664: Humanity Gets in the Way
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
- Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
- 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
- Follow-up:
- The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
- More dashed Mac Pro dreams
- Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature
- Variants
P= A_G= A_X / A_Z / M_S= M_ ProC= M_ MaxD= M_ UltraX= M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
- Examples
A11=H10PA12X=H11GA14=H13PM1=H13GM2 Pro=H14S
- GPUs use
Ginstead ofH - More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:
Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/arm/cpuid.hXcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/mach/machine.h- Apple codenames
- John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
- John’s un-fixed Electron apps
- More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
- M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
- Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
- An aside about nanotexture displays
- Casey upgraded to Tahoe
/r/overcast- Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
Sponsored by:
- DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online.
- Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp.
- Zapier: Put AI to work across your company — for real.
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 think we should figure out a way to do some sort of completely legal betting on how long it takes me to ruin a phone, because I've gone from never ruining phones to doing it like it's going out of style. |
| 0:12.2 | You've got to have one of those signs that says it has been X days since someone dropped their phone on ATP and we just take the number. |
| 0:18.7 | We had to reset it to zero for Marco, and now it had gone up to, I don't know, 1520, |
| 0:23.4 | but it sounds like we might have to reset that number again. |
| 0:25.8 | Well, actually, you don't. |
| 0:27.2 | So I'm exaggerating for comedic effect. |
| 0:31.5 | But sometimes since we last recorded, I forget what day it was, I have to back up a |
| 0:37.1 | half step. So we have a two-car garage, |
| 0:39.6 | and although it does fit both cars, there is a lot of superfluous stuff around the cars. And we do |
| 0:45.1 | park both cars in there every night, but there's bikes, there's a wagon, there's a stroller, |
| 0:51.5 | some of these things we don't really use anymore because our children are |
| 0:54.1 | older, there's a garage refrigerator, there's our hot water heater is in the garage, it used |
| 1:00.1 | to be that our furnace was in the garage, it's not anymore, there's a lot of stuff in there. |
| 1:03.8 | And when we need to get to the outdoor fridge, because of uninteresting reasons, the door basically opens into |
| 1:13.7 | the passenger side of Aaron's car. And there's a little bit of room to open the door, but not a lot. |
| 1:19.4 | And it so happened that one morning, I want to say it was like Friday morning or something |
| 1:22.9 | like that, I needed to get something that was kind of deeper within the outdoor fridge. |
| 1:27.2 | And so I decided, okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to move Aaron's car out of the garage because she inevitably has some errand to run at some point. Oh, you were talking about the door to the fridge. Yes, I'm sorry. Was that unclear? My apologies. So I thought you met the door from the house into the garage. Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That is a fair interpretation, but that is not at all what I meant. |
| 1:47.1 | The garage is below the house by a couple of feet because, you know, the house is sitting |
| 1:52.4 | on a, on a crawl space and the garage is just, you know, concrete on the ground. |
| 1:57.3 | So, yeah, so there's no issue with the people door. |
| 2:00.3 | There's an issue with the refrigerator door. There's an issue with the refrigerator |
... |
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.
