420: I Have No Urge to Speak
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- VPNs and Supervised devices
- Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres)
- Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance
- The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon
- More on Clubhouse
- Chat room
- Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵
- “Ephemeral” Clubhouse
- John “tried” Twitter Spaces
- Super Follows
- Twitter “Communities”
- Overcast 2021.1
- How’s Swift going for us?
#askatp- Post-show: Why would one buy an Audi?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For the pre-flight the thing that we really need to pre-flight is the pre show |
| 0:03.6 | Please to have you work out which of you has a half an hour of content that you're gonna stick before |
| 0:09.3 | The fun John the fun is neither Marco nor I knows who's gonna win right? |
| 0:15.8 | But see the problem is when you get this you know 100-year storm thing where we have 45 minutes before the little modem sound so work something out, please |
| 0:23.1 | All right, and anonymous Apple employee writes to make yet another correction |
| 0:28.6 | This is turning into the T whatever whatever whatever feedback |
| 0:31.6 | And another correction with regard to always on VPNs and work devices and so on |
| 0:36.8 | This anonymous Apple employee writes the always on VPN mentioned in on a past episode cannot all caps be implemented on a user-owned |
| 0:44.2 | iPhone or iPad that policy can only be applied on supervised devices |
| 0:48.1 | Which if you recall is just a Apple's fancy word for a corporate owned iPhone |
| 0:51.5 | You can only supervise an iPhone if the company purchased it through a specific reseller or carrier or the company takes over the ownership of your phone |
| 0:59.4 | Which is extremely rare and this usually only happens with donated devices |
| 1:02.9 | It's a tedious process which requires a full phone race and multiple steps in other words a company cannot snoop your web traffic |
| 1:09.3 | Unless they own the phone moving right along Julian Torres writes |
| 1:13.3 | There's a preference in settings on iOS under contacts called short names that allows you to set the system wide preference |
| 1:19.9 | What was the context that context for this? I don't know. It was like the mom and dad whether you use their names or their nicknames in your address book |
| 1:26.6 | And what shows up where and I was trying to recall that there was some setting that you could use to control this |
| 1:30.6 | But the not all apps honored it this I think was the setting I was thinking of |
| 1:34.5 | I seem to recall also messing with either messing with the setting and expecting it to work on the Mac or there's an equivalent on the Mac |
| 1:40.5 | But it's the type of thing where you can suggest that this is how things show up |
| 1:44.1 | And I bet if you call the right Apple API is it honors this setting |
| 1:46.8 | But if you don't and just have or just pulling the contact data directly in your app |
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