489: Very Inappropriate Thoughts About This Computer
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco flirts with his past
- Follow-up:
- Bitcode has been deprecated
- Previously, on ATP #205 (Overcast timestamp link) (Transcript)
- New big HomePod rumor
- Ricky on Passkey syncing
- Very important Caffè Macs follow-up
- BNPL
- Bitcode has been deprecated
- The 256GB 13” M2 MacBook Pro has crummy SSD performance
- 15” MacBook… something?
#askatp- What makes WWDC ‘22 different than the before times? (via Elijah Yap)
- Are we living in the gilded age for Mac professionals? (via Wade Tregaskis)
- How close is APFS (🛎️) to ZFS? (via Dave Aton)
- Post-show:
- Casey impulse-bought a computer
- Marco traded in iPads
- Casey got his Playdate
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm trying to avoid getting my heart broken again. |
| 0:03.2 | So for various ways with the iOS beta situation |
| 0:07.2 | and everything, I mentioned that I had ordered myself |
| 0:10.7 | an iPhone 13 mini. |
| 0:12.3 | I had the 12 mini last year as my only phone, |
| 0:15.2 | and I loved it. |
| 0:16.8 | And the 13 Pro came out and won me back to the midsize, |
| 0:20.8 | which is really quite a large size |
| 0:22.7 | with the big camera system and the big battery |
| 0:24.6 | and everything because the mini's battery life sucked. |
| 0:26.8 | Well, then it turned out the 13 mini, |
| 0:29.4 | while it didn't have any of the fancy camera stuff, |
| 0:32.0 | it did improve the battery life a bit. |
| 0:33.3 | And I was a little envious, but I thought, |
| 0:35.6 | I don't need it. |
| 0:36.6 | I already have my pro phone. |
| 0:38.5 | I'll stick with the Pro. |
| 0:39.8 | I'll enjoy the camera, et cetera. |
| 0:41.8 | And I have for most of the year. |
| 0:43.5 | And it's this big, heavy brick in my pocket |
| 0:45.5 | every time I carry it anywhere. |
| 0:46.8 | And as the summer has been kicking into high gear, |
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