Episodes
Pre-show: Power problems
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New member special: ATP Insider: Computing Origin Stories
Follow-up:
How little kids write 4s
Marco sample
Casey sample
John sample
Field Notes
Three-step car buying process (via Paul Chernoff)
Rivian software update helps avoid trash EV chargers
Joe Lion on reticle limits
High-NA EUV
ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
Johny Srouji interview (Timestamp link...
Published 04/16/24
Pre-show: SD-card failures
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Follow-up:
The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
Explanatory video
Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
ARM Exception Levels
DMP
Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
LG DualUp Monitor
An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
DAI
Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
Max Tech’s take on...
Published 04/11/24
Pre-show: John’s two-year anniversary
Follow-up:
WWDC lottery results
John’s Affinity Designer struggles
Marco’s convert stroke → shape suggestion from the bootleg
Offset path using Contour Tool (via Vitor)
Create Compound (via Julian Kissman)
Inconsistencies noted by Christian Meyer
Sam Abuelsamid on real-time OSes in cars
QNX
Wind River
Green Hills
Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED fix is in Chrome 124 beta
Has Casey considered running any of his monitors in portrait?...
Published 04/05/24
Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Follow-up:
Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
DMA compliance feedback session is live
Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)
Gruber’s summary
Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
European Commission press release
Dan Moren’s take
Reuters interview with Margrethe Vestager
Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
Artificial tooth...
Published 03/28/24
Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
Follow-up:
The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart
Warmart press release
Apple Silicon & Project Titan
Safari hangs (via Wade)
Apple’s DMA compliance efforts
Apple DMA compliance workshop
Gruber’s take
Kay Jebelli’s recap on Twitter
AI-generated transcript
Video of Riley Testut’s question/answer
John’s curious obsession with street widths
Marco: 8’ /...
Published 03/22/24
Pre-show:
ATP Overtime
ATP Insider: John’s Windows
ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County
ATP Membership FAQ
AppStories
Follow-up:
Callsheet available on visionOS
“Put me on Aux” (via Sam Davies)
Spotify & free users (via Colin Meney)
256 GB M3 MacBook Air has 2× 128 GB NAND chips
iFixIt Teardown
Project Titan chip rumors
What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
Epic’s developer account reinstated
Gruber’s take
Upgrade #503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the...
Published 03/14/24
Pre-show: Old men talk about old car stereos
Follow-up:
John’s notes export via privacy.apple.com
Apple Vision Pro & Project Titan (via James Anthony)
JIBO
gita (the robot Casey was thinking of)
Gurman’s article (or on Apple News)
Apple Vision Pro’s inevitable future (via Matt Johnson)
M3 MacBook Airs
Gurman on forthcoming Apple events
Hector Martin on two displays
Apple confirms backport of two-display support to M3
RIP the 🧀
Apple fined $2 billion by EU for App Store...
Published 03/07/24
Pre-show: Marco is many things, but patient is… not one of them.
Blackbox
Crouton
Joanna Stern’s video
Television (App Store link)
ForeFlight Voyager
Flight Control
Follow-up:
Vision Pro demand
Clarification about Apple’s new iMessage encryption
Extracting data from iCloud (via John Males)
Apple Privacy
Magnets and compasses
…in ✨ space ✨ (via Adam Wuerl)
…can be canceled out by Core Motion (via Zev Eisenberg)
Vision Pro & motion blur (via Orlando Herrera)
Meta’s “Pixel...
Published 02/29/24
Pre-show:
Vision Pro comfort
Light Seal Sizes Decoded
ATP Movie Club: Steve Jobs
Follow-up:
Vision Pro motion blur (via Chase)
Blur Busters
Vision Pro and warped images
Eyes as input vs. output (via Tony DiTaranto)
Fitts’s Law and the Dock
Apple 🤝🏻 Qualcomm
Apple & Patents
Mangets & Compasses (via Harvey Simon)
Modern buckle
Line/letter of credit (via Brian Coffey)
Vision Pro
Personas
…are getting better in 1.1?
1.0 → 1.1 examples
Charlie Chapman’s...
Published 02/22/24
Pre-show: Casey’s Persona Surprise
Follow-up:
iPad Pro 11” PPD
PPD calculator
A note on field of view and eye movement
Some discussion about Mac Virtual Display fidelity
Turning off Apple Vision Pro
The Developer Strap (requires login) is Thunderbolt capable
Orion (HDMI display app for iPad)
Casey’s HDMI capture dongle
“Real” vs. “Fake” 3D (via Matt Rigby)
Rotoscoping
More thoughts from friend-of-the-show Todd Vaziri
More [now un-paywalled!] thoughts from FotS Joe...
Published 02/15/24
Follow-up:
YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)
John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint
€0.50 is “50 cents”
Prescription lens pairing
Wide Lightning™ and Wider Lightning™
Developer Strap (requires developer account)
Vision Pro weight discussed in Vanity Fair
Bluetooth peripherals
Intel Macs & Mac Virtual Display
Support Document
Vision Pro syncs when not in use
Performance throttling
Vision Pro for movies & TV
Color reproduction
iFixit estimates resolution
“Ideal” field...
Published 02/08/24
Follow-up:
Vision Pro talk begins next week; some good reviews for now:
Nilay Patel @ The Verge
Video review
Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal
Brian Tong
Gruber
MKBHD’s using Vision Pro
YouTube API (via Alex Chan)
Quota costs
Console hardware margins in the App Store & consoles
Customer ownership
Stolen Device Protection & device repairs (via Niru Maheswaranathan)
European eye prescriptions (via René Schätzl)
Apple’s EU DMA compliance
Apple Newsroom
Apple...
Published 02/01/24
Pre-show: YouTube updates
Follow-up:
SCSI DB-25 was on the back of Macs, not DB-50
D-subminiature
iOS Screen Sharing is a thing
No control for remote users though
On Apple’s 30% cut and payment processing fees
The Art of the Possible (John’s blog post)
Whose customer is this, anyway?
Apple’s compliance with EU law is likely to go exactly as expected
Apple News link
Apple Vision Pro optics (via Todd Zarwell & jkahnk)
Apple’s software workaround for Masimo-related import...
Published 01/26/24
Pre-show: Some Administrivia
New ATP member’s special!
ATP episodes are now on YouTube!
Follow-up:
Marco’s UPS issue
Eaton UPS backup (via Jeff Strobel)
UPSes don’t like “dirty” power
Yes, y’all, John can be wrong sometimes.
But maybe he was 🤏🏻 right too? 🤔
John Gruber on the iPhone launch
Apple Vision Pro ordering details
Apple Vision Pro has 10 GPU cores
More on the Apple Vision Pro demos
Apple Vision Pro entertainment experiences
Maybe not all prescriptions work? (via Justin...
Published 01/18/24
Pre-show: Dad Dreams
Follow-up:
New watch bands will actually be… cases? (via Videoalex)
Swatch example
NATO straps
Time-shifting was successful
OLED iPad Pros will also break the bank
Apple 🤝 AWS
Retrieval Augmented Generation
How LLMs work
People… write answers for Alexa‽ 🤯
Incase 🤝 Microsoft
The Verge article
Vision Pro launches 2 February
Vision Pro will have 16GB RAM
YouTubers will get two demos
Apple’s “Get Ready” ad
Previously: “Hello”
Apple is very particular about...
Published 01/11/24
Pre-show: Time-shifting
Dave Matthews Band Crew Q&A
Follow-up:
AI Agita
Apple’s paper regarding optimizing on-device LLM
Summary by luokai
Apple explores AI training deals with news publishers
New York Times sues OpenAI & Microsoft for copyright infringement
Hard cases make bad law
Masimo Mess
26 December: Biden administration does not overturn ban
27 December, 11:55 AM: Ban temporarily paused by US Court of Appeals
27 December, 5:21 PM: Apple Watch sales resumed
Apple...
Published 01/04/24
Pre-show: Running public sound
Automixing
Sound Devices Mix Pre-10 II
Zoom F8n
Zoom LiveTrak L8
Reminder that gift memberships make for a great last-minute gift!
Follow-up:
iCloud.com login with only a password
Apple Store experience (via Morgan Schönberger)
More details via Ian Williamson
icloud.com/find
Joanna Stern’s prison interview
Beeper → Beeped
Blog post
MacRumors
Virtualization options for macOS
UTM was recommended by several, including Luke Channings and Glenn...
Published 12/26/23
Gift memberships make for great last-minute gifts!
Follow-up:
Apple devices and OLED burn-in
iPhone XS burn-in (via David Gian-Cursio)
iPhone 11 Pro burn-in (via Jamieson Weiss)
Apple Watch Series 5 & iPhone 13 Pro Max (via Keith)
Apple Store diagnostics
Stolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3 beta
Maybe “trusted locations” is unwise? (via Russell Quinn)
How does this work with two-factor? (via Richard Harris)
Exceptions to 🇪🇺 battery legislation (via Matthaus Woolard)
Vexed has been...
Published 12/19/23
Pre-show: Cauterized pants
Show administrivia
🎄🕎 NEW MEMBER’S SPECIAL!! 🕎🎄
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Follow-up:
More on Apple’s Blue Ocean
The 🇪🇺 is doing 🇪🇺 things
…and Apple is doing Apple things
📟 Battle
Yet more on ECC RAM from Jonathan Dietz Jr.
Micron whitepaper
US fabs and semiconductor business (via Joe Lion)
Sonos Roam audio skipping
Report #1
Report #2
Report #3
Report #4
Report #5
How does AWS S3 Glacier store data more cheaply than S3?
Photos.app processing tied...
Published 12/14/23
Follow-up:
Other People’s Code
Audio sample
Laura Savino’s Talk at CppCon 2023
AirJet cooling a MacBook Air
Previously on ATP
Keycap replacements at Apple Stores?
Apple Stores will price-match?
Maybe use KidArt for kid… art? (App Store link)
How does Thunderbolt 5 “Bandwidth Boost” work?
Idiosyncrasies of ECC RAM
Apple 🤝 Amkor
Apple 💩-cans 5G modem development?
…but there’s always 6G…
John’s window-dragging bug continues in 14.2 beta 5
Please fix Find my Friends sharing, Apple
Beeper...
Published 12/07/23
Pre-show: Moving is not fun.
Marie Kondo
Follow-up:
Apple fixes worn keycaps (via Ezekiel Elin)
OpenAI
Sam Altman Reinstated
Five Days of Chaos
Tip for buying smart thermostats (via Neil Weinstock)
Dominion Energy’s offerings
Marco’s many-taps Ecobee
Chip packaging
Introductory videos on packaging
Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging
Stacking Dies for Performance & Profit
ECC RAM in Apple Silicon (via Grady Borders & Joe Lion)
Green bubbles get slightly less...
Published 11/28/23
Pre-show:
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Follow-up:
Keyboard wear
Finger grease (via Ryan Holmes)
ABS plastic
PBT plastic
A true horror show (via Andrew)
MacBook Pro thermal tests
More about chip packaging
Johny Srouji interview from July 2023
Timestamp link to clip cited
Stratechery with Pat Gelsinger
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED just will not die
Stack Overflow...
Published 11/21/23
Show Administrivia:
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ATP Dev: Other People’s Code
Follow-up:
Face ID is also an accessbility affordance (via Todd Scheresky)
Uses for 🛢️👃🏻 (via Jamie West)
Microwaves
The modern knob (via Nate)
There’s such a thing as too much (via Kieth Bradnam)
Scanning old photos
Ryan’s procedure
Todd Vaziri’s advice
ScanCafe
Possible laptop improvments (via Nathaniel...
Published 11/16/23
Pre-show: Marco has discovered knobbed microwaves
John’s toaster journey
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Follow-up:
Apple Event was “shot on iPhone”
Behind the Scenes
The Verge’s silly take
Stu Maschewitz’s overview
David Steer in defense of the M3-plain MacBook Pro
Luke Miani’s video
Base configs make a difference, according to Ewan Makepeace
Still no Face ID (via Tomer Shemesh)?
8 GB RAM has been the MacBook Pro baseline since 2014
Dynamic Caching (via Nitesh Singh)
The...
Published 11/09/23