630: Time to Spiral

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner
  - New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
  - Spatial Gallery
  - Metallica immersive special is coming
    - Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
- iPad Air corner
  - “2× bass” false alarm
    - 404
  - Appeal
    - Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
    - 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
  - Example video from Fabian
- More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)
- MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography
- Regarding the “Hidra”
  - ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
    - Interview with Srouji (timestamp link)
  - Lernaean Hydra
- Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra
- Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6
  - GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
    - 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757
    - 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003
  - CPU:
    - M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
      - ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813
      - ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921
    - M3 Ultra multi-core: 28,119
      - ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373
      - ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647
  - More from Ars Technica
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
  - ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
- Threads timeline setting update
  - ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
  - The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
- Thoughts on Feedback
Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
Post-show: John’s speaker update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
- VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
- Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹

Transcript

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0:00.0	I mentioned last week that I was, I had to go to the bank to get cash for the restaurant because I had like never had to deal with cash before.
0:09.5	Turns out I did in fact do that wrong.
0:13.4	Did you get monopoly money?
0:14.9	I would like to state for the record that Marco put into our internal show notes pre-show, Marco went to the bank wrong.
0:22.5	How did you go to the bank wrong?
0:25.6	What do you think I might have forgotten exists?
0:28.6	You did not pass going to not collect $200?
0:31.3	Withdrawals flips or something equivalent.
0:34.2	Coins.
0:35.7	Oh.
0:36.9	I got no change. Oh. I got no change.
0:41.2	So I had to go back today.
0:42.7	Second time, like, oh, I also need coins to fill the drawers.
0:46.6	Did you get pennies?
0:47.7	I thought about it.
0:48.5	But like, you know, to get pennies, what that means, like a roll of pennies is 50 cents.
0:53.2	So what that means is I spent $2. I got four rolls of pennies is 50 cents so what that means is i spent
0:54.4	two dollars i got four rolls of pennies like we'll see if i ever actually use them so we'll
0:59.3	see but uh you know maybe they'll be illegal or ban by the time i actually you know open for full
1:04.5	service who knows we'll find out but yes i did indeed get pennies because it turns out because
1:09.6	coins are generally worth so little,
1:12.0	getting anything but quarters costs basically nothing.
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