421: The First Miniboss

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️
The iMac Pro is retired
- Gruber’s post
Follow-up:
- One reason to choose Audi
- Kiss Guy is real!
  - Interview
- Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard)
  - ⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump to Next/Previous Counterpart
- Logging into vaccinate.virginia.gov
Families: how do they work?
- No iLife is an Island
Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
- Google Takeout
- Twitter Archive
- ATP #155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original for discussion of John’s workflow
Apple cracks down on apps with “irrationally high prices”
#askatp
- Whose fault is it that Apple Silicon is 🔥? (via Nick)
  - M1 architecture research
  - Wintel
- What would Apple need to do to make macOS gaming competitive? (via Matt Chapman Jones)
  - DirectX
  - Cell
- Do we use battery backups for our desktops? What about other ancillary equipment? (via Ramanujan Srinath)
  - What John and Marco use

Transcript

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0:00.0	I am happy.
0:02.2	Good.
0:03.1	There's a couple of significant reasons why right now I shouldn't be this happy.
0:07.1	I shouldn't be incredibly happy because I have a flat tire I have to deal with.
0:10.4	Oh.
0:11.4	On your bicycle or your car?
0:12.4	On my car.
0:13.4	That's been parked in a parking lot for a while.
0:15.5	Yeah.
0:16.5	Somebody hit it a little bit and tore the tire.
0:18.6	Tore a hole in the sidewalk on the tire specifically.
0:20.4	So the tire is slowed down.
0:22.1	Very flat.
0:23.1	Slow down.
0:24.1	Somebody just casually hit your car.
0:26.4	How were you made aware of this?
0:27.8	I was made aware of this when I went to grow grocery shopping a few days ago.
0:33.4	Oh no.
0:34.4	After taking the boat over.
0:35.7	After taking the boat over in like the one time slot in the entire day that I could do
0:41.2	this because there's only two boats on the weekends.
0:45.2	It was at this point that I arrived at my car, got in, drove out of the parking spot and
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