657: Ears Are Weird
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
- Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT
- Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”
- μm is a “micron”
- The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all
- iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed
- A19 vs. A19 Pro
- A19 Pro benchmarks
- The N1 is in every new iPhone
- The whole of the iPhone Air is in the camera plateau
- Casey’s memory problems corner
- ATP #655 (Overcast timestamp link)
- The mmWave antenna window is back
- Logo placement on Apple’s cases
- Some funny renders from iPhone case makers
- Theories about the iPhone 17 Pro colors
- iPhone Air
- Will it bend?
- 17 was a last-second decision? (via Sam Henri Gold)
- Max Tech’s discoveries
- The Air does not have stereo speakers
- The Dynamic Island is lower than on other phones
- The USB-C port is not vertically centered
- No Cinematic Mode video, including the selfie camera
- The new selfie camera is actually a 24MP sensor
- No LiDAR scanner
- Air & 17 non-Pro are limited to USB 2
- Every new iPhone screen has the same specifications, save size/resolution
- iPhones 17 can now toggle screen flickering off
- Apple Watch
- Satellite data requires a cellular plan
- Jason & Greg Pierce agree
- Is “24-hour” battery claim because of a change in measurement?
- Underscore’s observations about the Ultra
- AirPods
- Ear shapes (via Tirial)
- About that “2×” noise reduction
- The new AirPods Pro case is not smaller
- “New generation of Ultra Wideband technology” is the U2 chip
- Live translation is on-device (not in ☁️)
- Live translation is blocked for EU users with EU Apple Accounts
- Safari on iOS 26’s compact toolbar
- Tahoe Toolbars (via Zhenyi Tan) * Frosting download link * Frosting test page
- Post-show: John’s red dot
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Alterego and “thought to text” translation
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| 0:00.0 | John, I have to update my number. |
| 0:04.1 | It's now one. |
| 0:06.2 | How many phones you've smashed? |
| 0:07.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, no. Well, at least you did it right before the new one. |
| 0:11.6 | You're so angry at these old phones. |
| 0:14.1 | Now the new ones are out, you have to smash them. |
| 0:16.5 | Literally, hours after I ordered its replacement. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, that's the time to do it. For the first time ever, I missed my pocket. Oh, no. Now, remind me, are you a caseless, casey list as well? I mean, you're obviously not a caseless casey list, but do you roll with a case or no? I have been going caseless for maybe, I don't know, six months, something like that. You had the leather sticker thing on the back, right? Oh, that's right. Yes, yes, yes. But that doesn't project against hitting on the corner or the front. No, and this was literally like I was getting into my car in my driveway, and I was wearing new shorts. I'm not used to these. Maybe that's the problem. |
| 0:54.5 | Who knows? |
| 0:54.9 | Who cares? |
| 0:55.5 | I put my phone down into my pocket, but it was not in my pocket, and I let go. And so it fell, I don't know, my legs aren't that long, two and a half feet. I don't know. You were still on the ground at this point? well yeah I was standing on the sidewalk, you know, on my driveway in front of my car. |
| 1:12.6 | I was about to get in my car. |
| 1:13.5 | I put the phone and I dropped it from pocket height onto the concrete driveway. |
| 1:20.1 | And it didn't sound like much, but I picked it up and it hit the back corner. |
| 1:26.1 | And so the back glass has a huge spider crack. Oh, |
| 1:29.4 | that's all right. The screen's okay. You're fine. Well, the good thing is I have AppleCare, |
| 1:33.8 | it turns out. But I am back to using the leather stick on back again in the meantime. |
| 1:40.7 | You don't say. Well, fun fact, I'm pretty damn sure we covered this on the show but uh the express |
| 1:46.0 | replacement is great but it costs you 100 bucks if you're going to get this thing fixed i would |
| 1:50.5 | strongly advise for you to do so at an apple store and save yourself the hundred bones oh i didn't |
| 1:56.5 | do that i just ordered the hundred bucks thing and it's going to be here, I think, tomorrow. I mean, that is certainly the easier way, |
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