502: Going Retina Again

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

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Pre-show:
- Marco has glasses
- …and iPhone cases
  - Pitaka MagEZ Case 3
  - Peak Design Everyday Case for iPhone
- ATP Movie Club: Episode 3: Edge of Tomorrow
  - Remember, only for members!
Follow-up:
- iCloud Shared Photo Library limitations
- There are lots of creaky clear cases out there
- Stage Manager will support older iPads
  - UIScreen.main
  - NSScreen.main
- When the always-on iPhone display goes dark
- Black-and-white always-on Lock Screen
  - Settings → Focus → {focus mode} → Options → Enable Dim Lock Screen
- Casey has some Apple Store experiences
  - Apple Watch Ultra
    - Alpine Loop
    - _’s Video
  - Returning a Solo Loop
    - TechCrunch coverage from 2020
Marco masquerades as a wedding photographer again
#askatp:
- Does the always-on display increase burn-in risk? (via Steve Holroyd)
- What is our version control strategy? (via Thomas Ferraro)
  - GitHub Flow
  - Oh 💩, Git!?!
- Do we use the production or beta versions of our own apps? (via Nick Clinch)
Post-show:
- Casey moves from Heroku → Linode
- John encourages Marco to walk through a forest and fight dragons

Transcript

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0:00.0	My desk is covered in glasses and iPhone cases.
0:05.9	It's that time of year apparently.
0:07.1	I saw a picture of you in one of those pairs of glasses.
0:09.8	I have notes.
0:10.8	Oh, oh, okay.
0:12.4	For the record, I thought they looked pretty good,
0:14.1	but apparently I'm wrong.
0:15.5	So what should I have said, John?
0:17.4	I mean, it's hard.
0:18.3	I'm not one of those people who can look at a picture
0:21.0	and know what like focal length the lens was that took it.
0:25.2	So maybe it was like kind of a wedding old thing,
0:27.2	but it looked a little bit too big for your head face.
0:29.9	I mean, it's just the iPhone front camera, whatever that is.
0:33.7	I mean, that is kind of wide angle.
0:35.0	So that I could have been fooled by the angle.
0:36.9	But I mean, although I have to say disclaimer,
0:40.4	we've been going to the eye doctor frequently
0:43.3	who is swapping glasses for the kids and every time I'm there,
0:45.9	I try and like every single pair of frames in the entire store.
0:49.2	Not that I'm there to get them,
0:50.0	but I'm like, here I am.
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