638: Hop, Hop, Hop
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions
- Follow-up:
- At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁
- Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay
- Epic vs. Apple
- The Verge on Apple’s decision making
- Apple’s Response
- Apple Appeals
- App Store rules have been changed
- MJ Tsai’s Roundup
- Tim Sweeney continues grandstanding
- Epic Games announces plans for a shop for iOS developers
- As was foretold, Stripe has entered the chat
- Patreon has also entered the chat
- Friend of the show Riley Testut works fast
- Spotify has also entered the chat
- Ubiquiti
- Marco Recommendations
- Cloud Gateway Fiber
- changedetection.io
- Pushover
- magicplan
- Ubiquiti Designer
- Hyperspace update
- Casey’s Coding Corner
- Vibe coding journey
- SF Symbols journey
- Post-show: Marco’s vibe coding journey
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro successor rumors
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| 0:00.0 | So, as mentioned a few times in the past, my kid, for his schooling, uses Chromebooks, like many American children. |
| 0:08.1 | And everything's on the Chromebook, as we discussed a little bit in our school special. |
| 0:12.0 | Obviously, because he is my kid, he is going to pay attention in school to the minimum degree required. |
| 0:19.6 | And the rest of the time is goofing off on his Chromebook. |
| 0:22.7 | Hmm. |
| 0:23.0 | Who does that sound like? |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, right? |
| 0:24.8 | And it's fine because, like, he gets decent grades and he doesn't cause problems in the class. |
| 0:30.4 | So the teachers don't care. |
| 0:31.5 | Like, they, I'm sure, I'm sure the teachers all know he's goofing off on the Chromebook. |
| 0:35.8 | And they, they just have bigger fish to fry. |
| 0:38.0 | So, like, they don't, they don't bother him and he doesn't bother them. |
| 0:41.0 | So anyway, the Chromebooks, though, have various, you know, like school content blocking |
| 0:47.0 | and filtering software installed. |
| 0:49.6 | Now, what do middle schoolers want to see on a computer? |
| 0:52.3 | It's nothing harmful. |
| 0:53.7 | They're not looking up, like, bad adult stuff. They just want to, on a computer it's nothing harmful they're not looking up like |
| 0:54.8 | bad adult stuff they just want to like watch youtube and play games like that's it it's all about |
| 0:59.2 | youtube and games that's that is like the holy grail is i want to goof off and watch youtube i want to |
| 1:04.6 | play some stupid web game that you know i can make this chrome book less horrible for myself |
| 1:08.7 | that's all they want to do so my kid kid has throughout his middle school career so far done all sorts of things to try |
| 1:16.0 | to evade the blocks to the point where even he was like running like a spreadsheet that |
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