639: Crimp the World
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro
- Follow-up:
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
- Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙
- Custom Symbols App (App Store link)
- AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)
- “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy)
- Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic
- Apple appeals App Store rule changes
- Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options
- More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)
- Meanwhile, in the App Store…
- Home networking corner
- Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi
- Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)
- What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid)
- Casey’s sitrep
- 2× U6-LR installed
- 10GbE card installed in Synology
- Switches just arrived
- Camera time?
- Letterboxd SF Symbol
- Apple Turnover
- Some fun Apple media
- Backblaze drama
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start, I have a very, very tiny mini review of my M4 MacBook Pro. |
| 0:07.6 | Did we know you got one of those? |
| 0:09.0 | I mentioned it and we never followed up. |
| 0:11.0 | That was my like emergency pre-tariff purchase. |
| 0:15.0 | Righto. |
| 0:16.3 | And I got it to, I had to send my M2 MacBook Air down the hand-me-down line in the family. |
| 0:22.7 | And so I got it to replace that a little bit earlier than planned, |
| 0:25.9 | do the tariff concerns. |
| 0:27.8 | But it is now my new, like, you know, travel, lightweight, |
| 0:31.5 | mostly like train and ferry computer. |
| 0:34.1 | So I'm sorry, you went from an M2 MacBook Air... |
| 0:37.0 | Yes. |
| 0:37.4 | ...to an M4 MacBook Pro. Correct. And remind me, |
| 0:41.4 | remind me why go from Air to Pro? So I mainly wanted the nanotextor brighter screen. That was the |
| 0:47.7 | big thing because I secondarily would have liked, you know, the extra USBC port on the other side for charging on either side, |
| 0:55.6 | which I often run into, or the SD card reader, which I also often miss with the air. |
| 1:02.1 | But anyway, so I did it. |
| 1:03.8 | I've been living with that computer now for, what, about a month, almost. |
| 1:07.6 | And it's awesome. |
| 1:09.7 | Now, I'm sorry, I keep interrupting you and I apologize. |
| 1:11.9 | But what is the... |
| 1:12.8 | You're making this mini-reviewed of mid-review. |
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