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Accidental Tech Podcast

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

  • 2 hours 19 minutes
    716: Take the Null
    • Pre-show: Siri AI foibles
      • The High Line
    • 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
    • Follow-up:
      • Fineliner
        • Fineliner 🤝🏻 ATP Graffiti shirt (via Nick Foster)
          • Download for use in Fineliner (in Fineliner’s settings, Font, Import Profile; note that this will overwrite your icons and avatar, too)
          • Palm Vx
          • PalmOS emulator
        • Why Overcast Radio LLC?
      • MacBook PROLED
        • Allison points out some dimensional errors on our part
        • You can completely turn off the touch screen (via Gui Rambo)
        • Pinch-to-zoom
        • Glowing Apple logo implementation software details
        • Avoiding keyboard marks with a microfiber keyboard dust cover (via Keith Huss)
        • Rounded corners (via Jeff)
          • Video
        • Reimar Servas show us why rounded corners are bad (via Marcin Wichary)
      • iPhone Duo
        • iPhone Duo will welcome you… sometimes? (YouTube timestamp link to 1m15s)
        • Crackgate
          • Andy Ihnatko notes Crackgate is a thing
          • Jay Peters at The Verge with a statement from Apple
          • CuriousHagi on YouTube (via Terrence O’Brien at The Verge)
        • Inner case with and without matte protector on JerryRigEverything (YouTube timestamp link to 6m45s)
          • Hinge is an ingress point for sand (10m35s)
        • iFixit Teardown
        • Two batteries are listed separately in Settings
        • iPhone Mirroring is outer-screen only (via Stephen Robles) (YouTube timestamp link to 42s)
        • Unlocking using the meat of your right index finger (via Sam Shepherd)
        • Reachability is coming in iOS 27.3
    • Phil Schiller’s long goodbye
      • …and Ternus’s long hello
      • …and Tim’s long goodbye
      • Apple Leadership
    • Post-show: Marco’s iPhones Duo
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Some fan-made tools for ATP listeners
      • ATP Titles by Cole Orton
        • Quiz
      • ATP Thingy Finder
      • Transcript search sites
        • CatATP
          • Chapter art
        • ATP Search by Marcos Huerta
        • ATP Transcripts by Roger Goldfinger
        • Podsearch by David Smith

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    5 November 2026, 9:50 pm
  • 2 hours 39 minutes
    715: Diner Lobster
    • Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
      • Stock checker
    • 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
    • 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Time Management is here! 🗣️
    • iPhone Duo first impressions
      • Stephen Robles’s shortcut
    • New Apple announcements
      • Monday: iPad Mini
      • Tuesday: M6 iMac
      • Tuesday: M6 MacBook Pro
      • Wednesday: OLED MacBook Pro
        • Launch video
        • Advertisement
        • 🚨 THE LID LIGHT IS BACK! 🚨
        • Stephen Levy at Wired
        • Design for Touch on Mac
      • Mac Studio with 512 GB RAM
    • Post-show: Marco’s new app, Fineliner
      • Parakeet
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Is Apple re-entering the server market??
      • Macworld: Apple may revive Xserve for the AI market
      • The Information
      • Gurman responds on Twitter

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    29 October 2026, 4:15 pm
  • 2 hours 25 minutes
    714: Get the Bigger Pizza
    • Pre-show:
      • John’s of Bleecker
      • Marco and Casey at John’s
    • 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
    • Follow-up:
      • HomeView
        • When was the HomeView hardware created?
        • Is it expensive? (via Paul Heering)
          • Amazon Echo Show 5: $99
          • Amazon Echo Show 8: $199
          • Amazon Echo Show 11: $249
          • Amazon Echo Show 15: $349
        • Wall-mount & regular HomeView pricing
          • Is it to prevent cheapskates? (via mvk)
          • Is it to prevent add-on dinguses (via Ben O’Matic)
        • Knock-offs coming soon?
        • Turns out, Jimmy is that guy. 😏
        • Phone screen vs. Duo screen
        • Will Marco be adding CarPlay support? (via Rick Allen)
      • Apple TV
        • Price history
          • March, 2015: Apple lowers the price from $99 → $69 (timestamp link to 10m14s)
          • Glenn Fleishman’s chart
        • Microphones and HomePods
        • AV1 (via Michael Barnes et al)
          • Reddit feature comparison
        • What is “audio passthrough” (via Andrew Haglund)
          • Explainer from Caleb Denison
      • The iPhone Duo has a replaceable cover layer
        • Interview with Kate Bergeron
    • iPhone Duo Creator Showcase
    • iPhone Duo preorder experience
    • iPhone Duo reviews
      • MKBHD
      • HTX Studio
      • Tim Pan
      • Joanna Stern
      • Nilay Patel & Allison Johnson
      • Gruber
      • John also brought up Computer Chronicles
    • Apple “Pro and Tell” event next week
    • Post-show: Marco has something to share
      • ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
      • The thing Marco shared
        • 🚨 You will want to click this after Marco introduces it, but before John talks about his experience! 🚨
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: The people holding up the internet
      • XKCD 2347

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    23 October 2026, 6:32 pm
  • 2 hours 14 minutes
    713: I Have Medium Hopes
    • Apple’s New Home-Related Products
      • HomeView
        • Newsroom
        • iMac G4
        • Intro video
        • TV commercial
        • Schneider press release
        • Wired’s review
        • WWDC 2026: Rev Up Your CarPlay App
        • Developer agreement
        • “HomeView” & “homeOS”
      • Apple TV 4K gen 4
        • Nvidia Shield TV
        • Newsroom
        • Intro video
        • MacRumors Buyer’s Guide
        • New Siri Remote
          • Precision finding requirements
      • HomePod mini 2
        • Newsroom
        • Intro video
      • Home collection
        • Newsroom
        • MacRumors
        • (See also the Schneider press release above)
    • Post-show: Casey got a UTR-LR
      • UTR
      • Flex Mini
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Regarding Passkeys are a Trap…
      • Ricky Mondello’s response
      • Scott Helme’s response

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    15 October 2026, 7:24 pm
  • 2 hours 17 minutes
    712: Mildly Technologically Traumatized
    • Pre-show: Marco tries a Waymo
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey’s MyBMW foibles
        • iMazing
        • Approov
          • BMW case study
        • Screen sharing
        • OBD-II
        • Home Assistant + Pushover + Shortcuts? (via Khaos Tian)
        • GL.iNet Comet Q
        • PiKVM
        • Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps
      • AirPower desk video was by HTX Studio
        • …who previously interviewed Tim Cook! (via Elijah Yap)
        • Original video (via Adeiko)
      • Ubiquiti home Wi-Fi vs. Eero
        • Previously on ATP Overtime
        • A positive anecdote
        • A negative anecdote
      • FiOS CableCARD discontinuation
        • RecDiffs #295: If I Adjust for Europe
      • TiVo’s desperation
      • One-AirPod vs. two-AirPod audio settings
        • Settings → Accessibility → AirPods → your AirPods
      • M6/A20 Pro details
        • High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on A20 Pro
          • Timestamp link to cores discussion @ 9m37s
        • High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on the M6 vs. M5
          • Timestamp link to M6 layout discussion @ 8m9s
          • Timestamp link to core images @ 12m40s
          • Timestamp link to A20 vs. M6 core comparison @ 9m37s
    • Rumored October event
      • See also, new home trinkets?
    • Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
      • Jason Aten on Muse reading his iMessages
      • Meta calls foul
    • Post-show: Casey and Marco go Phishing
      • Q Barbecue
      • Capital Ale House
      • Allianz Ampitheater
      • Setlist
      • Recording
      • Cupertino’s
      • iPhone Duo 3D-printing model (you want the variant labeled “Fixed the large black areas showing through.”)
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: AppZapper 3000 and The Delicious Generation
      • Disco Demo video
      • John’s review of Delicious Library from 2004
      • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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    8 October 2026, 6:50 pm
  • 1 hour 59 minutes
    711: Hot Dog on an Actuator
    • Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers
    • 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
      • Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
      • The Marco Offset™
    • Follow-up:
      • John’s mouse pad (via Andy)
        • Rounded corners are, bad, maybe?
        • AirPower… desk? 🤨
      • John’s weird AirPods 5 issues
      • Finding Intel apps in macOS
        • System Settings → General → About → Intel-based Apps
        • Learn more…
      • M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scores
      • New Mac mini storage caveats
      • 𝓍OS 27 Screen Time woes (Timestamp link to 8m50s)
      • iOS 27 vs. Pi-hole
        • dazfuller
        • Aaron Vegh
      • GM vs. CarPlay
        • Casey’s blog post
        • Casey’s mea culpa
        • Wait, just kidding
    • Apple Watch is listening…
      • Steve Riggins
      • What about “Hey, Siri”?
      • Nick Heer
      • MKBHD
    • Ask ATP:
      • What’s the highest mileage we’ve ever gotten to in a car? (via Elliot)
        • Saturn SL2
        • Nissan 300ZX
        • Nissan Maxima
        • Volvo 200 series
        • Honda Civic fifth-gen
        • Porsche IMS bearings
        • BMW VANOS
      • What is John going to do to deal with Gmail policy changes? (via Mark Bramhill)
      • Would Apple reuse the 2019 design for a phantom new Mac Pro? (via Ben Cooper)
    • Post-show: Casey tries to hack his car
      • Home Assistant
      • Wireshark
      • Charles Proxy
      • MQTT
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus’s “Intelligent Personal Hub” and Apple’s home AI hub
      • Digital Hub strategy (Timestamp link to 1h29m46s)
      • Intelligent personal hub
      • Gurman

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    1 October 2026, 1:37 pm
  • 2 hours 13 minutes
    710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling
    • 🗣️ 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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    24 September 2026, 5:13 pm
  • 2 hours 7 minutes
    709: Steel-Cable Insurance
    • 🗣️ 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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    17 September 2026, 9:26 pm
  • 3 hours 4 minutes
    708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin
    • 🗣️ 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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    10 September 2026, 6:04 pm
  • 2 hours 5 minutes
    707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost
    • 🗣️ 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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    3 September 2026, 3:43 pm
  • 2 hours 37 minutes
    706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
    • 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
        • Advertisement
          • Behind the scenes
      • Mac Studio
        • Gruber on pricing
        • Advertisement
    • 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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    27 August 2026, 7:13 pm
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