621: I'll Meet You Any Time You Want

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
- 20k Hz
- statuslight.com
Follow-up:
- That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
- The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
- Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
- The Magic Mouse
  - The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
  - The Mighty Mouse did
  - MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
    - Editorialized reel
  - What will the new one be?
    - Ridiculous mouse rumor
      - Gurman’s take
      - Hello, Computer
    - Death to buttons?
    - Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
    - Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
    - Perhaps a common charging approach?
- Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
- Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
CES 2025
- TVs
  - What’s John got his eyes on?
  - Sony 💔
  - Samsung’s new QD-OLED
    - HDTVTest
    - Digital Trends
  - LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
    - Microlens
    - Tandem OLED
  - Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
    - “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
    - HDTVTest on the Z95B
  - More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
  - Big TVs are big
- LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
  - Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
  - Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
- Dell no longer makes XPS computers
  - Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
  - Engadget’s take
- Nvidia’s announcements
TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
Post-show:
- Thanks, Patrons 💙
- Marco bought something.
  - HDCP
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels

Transcript

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0:00.0	I've got a problem. I don't understand the noises that my AirPods Pro, I call them the Mark 2.
0:08.1	So this is the AirPods Pro with the better ANC, but before you could get the USBC charging case, I don't remember the technical term for it.
0:18.6	AirPods Pro 2. Because the ones of the case are AirPods Pro 2 parentheses USBC charging
0:23.1	case or something. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're saying the same thing.
0:25.4	Yeah. So they're a little bit older now. I have had no, you know, battery issues. I've had
0:30.5	none of the crackling or whatever it was that a lot of people, including I think Marco had at some point or another. That was the first gen AirPods Pro 2, or the AirPods Pro 1.
0:39.0	That had those.
0:39.7	I haven't heard of any of those issues with the AirPods Pro 2, and I certainly haven't had
0:42.3	them myself.
0:42.8	Yeah, likewise.
0:43.5	I'm still waiting for you to close that parentheses, Casey.
0:45.2	You're killing me.
0:45.8	Keep going on.
0:46.4	Which parentheses?
0:47.6	I've got a problem with the AirPods, and then you went up on a tangent about which model you had. I know what problem you have as we talked about before we started recording, but please get to it.
0:55.1	Right, okay, so let's get to it.
0:56.2	I got a problem.
0:56.7	You tell the story.
1:00.5	So here's the thing.
1:02.3	I will put one or both of the AirPods
1:05.3	back into the charging case, right?
1:07.3	And I not infrequently use them in mono mode you know I'll have only one in my ear the other
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