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Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
Raven scanner (defunct)
Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
Follow-up:
Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
Charlie Chapman’s 📱💨
AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
Extend your AppleCare+ coverage
iPad nano-texture glass
Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
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iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
MKBHD’s reel
Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
Apple stickers (via Scott)
The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
NEON
M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
Tom’s Hardware
M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
Apple announces new accessibility features
Vehicle Motion Cues demo video
Shelly Brisbin’s take
John’s brief iPad Pro review
iPad Pro dissatisfaction
Federico Viticci: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
Steve Troughton-Smith: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)
John Gruber: The M4 iPad Pros
Ask ATP:
Will the M4’s new display driver set us up for a 2-external-display computer with M4? (via Rumee Ahmed)
Why is there so much discussion about CPU power in iPads but not iPhones? (via Mike Runcieman)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
Meta announcement
Meta Quest 🤝 Xbox
Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure
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Follow-up:
More on RAM in base-model Macs
HomeKit light controls UI
Holoplot speakers in the Sphere
Festival speakers
One last ride for FineWoven?
Apple’s May Event
🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺: Charger sold separately
And no soup stickers for anyone
Apple’s commercial hullabaloo
Hydraulic Press Channel
Federico’s Thunderbolt image
Quinn Nelson’s Tandem OLED video
Binning
Rick Williams’ question
Logitech Combo Touch keyboard
Apple Pencil Pro box designs
Infuse
Post-show Neutral: The Cybertruck has landed across the street from Casey
Pontiac Aztek
Subaru BRAT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Silicon in AI servers?
MacRumors in April
MacRumors in May
The Wall Street Journal on May 6
The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+ link)
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Pre-show: Casey’s after-action report
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
RelayFM Podcastathon 2023 Part 1 & Part 2
Follow-up:
It’s possible to toggle a dimmable light in Home.app (via Dan Sturm)
The Hayes AT command set is still going strong 😱 (via Pedro Fernandes)
TSMC unveils 1.6nm process for 2026 chips
Anandtech’s coverage
Rabbit R1 reviews
Stephen Robles
MKBHD
David Pierce @ The Verge
Ben Lovejoy @ 9to5Mac
Dave2D
Riley Testut on Delta availability
iPadOS is classified as “Gatekeeper” under the DMA
No new Vision Pro until late 2026?
May 7 Apple event
Tim Cook’s tweet
M4 iPad rumor
Ask ATP:
Did Marco give up on fussy coffee, as Casey’s prophecy foretold? (via Charlie Sorrel)
Trade Coffee (literally sponsoring this episode)
YES PLZ (has previously sponsored)
Cometeer frozen coffee pods (Marco’s referral link)
Can we give WWDC tips? (via Andy)
Are we worried about charging station privacy? (via Wade)
Automakers are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior with Insurance Companies (11 March 2024)
GM Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers (22 March 2024)
Post-show: Marco’s after-action report
The Sphere
How the Sphere Works
The Verge’s coverage
Pillow Jets video (🍄🎆)
Drew Carey’s review (NSFW)
AmazeVR
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Previously on ATP…
Introductory video
The Verge coverage
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Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
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Follow-up:
Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS volumes
Handedness & “jumped” vs. “jumps”
Pangrams
Clarifications on the xz sabotage (via Mat Gadd)
The Delta game emulator is now available!
🇪🇺 AltStore PAL
🌎 App Store
#1 free app!
Apple allows using used parts for repairs
Stephen’s take
Apple’s lobbying history
Apple press release
iFixit blog post
Ceiling fan switches
Lutron Caséta (smart home switches/dimmers/fan controls)
Lutron Sunnata (dumb dimmer)
Waveform lighting
Ticketmaster finally getting what it deserves?
Wall Street Journal
Broadband labels
M4 Macs are coming this year?
iPhone 16/16+ to have more RAM?
Mac desktop RAM chart
Mac laptop RAM chart
Installing audio apps is going to get easier?
Rogue Amoeba’s 2024 Sitrep
Ask ATP:
Is the M4 generation worth holding out for?
Why don’t we have 32-bit emulation? (via Joe Bezdek)
Will the [presumably HDR] phantom OLED iPad Pro work well as a second display with something SDR?
Post-show: Marco is going to The Sphere
Billy Joel: The 100th
The New Yorker on Billy’s helicopter rides
But apparently he’s given up the helicopter rides
Turn the Lights Back On
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Jony Ive & Sam Altman seeking funding for “personal AI device”
Apple’s screen-reading AI system
Paper (PDF link)
3Blue1Brown videos
But what is a GPT?
Attention in transformers, visually explained
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Pre-show: Power problems
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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 to 34m28s)
Belkin phone holders
iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Apple TV 4K
Auto-Tracking Stand Pro with DockKit
A first look at 🇪🇺’s alternative app stores
Jason’s fresh-install experience
Apple opens App Store to “retro” game emulators
Official guidelines
James Thomson
Ben McCarthy’s forthcoming Ketchup app
First emulators arrive
iGBA removed for unknown reasons
Riley’s take
Apple’s clarification why iGBA was removed
Nintendo nukes Yuzu
The Verge initial coverage & follow-up
Ask ATP:
How does John manage new Safari windows? (via Jan Wedekind)
Do we use case-sensitive file systems on our Macs? (via Pedro Fernandes)
Unicode normalization
What kind of fan did Marco buy? (via Matt McCurdy)
Fanimation
Post-show:
Lutron Diva smart switch
Lutron Claro accessory switch for Diva dimmers on multi-way circuits
Members-only ATP Overtime: Visiting with old friends
Automattic acquires Beeper
NY Times coverage
Adium
texts.com
Humane AI Pin reviews
David Pierce @ The Verge
MKBHD
Cybertruck clip
Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
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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 “M4 Ultra” rumors
Reticle limits
NVIDIA GH100 GPU
Apple laying off 700+ workers
MacRumors
Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock
Reuters
Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
Casey has tried Spatial Personas
Upgrade #507: Differently Social
Game Room (App Store link)
Battleship
Gucci (App Store link)
Trailer
Turok
Ask ATP:
How does one buy a car? (via Chandler Kent)
CarEdge
Deal School 3.0
What even is ownership, these days? (via Anonymous)
Egghead Software
SimCity copy protection (the red image on the right-hand side)
Overton Window
This article says Catalyst is abandoned; is it? (via Jonathan Sibley)
Post-show: Rivian Bluetooth & Fast-Charging Sitrep
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple making robots? 🤖
ImageWriter
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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? (via Bilal Khan)
LG DualUp Monitor
Apple IDs & real-world verification (via Simone Rizzo)
Non-email Apple IDs do still exist (via Erik)
Apple podcast transcripts & ☁️ computing (via Ben)
MacWhisper
Microsoft is learning from Apple’s mistakes and is pre-emptively splitting Teams off from Office
No UltraFusion interconnect on M3 Max?
MacRumors
Vadim Yuryev
Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas
Connected #496: I Tried to Put My Finger in Myke’s Mouth
Jason’s take
Stephen’s take
Apple’s MLS Playoffs immersive video
Jason’s take
Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Mad Max: Fury Road
Centered framing
The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing
Vroom
F1TV
MultiViewer
Post-show: New theme song! Thank you, Jonathan Mann!!
Members-only ATP Overtime:
Hardware vulnerability in Apple Silicon
Michael Tsai’s coverage summary
Explanatory video
xz Utils backdoor
The Verge coverage
xz attack shell script
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Compulsory xkcd
I am not a supplier
OSQI
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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 monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽
Forum shopping
Legal experts praise DOJ case
DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing
WWDC announced
Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
People are fed up with useless tech in their cars
EuroNCAP is doing the Lord’s work
New CarPlay is Apple’s last hope to crack cars?
Real-time operating system
QNX vs. Android Automotive
QNX
Ask ATP:
How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)
Everyone’s Sony alarm clock
What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)
Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer
PaintCode
Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of Apple ID
To be rebranded as “Apple Account”? (February 2024)
More from MacRumors (March 2024)
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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’ / ~2.5m
Underscore: 19’4” / ~6m
John: 23’5” / ~11m
Magnets in Apple Watch bands (via Harvey Simon)
Modern Buckle
Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
The Verge
Lawsuit PDF
Transcript of prepared remarks
Toot from Glyph
Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates
Another AI paper from Apple
VentureBeat summary
Stratechery recap (Paywalled)
Apple partnering with Google or OpenAI?
Bloomberg coverage
Humane Ai Pin
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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 Field
More options for 🇪🇺 distribution
Getting ready for Web Distribution
Newly proposed Apple flow
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED gets first attempted fix
Original feature
Google Gemini’s revisionist history
Reconcilable Differences #228: Big Filter Boy
Stratechery: Aggregator’s AI Risk
Gemini refuses to answer election questions
Reuters
Ask ATP:
How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
Super Smash Brothers
Mega Man 2
OpenEmu
Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)
Playdate
Swift on the Playdate
Pico 8
Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rabbit r1
Interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu
Neuro-symbolic model
CueCat
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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 practices
The Verge
EU ruling
Apple’s response
Sherman Antitrust Act
AltStore has received its MarketplaceKit entitlement
Apple’s DMA policy updates
Updated rules
Apple terminates Epic’s developer account
Epic’s blog post
Example tweet
Post-show Ask ATP: If we could solve one of Apple’s legal problems, what would it be? (via Marc Robinson)
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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 Codec Avatars” vs. Personas (via Gottfried Chen)
Facebook video
Uncanny valley graph
Casey’s podcast appearance
CrackGate
Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan
MacRumors coverage
New York Times coverage
Tim Cook on cars in 2017
MJ Tsai
Jeff Johnson
Ask ATP:
What email clients do we use? (via Joe)
Claris Emailer
Entourage
Why hasn’t Marco fallen off the deep end explored a DIY mechanical keyboard? (via Warren Bakay)
How interested are we in LLMs & generative AIs?
sdxl⚡lightning
Post-show: WWDC wish-casting
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 example
Persona Studio (App Store link)
Apple defends against future iMessage attacks
Apple blog post
Ask ATP:
How do we evangelize Mac-assed Mac apps? (via Ian Malczewski)
If we could get one new API for our apps, what would it be? (via Julian Gamble)
Could Marco best/first/favorite Phish concerts? (via Winnie Lewis)
Reconcilable Differences
Live Phish
Post-show: Using a high-end camera and gear for Vision Pro panoramas
Fuji GFX
Canon dual fisheye lens
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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 Rosensteel
iMessage will not be regulated as part of DMA
WhatsApp interoperability strategy
Riley Testut of AltStore weighs in on third-party marketplaces
What is a €1M “line of credit”, anyway?
Apple Vision Pro
Guest mode
HDCP
Voices of VR Podcast with Bert Nepveu
Fitts’ Law on Dithering
⌘-Tab
EyeSight
Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro after-action report
Casey’s blog post
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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 of view for movies
Pixels per degree:
iPad Pro 11” @ 14” / 35cm = 67 ppd
65” 4K TV @ 5 feet / 1.5m = 76 ppd
Pro Display XDR @ 2 feet / 0.6m = 100 ppd
Real vs. Fake 3D
iFixit Teardown
Video part 1
Video part 2
Vision Pro initial thoughts
John on spatial computing
Captain EO
Soarin’
VAC
Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro train experience
Casey Neistat’s video
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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 Developer documentation
Apple Developer News
Gruber’s summary
Apple Fee Calculator
Marketplace requirements
MarketplaceKit
Developer documentation
Upgrade #497: The Poison Pill
Tapestry Kickstarter
Actual DMA text
English
Steven Sinofsky’s Summary
MacStories Summary
Ask ATP:
Do we ever go mono on our AirPods? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
Are there any apps we’d make if there weren’t already ♾️ takes on that app? (via Aaron Thomas)
Total Annihilation
Ferrite
What settings do we use for Apple Music? (via Christian Kent)
Mimi Hearing Test
Post-show: Casey is amped about his forthcoming Mac monitor
Ensemble to pull individual windows into visionOS
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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 ban
Gruber’s take
Apple Vision Pro preorders
Accessories
Battery
Belkin Battery Holder
Travel Case
Light Seal
Light seal sizes? (via Quinn Nelson)
Light Seal Cushion
Solo Knit Band
Dual Loop Band
Optical inserts (readers or prescription)
Please don’t break one 💸
The Verge
Weight
You have to pair the optical inserts
Launch inventory was 80,000 units?
But sales may have hit 180k?
Reseller market is optimistic
ebay Search
Apple Vision Pro Guided Tour
Sorry, non-🇺🇸
Ask ATP:
Does the Apple Vision Pro work like a camera viewfinder? (via Nigel Warren)
Do we do anything to back up our emails? (via Lawrence Koteff)
Google Takeout
Do we use iMessage Contact Key Verification? (via Severin)
Post-show: Family Apple Vision Pro vibe check
QuickDraw 3D
Scrapbook
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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 Yost)
Meta Oculus Quest 2 Inserts
Apple turns off blood oxygen sensor to avoid import ban
Dear Epic, 🖕. Love, Apple
Support page
MacRumors summary
The Art of the Possible
Tyler Hall on “Modern-day Apple”
Ben Thompson’s take at Stratechery (Paywalled)
Ask ATP:
How would we set up an iOS device for the elderly? (via Seppe Rutten)
Assistive Access
Why do audio-free apps sometimes stop playback of other apps? (via Wilson Martinez)
Levis app (App Store link)
Why doesn’t Apple just make HomePod mini into a mesh router? (via Saif Khan)
Post-show: What is a truck, anyway?
Casey’s poll
Maybe not a northern thing?
Greg Pierce gets nerdy about it
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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 how you represent “Vision Pro”
Apple is offering Vision Pro demos
Apple Vision Pro focal distance?
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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 2024 Preview
PolyCam
AirPods 4 Redesign?
Side-loading in the EU
Post-show: Yearly Themes
YouTube video
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