406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs
- Mac-optimized TensorFlow 2.4 fork makes things fly
- M1 Mac 8K render test
- Running iOS apps with
IPAs - CrossOver runs Windows apps/games on M1 Macs — including 32-bit games!
- iOS 14.3 no longer opens the shortcuts app when launching apps from custom icons
- Widgetsmith (App Store link)
- HealthView
- Apple Configurator
- GitHub’s ICE relationship is indirect
- De-duplicating Contacts
Card→Look for Duplicates...
- It’s been ≈10 years since Build & Analyze #1. What’s changed?
- Scaling the M1 architecture to higher-end machines
#askatp- Robot or Not: Cache edition (via Chris Cioffi)
- Are we concerned about the longevity of M1 chips? (via Colin Devroe)
- Do we believe in cable management? (via Nick)
- Post-show: Marco’s ruined backpack
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm kind of interested in the mini review, except I am extremely, I am extremely not interested |
| 0:05.1 | in your mini review, because I don't want to know. |
| 0:08.1 | Oh, my iPhone mini? |
| 0:09.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:10.6 | I don't want to know. |
| 0:12.2 | So let me tell you. |
| 0:13.4 | I don't want to know. |
| 0:14.4 | I stopped the show run down right after we got that thing, but Marko can feel free to |
| 0:19.6 | talk about it if he wants. |
| 0:21.1 | During the topic section, which we'll get to shortly. |
| 0:27.5 | Next resolution switching on M1 MAX. |
| 0:31.2 | GoKin, Afcaro Gulari writes, and I believe this individual's NAPL engineer writes, I was |
| 0:38.0 | waiting for this. |
| 0:39.0 | Our display pipes are many years ahead of the industry, and this is just one example of |
| 0:42.2 | that. |
| 0:43.2 | From contrast to accessibility to color management, many teams at Apple, including my display driver |
| 0:47.3 | team, put so much effort to it, glad to see it makes a difference. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, it does make a difference because I finally saw a demo and somebody tweeted this |
| 0:57.2 | and we'll put a link in the show notes. |
| 0:59.2 | They have, I guess, an older, an old-enbusted MacBook Pro on one side. |
| 1:04.6 | They have the current top of the line MacBook Pro, the 16-inch, yes. |
| 1:08.5 | Yep. |
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