
  • Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied
  • Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial)
  • macOS 26: Tahoe?
  • macOS 26 supported hardware
  • Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview
    
    
    • MacRumors coverage
    • Molly White’s newsletter
    • Polycom “star”/”spider” phones
• Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner
  
  
  • Bono: Stories of Surrender
  • Open: An Autobiography
  • Rattle and Hum
  • Apple Immersive Screenshots:
    
    
    • Crowd
    • Stadium
    • TV
• PSA: Plex privacy opt-out
• Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please
  
  
  • Casey’s toot
  • FB17661404
• WWDC hopes & predictions
  
  
  • Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
  • Physicality: The new age of UI by Sebastiaan de With
  • Windows Aero
  • Newton’s cradle
  • Sendable
• Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live
  
  
  • Retreating to Safety
  • Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Sky: a new AI app for macOS
  
  
  • Federico’s exclusive
  • Stu Maschewitz’s take
  • Software Applications Incorporated

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• Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple
  
  
  • Five Whys
• Follow-up:
  
  
  • SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer
  • Vision Pro on The Price is Right
  • What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
    
    
    • Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion
    • Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane
  • Alexa Plus Update
  • Neutral:
    
    
    • Slate Truck Top Gear review
    • TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers)
      
      
      • There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash)
      • DeMuro’s review
      • Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI
    • Pickup beds over time
• Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround
  
  
  • ATP #639: Crimp the World
  • Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory
  • Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event from 2010
• Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
  
  
  • DeWalt LED Work Light
  • DeWalt Tire Inflator
  • DeWalt 60V Blower
  • Zip-Tie Screw Mounts
  • 3M VHB Tape
  • Waveform Lighting power supply, dimmer, and Dim-to-Warm LED strip (optional diffusing channels)
  • Knipex Wire Stripper
  • Wago Connectors
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple OS rebranding & macOS name predictions

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• Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️
• Follow-up:
  
  
  • Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner
    
    
    • How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes
  • SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff)
    
    
    • SpinRite (Intel-only)
  • Fornite is back in the US App Store
    
    
    • App Store link
    • Judge YGR’s filing
    • Apple 🤝🏻 Epic
    • Epic courts Apple developers
  • Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco
    
    
    • Previously on ATP
  • The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all
    
    
    • Apple documentation
• Apple to open AI models to developers?
• OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io
  
  
  • Sam and Jony
  • Gurman’s coverage
• Ask ATP:
  
  
  • What was our favorite school camp/trip? (via Harrison)
    
    
    • FBLA
    • Disc camera
  • What’s the deal with the tire markings on the bootleg cover art? (via Josh Kincaid)
    
    
    • Show art
    • Wheel size explained
  • Is there a good camera lens that’s also light? (via Matt Richardson)
    
    
    • Matt on Instagram
    • Pancake lens
    • Fuji GFX 100RF
    • APS-C
    • LensRentals
    • Sony RX100
    • Ricoh GR IIIx
• Post-show Neutral: CarPlay Ultra
  
  
  • Top Gear review
  • Previously on ATP
  • The Vergecast
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Meanwhile, in Europe…
  
  
  • European Commission fines Apple & Meta for breaching DMA
    
    
    • Gruber did the math
  • New smartphone labels for battery life & repairability
    
    
    • Official release
    • Nutrition label
    • Energy Star

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• Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
  
  
  • CalDigit TS5
• Follow-up:
  
  
  • Letterboxd SF Symbol
    
    
    • Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
    • Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
  • AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
  • “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
    
    
    • A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini
  • Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
  • Apple appeals App Store rule changes
  • Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
    
    
    • More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
  • Meanwhile, in the App Store…
  • Home networking corner
    
    
    • Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
    • Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
    • What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
    • Casey’s sitrep
      
      
      • 2× U6-LR installed
        
        
        • Ugly PoE injectors
      • 10GbE card installed in Synology
      • Switches just arrived
        
        
        • Lite 8 PoE
        • Flex Mini
      • Camera time?
• Apple Turnover
  
  
  • The Art of the Possible
  • Hypercritical #42: The Wrong Guy
  • Upgrade #563: Peanut or a Banana
• Some fun Apple media
  
  
  • Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly
    
    
    • Gui Rambo’s investigation
  • A conversation with Jony Ive
• Backblaze drama
  Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor
  
  
  • Morpheus Research report
  • Backblaze’s initial response
  • Backblaze’s formal response
  • Profit breakdowns
• Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs
  
  
  • Cable Matters
  • Marco’s crimping toolkit
• Members-only ATP Overtime: SSD data doesn’t last forever
  
  
  • Video
  • M-DISC

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