579 episodes

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

Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

    • Technology
    • 4.4 • 2K Ratings

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

    Socks in the Knob-Hole

    Socks in the Knob-Hole

    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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    • 1 hr 45 min
    Use Your Words

    Use Your Words

    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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    • 1 hr 55 min
    Weird Can Be Beautiful

    Weird Can Be Beautiful

    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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    • 1 hr 51 min
    Colorful Criticism

    Colorful Criticism

    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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    • 1 hr 56 min
    Quiet Little Leech

    Quiet Little Leech

    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

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Walk a Little Faster

    Walk a Little Faster

    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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    • 2 hr 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
2K Ratings

2K Ratings

Aditya514 ,

My kind of people

My favorite tech podcast. Marco, Casey and John are my kind of people. Been listening for the past 3 years and will keep listening. Wish there was an easy way to catch up with older episodes.

DocWallaby ,

Oh look, Marco’s complaining again …

And Casey’s piling on! (Drinking game: take a swig whenever Casey calls something Apple says or does “gross.”) While John’s pedantry used to essentially be played for laughs, the Hypercritical one is now the only sane member of the triumvirate reining in his two cohosts when they go off the rails. In a recent episode, for instance, Marco basically stated that Apple canceling Epic’s European developer account is a warning to all developers to not badmouth Apple, lest you too lose your developer account for the crime of hurting Apple’s feelings. Mr. Siracusa had to step in and explain just how unreasonable that interpretation was. But Marco will never miss a chance to take the most uncharitable interpretation of Apple’s actions and then turn that up to eleven. It amazes me that two men who have built their current careers off of Apple’s platforms lack so much self-awareness when they incessantly(and with increasingly hyperbolic language) complain about Apple’s sense of entitlement. (Pots and kettles.) Honestly? It’s kinda gross. If you want to listen to more Apple content, The Talk Show is still my top pick. Gruber and his weekly-ish guests generally are able to call out Apple’s faults without it becoming a sad parody. If you want more Siracusa content, Reconcilable Differences is always a fun listen unless there’s toe content. But my patience with and respect for ATP has fallen off of a cliff.

Gameman114 ,

If You Hate Apple Then This Is the Podcast for You!!

Every episode is essentially the same: over 2 hours of the hosts constantly talking about all the things they hate about Apple. Occasionally one of them will break in to remind the audience that they actually love Apple, so they don’t lose subscribers, but then it’s right back to the hate. This podcast gets tiresome VERY quickly.

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