Accidental Tech Podcast

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

The Marco Offset™

Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video

Comparison video

Previously, in 2018

Making of (via Techzha)

Preliminary Geekbench scores

A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)

CPU

GPU

M6

CPU

GPU

M5 Ultra

CPU

iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2

Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)

Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space

Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera

MKBHD’s review

PetaPixel’s Review

Explaining starbursts

Straight vs. rounded examples

Debate on DPReview forums

iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)

iPhone Duo

How will iPhone Mirroring work?

No Action Button 💔

The Duo does have a split keyboard

An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo

Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2

Thomas Ricker at The Verge

Stephen Robles insights

iPhone side-dock example

MagSafe accessories will be… tough

A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)

Apple Pencil support

USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro

Gruber

Steve Troughton-Smith

Fake bezel

Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac

Demo video (Twitter link)

iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing

Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)

Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)

John’s cheap S3 setup

Configuration

CLI invocation:

aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \
--bucket my-cool-bucket-name \
--lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \
--transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class

_DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales

Gruber’s breakdown

iPhone 17: 36.5%

iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%

iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%

iPhone 17e: 2.5%

iPhone Air: 1.5%

Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer

Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay

Modesty panel

Command Strips

Members-only ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar?

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Granola: The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings

zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now.

Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today.

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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

The Marco Offset™

September 2026 event

MacRumors on the cellular chips

SynthID Standard

Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview

Surface Duo

PowerBook Duo

Rafa’s toot about layouts

Apple Developer Videos

Post-show: Jetty update

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU

Ben Thompson’s breakdown

Gruber’s take

Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent

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ElevenLabs: AI Customer Support Agents

Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy

Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last

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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

The Marco Offset™

Follow-up:

Luz fooled me, Jerry!

Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz

Mea culpa

Apple fooled us all

Siri blobs fix

System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)

John is happy with new Macs timetable

Are photo libraries on external disks supported?

Knowledge base

Iris

Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro

Dithering

Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)

✅ Tim Cook exit interview

AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)

Phil takes another step toward the door

Emma Roth at The Verge

Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too

iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews

iPhone event preview

Post-show: John’s storage update

Backblaze B2

Amazon S3

Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro

10 May: Mark Gurman

3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors

21 August: Gurman

30 August: Gurman

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Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows

Screen clips

Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)

TPU for AMS

🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Follow-up:

macOS 27 UI tweaks

Redesigned stoplights in β6

Video

Stoplights

Stretchy buttons

Video

Porsche 911, 996 generation

In defense of the fried egg Porsches

Turning off the Siri logo

macOS 27 got the new Preview icon

LLM determinism when temperature = 0

Write-up by Horace He

IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas

See also

Other people’s phones

Not sped up! All 1×!

i vs. I

Apple iPhone event announced

New Mac mini and Mac Studio

Core size comparison

SME replaces AMX in the M6

Exploratory Github Repo

AMX instruction set

SME Introduction

Hello SME

Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2

Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)

Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!

High Yield diagram

M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max

Mac mini

Video support summary from Tim Hardwick

Mac mini pricing history

…inflation-adjusted

Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability

Gruber on pricing

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Behind the scenes

Mac Studio

Gruber on pricing

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John’s purchasing journey

The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler

The accessory that’s also a spoiler

New […ish] keyboards!

MacRumors coverage

Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A

Previously: MXK83LL/A

John’s keyboard (previously)

MMMR3LL/A

A2520

New polishing cloth!

MacRumors coverage

Copland Supply

Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app

Front and Center

SwitchGlass

Hyperspace

DragThing

Icon

Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations?

Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault

Benchmark 1

Benchmark 2

Linus Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)

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Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil

Daikin

Home Assistant integration

Home Assistant Green

Follow-up:

The OpenAI doughnut

What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)

Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)

Biconcave disc

Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem

Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)

RAMageddon

Apple gets lower display prices

Apple raises trade-in values

🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉

E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone

Skybridge

Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App

Kanban

Quitter

Forecast

AI watermarking

Steganography

How Claude’s text watermark works

Pseudorandom number generator

A wonderful visual guide

Some 3Blue1Brown homework

LLMs explained briefly

Next-word prediction probabilities

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs

Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable

Image

Gruber’s take

Some responses to Gruber

Dan Moren

Daniel Jalkut

Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals

Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”

I Made This

Post-show: Casey has news

CarMax

Previously on ATP…

BMW i4

San Remo Green

A Better Route Planner

EV Stupidity Checklist

Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)

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