553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
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- The Marco Offset
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Follow-up:
- Apple-products-save-your-life video
- Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
- Titanium watches
  - Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
  - Warranty (via Doug Miller)
- Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
- Casey’s live adventure
  - Related The Verge article
  - Marco’s option
- Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
- Apple “blue” over time
- iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
  - iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
  - iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
- iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
  - 14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
  - PetaPixel was confused too
  - The arrangement changed
  - iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
  - 5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
  - 3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
  - iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
  - PetaPixel camera review
  - DPReview
- USB-C begets external display support
  - Apple support document
- USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen Kankanala)
  - Example
- iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
- iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
- iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
- Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
  - Similar to Peak Design case?
- Apple 2030
  - Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
  - Environment FAQ
- Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
  - New York Times interview from 2020
Gruber’s post
- Geekbench 6
  - Single-core
    - M2 Max: 2,803
    - Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 4,220
  - Multi-core
    - M2 Ultra: 21,299
    - Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 29,015
- Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
  - Luke Miani
  - Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs
#askatp:
- How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
  - The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
- How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
- Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks

Transcript

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0:00.0	I have to tell the listeners how John Syracusa makes enhancement requests for the ATP-CMS.
0:08.0	Is that what they are?
0:10.0	Enhancement requests?
0:12.0	Honestly, I'm getting code.
0:14.0	The ATP-CMS is a custom CMS that I wrote in PHP against my custom PHP framework that I've
0:24.0	been using for years.
0:26.0	Basically, nobody can really use it that well.
0:29.0	It's not a common framework.
0:31.0	It's not documented at all.
0:33.0	I basically just do it.
0:36.0	The problem is that John has wishless items.
0:40.0	I do too.
0:41.0	We wishless items.
0:42.0	The reality is this is busy time for both me and any iOS developer.
0:48.0	This is a busy time.
0:50.0	Enhancement requests to the podcast CMS are not super urgent usually.
0:55.0	Therefore, not very high on the priority list.
0:58.0	What John does to encourage me to do the request that he has, which is surprisingly effective.
1:06.0	By far, the most effective method yet.
1:09.0	I'm not doing it to encourage you to do them.
1:12.0	I'm doing it to almost do all the work for you.
1:16.0	Yes.
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