635: An Effective Operator
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 139 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
- Pre-show: Casey’s lightly broken his AirPods Pro 2
- 🗣️ ATP WWDC 2025 STORE IS UP!! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- 12 April: Trump excludes some electronics from tariffs
- 13 April: …except maybe not?
- Cross-platform photo management
- Nintendo Switch 2
- 4K 120Hz (via Kyle McMahon)
- Kickstand lumps (via Stuart Gibson)
- Other open-world racing games
- Console games price history
- Dropbox & File Provider
- John’s daughter’s college laptop
- Folding aspect ratios
- iPhone Mini… tri-fold? (via Peter Wagoner)
- MKBHD on the Huawei Mate XT
- Reverse-engineered Mac mini SSDs (via Jonathan Claydon)
- How Apple fumbled Siri’s AI makeover
- MacRumors summary
- More on JG’s Siri leadership
- On Robby Walker
- Cross-towngroup tensions
- That fateful demo
- NIH syndrome
- New York Times on Apple GPU purchases
- Post-show: AI mind-share
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces its 2025 TVs
Sponsored by:
- BetterHelp: Give online therapy a try and get on your way to being your best self.
- Mack Weldon: Get 25% off your first order of $125 or more.
- HelloFresh: America’s #1 meal kit.
Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I have a weird problem. I have many problems, lots of which are probably weird. Well, you've |
| 0:05.5 | come to the right place. I have one specific problem that I'd like to discuss. So I have what I've |
| 0:11.7 | always called, and I know it's not an official name by any capacity, an AirPods Pro Mark 2. So what I mean |
| 0:17.0 | by that is there were the AirPods Pro and then there was the second iteration of the AirPods Pro where it's still a lightning charging case but it got like the buds themselves got a lot more smarts. I forget the actual delineations. |
| 0:31.0 | That's the AirPods Pro 2. But the but the twos they had like a quiet like 2.1 version or I guess maybe they called it like |
| 0:38.3 | 2O in OpenAI notification. |
| 0:41.6 | So it was, so the AirPods Pro 2 have had two versions. |
| 0:46.5 | The Lightning Port case version and then the USBC case version. |
| 0:51.1 | You can't just buy a USBC case for the lightning port version because it's actually |
| 0:54.6 | like a slightly different hardware revision and the USBC version, which is still called AirPods Pro |
| 1:00.3 | too, but has the USBC case. That version has that special like lower latency mode for the Vision |
| 1:05.8 | Pro. Yes, yes. I know exactly what you're talking about. So I have had these AirPods Pro |
| 1:10.7 | mark two. I know that again, not the right name, but I'm just going to call it. So I have had these AirPods Pro Mark 2. |
| 1:11.9 | I know that, again, not the right name, |
| 1:13.1 | but I'm just going to call it that |
| 1:13.8 | because that's what I think of it as. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, wait, but which one do you have? |
| 1:16.2 | Do you have the first revision |
| 1:17.1 | of the twos or the second? |
| 1:18.2 | The lightning charging case one. |
| 1:20.2 | Okay, so the first, you know, |
| 1:21.0 | they're called AirPods Pro 2, the first ones. I don't know why you want to put Mark in there. Because I drive a Volkswagen. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marco Arment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marco Arment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.
