Accidental Tech Podcast

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern

The Marco Offset™

Flying Spaghetti Monster

Follow-up:

New treats

John

iPhone 18 Pro

John’s case

AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case

IP57

Dust protected

Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes

Oddities

Volume control

Marco

Apple Watch S12 Ceramic

Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?

Mac mini

Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum

How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)

Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)

Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores

Chart

Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)

iPhone Duo dev tools released

Aaron Vegh’s video

Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update

Ubiquiti WAN Switch

GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one

Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti’s new home Wi-Fi that does “full-duplex MLO

Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi

The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7

Introductory video

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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.

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

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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

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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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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last

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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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