428: A Series of Rectangles

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.

Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
- CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
- Apple TV
  - Calibration
  - Remote Design & Pricing
  - No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
  - Apple TV pricing
    - Apple TV / iTV
  - High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
  - AppleCare+ for Apple TV
- Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
- iMac
  - Power brick/cable
    - Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
    - 143 watts
  - VESA mount
  - Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
  - Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
- iPad
  - 12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
    - Center Stage will have an API
  - iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
  - 12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
- AirTags: for tracking your luggage
- Apple Premium Podcasts
- John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
- EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
  - DoE Map Search
  - Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
- What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
- Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
  - System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
  - Mat Honan’s tale of woe
- What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm feeling great right now.
0:02.7	Save for the show.
0:03.9	Save for the show.
0:05.6	Save for the show.
0:06.8	Yeah, so we have a lot of things to do.
0:09.8	This is not really the show, but I'm trying to ease into it since I've cut Marko off.
0:14.0	We have a lot of stuff to cover.
0:15.1	It's going to be John Syracuse's favorite kind of episode, an episode where it's probably
0:19.0	nothing to follow up.
0:20.8	So brace yourselves, everybody.
0:23.9	It is everyone's favorite time of year.
0:27.8	It is approaching WWDC time.
0:30.9	So what does that mean?
0:32.4	It means the ATP store is back and no snark.
0:38.5	I really mean this.
0:40.0	I've been really excited for this one.
0:41.2	I feel like we have a really good lineup this year.
0:43.2	Not that they've been bad in other years, but I feel like this year really good lineup.
0:47.4	And so here's what we've got.
0:49.3	If you are listening to this now recorded or live, you can go to ATP.fm slash store.
0:56.7	And we have several different offerings.
0:59.4	Let me briefly try to go through them all without John or Marko probably John interrupting
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