578: Weird Can Be Beautiful

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show:
- ATP Overtime
- ATP Insider: John’s Windows
  - ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County
- ATP Membership FAQ
- AppStories
Follow-up:
- Callsheet available on visionOS
- “Put me on Aux” (via Sam Davies)
- Spotify & free users (via Colin Meney)
- 256 GB M3 MacBook Air has 2× 128 GB NAND chips
  - iFixIt Teardown
- Project Titan chip rumors
- What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
- Epic’s developer account reinstated
  - Gruber’s take
  - Upgrade #503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the Field
- More options for 🇪🇺 distribution
  - Getting ready for Web Distribution
  - Newly proposed Apple flow
- ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED gets first attempted fix
  - Original feature
Google Gemini’s revisionist history
Ask ATP:
- How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
- Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)
  - Playdate
    - Swift on the Playdate
  - Pico 8
Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rabbit r1

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh my god I can't wait I'm like one week away from being moved in to the new house
0:06.6	Seems unlikely
0:09.3	Wow John real confidence there.
0:12.8	I'd keep thinking back when we asked,
0:14.8	remember when we first asked Marco
0:15.8	when he thought his house would be done?
0:17.2	And they were like, they're telling me like October.
0:19.3	I think he said October, maybe,
0:21.6	maybe a month after that, if they run a little late I don't remember the exact
0:24.2	quote but yeah I believe I was I was feeling like I was being conservative and saying it might be as long as
0:29.1	Thanksgiving you didn't say the year though.
0:33.2	Oh God.
0:34.2	Goodness, that ain't right.
0:36.8	Oh my God, we're so close.
0:38.3	We're so close.
0:39.3	That's exciting.
0:40.3	That's very exciting.
0:41.3	Does your house have bathrooms now?
0:43.0	Almost. Well, it has bathrooms.
0:45.0	One week and we've got almost bathrooms.
0:48.0	I think those are, that's an important part of the house.
0:50.0	Okay, last time I was there, which was admittedly like a day and a half ago, they had working sinks, but the toilet had not been installed yet.
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