405: The Benevolence of the Powerful
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Why are we recording early?
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s watch band
youtube-dlis back on Github- M1 chip name predictions (Overcast link) (via Cameron Deardorff)
- ARM Macs and Touch
- macOS 11.1 is in Beta
- McGurk effect
- Casey’s weird discovery
- Casey got new watches
- M1 Mac Performance
- M1 MacBook reviews
- App Store Small Business Program
- Post-show:
- Casey is begging for help on FB8893003. Please, Apple. Please.
- John’s iPhone 12 Pro cases sitrep
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| 0:00.0 | So we are recording at an unusual time for the second consecutive week. |
| 0:05.0 | What's going on here? |
| 0:06.2 | It's my fault because I got COVID. |
| 0:09.5 | That is super unfortunate. |
| 0:10.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.4 | I don't want to make a big hairy deal out of it because fortunately, |
| 0:16.6 | I've been lucky enough that I'm recovering well and no one else in my family got |
| 0:21.7 | like actual noticeable symptoms really. |
| 0:25.4 | So that's what's going on. |
| 0:27.4 | But I'm almost done with it. |
| 0:29.7 | And I basically just, you know, normally I didn't know whether to even mention this publicly or not. |
| 0:36.9 | It's kind of embarrassing. |
| 0:38.7 | Certainly to be a liberal person who thinks they're responsible and to get COVID, |
| 0:45.1 | there's some degree of shame in it and embarrassment in it. |
| 0:49.4 | But I decided to tell everyone anyway, just in this very quick thing |
| 0:54.7 | before we get started on all the tech BS that we normally talk about, |
| 0:58.6 | because I thought it was a lot safer than it was to be in the place that I was, |
| 1:06.3 | occasionally going to a restaurant and stuff. |
| 1:09.0 | We live in a small town where there were previously zero known cases, total. |
| 1:15.1 | And so I was going into everyday life with a risk profile as if it was very safe. |
| 1:23.0 | And fortunately, it seems like almost no one in the town got it. |
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