387: It Might Not Be as Cool as You Think

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

ATP Membership Update!
Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙
- Bootleg feed is live!! Some details:
  - We may @$*&%ng swear
  - No ads, chapters, or audio quality
  - Show notes appear for each bootleg once the episode is published
Pre-show:
- Is FaceID working better with 😷?
- Beta stability
Follow-up:
- 🚨 ATP Mugs are not dishwasher safe! 🚨
  - Pencil holder
- USB4 vs. Thunderbolt 4
  - Summary on Wikipedia
- ARM Mac rumors
- An iPad Pro is an ARM Mac, right?
- Casey’s nameLiss computers (ugh. –ed.)
Casey’s defense of Big Sur’s look-and-feel
- Screenshot of TextEdit
#askatp
- What is up with Intel, anyway? (via Steve Lederer)
  - Process shrink
  - TSMC
  - x86
  - ARM
  - P.A. Semi
- Could one replace an actual computer with an iPad/iPhone, particularly for relatives?
- What on earth is up with the grille on the new 4 series?! (via Gavan Shanley)
  - BMW 850i
Post-show: 2021 Ford Bronco
- Lineup (PDF)
- Tonka

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the first week that the bootleg will be up.
0:03.9	We'll talk about that later, I guess.
0:05.8	Well, no, no, no.
0:06.4	I actually have something to say about that.
0:08.1	It occurred to me moments before starting the show
0:10.3	when I was reinstalling call recorders.
0:12.7	My backup recording, you know, for the 95th time
0:15.0	in the last two weeks.
0:16.2	You mean too?
0:17.2	Because it keeps disappearing.
0:19.8	It occurred to me that of the three of us, far and away,
0:24.2	irrespective of what computer I'm using,
0:26.7	it is my recording that fails most often.
0:29.0	It's not even a contest.
0:30.5	And I would argue that it is not typically something
0:34.2	that I have done, you know, there's no like negligence,
0:37.3	no, no, no.
0:38.6	Hello.
0:39.6	Oh, come on.
0:40.7	Come on.
0:41.7	I would argue.
0:42.8	Why aren't there at least a couple times
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