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Accidental Tech Podcast

659: Lose the Ear Lottery

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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0:00.0

Very often when we record, stuff happens the day that we're going to record hours before we record. Stuff happens. It drives me nuts. Late breaking stuff. And sometimes it just has to go in the notes because it's just, we got to talk about this. But other times it's like, ah, that'll keep until next week. And this week, I was today and the past couple days, I saw a bunch of stuff coming. I'm like, oh, that'll keep it. Oh, that'll keep. I don't know.

0:24.0

It's not even that interesting I don't even know if it's going to make it into the show because it's like well whatever we've already talked about all of this but it was like an extravaganza of Apple leaks of products that we've already talked about so it's not like did you know they're going to make another iPad yeah we. Did you know they're going to make more MacBook Pros? Yeah, we're not surprised. Do you know the iPad's

0:39.6

going to have the M5? Yeah, we're not surprised. But the leaks are getting so bad that like,

0:45.8

one YouTube channel had supposedly the iPad Pro M5, like just physically there. They took it out of the box, they booted it, they benchmarked it. It's nuts. I mean, I think that same channel had like one of the earlier things, like an old MacBook Pro or something. And in some ways, it's like, wow, this is like an amazing leak. And the other hand, it's like, well, I mean, it's the iPad Pro M5, it looks exactly

1:12.0

like a pro M4, but it's got an M5 in it. And the M5 is a little bit faster than the M4, and it's like the most boring leak ever. And I don't know. I don't know what's going. And that's, you know, in addition to all the FCC leaks, because our government can't do anything competently anymore.

1:26.1

So all

1:26.3

Apple's secret plans

1:27.1

Well,

1:27.2

right now it's not

1:27.7

doing anything at all.

1:28.6

Yeah,

1:29.2

there you go.

1:29.5

Anyway,

1:29.9

I just thought it was funny.

1:30.9

Like,

1:31.2

we probably, C leaks because our government can't do anything competently anymore. So all Apple's secret plans. Well, right now it's not doing anything at all.

1:28.6

Yeah, there you go.

1:29.5

Anyway, I just thought it was funny.

1:31.1

Like, we probably won't mention it on the show because honestly, like, we've already talked about all the products that have leaked and there's no new information in them. Other than they exist. Like, we know they exist. so we're just here waiting for the October event,

1:43.0

but it is still funny to see, again,

1:45.0

assuming it's real.

1:46.6

An M5 iPad Pro on a YouTube channel before Apple has announced the product.

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